{"id":1023364,"date":"2026-08-25T15:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023364\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:53:19","slug":"heated-rivalry-daniel-diemer-shaheen-jafargholi-join-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1023364\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Heated Rivalry&#8217;: Daniel Diemer &#038; Shaheen Jafargholi Join Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/daniel-diemer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_daniel-diemer\" data-tag=\"daniel-diemer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Diemer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/shaheen-jafargholi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shaheen-jafargholi\" data-tag=\"shaheen-jafargholi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaheen Jafargholi<\/a> are the latest pair to join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/heated-rivalry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_heated-rivalry\" data-tag=\"heated-rivalry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heated Rivalry<\/a> Season 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDiemer (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) will star as Ryan Price and Jafargholi (War) as Fabian Salah. They join Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie, Justice Smith and Charlie Gillespie in leading roles for the new season, which launches in spring 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOther cast for the second season of the steamy LGBTQIA drama, which comes from Canadian streamer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/crave\/\" id=\"auto-tag_crave\" data-tag=\"crave\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crave<\/a> and is for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> in the U.S., include Emily Hampshire, Edvin Ryding, Robert Naylor and Sabrina Jalees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cFabian and Ryan each bring a distinctive energy to the world Rachel Reid has created,\u201d said Heated Rivalry co-creators Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady from Accent Aigu Entertainment. \u201cThey are bold, complicated, and deeply compelling characters, and finding actors who could really take on all of those different sides was so important to us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cDaniel and Shaheen bring such confidence and emotional honesty to the roles. We can\u2019t wait for audiences to see what they do with Fabian and Ryan and how they make these characters their own.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the breakout success of Heated Rivalry Season 1, which became HBO\u2019s highest-ratings acquisition in its history, Bell Media\u2019s Crave ordered a second, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund (CMF). Accent Aigu\u2019s Tierney is writer, director, and executive producer, with Brady and Jayme Alter Wilson also serving as executive producers. Lori Fischburg and Liane Cunje are producers, with Heated Rivalry book author Rachel Reid as consulting producer. Mike Goldbach serves as co-writer on Season 2.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBell\u2019s Sphere Abacus distributes the series internationally, and has shopped it around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDiemer is repped by Atlas Artists, Nuance Management, Gersh Agency, and Yorn, Levine, Barnes, Krintzman, Rubenstein, Kohner, Endlich, Goodell &amp; Gellman. Jafargholi is repped by Simon Grant Jones.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniel Diemer and Shaheen Jafargholi are the latest pair to join Heated Rivalry Season 2. 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