{"id":773377,"date":"2026-02-18T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/773377\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T20:54:12","slug":"heated-rivalrys-hudson-williams-cast-in-crave-drama-yaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/773377\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams Cast In Crave Drama ‘Yaga’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHudson Williams is re-teaming with Heated Rivalry<\/a> network Crave<\/a> for his next big project.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams, who plays Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry, is starring in Crave\u2019s debut half-hour drama series Yaga<\/a> about the myth of Baba Yaga<\/a> opposite Carrie-Anne Moss<\/a> (The Matrix), Noah Reid<\/a> (Schitt\u2019s Creek) and Clark Backo<\/a> (Letterkenny).<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams will play Henry Park in Yaga, the young heir to a powerful fishery. Rapp (Reid), a private investigator, is probing his disapperance and finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, Carson (Backo), a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, Katherine (Moss), and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives, and ancient magic.<\/p>\n

\n\tKat Sandler is behind Yaga, which is an adaptation of her play that centers on the myth of Baba Yaga, a female character from Slavic folklore who is depicted as a witch.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe eyes of the world have been on Williams\u2019 next move following his breakout role in the hit queer hockey drama Heated Rivalry, which has been hugely popular and sold the world over. He is next set to appear in Netflix\u2019s FTX drama The Altruists. He has been spending some time recently at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n

\n\tYaga is the first revealed project for Bell Media, which owns Crave, and Blink49 since the former invested in the latter <\/a>late last year.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Heated Rivalry\u2019 Season 2 Is Game On At Crave With HBO Max On Board; More New Deals Struck<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Front Street Pictures and Blink49, the showrunner is Sandler; co- directors are David Frazee and Rachel Talalay. The series is EPd by Mackenzie Donaldson, Andrew Miller and Moss and produced by Charles Cooper. The series is distributed internationally by Sphere Abacus and will also be available as four, one-hour episodes for international sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hudson Williams is re-teaming with Heated Rivalry network Crave for his next big project. Williams, who plays Shane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3940],"tags":[15738,226032,4080,226033,206009,77,200579,226034,16,15,226035],"class_list":["post-773377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-baba-yaga","tag-carrie-anne-moss","tag-celebrities","tag-clark-backo","tag-crave","tag-entertainment","tag-heated-rivalry","tag-noah-reid","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-yaga"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116093626809108349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}