Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe. The series premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and has been highly successful in the US, where it was broadcast on TeenNick. It aired its final episode on August 2, 2015, after fourteen seasons. In January 2016, a sequel series, titled De Grassi: Next Class, was announced for broadcast on Family Channel in Canada and Netflix internationally.
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Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian teen drama television series set in the Degrassi universe. The series premiered on CTV on October 14, 2001, and has been highly successful in the US, where it was broadcast on TeenNick, as well as being broadcast in 140 other countries. In January 2016, a sequel series, titled De Grassi: Next Class, was announced for broadcast on Family Channel in Canada and Netflix internationally. The franchise was created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1979, and is produced by Epitome Pictures in association with Bell Media. The show has been a critical success and has often received favourable reviews from Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times and AfterElton. com. It aired its final episode on August 2, 2015, after fourteen seasons. It has won numerous awards, from the Geminis, Writers Guild of Canada and Directors Guild of Canadian, and internationally from the Teen Choice Awards, Young Artist Awards, and Prix Jeunesse. It was frequently the most watched domestic drama series in Canada, and one of the highest-rated shows on Teen Nick in the U.S. In 2004, one episode received just under a million viewers in Canada,. The tenth season marked a change in production style, which saw the series become a telenovela, a daily soap opera-style format, during the summer months, while the rest of the season aired during the standard fall-spring schedule on a weekly basis. The thirteenth season reverted to a weekly schedule and, part way through, moved to MTV Canada.
The current executive producers are Schuyller, her husband Stephen Stohn and Brendon Yorke. Other employees and crew members have also been credited with the title, including Sara Snow, James Hurst, Aaron Martin, Sarah Glinski and Sarah Huether. The title has been filled by a number of staff members since the series began, including a story editor, Shelley Glinski, and Sarah Scarrow, who previously filled a position filled by Shelley Scarrow. In 2011, the series received funding from the Shaw Rocket Fund and the Canadian Television Fund of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Bell Broadcast and New Media Program Fund, and the Cogeco Program Development Fund. The project pitched to CTVemedia in May 2000, with the originally planned reunion episode serving as the pilot to the series. The new series was later renamed new Produced by Bell Media in 2011, later renamed Produced By Bell Media Inc, and later renamed New Produced In Canada in 2012. It is the fourth installment in the franchise, following The Kids of Degrass i Street, Degrass Junior High, and Degrass High. The fourth installment is set at the fictional Degrassi Community School in Toronto, Ontario, rather than on the real De Grassi Street from which the franchise takes its name. It follows an ensemble cast of students who face various challenges often seen as taboo such as sex, teen pregnancy, bullying and date rape.
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