Heated Rivalry, the show that rocked our screens with its standout first season last winter, is coming back this spring for a second season — and maybe more. 

A scoop from Deadline has reported that the second six-episode season isn’t the only thing on the way from Canadian streaming service Crave, but the third season (which has yet to be announced) is being filmed back-to-back, and there are talks about a standalone film that will shoot in December. 

The confirmed upcoming season will follow the sixth book in Rachel Reid’s Game Changers book series, The Long Game. The second book was the inspiration for Heated Rivalry Season 1, and went by the same name.

Season 2 will also introduce Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie as a new couple, Harris Drover and Troy Barrett, from Role Model, the series’ fourth book. Other new cast members include Emily Hampshire, Brendan Morgan, David Tomlinson, and Lauren Chan. 

While the second and third seasons will continue Shane and Ilya’s beloved love story, depicted by breakout stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie, respectively, the movie reportedly will not feature them. Instead, it will focus on François Arnaud and Robbie G.K.’s characters Scott and Kip, though Deadline notes that the details around the movie are “murky.”

The rumoured film, which is reportedly planned for a December 2027 release, will follow Scott and Kip through the holiday season. Readers may remember Reid’s short story, Merry Christmas, Scott and Kip!, which is about the couple’s first Christmas together.

This wouldn’t be the series’ first foray onto the big screen — Regal Cinemas, AMC, and Cinemark are debuting three paired-episode screenings in a limited theatrical release almost a year after Heated Rivalry first aired. Viewers can choose from Episodes 1 and 2 (‘Rookies’ and ‘Olympians’), Episodes 3 and 4 (‘Hunter’ and ‘Rose’), and Episodes 5 and 6 (‘I’ll Believe in Anything’ and ‘The Cottage’) from November 6 to November 30, when 945 theatres across the United States and select other countries will screen the show. So far, this release has generated $1.4 million in just its opening weekend, according to Variety. 

Brooks LeBoeuf, senior VP of Regal’s US content, told Variety that the screenings are “a chance to celebrate the story, its creators and its performances before Season 2 arrives in 2027″.

“You may know these episodes by heart, but you’ve never experienced them like this.” 

According to Deadline, a representative for Crave has stated that there are no additional projects for them to confirm, but speculation around the back-to-back filming has run rampant since August, when actor Dylan Walsh, who plays Shane’s dad, David, announced on Cameo that he was “getting ready to go back up to Canada and shoot some more episodes. I think we’re doing 12 this time.”

Walsh has since paused his Cameo account and noted that the video “got me in trouble.”