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The-N's Summer Lineup: Will Secret Be Kept Secret?
by DegrassiTNGHO
Lately a good amount of information has been revealed about the air dates of certain Degrassi Programming this summer on the-n.
The-Mary has told us that Degrassi Unscripted will air as follows:
June 3 - Degrassi: Unscripted Stacey Farber
June 10 - Degrassi: Unscripted Aubrey Graham
June 17 - Degrassi: Unscripted Melissa McIntyre
And also Kevin Smith reported that:
August 12 - West End Girls
August 19 - Goin' Down The Road Part 1
August 26 - Goin' Down The Road Part 2
So the big question that remains is what will air in between and when? Will the-n air something new every week, or take time off? Will they air all the episodes, or skip "Secret" like last seasons "Accidents Will Happen." This column aims to discuss a few of the possibilities.
Reasons They Will Air Secret
The occurrences that happen in Secret are clearly different from those in Accidents Will Happen. There's not really a controversy involved with the plot line. Performing Oral Sex on someone whose history is unknown to you is a bad idea. Any reasonable person will agree with that, where-as many people will disagree about getting an abortion. Some may argue that Secret suggests to children that Van Hookups are acceptable, but you still can't miss the fact that Emma suffers the consequences. Generally, the-n will air any bad actions that have serious consequences following.
Alot of people have been reporting on message boards for a long time now, that someone from the-n confirmed the channel would be airing ALL 22 episodes of this production season. This info has almost become the basis for the fact that they will air Secret. Of course, the only fallacy of this info is that DegrassiTNGHO has yet to see where it originally came from. Who was the source? This seems unclear.
This last reasoning involves a theory about the programming schedule. Many people have sited July 1st as the official start date for new episodes. But again what’s the source? In any event, here’s a possible scenario.
June 3 - Degrassi: Unscripted Stacey Farber
June 10 - Degrassi: Unscripted Aubrey Graham
June 17 - Degrassi: Unscripted Melissa McIntyre
June 24 - ???????
July 1 - Secret Part 1
July 8 - Secret Part 2
July 15 - Eye Of The Tiger
July 22 - Queen Of Hearts
July 29 - Modern Love
August 5 - Moonlight Desires
August 12 - West End Girls
August 19 - Goin' Down The Road Part 1
August 26 - Goin' Down The Road Part 2
As you can see there is of course one big question mark in there, however aside from that, that schedule COULD work. This is of course if they air the episodes straight through like they did with Season 2's summer lineup. Or, they could do like season 3 and skip a week in there somewhere, which could work as well. That mystery week could be moved anywhere in the summer, or filled with another Unscripted that the-mary may not have mentioned (Shane Kippel Or Andrea Lewis were rumored).
Reasons They Won't Air Secret
The commercials that have been promoting season 4 so far don't have one single clip from Secret, yet have clips from every other episode. It makes you wonder why they would choose to intentionally skip one episode if they didn't have some kind of reason behind it. When they chose not to air Accidents Will Happen, they did the same thing in their promos.
To kick back to what was said earlier about consequences. The argument can be made that Emma doesn't necessarily learn the full lesson. Afterall, it goes unsaid whether or not Emma actually did get an STD.
Secret could theoretically be wiped out and not cause any HUGE problems to the rest of the season. If they were to skip Secret they could once again do some type of "Mini-Episode" special to explain the subplots. The only real problem that this would occur is the later subplot of episode 418, in which Emma deals with her new reputation. The-n would need a creative way around to explain what happened, but with the proper motivation it's possible they could make it work
In Conclusion
And then of course, there is still somewhat of a 3rd option here, they will simply air the episode edited. Afterall, they HAVE to get rid of the line "I'm not getting pregnant," from Emma to Manny. If they didn't, it would simply be the most confusing thing ever to their viewers.
So this one still seems to be somewhat unclear. Do you have an opinion on the matter? Think you know what will happen, or have some info on it? Hit up our message board or send an email to lordlitwicki@msn.com and speak your mind. Email comments will make our reader mail section. This case certainly isn't closed yet.
The above article was published by dTNGHO, please credit if cited or used
author contact info: donovan@korn.zzn.com; lordlitwicki@msn.com
