Degrassi (season 12) | |
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Degrassi Season 12 DVD
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Country of origin | Canada |
No. of episodes | 40 |
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Original network |
MuchMusic (Canada) TeenNick (United States) |
Original release | July 16, 2012 | – June 21, 2013
Season chronology |
The twelfth season of Degrassi, a Canadian serial teen drama television series, premiered July 16, 2012, concluded on June 21, 2013, and consists of 40 episodes. Although only three school years have passed in the story timeline since season six, season twelve is set in the winter and spring semester in the years it aired. Writers have been able to use a semi-floating timeline, so that the issues depicted are modern for their viewers. This season again depicts the lives of a group of high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors as they deal with some of the challenges and issues that teenagers face such as homophobia, theft, religion, sexual harassment, dysfunctional families, peer pressure, pregnancy scares, stress, self image, self-injury, suicide, drug use, burglary, parenthood, depression, grief and relationships.
This season again has a telenovela/soap opera format, and the show aired new episodes four days a week, for the first five weeks. MuchMusic announced renewing the series for a twelfth season in June 2011.TeenNick, which has aired the series since 2002 in the United States, announced a summer run, following the season 11 finale. Production for the season began on February 27, 2012, at Epitome Pictures' studios in Toronto, Ontario.