From David Hinckley of the New York Daily News:

• ‘Degrassi goes to Hollywood’ a ho-hum trip to L.A.
  “Going from Toronto to Hollywood in a yellow school bus turns out to be too long a journey even for the resilient and likable Degrassi family.” Read more.

From Entertainment Weekly:

• ‘Degrassi’ stars Lauren Collins and Adamo Ruggiero’s PopWatch Duel: What’s the best fictional high school?
  “Proof that ‘the college years’ aren’t the kiss of death for every TV show, Degrassi: The Next Generation managed to let its characters grow up without going stale. But the teen-oriented series couldn’t follow Paige, Ellie, Manny, Emma, Marco, Jimmy, Craig, and Ashley forever, and we’d seen them through so much. (Seriously: so much!) So Degrassi did what it does — you know, ‘go there’ — and introduced a whole crop of younger, new characters, with new problems to be dealt with in straightforward but often awkward ways. Such is life, you guys.” Read more.

From a media release:

From Degrassi Street to Sunset Boulevard: CTV Summer Movie Event PARADISE CITY Heads to Hollywood, August 30

• DEGRASSI GOES HOLLYWOOD features celebrity guest stars including Jason Mewes, Pete Wentz, Kevin Smith, Perez Hilton, Kelly Carlson, Michael Seater and Vivica A. Fox as MTV’s Dan Levy makes acting debut
• Art imitates life as real-life DEGRASSI actors continue to hit the big-time
• Directed by DEGRASSI alum Stefan Brogren and featuring original musical performances by Jake Epstein and Cassie Steele
• Official Soundtrack “Degrassi Goes Hollywood” featuring original songs available now online and in stores on August 25
• Additional PARADISE CITY content available online at CTV.ca

It’s a southward migration that happens every year: droves of aspiring actors and musicians from across Canada head to Hollywood in hopes of making it big. Now, as real-life DEGRASSI actors become hotter than ever in Tinseltown, CTV presents the two-hour CTV Summer Movie event PARADISE CITY: DEGRASSI GOES HOLLYWOOD, premiering Sunday, August 30 at 8 p.m. ET. Featuring all-new original musical performances, the CTV Original Movie stars VAMPIRE DIARIES’ Nina Dobrev, Spring Awakening’s Jake Epstein, Cassie Steele, Lauren Collins, Adamo Ruggiero and Stacey Farber.

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