Kary's Degrassi Blog

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First off, if you aren’t aware, Degrassi has CONFIRMED there will be a season 8.  Here’s some of the current season 8 news so far from various sources (Exec’s posts on d.tv forums, videos on ctv.ca, etc.)  Most of them come from the Exec Producer Stephen Stohn’s posts in the “Shooting Season 3″ thread over at the degrassi.tv message board.

***Tentatively, they’re looking at 18-22 episodes for the season.  As of today (June 30), filming for season 8 HAS currently been in progress.

Tentative Episode Titles (so far)

801 Uptown Girl–Part 1
802 Uptown Girl–Part 2
803 Fight The Power
804 Didn’t We Almost Have It All
805 Man With Two Hearts
806 With Or Without You

The Exec says the season premiere (Uptown Girl) takes place right before the school year, and hinted that it will involve Mia and Emma somehow.

***There will be a new opening sequence for Season 8.  They’re also looking at redoing the theme song by re-adding vocals to it.

We’re shooting the new Season 8 opening title sequence for Degrassi next week… we’ve just been planning and storyboarding the concept… and the director did a demo by using a MiniDV to tape some of the office staff pretending to be the actors, in various sets, just to get a quick sense of the length of each sequence, and how the final opening will look once the real filming happens and it’s all edited together… we’re toying with the idea of reintroducing the vocals to the music track… whatever it takes! ps for anyone who is interested in Janny, you’ll just have to keep watching… life sometimes delivers us twists and turns… what one day seems in one direction, may on a different day not look quite the same…

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We’re going to try some different approaches to the theme song, maybe speed up the tempo and use a male voice or voices, don’t know if or how it will work, we’ll see… the shooting of the opening went really well today!

New characters will join the cast in Season 8.  Here’s a confirmed list of new actors/actresses casted for the upcoming season (character info to come later):

Jordan Hudyma
A.J. Saudin
Argiris Karris
Judy Jiao
Kevin Jubinville
Melinda Shankar
Sam Earle
Evan Williams
Aislinn Paul

(As of June 30) Here’s the current airdate schedule for Degrassi Season 7:

CTV: All episodes have aired!

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7/11, 8pm: Broken Wings (Ep. 719)
7/11, 8:30pm: Everything She Wants (Ep. 721)
7/18, 8pm: Ladies Night (Ep. 720)
7/25, 8pm: Don’t Stop Believing (Ep. 722) **
8/1, 8pm: If This Is It (Ep. 723)**
8/8, 8pm: We Built This City (Ep. 724)** SEASON FINALE

**Bolded episodes are confirmed airdates.  The ones with asterisks I’m not sure they’re exact, I’m just assuming they’ll continue airing consecutive weeks.

Degrassi Exec. Producer Stephen Stohn posted on his myspace blog that they will be releasing another Degrassi Soundtrack album:

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Yes it’s true… a Degrassi soundtrack album will be released in early August in Canada and the United States and other countries around the world!!! It will feature some of the great music from Season 7…
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For the most part I really enjoy the music they choose for the show.  The only downside is that I’m sure that like the first soundtrack album, they won’t include character-performed songs as well.  I was quite disappointed that they didn’t include songs like “Mr. Nice Guy”, “What I Know” and more on the first album…that would’ve made the product more successful for sure.

I think a really cool project would be to actually create the songs on the album Craig released in Season 7, and sell the album at their degrassi.tv online store.  Just in case you didn’t know, here’s a list of the tracks on the album Craig released in the episode “It’s Tricky:”

Craig Manning: Of Two Minds…
1) My Window
2) Bruised, Not Broken
3) She is the Ash
4) Not Your Problem
5) Red-Headed for Trouble
6) A Dedicated Father
7) Thong Girl, Wrong Girl
Boiler Room
9) Kissing in the Stairwell
10) One Year Gone
11) Lament for Little Sister

You can still purchase the first Degrassi Soundtrack at the official degrassi online shop, or at amazon.com.