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…

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…

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…

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…

By Cassandra Szklarski (CP) Aug 27, 2009 TORONTO The bright lights of Hollywood lure the “Degrassi” kids to California in their first-ever TV movie airing this weekend, with celebrity friends including Pete Wentz, Vivica A. Fox, Kevin Smith and Perez Hilton among those helping Paige, Manny and the gang find fame and fortune in tinseltown.…

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…

By Kat Angus, Calgary Herald, Canwest News Service TELEVISION: Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood When and where: Sunday night at 8 on CTV – – – – – – In the freezing of the Great White North, there is not a single Canadian who hasn’t dreamed of ditching the cold, wet snow for sunnier climates…

Sheri Block, CTV.ca When Dan Levy heard he was being considered for a part in the new Degrassi movie, he assumed his role would be relatively small. With no formal acting experience, you can only imagine the shock the MTV host felt when he was instead offered a major role as a hotshot Hollywood producer.…

Sheri Block, CTV.ca The excitement is already starting to build for “Paradise City: Degrassi Goes Hollywood” as droves of fans gathered outside MuchMusic’s headquarters Friday morning hoping to score a wristband to the hottest premiere in town. Although the movie doesn’t air on CTV until Aug. 30th, an exclusive screening will be held next Wednesday…

JOSHUA OSTROFF Special to The Globe and Mail Last updated on Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009 03:12AM EDT Lil Wayne, Drake, Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto Tuesday night ‘You know I couldn’t let my city down, baby,” crowed Drake, perched on a centre-stage stool, to a rapturous reception otherwise reserved for headliner Lil Wayne.…