The 12th season of Degrassi premiered on July 16, 2012 at a new time of 10pm ET, on MuchMusic (Canada) and TeenNick (U.S.). This first half of the season followed a 5-week telenovela format with 20 episodes, airing Monday through Thursdays at 10pm, marketed as Degrassi: Showdown, depicting the time right after winter break of the 2011-2012 school year. The second part of the season followed a weekly format with 10 episodes, airing Friday nights at 9pm, named simply Degrassi, depicting the time about a week after where Showdown left off. The third and final part of the season, marketed as "Degrassi: Anything Could Happen," premiered on February 15th, with new episodes rolling out through Spring 2013, depicting spring break up until the end of the school year.
Four actors have been added to the main cast: Dylan Everett (Episodes 1201-1232), Sarah Fisher, Craig Arnold, and Demetrius Joyette. The producers have also assembled a whole new recurring cast. Production and casting for the season began on February 27, 2012, with filming beginning on March 19, 2012, at Epitome Pictures studios in Toronto, Ontario. TeenNick used two slogans for this season, "Whose Side Are You On?" and "The Showdown That Will Tear Degrassi Apart," while the MuchMusic slogan is, "The Kids at Degrassi Come Undone."
Production for this season began on March 19, 2012.
This season contains the 300th episode in 'The Next Generation' series, which also serves as the 400th overall.
It was confirmed in an interview with Munro Chambers that the seniors would graduate at the end of this season.
This is the first season with at least one regular cast member in each grade.
The school uniform was abolished at the start of the season, within the first episode's cold open.
Eli and Becky were going to be working on a play together entitled "Romeo and Juliet: The Musical." However, when the play was changed into a story of two homosexual lovers named "Romeo and Jules" Becky refused to be a part of it and quit.
Becky and Luke are from Florida making them the fifth and sixth characters to come from the United States after Lucy and Simon in Degrassi Junior High, and Declan and Fiona (who are all from New York).
A new hockey team has been introduced, though it is different from the one mentioned in seasons 2 and 3.
First instance of a female student feeling self-conscious of her breast size since Season 5.
Since Adam only was ever shown self-harming when forced to resume the "Gracie" persona, possibly the first male character to self-harm in the entire franchise.
This is the third season to not feature any recurring characters from the previous season upgraded to regulars. The other two are Season 4 and Season 9.
The opening theme song is performed by Alexz Johnson like in Season 11, but the sequence is completely different, Source with the uniforms deleted immediately although they were not incorporated until the start of Season 11, half a season after their introduction.
Due to the Viacom/DirectTV contract dispute, the first week's episodes were initially available for streaming to US viewers through the TeenNick website for only 24 hours each. On Friday, July 20 a deal had been reached during Gives You Hell (2)'s scheduled window of availability and the other three episodes had been restored by 9 PM Eastern time.
Clare and Alli reveal the show's logo at the end of the opening credits.
The premiere of the Fall Block picked up a week after the events in Scream (2). Source
It was confirmed by Linda Schuyler that one or two seniors will be held back after this season. It has since been revealed that Drew Torres will be held back.
Tonight, Tonight was aired on Tuesday November 20th as a one hour finale on TeenNick to conclude the fall Degrassi: Season 12
block as to avoid airing an episode on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), though it was aired on schedule in Canada as their Thanksgiving takes place in early October and the event does not pertain to them
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