VINDICATION IS AT HAND!

Joel Rubinoff [The Record] April 22, 2005 She’s been off the show for a year now, but New Dundee resident Chrissy Schmidt’s role as an abused teen in a controversial episode of the Canadian youth series, Degrassi: The Next Generation, has finally been recognized with two nominations at the U.S.-based Young Artist Awards. “It’s what…

Degrassi Alumni Share Interest In Classic Cars

Degrassi Alumni Share Interest In Classic Cars Mr. Raditch and Joey Jeremiah” From Canadas Award-Winning Degrassi Television Series to Offer Their Collector Cars at Canadas Largest Classic Car Auction at The International Centre, Mississauga, Ontario April 15-17th, 2005 TORONTO, Ontario, Canada (April 7, 2005) As a rite of spring, hundreds of classic cars are being…

Diabolical pursuits

Diabolical pursuits SOUTH RIVERDALE — Scott McClelland is a quintessential Jekyll-and-Hyde character. One minute, he’s soft-spoken and genial, with a welcoming smile. The next, he’s shooting this disgusted look right through you, feral revulsion running through his eyes. It’s a suitable duality for the producer of Canada’s largest sideshow, Carnival Diablo, and McClelland dips deeper…

Finalists Named for Shaw Rocket Prize

Finalists Named for Shaw Rocket Prize CALGARY, April 5: The Shaw Rocket Fund has announced four finalists for the annual C$50,000 Shaw Rocket Prize, as determined by kids’ programming executives from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany and Australia. The finalists are Epitome Pictures’ Degrassi: The Next Generation, a live-action drama that airs on CBC; DECODE’s…

Degrassi, on the house

Degrassi, on the house Consider it an unobtrusive homage: The grand opening of the DeGrassi House comes this Friday EMILY MATHIEU Unless you knew what you were looking for, you’d walk right past DeGrassi House. That’s kind of the point. The recently renamed restaurant and bar at 780 Queen St. E., just west of the…

Entertainment ; DeGrassi Is tha Best Teen TV N da WRLD

Entertainment ; DeGrassi Is tha Best Teen TV N da WRLD: NY Times: 32 Hours,16 minutes Ago [Entertainment News] Although it’s been on Canadian TV for 25 years in various incarnations, the Degrassi series franchise continues to develop a whole new following in the U.S. and around the world. The latest boost to CTV’s current…

Channel Surfing for Nostalgia

Channel Surfing for Nostalgia by Jonathan Ages Mar 24, 2005 (~730 Words) jaa345@nyu.edu (917) 771-0770 Teenage soap operas arent just for kids. Theyre luring droves of post-pubescent viewers too. The Fox Networks teenager melodrama, The O.C., has attracted waves of fans, but many overgrown adolescents are also tuning into Degrassi: The Next Generation on The…

Degrassi 'tha best' teen TV: NY Times

Degrassi ‘tha best’ teen TV: NY Times John McKay Canadian Press TORONTO (CP) — Although it’s been on Canadian TV for 25 years in various incarnations, the Degrassi series franchise continues to develop a whole new following in the U.S. and around the world. The latest boost to CTV’s current teen series Degrassi: The Next…