Total Drama

Total Drama is a series created by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis. Total Drama is developed by Fresh TV Inc. and Teletoon. The show was created by the same creators of 6teen and Stoked. It is has the Canadian TV rating of "G" or "c8" (ages 8+). It has the American rating of TV-PG or TV-PG-D for Cartoon Network.

Staff

 * See: Staff

There are twenty-six voice actors, six directors, twenty-five writers, and three song-writers for the series.

Total Drama Island
Main article: Total Drama Island

Total Drama Island is about twenty-two contestants on an island known as "Camp Wawanakwa" or "Total Drama Island." The contestants are divided into two separate teams, the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass. The two teams were given challenges and every three days, the losing team votes a contestant off. The losing contestant must walk the Dock of Shame to the Boat of Losers, which will take the loser away. This process continues on until one person remains on the island. The last contestant wins a $100,000 prize.

Episodes

 * see: List of Total Drama Island Episodes

There are twenty-six episodes, twenty-seven counting the exclusives, plus a special. TDI Rundown and Total Drama Island Recap are exclusive episodes, being aired only on Cartoon Network and Teletoon, respectively.

Total Drama Action

 * see: Total Drama Action

Total Drama Action, the second season of the show, takes place on an abandoned film lot somewhere in Toronto, Ontario. Fifteen of the original contestants are split up into two teams, the Screaming Gaffers and the Killer Grips. The teams compete in movie-themed challenges until only one contestant is left on the set. That player ultimately wins one milion dollars.

Episodes

 * see: List of Total Drama Action Episodes

Just like Total Drama Island, there are twenty-six episodes, plus a special, which gave way to the next season.

Total Drama World Tour
Total Drama World Tour (originally titled "Total Drama, the Musical") is the third season of Total Drama. Fifteen of the original contestants, as well as three new ones, compete for another million dollars in various challenges in locations all around the world. This season, there are three teams: Team Amazon, Team Victory, and Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot. All the while, the contestants must break into spontaneous musical numbers in each and every episode.

Episodes

 * see: List of Total Drama World Tour Episodes

Total Drama World Tour has twenty-six episodes. An hour-long special has not been confirmed yet but there's a first movie.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island (originally titled "Total Drama Reloaded") is the upcoming fourth season of the series. In the official Total Drama Production Blog, Mark Thornton was the first to mention the existence of season four, and later said that, as of January 18, 2010, the season was being written. There were many hints that the season would feature many new contestants, and most likely an all-new cast. The finale of Total Drama World Tour confirmed that, as Chris stated that next season will most likely have a whole new cast, since the old cast is "probably gonna melt." It has since been confirmed that there are, in fact, thirteen new contestants competing this season, and that none of the original twenty two (and presumably the three Total Drama World Tour newcomers as well) will be competing. In addition, the season will be heading back to Camp Wawanakwa - the setting of the first season. The presence of radioactivity will apparently have a major effect on the season, as both team names have to do with nuclear traits: the Radioactive Rats and the Mutant Maggots. Other than that, the season appears to be going back to the same basic format as the original season. The amount of money offered to the winner is, once again, $1,000,000. Keith Oliver and Chad Hicks, the directors of the previous season, are also directing this season. The first episode is confirmed to be called "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!" and the penultimate episode has been confirmed to be named "The Enchanted Franken-Forest."

Censorship in United States

 * see: Edits for full list of censors

Although it was originally rated TV-PG DLS, Total Drama episodes are usually rated TV-PG in the United States, for suggestive dialogue and aggressive language. Sometimes an episode would be rated TV-PG D for mild flirtatious dialogue.

Opening Sequence
I Wanna Be Famous, by Graeme Cornies and Dawna Toews

''Dear Mom and Dad, I'm doing fine, You guys are on my mind. You asked me what I wanted to be And now I think the answer is plain to see. 'Cause I wanna be famous.'' ''I wanna live close to the sun Well, pack your bags 'cause I've already won Everything to prove, nothing in my way I'll get there one day 'Cause I wanna be famous! na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na I wanna be I wanna be I wanna be famous I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous! (Whistling the same tune I Wanna Be Famous)''

Reception
The Total Drama series has garnered very successful ratings over the years. Carole Bonneau, the Vice President of programming of Teletoon Canada, stated that Total Drama Island, along with FreshTV's 6Teen, were "consistently top performers" for audiences of ages 6-11, and also helped to bring in older viewers as well. When Total Drama Island aired on the American Cartoon Network, it performed very well; The Toronto Star reported that, "in some age groups, Total Drama Island showed a 500 percent ratings increase in its time slot." On December 11, 2008, Total Drama Island garnered 3.5 million viewers. That year, the series was the top "regularly-scheduled Thursday night program at 9 p.m. on all television throughout third quarter among boys 2-11, 6-11 and 9-14," according to the Animation World Network. On Memorial Day weekend of 2009, a marathon of Total Drama Island increased viewership in age groups 2-11, 6-11, and 9-14, each by 20% or more compared to the same week in 2008.

Commonsense Media gave the show four out of five stars, calling it a "clever cartoon reality show spoof OK for older tweens." In reviewing the DVD for the first season, Matthew Price of The Oklahoman wrote that while the show started out "unbelievably slowly," the series became more interesting as campers began getting voted off. Price also praised the parody of reality shows. In another review of the DVD, Jeffrey Kauffman of DVD Talk wrote that the character development was compelling and that the parody of reality shows were very funny. Mac McEntire of DVD Verdict praised the character development as well, but noted that the show sometimes sinks to "lowbrow gross-outs." Both Kauffman and McEntire recommended the season DVD.

However, not all reviews have been positive. Debi Enker of The Age gave a negative review of the season's last episode, calling the art, the design, and the writing "lamentable."

DVD

 * Total Drama Island: The Complete First Season came out on August 18, 2009.

Awards

 * Total Drama Island was a nominee in The Gemini Awards, in 2008.
 * In 2010, the show won Best Tween Series and the Viewer's Choice Award for Kid Screen's 1st Annual Award presentation in New York.
 * Total Drama Action was nominated for The Gemini Awards, in 2010.
 * Total Drama World Tour won "Best Foreign Series" and "Best Music Score on a TV series" in the ToonZone Awards.
 * The song Oh My Izzy was nominated for "Best Song in a TV series" in the ToonZone Awards.
 * Carter Hayden, the voice actor for Noah, was nominated for "Best Voice Actor in a TV Series" and Annick Obonsawin, the voice actress for Sierra, won "Best Voice Actress in a TV Series," in the ToonZone Awards.
 * Total Drama World Tour won "Best Animated Series," "Best Voice Talent," and "Best Tweens/Teens Program" in the Tweens/Teens, Creative Talent, and Viewers Choice categories for the 2011 KidScreen Awards.

Trivia

 * Total Drama Island is the only season to not feature Aftermaths or a double elimination.
 * Total Drama Island features the least amount of non-elimination episodes of any other season so far, with only two, unless one counts the episode Mr. Coconut was eliminated in.
 * Total Drama Island is the only season in which a contestant did not quit.
 * Total Drama Island featured the most amount of contestants of any season so far, with twenty-two.
 * Total Drama Island is the only season to not feature a prize of one million dollars, as its prize was exactly 1/10 of that, at $100,000.
 * As of the fourth season, half of the seasons of the series have had their original titles changed shortly before premiering:
 * Total Drama, the Musical was changed to Total Drama World Tour.
 * Total Drama Reloaded was changed to Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
 * However, if one counts the original version of the show, Camp TV, then the first season also had its name changed before the final product was released.
 * Thus, Total Drama Action was the only season to never feature any kind of name change.
 * Both Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour feature 15 of the original 22 contestants (even though the former started with 14, but increased by one halfway through).
 * In every season, the teams were decided in a new way each time. In season one, Chris McLean selected them. In season two, the winners of a challenge selected them. And in the third season, they were selected by the contestants' performance in the first challenge.
 * The three winners of the Total Drama series were Owen, Duncan, and Alejandro, in that order.
 * Thus, a female has never won a season so far.
 * Two seasons take place in Camp Wawanakwa, with a third taking place partially in it.
 * Thus, Total Drama World Tour is the only season to not have at least one episode feature Camp Wawanakwa.
 * In every season so far, at least two competitors have joined or rejoined the game about halfway through.
 * In Total Drama Island, Izzy and Eva returned after the teams merged.
 * In Total Drama Action, Izzy and Owen both returned to the competition, while Courtney later debuted.
 * In Total Drama World Tour, Duncan returned after quitting, and Blaineley debuted at the merge.
 * Thus, Izzy is the only contestant to return to the competition more than once.
 * Also, the only two contestants who have ever joined a season that they were not originally supposed to be in were females.
 * There are more female contestants (with thirteen) than there are males (with twelve).
 * There are twenty-five participants in Total Drama so far.
 * There are ten competitors who have qualified for the first three seasons so far: Heather, Gwen, Owen, DJ, Harold, Lindsay, Duncan, Bridgette, Leshawna, and Izzy.
 * However, Courtney, who qualified for Total Drama Island and Total Drama World Tour, did not originally qualify for Total Drama Action, but competed in the season after suing the show.
 * On the other hand, there are six competitors who have competed in only one season so far: Katie, Sadie, Sierra, Alejandro, Eva, and Blaineley.
 * The contestants who have competed in only two seasons are: Geoff, Trent, Beth, Cody, Tyler, Justin, Noah, and Ezekiel.
 * Thus, a majority of the cast has competed in the first three seasons.
 * Only six contestants have ever beaten every other contestant on the show: Owen, Heather, Duncan, Leshawna, Lindsay, and Harold.
 * However, if Duncan's return in Total Drama World Tour is counted, then the list would only be Owen, Heather, and Duncan.
 * Also, if one counts the three newcomers in Total Drama World Tour, then Heather would be the only one listed.
 * Every season so far has featured a noticeable pattern that, for the most part, keeps the amount of males and females in the competition perfectly even.
 * Each of the seven teams has had at least one representative in a final four except Team Victory.
 * Screaming Gophers: Owen, Heather, Gwen, Beth, and Cody.
 * Killer Bass: Duncan and Courtney.
 * Screaming Gaffers: Duncan, Heather, and Gwen.
 * Killer Grips: Owen, Courtney, and Beth.
 * Team Amazon: All members of this team made the final four at one point or another.
 * Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot: Duncan, Owen, and Alejandro.
 * Total Drama World Tour was the only season where the contestant eliminated in the second elimination did not return as:
 * Eva returned in Total Drama Island.
 * Izzy returned in Total Drama Action.
 * However, Ezekiel would have returned in I See London..., if he had not been caught.
 * All the male winners (counting alternate versions) were on Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot.
 * All of the female competitors to ever be in the final two were on the Screaming Gophers.
 * Total Drama Action was the only season to not have Heather in the final three.
 * Total Drama World Tour was the only season to not have Duncan or Owen in the final four.
 * Total Drama World Tour is the first season in which the final two were both antagonists.
 * In every season of Total Drama, so far, the last person who got the symbol of immunity (even if it was not featured in the finale) has also won the season.
 * In Total Drama Island, Owen received the final Marshmallow in The Very Last Episode, Really!.
 * In Total Drama Action, Duncan received the final Gilded Chris Award in Top Dog.
 * In Total Drama World Tour, Heather received the last marshmallow (which were handed out instead of barf bags) in Awwwwww, Drumheller.
 * Total Drama World Tour was the only season so far, that the person who won in Canada didn't win on United States too. In this case, Alejandro won in Canada, while Heather won in the United States.