Total Drama All-Stars

Total Drama All-Stars is the fifth season of Total Drama.

Summary
Fourteen of Total Drama's all-stars from past seasons  return and face off in the most dangerous challenges yet. This season's cast is comprised of Alejandro, Cameron, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Jo, Lightning, Lindsay, Mike, Sam, Scott, Sierra, and Zoey. Back in Camp Wawanakwa, the fourteen contestants are divided into two teams, the Heroic Hamsters and the Villainous Vultures and will have to square off for the grand prize of one million dollars. One by one, every contestant will be eliminated and sent home on the Flush of Shame until there is only one all-star left standing.

Elimination
The process of elimination in this season is similar to the ones in Total Drama Island, Action, and World Tour. The elimination still takes place around the Campfire, like in season one and four, and the symbols of safety are still marshmallows. After an all-star receives the last marshmallow, the eliminated contestant has to take the Flush of Shame, representing their elimination from the competition.

Characters
Fourteen contestants, plus the host, Chris, and Chef Hatchet, the camp's cook and the co-host of the show.


 * Ezekiel appeared in two episodes.
 * Izzy appeared in one episode.

History
The new season was confirmed in an interview with Tom McGillis on July 19, 2012, stating that the fifth season would be very similar to the first and fourth season, hinting it may take place on the island. The interview can be found on YouTube, here and here.

More information was released about the new season, confirming it to be currently in production through a ReFresh blog post by Tom McGillis on October 23, 2012. It confirmed that the season will be 13 episodes long, 13 of which focus on the original cast in an All-Star season.

Christian Potenza confirmed on his Facebook page that recording sessions for the fifth season have been scheduled for December. That same day, Drew Nelson revealed on his fanpage that Duncan would make some form of appearance this season. On February 3, 2013, Nelson confirmed that Duncan would indeed participate in the season.

The "Heroes vs. Villains" theme was confirmed by ABC3 Australia on December 19, 2012 by staff, and that the new season would be seeing a 2013 airdate.

Cartoon Network revealed the show's name in their Upfront press release on January 28, 2013 (Total Drama All-Stars), with the description Total Drama is back, but this time the team at Fresh TV have assembled the best loved and most hated contestants from seasons past to compete – Heroes vs. Villains style!.

In a YouTube video posted by Christian Potenza, it was confirmed that Cameron, Mike, Heather, Jo, Courtney, Gwen, Sierra and Alejandro would be returning. Also, it was confirmed that Alejandro would receive a new voice actor, Alex House.

On June 15, 2013, Total Drama creator Tom McGillis confirmed that the season is scheduled to air on Cartoon Network in September 2013 and Teletoon in January 2014.

A full cast list was leaked on August 6 through the Cartoon Network database.

The season premiered on September 10, 2013 in the United States on Cartoon Network. New episodes currently air on Tuesdays at 7:00/6:00 central.

Trivia

 * Excluding specials, this season featured the one hundredth episode of the Total Drama series, Zeek And Ye Shall Find.
 * This is the first time any of the original contestants have competed in the show since Hawaiian Punch.
 * This is the first season to premiere in the United States before Canada.
 * This is the first season to not have the same team win the first two challenges.
 * This is the first season to feature Alex House, who replaced Marco Grazzini as Alejandro.
 * This is the first season featuring the original contestants to not have any male Screaming Gophers competing.
 * This is the first season where a former member of the Screaming Gophers is the first contestant voted off.
 * This is the first season where Duncan is not the highest-ranking former Killer Bass member in the season.
 * This is the first season since Total Drama Island that Gwen makes it to the merge.
 * This is the third season to merge at the final eight.
 * This season features the earliest merge in the show's history so far, with the merge occurring in the eighth episode.
 * This season features the longest streak of consecutive irregular eliminations out of any season in the show's history, with four.
 * This season features the lowest amount of writers, with four.
 * This season features the closest margin between the two teams' numbers of victories and losses out of any season so far, as one team won four times, while the other team won three times.
 * Also, in terms of the number of people eliminated from each team prior to the merge, this is the first season where it was a tie (even though the teams themselves remained uneven): Three Hamsters and three Vultures were eliminated before the merge.
 * Many of the challenges this season contains elements from challenges from previous seasons.
 * Thus far, only Ezekiel and Izzy have made cameos this season.
 * This season bears similarities with two seasons of Survivor.
 * Survivor: All-Stars: Both seasons share the same name and consists of contestants from different generations.
 * Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Both seasons have the same name for both teams, and the first episode shares the exact same title.
 * This season also introduces a reward of one member of the winning team volunteering for exile on Boney Island, which is similar to Survivor-based concepts such as Exile Island.
 * This season also introduces the new feature of the peanut gallery, where the winning team gets to silently watch the losing team's elimination ceremony. This is similar to the gradually-increasing jury always being allowed to silently watch the post-merge Tribal Councils in every season of Survivor.