Degrassi: The Next Generation season 2

Degrassi: The Next Generation
Season 2
Degrassi: The Next Generation Season 2 DVD
No. of episodes22
Release
Original networkCTV
Original release29 September 2002 (2002-09-29) –
23 February 2003 (2003-02-23)
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The second season of Degrassi: The Next Generation, a Canadian serial teen drama television series, commenced airing in Canada on 29 September 2002 and concluded on 23 February 2003, consisting of twenty-two episodes. This season depicts the lives of a group of eighth and ninth grade school children as they deal with some of the challenges and issues teenagers face such as child abuse, hormones, date rape, body image, hate crimes, sexual identity, alcoholism, and protests. This is the first season to feature high school students from grade nine and the last season to feature middle school students.

Filming began 10 June 2002, and continued into November 2002.[1]

The second season aired Sundays at 7:00 p.m. on CTV, a Canadian terrestrial television network, and premiered with a sixty-minute special, "When Doves Cry", which form the first two episodes of season two. Additional episodes were also aired on Fridays during January 2003. In the United States, it was broadcast on the Noggin cable channel during its programming block for teenagers, The N. The season was released on DVD as a four disc boxed set on 21 June 2005 by Alliance Atlantis Home Entertainment in Canada, and by Funimation in the US. It is purchasable on iTunes.[2]

A critical and popular success, the second season of Degrassi: The Next Generation was the most-watched Canadian drama series for Canada's younger viewers aged two to thirty-four. It was nominated in eight categories at the Gemini Awards, four categories at the Directors Guild of Canada Awards and the National Council on Family Relations Media Awards, and in two categories at the Young Artist Awards. Four episodes were also nominated at the Awards of Excellence Gala, hosted by the Alliance for Children and Television, what recognize quality Canadian children's programming.

  1. ^ "Joey Jeremiah's back as production begins on season 2 of 'Degrassi: The Next Generation'" (Press release). Epitome Virtual Reality. 10 June 2002. Archived from the original on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 14 December 2007.
  2. ^ "Degrassi: The Next Generation". AppleTV. 13 October 2001. Archived from the original on 3 August 2022. Retrieved 18 May 2022.