The eleventh season of Degrassi, a Canadian serial teen drama television series, premiered on July 18, 2011, concluded on May 18, 2012, and consists of 45 episodes. Although only three school years have passed in the story timeline since season six, part one of season eleven is set in the final term of the Spring semester, while part two is set in the fall semester to the first term of the winter semester in the years it aired. Writers have been able to use a semi-floating timeline, so that the issues depicted are modern for their viewers. The first half of this season again depicts the lives of a group of high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors while the second half of this season depicts the lives of a group of high school freshmen, juniors, and seniors as they deal with some of the challenges and issues that teenagers face such as gang violence, parenthood, transphobia, homosexuality, drug use, dysfunctional families, mental disorders, adoption, organ transplantation, crime, bulimia, alcoholism, sex, drug abuse, and murder. 45 episodes were ordered for this season, and it continues the telenovela/soap opera format that began in season 10, with the show airing new episodes four days a week, for the first 7 weeks. Production for the season began on March 14, 2011, at Epitome Pictures' studios in Toronto, Ontario. In the US, The first 29 episodes (part 1) were promoted as Degrassi: Now or Never, while the last 15 episodes (part 2) were promoted as Degrassi: New Beginnings. Cast For the first half of the eleventh season, twenty-five actors receive star billing with twenty-one of them returning from the previous season. Returning cast members include: Raymond Ablack as Savtaj "Sav" Bhandari (13 episodes) Charlotte Arnold as Holly J. Sinclair (19 episodes) Luke Bilyk as Drew Torres (26 episodes) Stefan Brogren as Archie "Snake" Simpson (14 episodes) Munro Chambers as Eli Goldsworthy (27 episodes) Annie Clark as Fiona Coyne (32 episodes) Sam Earle as K.C. Guthrie (19 episodes) Jahmil French as Dave Turner (28 episodes) Alicia Josipovic as Bianca DeSousa (15 episodes) Argiris Karras as Riley Stavros (9 episodes) Daniel Kelly as Owen Milligan (18 episodes) Shannon Kook-Chun as Zane Park (5 episodes) Cory Lee as Ms. Oh (16 episodes) Jajube Mandiela as Chantay Black (7 episodes) Samantha Munro as Anya MacPherson (12 episodes) Aislinn Paul as Clare Edwards (29 episodes) A.J. Saudin as Connor DeLaurier