‘Off Campus’ Exclusive: New Hockey Series Will Be an Unabashed ‘College-Age Romance’
off campus arrives on Prime Video when the streamer will drop the entire first season on May 13 (ET), adapting Elle Kennedy’s bestselling hockey-romance novels for television. The eight-episode season follows shy songwriter Hannah Wells (Ella Bright) and all-star captain Garrett Graham (Belmont Cameli) at fictional Briar University in Massachusetts. Producers say the series aims to distill the college years into a nostalgic, aspirational romance.
Off Campus: First Look and Cast
Prime Video has set a firm premiere date and released the first teaser and first-look images ahead of the launch. The streamer will drop all episodes of the first season on May 13 (ET), and the adaptation has already been renewed for a second season. The opening run adapts the 2015 novel The Deal into eight episodes that center on the opposites-attract romance between Hannah Wells and Garrett Graham.
Early footage leans into the steamy, soaplike tone that has recently elevated hockey-romance stories, and the project plants itself firmly in that lane. Series regulars attached include Ella Bright as Hannah, Belmont Cameli as Garrett, Josh Heuston as Justin Kohl, Mika Abdalla, Antonio Cipriano, Stephen Kalyn and Jalen Thomas Brooks. Temple Hill leads the production with executive producers Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and James Seidman, joined by Leanna Billings and Neal Flaherty.
Creative team and tone
Louisa Levy adapted the books for television and serves as co-showrunner and executive producer alongside Gina Fattore. Levy says she wanted the show to capture the particular alchemy of college life — the mix of uncertainty, identity and sudden intimacy that makes the period so resonant. “It’s this magical bubble where you’re kind of neither a kid nor an adult, and you’re figuring out who you are, who you want to be, and who you want to fall in love with, ” Levy said, describing the show’s central impulse to make a college-age romance feel both nostalgic and immediate.
Levy told producers she had not read the novels before Temple Hill approached her, but she later devoured the source material and worked closely with author Elle Kennedy, who is credited as a producer. “She wasn’t in the writers’ room, but she read all the scripts and watched all the cuts, ” Levy said, and added that Kennedy “gave us her blessing to play with these characters. ” The writers’ room completed the first season before casting began early last year, a move Levy and her co‑creators said was intended to preserve the serialized architecture across seasons.
What’s next
The immediate next beats are clear: the official teaser will roll out Thursday morning (ET) as the production ramps up publicity toward the May 13 (ET) launch. Expect discussion to focus on how the series balances steam and sentiment and whether its college‑age focus refreshes the hockey-romance trend; the show’s early second‑season pickup already frames the project as a multi‑season plan. With the premiere now scheduled, Prime Video and the producers will watch early audience reaction closely as off campus becomes a central talking point in the spring streaming slate.
