{"id":158013,"date":"2026-02-01T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=158013"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T20:45:26","slug":"heartbroken-after-the-heated-rivalry-finale-get-into-slo-pitch-the-upcoming-lesbian-softball-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/heartbroken-after-the-heated-rivalry-finale-get-into-slo-pitch-the-upcoming-lesbian-softball-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbroken after the Heated Rivalry finale? Get into Slo Pitch, the upcoming lesbian softball comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Slo Pitch<\/strong> is an upcoming Canadian television series created by the same streaming service behind <strong>Heated Rivalry<\/strong>. The upcoming show focuses on a queer women\u2019s softball team and follows a lighter and more grounded story than traditional professional sports dramas. The series is co-produced by Pageboy Productions and features Elliot Page as a co-producer and Emily Hampshire as both a cast member and executive producer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virtuallytori\/status\/2011556718996832416?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">we need EVERYONE talking about lesbian media like Slo Pitch, not just lesbians! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mUW4uwVyJ1\">https:\/\/t.co\/mUW4uwVyJ1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LquErr9DpX\">pic.twitter.com\/LquErr9DpX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; tori \u0324\u032e*\u2729\u2027\u208a\u02da \u200e \u0fd0\u0f82 \ud802\udd8d (@virtuallytori) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virtuallytori\/status\/2011556718996832416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The story is based on a Canadian web series that originally ran from 2020 to 2022. This new version is a 10-episode mockumentary about a struggling beer league softball team called the Public Lass Brovaries. The team is coached by Joanne Pico, who is dealing with a recent breakup and personal setbacks while trying to put her team back together. The season follows their matches, internal conflicts, awkward fundraisers, and rivalry with another team, including one led by Joanne\u2019s ex<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cCoach Joanne is dead set on turning this team around despite having just been dumped by her girlfriend and co-founder of the team,\u201d the synopsis continues. \u201cThroughout the summer, Joanne leads her lovable, chaotic crew through a season of strikeouts, petty rivalries, conservative-politician sponsors, and sexy carwash fundraisers gone wrong. With her ex now playing on a rival team, Joanne\u2019s got a lot to prove this season. It\u2019s time to win the breakup, get the gang back together, and maybe even find new love over beers in the dugout.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SloPitchSeries\/status\/2010494276157759787?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s working you guys lol. The network might let us drop some teaser materials early because your spam has been ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. Heroic work. BACK A U TMR.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SLOPITCH (@SloPitchSeries) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SloPitchSeries\/status\/2010494276157759787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 11, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jess Salguiero plays Coach Joanne, and Emily Hampshire appears in the series and also serves as an executive producer. The cast also includes Karen Knox, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Emma Hunter, Chelsea Muirhead, Lane Webber, Kadijah Roberts Abdullah, and Amanda Cordner. At the moment, the series will stream through <strong>Crave<\/strong>, but it does not yet have a confirmed distributor in the United States. However,<strong> HBO Max<\/strong> is expected to take the show into their platform, similarly to Heated Rivalry. Meanwhile, Slo Pitch\u2019s official account X shared that teaser material will be released soon, with the show slated to premiere at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slo Pitch is an upcoming Canadian television series created by the same streaming service behind Heated Rivalry. The upcoming show focuses on a queer women\u2019s softball team and follows a lighter and more grounded story than traditional professional sports dramas. The series is co-produced by Pageboy Productions and features Elliot Page as a co-producer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":158014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,7,1441],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-158013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-news","9":"category-series"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158013"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=158013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}