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