Degrassi : Season 5

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• Genre(s): Drama, Soap
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Ron Oliver, Stefan Scaini
• Cast(s): Shane Kippel, Miriam McDonald, Drake , Lauren Collins, Jamie Johnston See all Cast & Crew

• Similar To: The Bold and the Beautiful, Revenge
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  The fifth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation commenced airing in Canada on 19 September 2005, concluded on 20 March 2006 and contains nineteen episodes. Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian serial teen drama television series. It continues to depict the lives of a group of high school sophomores, juniors and seniors as they deal with the some of the challenges and issues teenagers face such as such as teenage pregnancy, self image, drug dealing, religion, coming out, sexual identity, eating disorders, and relationships. Filming took place between May 2005 and November 2005. Season five aired Mondays at 8:30 p.m. on CTV, a Canadian terrestrial television network. In the United States, it was broadcast at 8:00 p.m. 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 3 July 2007 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. The N Soundtrack was released on 1 August 2006, following this season. The fifth season of Degrassi: The Next Generation was the most successful season to date, averaging 767,000 viewers in Canada, and had one episode watched by a million viewers. It received praise for its depiction of a relationship between two gay characters, but mixed reviews for highlighting the issue of anorexia and bulimia in teenage girls.
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