Total Drama (2007)

Original title

Total Drama Island

Genre

animated reality show, comedy television series

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 27 episodes

Rated

TV-PG

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 283 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A bunch of teenagers compete in a reality show style contest with wacky challenges and strategy. They get eliminated one by one until someone wins a big cash prize.

sillyfunnychaoticplayfulsarcasticover-the-toplighthearted

What happens

Total Drama (often shortened as TD) is a Canadian animated sitcom created by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis that premiered on Teletoon (now the Canadian version of Cartoon Network) in Canada on July 8, 2007, and on Cartoon Network in the U.S. on June 5, 2008. The series is both a homage and satire of common conventions from reality television competition shows like Survivor. Each season revolves around a group of teens competing in an elimination-style competition, in that the contestants compete in challenges both as teams and individually for rewards and immunity from elimination. The teams merge roughly halfway through the competition into individuals. As the contestants develop relationships with each other, they are progressively eliminated from the game. When there are only two or three contestants remaining, they compete in a final challenge where the winner is awarded a cash prize: C$100,000 (US$73,129.00) in the first season, or C$1,000,000 (US$731,485.00) from the second season onward. The series currently consists of six seasons: Island (2007), Action, World Tour, Revenge of the Island, the two-part All-Stars and Pahkitew Island, and the two-part Island (2023–2024). Total Drama has developed a cult following and spawned a franchise. A spin-off series, Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, premiered on September 7, 2015. A second spin-off series, Total DramaRama, premiered on September 1, 2018, in the U.S., and on October 7, 2018, in Canada. While Netflix started streaming selected seasons of Total Drama in 2014, the entire series streamed on Netflix in the United States from 2018 until it got removed on February 1, 2021. It was announced on February 17, 2021 that a revival of Total Drama had been greenlit, with two new seasons being produced for Cartoon Network and HBO Max in the United States, Cartoon Network in Canada, and CBBC in the United Kingdom. The first part came out in Italy on April 8, 2023, with the original English version being available on Discovery+ in the region, and will later see an international extension. Despite being announced as two seasons, the revival was later revealed in the end credits to be one season, similar to the fifth season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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