{"id":359411,"date":"2026-03-26T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359411\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:17:07","slug":"jacob-tierney-made-heated-rivalry-in-canada-as-he-needed-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/359411\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Tierney Made ‘Heated Rivalry’ in Canada As He Needed Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cHeated Rivalry<\/a>\u201d creator Jacob Tierney<\/a> turned to Canada to make a show that he wanted.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAt first, it was supposed to be made with a U.S. platform. But he didn\u2019t have the freedom he wanted. For example, [they wanted] to have the first explicit scene only in episode five to tone down the romance,\u201d said Julie Roy, executive director & CEO at T\u00e9l\u00e9film Canada.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe decided to go back to Canada, and kudos to Crave who had the courage to welcome the full project. For me, that\u2019s a great example of not being Hollywood and being authentic. Authenticity is something that really works.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d became a global phenomenon, thanks to its explosive combination of hockey, romance and explicit scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis example is also interesting in terms of audience engagement. A high number of people just watched this series for the fifth time! It\u2019s insane.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tApart from Tierney\u2019s hit, Roy listed other recent Canadian successes: \u201cEmpathy\u201d<\/a> and \u201cNorth of North,\u201d taking on Inuit stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe diversity of Canada, the richness of its perspective and storytellers is such a great asset,\u201d she said. But it\u2019s also an industry. \u201cIt\u2019s important to highlight that as well. In Canada, the economic impact of the creative industry is equivalent to aerospace industry, and it\u2019s more than fisheries and automobile industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTalking during Series Mania<\/a> Forum\u2019s panel about Global Audiovisual Alliances, Roy admitted that many Europeans want to collaborate with Canada. \u201cI\u2019ll be curious to see if this new convention<\/a> would be open to welcome Canada in it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe have 57 treaties of co-production, which is the highest number in the world. I think it\u2019s quite an indicator that we really like to collaborate and co-produce and find international partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGa\u00ebtan Bruel, CNC president, underlined: many people still believe in the future of creation.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe [need to] keep true to our values, as Julie just mentioned, and the idea that creativity, taking risks and supporting the independent producers, these core principles and values, stay at the heart of what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added: \u201cThe crisis in Hollywood may be a sort of good news, if we think less of who is the new \u2018supreme leader\u2019 of cinema and creation and more about how can we build together a new global governance for the moving image: a new multilateralism in which we don\u2019t rely only on what is thought in Hollywood. There\u2019s really a diversity at heart in Europe that really can be perhaps the new superpower.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKlaus Zimmermann, managing partner at Les Productions Dynamic, observed that for every U.S. success, they have \u201c50 failures.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI think that for the amount we have, we\u2019re doing pretty well. With the streamers coming to Europe and investing, there\u2019s an opportunity to create more shows, but also local shows. I don\u2019t think this is a threat, but there needs to be courage and storytelling.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tComing from Spain, which already established powerful relationships with Latin America, some producers aren\u2019t dependent on Hollywood financing, noted Mariela Besuievsky (Tornasol Media).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s true that the opportunities and windows that have opened are very big, and that also drives us to think in another way about the storytelling. I like what you said about \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019: You have to find your own way and really believe that what you are telling and how you are telling it is going to communicate with the audience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Bruel, the real competition is no longer between national industries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWorldwide, we see audiences, especially the younger ones, shifting faster than expected toward free, low-cost content, of course more and more generated by AI. It\u2019s an economical challenge for the creators, the producers, the broadcasters. It\u2019s also, and perhaps above all, a sanitary catastrophe. This is a sanitary catastrophe,\u201d he said, pointing at his phone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOur kids\u2019 relationship with screens is becoming a health world problem, but also a democratic one. We have been discussing and forging alliances for a long time, but today we are facing a moment that is as important and as fascinating as the invention of cinema itself. The first revolution was led by the creators and the entrepreneurs. Today, it\u2019s quite different. Today, we need policymakers, non-profit organizations and those who really care about the interest of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rise of Korea has also been notable over the past few years, with Hyun Suk Yoo, Acting President of Kocca, talking about recent BTS comeback and the Korean wave, Hallyu, that brought about popular K-dramas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRather than the government leading the success from the front, in order for the content ecosystem to function effectively, it would be more accurate to say that it played a supporting part from behind. From planning to production and distribution, in order to reduce the challenges faced by the industry, we are continuing to communicate with the stakeholders on the ground,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBesuievsky added that because of the changing rules of streamers, more deals are needed \u2013 also to gap finance new productions. \u201cI feel that that the co-production laws were established many of years ago and they are moving more slowly than the changes we have been facing. It\u2019s time to think in a more flexible way, but we cannot lose the regulatory framework that gives us security.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBruel mentioned TF1 and Netflix<\/a>, which announced the first very strategic distribution deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was a way for them to meet halfway,\u201d he said. \u201cWe believe, more than ever, that we need to think differently about how we can work together. We have a lot to learn from the streamers and they say they have a lot to learn from other models.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d creator Jacob Tierney turned to Canada to make a show that he wanted. \u201cAt first, it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,92651,85,46,97200,146874,165401],"class_list":{"0":"post-359411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-heated-rivalry","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jacob-tierney","14":"tag-series-mania","15":"tag-series-mania-forum"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}