00:02Everything you need to know about HBO Max's Heated Rivalry hockey romance.
00:06A new romance series is taking over Book Talk, Heated Rivalry,
00:10based on Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels.
00:13It follows two pro hockey players who must keep their passionate relationship secret,
00:17made even harder because they're rivals on the ice.
00:20Think Off Campus meets Red White and Royal Blue.
00:23Heated Rivalry premiered on HBO Max on November 28, 2025.
00:29Season 1 will consist of six episodes on HBO Max.
00:34Episodes 1, Rookies, and 2, Olympians both premiered on November 28, 2025,
00:40followed by Episode 3, Hunter, on December 5.
00:43Episode 4, Rose Debuts, December 12, Episode 5.
00:49I'll Believe in Anything arrives December 19,
00:52and the season concludes with Episode 6, The Cottage, on December 26.
00:57The main cast of Heated Rivalry includes Hudson Williams as Shane Hollander,
01:02Connor Story as Ilya Rozenov, Francois Arnault as Scott Hunter,
01:06Sophie Nellis as Rose Landry, and Kassinia Daniela Karlamova as Svetlana Vetrova,
01:12along with other key performers such as Callan Potter and Colton Stewart, etc., and many others.
01:18Heated Rivalry is rated TVMA for sex, nudity, and profanity.
01:23No, Heated Rivalry doesn't seem to be inspired by a true story, just real-life hockey rivalries.
01:30I never directly base my characters on any real people, author Rachel Reid says on her website.
01:36One of my inspirations for Heated Rivalry was obviously the extremely entertaining rivalry between Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin,
01:45but I was also inspired by other sports rivalries, by other fictional stories, and by my love of the enemies to lovers and forbidden romance tropes.
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