Degrassi Gets Syndication Deal

Published: 12/12/06 at 11:09 PM Written By: Romina Sestito (andPOP) – If you’re a fan of Degrassi: The Next Generation and live south of the 49th parallel, you’re about to enjoy more of the hit TV series. Thunderbirds Films and its U.S. distribution partners, Program Partners, announced Tuesday that beginning in the fall of 2007,…

Degrassi to be syndicated in major U.S. markets

Updated Tue. Dec. 12 2006 2:55 PM ET CTV.ca News The distributors of Degrassi: The Next Generation have announced a deal that will see the hit half-hour series syndicated — five days a week — in 60 per cent of the top U.S. television markets. The deal includes airings of the popular Canadian teen series…

Program Partners Clears 'Degrassi' in Most Markets

By Chris Pursell Independent distributor Program Partners is leaving their mark on a slow-moving syndication marketplace, clearing upcoming strip runs of “Degrassi: The Next Generation” in 60 percent of the country including a Tribune Broadcasting group commitment to the show. Story continues below… “‘Degrassi’ clearly has what broadcasters need in 2007,” said Ritch Colbert, co-founder…

Interview: Lauren Collins Returns to Degrassi

(andPOP) – Lauren Collins has been saying for years that she’s not like her snobby, mean, sexually-confused character that she plays on “Degrassi: The Next Generation.” But just as the fictional Paige Michalchuk has started university, so has Collins, who is taking courses in Toronto while she films the sixth season of “Degrassi,” which debuted…

Degrassi goes new school

ROB SALEM Drag-racing delinquents. A single-mom cheerleader. Pre-marital teenage erectile dysfunction. And one of the regulars is apparently marked for murder. This is not your parents’ Degrassi. Or your uncle’s, or your aunt’s, or your older sibling’s. Or mine. If anything, it’s Tori Spelling’s (now that she’s married to a Canadian) a slicker, sexier, new-school…