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The second season of ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' commenced airing in Canada on 29 September 2002, concluded on 23 February 2003 and contains twenty-two episodes. ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian serial teen drama television series. 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, protests, and relationships. 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. Every episode is named after a song from the 1980s. 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 N, a digital cable network aimed at teenagers and young adults. 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 Entertainment in the US. Registered users of the Canadian and US iTunes Stores are also able purchase and download the season for playback on home computers and certain iPods. 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. ==Cast== The second season features fifteen actors who receive star billing with all thirteen of them returning from the previous season. Returning cast members include: * Sarah Barrable-Tishauer as Liberty Van Zandt (14 episodes) * Stefan Brogren as Archie "Snake" Simpson (17 episodes) * Daniel Clark as Sean Cameron (19 episodes) * Lauren Collins as Paige Michalchuk (18 episodes) * Ryan Cooley as James Tiberius "J.T." Yorke (20 episodes) * Jake Goldsbie as Toby Isaacs (18 episodes) * Aubrey Graham as Jimmy Brooks (18 episodes) * Shane Kippel as Gavin "Spinner" Mason (20 episodes) * Miriam McDonald as Emma Nelson (18 episodes) * Melissa McIntyre as Ashley Kerwin (18 episodes) * Christina Schmidt as Terri McGreggor (14 episodes) * Cassie Steele as Manuela "Manny" Santos (19 episodes) * Dan Woods as Mr. Raditch (19 episodes) Joining the main cast this season: * Pat Mastroianni who plays Joey Jeremiah (10 episodes) was promoted after reprising his role in the series premiere. * Jake Epstein as Craig Manning (15 episodes) Amanda Stepto and Andrea Lewis continue their recurring roles as Christine "Spike" Nelson and Hazel Aden and Stacey Farber, Adamo Ruggiero, Melissa DiMarco, and Katie Lai are given recurring roles as grade-nine students Ellie Nash and Marco Del Rossi, science teacher Daphne Hatzilakos, and 7th-grader Kendra Mason, respectively. Alex Steele, who appeared briefly in "Mother and Child Reunion" as Joey's daughter, Angela Jeremiah, returns in a recurring role. Tom Melissis and Jennifer Podemski are introduced playing Mr. Perino and Ms. Sauve, and Linlyn Lue returns to play Ms. Kwan. Siluck Saysanasy who played Yick Yu makes a cameo in "When Doves Cry". Anais Granofsky and Stacie Mistysyn, who had acted as Lucy Fernandez and Caitlin Ryan in the preceding series, return to the franchise when they guest-star in "White Wedding". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Degrassi: The Next Generation (season 2)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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