{"id":438516,"date":"2026-01-30T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438516\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T08:33:13","slug":"heated-rivalry-exec-teases-potential-bonus-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/438516\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heated Rivalry’ Exec Teases Potential Bonus Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlthough it\u2019s sure to be a long winter without another season of Heated Rivalry<\/a>, Jacob Tierney might give fans something to hold them over. <\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the massive success of Season 1, an exec from Crave<\/a> parent company Bell Media<\/a> recently addressed the possibility of getting a bonus episode or two before Jacob Tierney releases the sophomore season of his series adaptation of Rachel Reid\u2019s Game Changers books.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re going to see what\u2019s feasible,\u201d Justin Stockman, vice-president of content development and programming at Bell Media, told The Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cIf Jacob Tierney can find a way to make the source material work in a way that gets us something sooner or something special, I\u2019m sure he will,\u201d he explained, adding: \u201cI would love to have this back for the holidays next year, but that likely is not going to happen. We can\u2019t rush the process. We won\u2019t be able to repeat the magic if we push him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter Heated Rivalry was renewed for Season 2<\/a>, creator Tierney told Deadline that it will be based on<\/a> The Long Game, the only other current book in the series that focuses on Ilya and Shane (Reid\u2019s Unrivaled<\/a> resumes the story on Sept. 29). <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019<\/p>\n

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\n\tStar Connor Storrie has since teased that production on the sophomore season could start by summer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although it\u2019s sure to be a long winter without another season of Heated Rivalry, Jacob Tierney might give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[136025,162092,88,162094,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-438516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bell-media","9":"tag-crave","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-heated-rivalry","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}