Degrassi (2001)

Degrassi: The Next Generation The Canadian school drama took on sex, teen pregnancy, bullying and drug abuse with a directness that unsettled its American broadcaster, which held back a season-three storyline about a fourteen-year-old's abortion for three years. It also cast Aubrey Graham, now better known as Drake, as basketball star Jimmy Brooks. Fourteen seasons means uneven quality, so the early ones, when the Next Generation tag still sat on the title, are the place to start.