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The first season of ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' commenced airing in Canada on October 14, 2001 and concluded on March 3, 2002, comprising 15 episodes. ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' is a Canadian serial teen drama television series. The series introduces a group of seventh and eighth grade school children, and follows their lives as they deal with some of the challenges and issues teenagers face such as online predators, body image, dysfunctional families, sex, puberty, rumors, peer pressure, stress, and drug use. The first season was broadcast on the Canadian terrestrial television network CTV, on Sundays at 7:00 p.m. It debuted with a one hour movie of the week special, "Mother and Child Reunion", which form the first two episodes of season one. In the United States, it was broadcast on The N, a digital cable network aimed at teenagers and young adults. The season was released domestically on DVD as a three disc boxed set on 19 October 2004 by Alliance Atlantis Home Entertainment, although it was released to the US market almost a month earlier, on 28 September 2004. 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. The reception for ''Degrassi: The Next Generations first season was mixed. It had earned itself 365,000 Canadian viewers aged 18 to 49, while its accompanying website was attracting 28 million hits per month, but press reviews were not as complimentary. The season picked up nominations at the Directors Guild of Canada Awards, the Gemini Awards and the Young Artist Awards. ==Cast== The opening season features thirteen actors in starring roles. Providing ties to the previous series in the Degrassi universe, Stefan Brogren was hired to play his old character Archie "Snake" Simpson (12 episodes), who is now working at the school as the Media Immersion teacher. Dan Woods was also hired to reprise his role as Mr. Raditch (11 episodes), who has been promoted to the school principal. For the new generation of students, the producers kept the same model that had been used during the casting of the previous series, ''Degrassi Junior High'' and ''Degrassi High'' and chose 11 children out of 600 auditionees, hoping to provide a group of characters the target audience of kids and teenagers could relate to, rather than the typical gorgeous actors in their twenties pretending to be teenagers, something that some of the other shows of the same period, such as ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and ''Dawson's Creek'' which were targeting the same audience, were and still are continually doing to this day. The young actors that had been selected were: * Sarah Barrable-Tishauer as Liberty Van Zandt (12 episodes) * Daniel Clark as Sean Cameron (11 episodes) * Lauren Collins as Paige Michalchuk (13 episodes) * Ryan Cooley as James Tiberius "J.T." Yorke (15 episodes) * Jake Goldsbie as Toby Isaacs (15 episodes) * Aubrey Graham as Jimmy Brooks (10 episodes) * Shane Kippel as Gavin "Spinner" Mason (12 episodes) * Miriam McDonald as Emma Nelson (15 episodes) * Melissa McIntyre as Ashley Kerwin (13 episodes) * Christina Schmidt as Terri McGreggor (13 episodes) * Cassie Steele as Manuela "Manny" Santos (15 episodes) Amanda Stepto also reprised her ''Degrassi'' character Christine "Spike" Nelson in a recurring role while former ''Degrassi Junior High'' and ''Degrassi High'' actors Danah Jean Brown (Trish Skye), Darrin Brown (Dwayne Myers), Michael Carry (Simon Dexter), Irene Courakos (Alexa Pappadopoulos), Chrissa Erodotou (Diana Economopoulos), Anais Granofsky (Lucy Fernandez), Rebecca Haines (Kathleen Mead), Sara Holmes (Alison Hunter), Neil Hope (Derek "Wheels" Wheeler), Kyra Levy (Maya Goldberg), Cathy Keenan (Liz O'Rourke), Pat Mastroianni (Joey Jeremiah), Stacie Mistysyn (Caitlin Ryan), and Siluck Saysanasy (Yick Yu) reprised their roles to guest in the first episode. 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 1)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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