GoKawiilCrave's hockey romance 'Heated Rivalry' drove most 2025 sign-ups, took 18 months to make
Heated Rivalry, a Crave original based on Rachel Reid's novels about romances between hockey players, debuted in November 2025 and became the streamer's top-performing original series, generating more subscriber sign-ups than any other title that year. The show also performed strongly internationally through HBO Max in the U.S., where each episode had been streamed more than 10 million times by February 2026. Producers and network executives at Crave and parent company Bell Media say they worked intensively to bring the adaptation from book to screen in roughly 18 months.