Country of origin Canada | No. of episodes 28 | |
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Original network MTV Canada (Canada)
TeenNick (United States) Original release October 28, 2014 (2014-10-28) – August 2, 2015 (2015-08-02) | ||
The fourteenth and final season of Degrassi, a Canadian serial teen drama television series, premiered on October 28, 2014. Although only four school years have passed in the story timeline since season six, season fourteen is set during the final weeks of the spring semester in the years it aired. Writers have been able to use a semi-floating timeline, so that the issues depicted are modern for their viewers. This season again depicts the lives of a group of high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors and graduates as they deal with some of the challenges and issues that teenagers face such as teenage pregnancy, dysfunctional families, sexism, arson, sexting, sexual identity, miscarriages, anxiety disorders, drug use, child abuse, abstinence, and gang violence.
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The fourteenth season was announced on November 13, 2013. However, MTV Canada and TeenNick did not announce picking up the season until a month before the first episode was scheduled to air. Filming for the season commenced on April 11, 2014 at Epitome Studios in Toronto. Filming continued into August, with a break before filming the final four episodes of the season in order to give Epitome the opportunity to start filming episodes for the first season of their new series. Filming for this season completed on October 6, 2014. On June 4, 2015, it was announced that Degrassi would no longer air on TeenNick or MTV Canada following the fourteenth season. However, on June 9, 2015, it was announced that Family Channel and Netflix had picked up the series and will air 20 new episodes in 2016, renaming the show Degrassi: Next Class. This season featured the telenovela/soap opera format used in previous seasons, airing new episodes five days a week for the last two weeks of the season.
Cast
The fourteenth season has twenty-five actors receiving star billing with twenty-two of them returning from the previous season. Returning cast members include:
Joining the main cast this season are:
The five actors who did not return this season or were demoted to recurring/guest star status are:
Shane Kippel, who portrayed Gavin "Spinner" Mason in the first nine seasons, returned for a cameo role.
^Note 1 : Spencer MacPherson and Richard Walters were promoted to the main cast after recurring in the previous season.
^Note 2 : Although Ehren Kassam was not credited with the main cast in the credits, Bell Media and Epitome still considered him a series regular.
Crew
Season fourteen is produced by Epitome Pictures in association with Bell Media and DHX Media. Funding was provided by The Canadian Media Fund, The Shaw Rocket Fund, RBC Royal Bank, The Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit.
Linda Schuyler, co-creator of the Degrassi franchise and CEO of Epitome Pictures, serves as an executive producer with her husband, and President of Epitome Pictures, Stephen Stohn. Matt Huether is also credited as a co-executive producer, Karen Hill as consulting producer, Sarah Glinsli an executive producer, and Ella Schwarzman an executive post producer. Stefan Brogren is series producer, while David Lowe is credited as producer, and Stephanie Williams the supervising producer. The casting directors are Larissa Mair and Krisha Bullock Alexander, and the editors include Jason B. Irvine and Gordon Thorne.
The executive story editor is Matt Schiller, the story editors are Ian Malone and Sadiya Durrani, and Courtney Jane Walker is the senior story editor. Episode writers for the season include Ramona Barckert, Courtney Jane Walker, Karen Hill, Michael Grassi, Scott Oleszkowicz, Mike Mcphaden, Matt Huether, and Matt Schiller. The director of photography is Mitchell T. Ness, and the directors include Stefan Brogren, Rt!, and Bruce McDonald.