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degrassifan4life · 02-07-2007

Originally Posted by ExecProducer
If I can say one thing about JT's death, we talked about it internally for years. It's not something that you do for ratings (we don't need to do that kind of stuff for ratings), it's something that does in fact happen in life. Just the other day it happened again here in Toronto, a completely unnecessary death, a random act of violence. It is a part of life, hard as that is to swallow--of course EVERYTHING happens on Degrassi, or practically everything, so it's like a lot of lifetimes crammed into one. But we thought if we could find a way to work it in that it would ultimately be a responsible thing to do, even though it was also a very hard thing to do--and genuinely as the writing was going on we went back and forth as to whether the stabbbing would be fatal. In the end, any criticism is justified, but now at least you know that right or wrong this was a very difficult decision made with a tremendous amount of thought!!

I've been travelling on business, but also came down with a really bad cold or flu that hung on for weeks, which is why I haven't been here on the boards so much. But back healthy now, and for a while anyway not travelling so much anyore.

I'm still Chair of the Juno Awards, we had a press conference yesterday to announce all the nominees.

We've been having meetings with The N and CTV about the new seasons--still haven't been ordered yet, it's all complicated because of both the ACTRA strike (we had to cancel some promo shoots for both Degrassi and The N, some cool stuff that would have appeared on The N but now won't, because of the strike) and because of the funding crisis relating to the Canadian Television Fund, which is a major contributor to our production funding. But we are proceeding with writing nd other creative activities full steam ahead--and in fact on Instant Star we held a songwriters camp last week to get the songwriting started for Season 4. And on Degrassi we've had some major brainstorming about the overall direction the show should take this year...

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degrassifan4life Eligible for a custom title Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Da Dirtty Souf Posts: 1,907	Exect. Press Release as of 2/7! Originally Posted by ExecProducer If I can say one thing about JT's death, we talked about it internally for years. It's not something that you do for ratings (we don't need to do that kind of stuff for ratings), it's something that does in fact happen in life. Just the other day it happened again here in Toronto, a completely unnecessary death, a random act of violence. It is a part of life, hard as that is to swallow--of course EVERYTHING happens on Degrassi, or practically everything, so it's like a lot of lifetimes crammed into one. But we thought if we could find a way to work it in that it would ultimately be a responsible thing to do, even though it was also a very hard thing to do--and genuinely as the writing was going on we went back and forth as to whether the stabbbing would be fatal. In the end, any criticism is justified, but now at least you know that right or wrong this was a very difficult decision made with a tremendous amount of thought!! I've been travelling on business, but also came down with a really bad cold or flu that hung on for weeks, which is why I haven't been here on the boards so much. But back healthy now, and for a while anyway not travelling so much anyore. I'm still Chair of the Juno Awards, we had a press conference yesterday to announce all the nominees. We've been having meetings with The N and CTV about the new seasons--still haven't been ordered yet, it's all complicated because of both the ACTRA strike (we had to cancel some promo shoots for both Degrassi and The N, some cool stuff that would have appeared on The N but now won't, because of the strike) and because of the funding crisis relating to the Canadian Television Fund, which is a major contributor to our production funding. But we are proceeding with writing nd other creative activities full steam ahead--and in fact on Instant Star we held a songwriters camp last week to get the songwriting started for Season 4. And on Degrassi we've had some major brainstorming about the overall direction the show should take this year...
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