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This article is part of a series about Degrassi Awards and nominations Characters 1987–1992 2001–2015 2016–2017 Places Home video Main series The Kids Of Degrassi Street (1979–1986) Degrassi Junior High (1987–1989) Degrassi High (1989–1991) Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001–2015) Degrassi: Next Class (2016–2017) Television movies School's Out! (1992) Degrassi Goes Hollywood ...
The Degrassi universe was created in 1979 by Playing With Time, a production company owned by former schoolteacher Linda Schuyler and her partner Kit Hood. The franchise began with The Kids of Degrassi Street, which was spawned out of three half-hour short films, and came to prominence with the critical and commercial successes of Degrassi Junior High, which debuted in 1987, and Degrassi High ...
The twelfth season of the Canadian teen drama television series Degrassi, formerly known as Degrassi: The Next Generation, premiered on July 16, 2012, concluded on June 21, 2013, and consists of 40 episodes.
Degrassi: The Next Generation became notable for featuring several actors who went on to achieve wider recognition and stardom since their time on the series, [136] [137] [138] most notably actor-turned-rapper Drake, who played Jimmy Brooks, [139] a basketball star who became physically disabled after he was shot by a classmate. When asked ...
A number of episodes have aired out of production order in either Canada or the US. This is a list of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes by order of production, as they appear on the DVDs. There are also several shorter episodes available on the official Degrassi YouTube channel, known as "Degrassi Minis".
For the new generation of students, the producers kept the same model that had been used during the casting of the previous series, Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High and chose 11 children out of 600 auditionees, [2] hoping to provide a group of characters the target audience of kids and teenagers could relate to, rather than the typical gorgeous actors in their twenties pretending to be ...
At 15, Drake was introduced to a high school friend's father, an acting agent. He found Drake a role on the Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation, in which Drake portrayed Jimmy Brooks, [46] a basketball star who became physically disabled after he was shot by a classmate. When asked about his early acting career, Drake ...
The second Degrassi dedicated soundtrack, Music from Degrassi: The Next Generation, was released 9 December 2008. Production took place in Toronto, Ontario between April and December 2007. [3] In addition to the twenty-four regular episodes, two "special episodes" were produced, not part of the Degrassi continuity. The first, "Degrassi in Kenya ...