Back to reality: 'Degrassi' goes dark in season nine premiere

Tyrone Warner, CTV.ca As “Degrassi’s” go-to bad boy, Peter Stone has always been waist-deep in trouble — but he’s never gone off the deep end like this before. During an interview with CTV.ca, Jamie Johnston, who plays Peter, reveals that in upcoming episodes his character “Develops a little bit of a drug problem.” When audiences…

Headlines: Degrassi's Jake Epstein to Star in Spring Awakening Tour

Broadway.com Headlines: Degrassi’s Jake Epstein to Star in Spring Awakening Tour Jake Epstein will assume the role of Melchior Gabor in the national tour of Spring Awakening this summer. Epstein, who is best known for playing Craig on the popular television show Degrassi: The Next Generation, begins performances on July 7 at the Kennedy Center…

Degrassi takes Tinseltown [Toronto Star]

ROB SALEM TV COLUMNIST It was inevitable, really, that Degrassi would finally “go Hollywood” as the title of tonight’s premiere TV movie (CTV at 8), Paradise City: Degrassi goes Hollywood would clearly seem to indicate. After striking a chord with Canadian kids for its unvarnished depiction of pimpled 1980s teenhood, The Kids of Degrassi Street…

Degrassi's next generation goes Hollywood

Alex Strachan, Canwest News Service Published: Saturday, August 29, 2009 SUNDAY The moral behind the Degrassi: The Next Generation movie event, Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood, is that the Hollywood life is not all it’s made out to be. No way! Way. Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood plays like one of those Disney Channel movies…

A sort of Degrassi fairy tale

Catherine Dawson March From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. 02, 2009 02:54AM EDT No one gets stabbed, no one is bullied, no one contemplates an abortion or suicide and no one ends up in a wheelchair. Not in this Degrassi special. This time, the usually angst-ridden cast gets to have some…

Jewish cast members excited about Degrassi movie

Written by Mike Cohen , The Jewish Tribune Wednesday, 26 August 2009 MONTREAL In the first-ever Degrassi: The Next Generation movie some of the programs most popular personalities from the last decade end up in Hollywood chasing a dream to make it in show business. Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood is being pegged as an…