Excellent news, Degrassi followers. It seems like there’s a brand new documentary within the works that can deal with one among Canada’s most beloved and long-running tv franchises.
A three-part docuseries will likely be produced by WildBrain, the household leisure producer which owns the Degrassi franchise, and fellow Canadian manufacturing firm Peacock Alley, WildBrain introduced Wednesday.
The as-of-yet unnamed sequence will function an in-depth exploration of Degrassi lore, behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, in addition to conversations with creatives impressed by the present’s 40-year legacy.
Josh Scherba, WildBrain’s president and CEO, said: “Degrassi continues to be enormously standard, resonating with followers throughout generations, from adults who grew up watching the present to at this time’s teenagers who’re discovering it for the primary time.”
In truth, he says, Degrassi’s viewers is greater than ever, and extra individuals worldwide watch Degrassi than ever earlier than.
“Its enduring reputation is pushed by its unflinching honesty and authenticity, tackling subjects and points that youngsters in every single place face.”
Degrassi was initially created in 1979 by Linda Schuyler and Package Hood and has all the time served as a touchstone for critical and topical teen points that different exhibits have been usually too scared to discover.
Within the dramatic Degrassi Excessive spinoff, characters on the fictional highschool struggled with very actual points like racism, AIDS, teen being pregnant, homophobia and suicide.
By time Degrassi: The Subsequent Technology got here alongside within the early 2000s, the present took even larger plot dangers. That, mixed with some up-and-coming actors on the forged, like Nina Dobrev, Shenae Grimes and rapper Drake, propelled the sequence into worldwide markets and the present ran for one more 14 years.
A forged picture of ‘Degrassi: The Subsequent Technology’ when Drake (center, in wheelchair) performed Jimmy.
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Lisa Rideout, the director behind the Intercourse with Sue documentary, will direct the Degrassi doc and acknowledges that her first-hand expertise with the present in her teenagers will likely be an asset to the venture.
“Adolescence is a interval of firsts. First time sporting a bra, first time shaving, first dance with a crush, first awkward kiss at a celebration. Teenagers fumble their manner by way of these experiences, attempting their greatest to return out on the opposite aspect unscathed. Degrassi has introduced these awkward, embarrassing, and unstated truths of youth to the display for over 4 a long time,” she mentioned in an announcement.
“As somebody who got here of age watching Degrassi, I bear in mind the much-needed reassurance I received from the present as a teen. Degrassi not solely helped teenagers really feel much less alone, it additionally didn’t shrink back from what we wished to find out about puberty, intercourse, relationships and a lot extra.”
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