Off Campus will look different next season.
After season one of the whirlwind hockey romance saw a love triangle play out between college students Hannah Wells (Ella Bright), Justin Kohl (Josh Heuston) and Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli), showrunner Louisa Levy revealed in a recent interview that Heuston’s character will not return for the next installment of the show.
“Not next season,” Levy told TV Guide earlier this month. “But I love Josh and I would not write him off if I can find a way to bring Justin back at some point.”
The hit Prime Video show is an adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s popular book series of the same name, and Levy revealed that she is interested in developing the show to include more plotlines in the book.
Levy said: “We never got a chance to meet Stella, who is the person he ends up with in the book. So maybe we’ll find a way to fold him into a future season. We don’t have him [available] next season, but never say never.”
Heuston, an Australian actor, also addressed speculation about the future of his musician character in a recent interview with Variety. When asked if fans can expect his return, he said, “At this stage, no.”
“We’ll see,” he said. “Everything from scheduling to storylines to books… there’s a lot of stories to show in this particular series.”
He said that the show is devoted to staying loyal to the book series, adding: “You’ve got to stay true to Elle Kennedy’s books and let that rock.”
Heuston’s absence is not the only difference expected from season two.
The first eight episodes of the series — which has sparked comparisons to hockey romance Heated Rivalry — set up characters Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) and Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) to be the next couple featured in future installments of the show — which would be an adaptation of the third novel instead of the second.
Levy told TV Guide that she changed the source material of the show in order “to keep the momentum going.”
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“Happily ever afters are wonderful and so important for this genre of novel, but they’re not that helpful for television because we have to keep telling stories,” Levy said.
“So part of that was my attempt to give [viewers] the Hannah and Garrett happily ever after that I wanted, that I know fans will want, but still leaving something hanging and some question going into Season 2 of, ‘How is this going to be resolved, and how is this going to drive story forward?’”
She said: “I want people to tune in Season 2 and watch what we have in store.”
Amazon renewed Off Campus before the show’s first season even premiered. The new episodes are set to be filmed in Canada starting in June, and are expected to drop in 2027.
