Degrassi: Next Class season 3

The third season of Degrassi: Next Class premiered on January 9, 2017, on Family Channel under the teen block F2N in Canada and began streaming internationally on January 6, 2017, on Netflix.

Synopsis

This season continues to follow the same group of students now as upperclassmen as they begin their junior and senior year. It will also continue to tell the stories of high school drama with groundbreaking stories such as sex, abortion, immigration, depression, oppositional defiant disorder, major depressive, traumatic brain injury, dysfunctional families, sexuality, homophobia, hormones, religion, protest, disabilities, cystic fibrosis, Teen pregnancy and suicide attempts.

Cast

Series regulars

The third season has twenty-one actors receiving star billing with all nineteen of them returning from the previous season. Those in bold are new to the cast this season.

Amanda Arcuri as Lola Pacini
Amir Bageria as Baaz Nahir
Soma Bhatia as Goldi Nahir
Jamie Bloch as Yael Baron
Stefan Brogren as Principal Archie "Snake" Simpson
Chelsea Clark as Esme Song
Reiya Downs as Shaylynn "Shay" Powers
Ana Golja as Zoë Rivas
Nikki Gould as Grace Cardinal
Ricardo Hoyos as Zigmund "Zig" Novak
Ehren Kassam as Jonah Haak
André Kim as Winston "Chewy" Chu
Lyle Lettau as Tristan Milligan
Spencer MacPherson as Hunter Hollingsworth
Eric Osborne as Miles Hollingsworth III
Parham Rownaghi as Saad Al'Maliki
Dante Scott as Vijay Maraj
Olivia Scriven as Maya Matlin
Sara Waisglass as Francesca "Frankie" Hollingsworth
Richard Walters as Deon "Tiny" Bell
'''Dalia Yegavian as Rasha Zuabi'''

Supporting cast

Parents

Kate Hewlett as Margaret Matlin
America Olivo as Ms. Consuela Rivas
Nahanni Johnstone as Mrs. Milligan
Booth Savage as Phillip Hawthorne
Cheri Maracle as Ms. Cardinal

Faculty

Tom Melissis as Mr. Dom Perino
Michael Kinney as Coach Darryl Armstrong
Aisha Alfa as Ms. Grell
Michael Brown as Mr. Blake Mitchell
Ashley Comeau as Ms. Badger

Production

This season along with season 4 were renewed in April 2016. Production on the season officially began a month prior when casting calls for two new leads were released. Filming commenced in May 2016 and finished in August of the same year. The season is expected to premiere on January 6, 2017, on Netflix internationally and on January 9, 2017, on Family Channel's 'F2N' teen block. On F2N, it will run for two weeks and use the telenovela format. The season premiered at midnight on January 6, 2017, on the Family Channel App.