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…

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…

Degrassi Comes Of Age

By LAURA BETKER, SCENE.TEEN CONTRIBUTOR The sixth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation premiers tonight on CTV, but anxious viewers may have already checked out a brand new option. The CTV Broadband Network — at ctv.ca — started streaming Degrassi’s first episode a week before its scheduled television release. BONUS MATERIALS Not only full-length episodes,…

Life imitates Degrassi

JEN GERSON Degrassi is all grown up. Back-to-back episodes of Degrassi: The Next Generation will kick off the sixth season tonight at 8 on CTV, and, to mark the occasion, I.D.’s Jen Gerson invited three cast members and a pair of university students to a round table discussion. They met on the show’s new University…