{"id":405876,"date":"2026-04-19T00:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405876\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T00:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T00:27:07","slug":"heated-rivalry-creator-jacob-tierney-teases-season-2-talks-adding-elements-of-role-model-heated-rivalry-jacob-tierney-celebrity-news-and-gossip-entertainmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/405876\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Creator Jacob Tierney Teases Season 2, Talks Adding Elements of \u2018Role Model\u2019 | Heated Rivalry, Jacob Tierney | Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment, Photos and Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacob Tierney<\/a> is dishing on the upcoming second season of Heated Rivalry<\/a>!<\/p>\n

The creator, writer, director and producer of the hit Crave series, based on the Rachel Reid \u201cGame Changers\u201d book series, appeared at BookCon with the author and teased what\u2019s to come in the highly-anticipated new season. <\/p>\n

Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different. It really is different,\u201d Jacob shared on stage, via Variety<\/a>. \u201cAnd the challenge of it is, from an adaptation point of view, is that you\u2019re in much more serious territory. A lot of the initial \u2014 there\u2019s still lots of flirting and lots of sex \u2014 but this kind of danger, this kind of hotel-room-adolescent-sex stuff is largely gone. And so it presents really new challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike the first season, Jacob is not taking on writing duties alone, as he\u2019s tapped Michael Goldbach to help adapt \u201cThe Long Game\u201d and \u201cRole Model\u201d for season two. It was previously revealed<\/a> that Troy Barrett and Harris Drover\u2019s love story from \u2018Role Model\u2019 will woven into the new season. <\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the reason you start off with \u2018Heated Rivalry,\u2019 as far as adapting goes, is because you want to get to \u2018The Long Game,\u2019\u201d Jacob said. \u201cBecause \u2018The Long Game\u2019 is an emotionally sophisticated book that takes this couple seriously. What I\u2019ve always said about this show is there are a lot of books \u2014 \u2018Game Changer\u2019 is in \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 and obviously, as I think you guys all know by now \u2014 obviously parts of \u2018Role Model\u2019 are going to be in [Season 2], to the great surprise of absolutely nobody. But Ilya and Shane are the heartbeat of this series, of my show. It\u2019s always going to be about Ilya and Shane, that is what is the trajectory that runs through it as their world expands.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn \u2018Long Game\u2019 you are like, OK, we\u2019re here to ground this in something that feels very real,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd the same thing with Troy and Harris, right. I think there\u2019s an easy, fascicle way of looking at \u2018Role Model\u2019 as it\u2019s very grumpy\/sunshine, it\u2019s very apple orchard. It can drift into things that you want. But Troy is a really damaged guy. And Troy is quite damaged on the show. I would say we are digging into that even harder. Because that\u2019s what\u2019s interesting.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you missed it, a popular TikTok star\/actor, who has campaigned to be cast in season two, recently hinted that he\u2019s had conversations about joining<\/a> the show!<\/p>\n

Season two will begin filming in August and debut in April 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Tierney is dishing on the upcoming second season of Heated Rivalry! The creator, writer, director and producer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-405876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}