Despite loving Degrassi Junior High in its day, I spent five seasons procrastinating on checking out Degrassi: The Next Generation until the six season had its summer premiere this past June. I quickly learned that all the claims of the show's addictive nature was very, very true.

The N now has preview pix for the seventh and final season, which debuts for American viewers this Friday, October 5. Canadian viewers have to wait until December 4 ... but they'll get to see the whole season interrupted. The N will be airing half of the season and finish it later in 2008.

There are plenty of new promo pictures of gay youth Marco Del Rossi (played by Adamo Ruggiero), so I thought I'd share some of them here (plenty more after the break!)...

It's good to finally see Marco with a decent haircut and clean shaven...

Marco with his ex-girlfriend Ellie. (I've really got to bump those Degrassi DVDs on my Netflix queue.)

Marco with pals Jimmy and Spinner

And just with Spinner:

Marco with Paige, his boyfriend Dylan's sister:

Hi hon!

If I were Adamo Ruggiero, half of my wardrobe would be in that shade of red, it looks so good on him.

I'm a little worried that there are no pictures of Dylan, Marco's boyfriend, or Alex, Paige's girlfriend. I wouldn't mind if we saw Marco back on the dating scene, but Alex was instantly one of my favorites.