I've heard complaints about wages on that show for years and I used to watch when I was in high school
and its Canada so I am not sure what the union is THERE.
I wonder what the residuals / syndication money are like for the cast too.
The Degrassi franchise as a whole has been around since the late-70s / early-80s. Got shine on CBC in Canada way back in the day.
The Next Generation show was on CTV in the early-2000s ... back when The O.C. was popular over on Fox.
The long-term run of the franchise (1979 - 2010s) has been all over though - CBC, CTV & CTV 2, PBS, MTV2, Family, TeenNick, YTV, Much, Netflix, etc.
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
Degrassi is a Canadian
teen drama franchise created by
Kit Hood and
Linda Schuyler in 1979. Beginning as a series of short films about kids living on or near the
eponymous De Grassi Street in
Toronto,
Ontario, it later focused on a group of ethnically and economically diverse teenagers attending schools of the same name as they face various issues prevalent in teenage life. The franchise spans five main series:
The Kids of Degrassi Street,
Degrassi Junior High,
Degrassi High,
Degrassi: The Next Generation and
Degrassi: Next Class, as well as television specials and
made-for-TV films.
In Canada, stripped reruns of
Degrassi: The Next Generation have aired on
CTV Two and
MTV2, which are owned by Bell Media.
[95] In the United States, independent distributor Program Partners and
Sony Pictures Television, announced on September 24, 2006 that they acquired the syndication rights to the first 119 episodes of the show in the United States, and any subsequent new episodes.
[96][97]
In December 2006, Sony Pictures Television and Program Partners had reached agreements with the
Tribune Company for every station it owned,
The CW Plus affiliated stations, and many other stations owned by major media conglomerates.
Degrassi: The Next Generation was cleared in 60% of the country including all five of the top five media markets.
[98] By March 2007, Program Partners had cleared it in over 70% of the country after stations owned by
Hearst-Argyle Television,
Capitol Broadcasting Company, and
ACME Communications purchased the syndication.
[99] The series meets the US
FCC's
educational and informational guidelines towards children's programming.
[100]
In October 2019, as part of a content deal struck between Viacom and
WildBrain, a channel dedicated to
Degrassi was added to
Pluto TV on channel 172 (now channel 144) of the free, advertiser-supported streaming service's entertainment tier, offering episodes of
Degrassi, with a limited number of episodes—including some consisted of portions of two-part episodes, such as "Bitter Sweet Symphony (Part 1)"—omitted from the episode rotation.
[101]
As of July 2021, reruns of Degrassi: The Next Generation continue to air on certain Canadian television networks owned by Corus Entertainment, including ABC Spark, CMT, and YTV.
DVD releases
The first twelve seasons of
Degrassi: The Next Generation have been released on DVD. The box sets are released in Canada by
Alliance Home Entertainment. In the United States,
FUNimation Entertainment released the first six seasons and Echo Bridge Entertainment released seasons seven through twelve. Each season boxset includes extra features such as pictures,
karaoke sessions, audition tapes,
bloopers, deleted scenes and more.
[102][103] In Australia, seasons 1 to 4 were released by Umbrella Entertainment in 2010 and 2011. These DVDs are compatible with the
region 4 code,
[104] which is in use in, Oceania and Latin America.
The three-episode story arc from the fourth season in which Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes guest star has also been released as a single disc Region 1 DVD. FUNimation Entertainment released the disc on November 8, 2005, in two versions: the first subtitled as "Uncut, Uncensored and Unrated",
[105] and the second, "Rated."
[106] Each release has the same DVD extras, including an interview with Kevin Smith, bloopers and a
Jay and Silent Bob Photo Album, except the Unrated release also features episode commentaries by Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes, Stacie Mistysyn, the associate producer Jim Jackman and writer Aaron Martin.
[105]
Streaming
Degrassi: The Next Generation has been made available over various streaming platforms over the years. In the 2000s, episodes were made available to stream on
CTV and
TeenNick's websites in Canada and the United States respectively.
[107][108] It was also made available on
ITunes in North America.
[109] In 2007,
Puretracks in Canada offered episodes for download as a media file that could be only burned or copied three times.
[110] In the US,
Zune sold the full series.
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