In 1974, Tobe Hooper made The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, a ruthless movie about Leatherface laying waste to an unlucky friend group. It has had a lasting legacy ever since - its production was even dramatized recently in the Ryan Murphy Netflix series Monster: The Ed Gein Story. (The real-life murderer reportedly inspired Leatherface.) In September 2025, the future of the horror franchise went up for sale as multiple companies bid to acquire the rights to the story.
You may know the story by now: Rachel Reid began posting what would become Heated Rivalryon the fan-fiction site Archive of Our Own, one chapter at a time. Eventually, the Halifax-based author reportedly removed the posts, reworked the book, submitted it to publishers, and sold it in 2019 to Carina Press, a digital-first imprint at Harlequin. While the first book in her "Game Changers" series found a solid fan base among romance readers, no one expected just how many more would join them.
Reid, who lives in Nova Scotia, published her first Game Changer book in 2018. It followed a romance between fictional professional hockey player Scott Hunter and barista Kip Grady. A sequel, Heated Rivalry, which centered on hockey rivals Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov, followed in 2018. Further novels have appeared since. In a new Instagram post, Reid posted her initial exchange with the TV producer and director.
The hit ice hockey romance is based on Rachel Reid's steamy novel, which is widely sold out. Like the book, the show follows the rivals-to-lovers story of Ilya Rozanov ( Connor Storrie) and Shane Hollander ( Hudson Williams). On the ice, they're fierce rivals, but their connection is just as passionate - in a different way - in private. Here are just some of the major changes that were made from the book to the screen:
Heated Rivalry author Rachel Reid says the raunchy TV adaptation of her hit book series success has helped her fight with Parkinson's disease. The 45-year-old novelist cited the steamy hockey romance's popularity in helping her access better care more than two years following her diagnosis. Parkinson's disease, which can be inherited, is a neurological condition caused by a reduction of dopamine in the brain, leading to a plethora of physical and psychological problems such as memory loss, violent tremors, and motor-function issues. Reid opened up about her struggle with Parkinson's while speaking to Today earlier this month, revealing that she had been diagnosed in August 2023.
Starring Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams as Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander, two rival ice hockey players who have a passionate years-long secret fling, the show is based on Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels. The show takes its name from the second of Reid's books, which focuses on Rozanov and Hollander as they start their steamy affair. Their story is continued in The Long Game, the last of Reid's six-book series.
And so, my friends, to the new six-part drama Amadeus, about the life, death and music of Wolfgang A Mozart, one of the defining geniuses of the last 1,000 years of western history. Co-creators Joe Barton and Julian Farino have retained parts of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play and the 1984 film starring Tom Hulce as Mozart and F Murray Abraham as his rival composer Antonio Salieri, reworked them into lesser forms, and surrounded them with lesser flat, airless, banal scenes.
DC Studios heads James Gunn and Peter Safran will executive produce, with Pete Jackson (not the Lord of the Rings filmmaker) directing. V for Vendetta started as a graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. Set in a dystopian UK ruled by fascists, it was adapted into a 2005 Warner Bros. film directed by James McTeigue. The movie starred Hugo Weaving as anarchist revolutionary V and Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond.
It's only the first episode, and there's a heap of pressure on it, but this is an iffy start to the TV take on the beloved book series We must start by saying that it is unfair to review a television series on the basis of its first episode. But we must also make it clear that RTÉ is releasing The Walsh Sisters one precious episode at a time, drop by drop, like a serialised novel by Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century.
During a recent interview with GameSpot, Keller was asked about the potential of a large-scale Overwatch story along the lines of Netflix's Castlevania and Arcane adaptations. "The team would love to have something like that come out," said Keller. "You know, we're also fans of those shows and fans of those universes. To have something like that for Overwatch would be really, really cool. But I can't really discuss the plans for future stuff like that."
