From Teen Nick: “TEENNICK BREAKS NEW CREATIVE GROUND WITH HIT SERIES DEGRASSI IN ITS LANDMARK 10TH SEASON BY PRESENTING IT TELENOVELA-STYLE ALL SUMMER LONG”

It’s totally crazy. This is the 30^th year. Mr.  Simpson on the show has been on since pretty much the very beginning. He played a kid, and now he’s producing and writing – producing and directing, not writing, and still plays a character on the show. Before we started this season we had a little meet and greet to get what’s going to be the plan for this year. Everyone heard that there was going to be this crazy work schedule and they hyped it up like it was going to be a lot of work.

For the actors, the only difference that I’ve noticed is it seems like we had a lot of downtime before, because things just move really quickly now. Any time that there was before, they’ve cut that stuff out. And you do less takes, so you have to know what you’re going to be doing, especially since we’re doing four-episode story arcs. We shoot four episodes at a time instead of two now. It’s a lot to keep straight.

They shoot 7:30 to 7:30 every day, no matter what. The storytelling’s really different, and I think just from a script-reading perspective, different storylines that used to have to play out over two episodes and have a neat, tidy ending, there’s more room to let things breathe and spread out, and relationships develop slower. It’s been nice to flesh out storylines.

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