Num Episodes: | 10 |
Network: | Family (Canada) Netflix (Internationally) |
Prev Season: | Season 3 |
Episode List: | List of Degrassi: Next Class episodes |
Season Number: | 4 |
The fourth and final season of was released on June 30, 2017, on the Family Channel App ahead of its television premiere on July 3, 2017, on Family Channel under the teen block F2N in Canada. It streamed internationally on July 7, 2017, through Netflix.
Still following the same group of high school juniors and seniors from Degrassi Community School, this season picks up in the final months of the school year, but this time, the stakes are higher as the upperclassmen students head on one final journey where love, passion, and friendship will be more prevalent than ever, but also where jealousy, secrets, threatening to ruin lives that were truly just beginning. Controversial topics including mental health, major depressive disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, cystic fibrosis, gender identity, sexual identity, acceptance, faith, terrorism, disabilities, sex, and hate crimes.
The fourth season has twenty-one actors receiving star billing with all twenty-one of them returning from the previous season.
This season along with season 3 were renewed in April 2016.[2] Production on the season officially began a month prior when casting calls for two new leads were released. Filming for season 3 & 4 were filmed back-to-back, which ended in August 2016. The season premiered on July 3, 2017, on Family Channel's 'F2N' teen block, and streamed internationally on Netflix on July 7, 2017. On F2N, it will run for two weeks and use the telenovela format. Ahead of the premiere on F2N, Family Channel released all 10 episodes on June 30, 2017, on the Family Channel App at midnight.
This season featured the first graduation for . Ten characters, the largest since Degrassi High, graduated in the finale of season four. These characters are: Deon "Tiny" Bell (Richard Walters), Grace Cardinal (Nikki Gould), Winston "Chewy" Chu (André Dae Kim), Jonah Haak (Ehren Kassam), Miles Hollingsworth III (Eric Osborne), Maya Matlin (Olivia Scriven), Tristan Milligan (Lyle Lettau), Goldi Nahir (Soma Bhatia), Zig Novak (Ricardo Hoyos) and Zoë Rivas (Ana Golja). The finale revealed that fellow senior Esme Song (Chelsea Clark) would not be graduating.