Posted by Skippy at conferenceboard.ca on July 26, 2001 at 09:47:55:
Kevin, I heard a few Degrassi rumours that I hope you'll be able to comment on.
1) You aren't going to be in the pilot episode after all.
2) All the new actors look like models, thus the show won't have the "real" feel to it that the original show had since it used "normal" kids.
3) They ain't shooting in a real school or a real neighbourhood. The sets are being built in an industrial park north of Toronto, again destroying the "real" feel.
4) The show's being shot on video.
It sounds like "Degrassi: The Next Generation" is going to be a lot more like the awful "Fifteen" than the original.