Jim Bawden The Degrassi set? “We’ve become a part of American culture!” is the way Degrassi creator and executive producer Linda Schuyler puts it. She’s reacting to a phrase coined in yesterday’s mighty New York Times referring to teens and tweens supporting certain Broadway musicals (like Legally Blonde). “For a while now the `Degrassi’ set…

Tyrone Warner, CTV.ca Thanks to the efforts from the cast and crew, the fictional Degrassi Community School now has its own real-life sister school smack in the middle of the Masai Mara in Oloomirani, Kenya. Over the course of the summer the cast and crew of Degrassi have been fundraising to build an addition to…

Attention East Coast Degrassi fans! You can get up close and personal with one of the stars of the show this weekend. Mike Lobel is headed to Halifax alongside the author and one of the illustrators of the Degrassi graphic novels for a literary festival. Lobel, who plays “Jay Hogart,” will be on hand to…

Tyrone Warner, CTV.ca One of Canada’s most beloved screen legends, actress Shirley Douglas, visited the set of Degrassi for a guest starring role in the upcoming season. The 73-year-old Douglas will play the head of a theatre department at a university. “Degrassi: The Next Generation” returns for a seventh season as Canada’s most popular home-grown…

HMV Canada is holding a contest where some fantastic prizes worth in excess of $35,000 are being given away including Degrassi Prize Package that consists of original script from season 5 episode #513 & Degrassi poster, both signed by the entire cast. This contest ends October 1st. I truly believe Degrassi fans will be interested…

Tyrone Warner, CTV.ca One of Canada’s most popular original programs “Degrassi: The Next Generation” were both sure bets at this year’s nominations – and they delivered. High-school drama “Degrassi” took four nominations: “Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series,” for Linda Schuyler, Stephen Stohn and Epitome Pictures Inc. “Best Sound in a Dramatic Series,”…

CTV.ca American teens think CTV’s Degrassi: The Next Generation is “choice.” The homegrown hit series received its second Surfboard at last night’s Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood when it was named “Choice Summer TV Show” over several U.S. network primetime series including America’s Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance, The Singing Bee and…

Michael Thorn, PhD candidate in Communication and Culture at York University writes: I’ll be teaching a course about the Degrassi series, in all its manifestations, at Sheridan College starting September 13th. It’s a 14 week course running every Thursday night from 7-10. It will focus on two successful Canadian series, the second being Da Vinci’s…

HEY DEGRASSI FANS! Degrassi is nominated for a 2007 “Choice Summer TV Show” Teen Choice Award! Show your Degrassi support and vote online at http://www.votespashley.com. The 2007 Teen Choice Awards airs Sunday, August 26th.

Tyrone Warner, CTV.ca Did you ever wish you could live inside the fictional world of “Degrassi?” Well sit tight. The new “Degrassi” online store will make it possible for your world to look and feel a little bit more like the show. From mugs straight from “The Dot Grill” to “The Friendship Club” t-shirts actually…