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Total Drama All-Stars is the fifth season of the Total Drama franchise. The series' extension was ordered by Cartoon Network in October 2012 and premiered on September 10, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. EST in the United States of America. Later on, the season will also be released in Canada on January 9, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. EST.

Christian Potenza first announced the season in an interview with Tom McGillis (the creator of the series), saying that Total Drama All-Stars would be very similar to Total Drama Island and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, due to the high worldwide ratings of the latter. That means that this season takes place back at Camp Wawanakwa; in a single location once again, unlike Total Drama World Tour.

Like Total Drama: Revenge of the Island before it, Total Drama All-Stars will also be 13 episodes in length; breaking from the traditional 26-episode length of the first three seasons. This season is an all-star season using some of the most popular contestants from the existing cast. The theme for this season will be "Heroes vs. Villains" which means that all the protagonists team up and compete against all the antagonists.

Plot

Total Drama All-Stars is a fictional titular reality show that follows the competition of fourteen returning teenagers at Camp Wawanakwa, a fictional island located in an unspecified area in Muskoka, Ontario. The campers participate in themed challenges and must avoid being voted off the island by their fellow campers. At the end of the series, the winning contestant or the last camper to stand on the island will win C$1,000,000. The competition is hosted by Chris McLean (Christian Potenza), who is assisted by the camp's chef, Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett).

At the beginning of the season, the fourteen campers are evenly placed into two teams, the Heroic Hamsters and the Villainous Vultures. In each episode, the two teams participate in a challenge, in which one or more campers can win invincibility for their team. The losing team is called to the campfire at night, where they must vote one of their members off the island. The camper with the most votes is eliminated from the competition. At this campfire, McLean passes out marshmallows to the campers who have not been voted off, while the one who does not get a marshmallow is eliminated. That eliminated person must then walk to the island's dock and take the Flush of Shame that will flush them away and will "never, ever come back", according to Chris.

About halfway through the season, the teams are disbanded, after which the challenges continue; the winner of each challenge then only receives invincibility for him or herself, whereupon a camper without invincibility is voted off the island. This process of elimination continues on until two players remains on the island. These two players, are now then subject to a final contest. At the end of the season, a camper wins the competition, while the loser ends up being the runner-up. However, the runner-up can still be the winner in the alternate ending of the season finale. Total Drama All-Stars, along with every other season in the series, is a parody of the reality show Survivor while the host, Chris McLean is very similar to Survivor host Jeff Probst with the evil persona of Fear Factor's Joe Rogan.

Cartoon Network's official synopsis describes the new season as:

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!

Episodes

The thirteen episodes is an all-star season using fourteen returning characters from the existing cast. This season will feature the 100th episode of the entire series which will be Episode 9 on this season. Cartoon Network aired the season first on September 10, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. EST in the United States.

Characters

Seven characters from Total Drama World Tour and seven characters from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island returned to compete in Total Drama All-Stars. They all competed together during several "Heroes vs. Villains" themed challenges, which means that all the protagonists (heroes) competed against all the antagonists (villains).

The fourteen returning contestants who competed in Total Drama All-Stars are Alejandro, Cameron, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Jo, Lightning, Lindsay, Mike, Sam, Scott, Sierra, and Zoey. However, Alejandro received a new voice actor, Alex House, and he was introduced into the season as the Drama Machine, before he was later revealed to be Alejandro inside the robot suit.

Out of all the fourteen contestants, half are male and half are female. Seven of them are part of the first generation cast who have all been in Total Drama World Tour, while the other seven are part of the second generation cast who have all competed in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. Out of the seven original contestants, only Alejandro and Sierra have competed in one previous season; the other five have all competed in the first three seasons before Total Drama All-Stars.

On July 2013, Cartoon Network started airing season promos that introduced non-competitors like Owen, Ezekiel, Tyler, Noah, Leshawna, Beth, Anne Maria, and Dawn. It is unknown what sort of role these contestants will have in the new season, perhaps cameo appearances. Izzy was part of the fighting challenge in Suckers Punched and Mal (pretending to be Mike) had to defeat her to win a point for his team.

Lindsay's and Jo's elimination were leaked via episode scripts and trailers long before the season started airing.

Teams

All the fourteen heroes and villains were separated evenly into two teams. The first team is called the Heroic Hamsters which consists of only heroes while the second team is called the Villainous Vultures who consists of only villains. There will be seven contestants in Team Heroes and seven on Team Villains as seen in an official Episode 1 preview. Here are the original members of each team, as of Episode 1:

• Heroic Hamsters: Cameron, Courtney, Lindsay, Mike, Sam, Sierra, and Zoey.
• Villainous Vultures: Alejandro, Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Jo, Lightning, and Scott.

In Episode 3, "Saving Private Leechball", both Duncan and Courtney switch teams due to the former's heroic-like actions and the latter's villainous-like actions during the episode's challange. In Episode 5, "Moon Madness", Cameron tried to vote himself out, but Chris wouldn't let him so Chris switched Cameron instead to the Villainous Vultures.

Cameos

A list of all the cameos in Total Drama All-Stars and their roles during their cameos are shown below:

• Note: Cody did not appear in the series, but was still mentioned constantly by Sierra. Dakota is seen in a photo by Sam.

Production

On June 28, 2011, Christian Potenza mentioned an upcoming season of Total Drama. This was the first time a cast member mentioned a fifth season to the public. One year later on July 19, 2012, Christian Potenza announced a fifth season of Total Drama in an interview with Tom McGillis, saying that Season 5 will be just like Seasons 1 and 4.

As shown in the Fresh TV official Website, it seems that there will be 26 new episodes to be aired in 2013-2014. Tom McGillis later stated that the new 26 episodes will be split into two 13-episode seasons; where Season 5 will feature some of existing cast, while Season 6 will consist of only new cast which are yet to be introduced. Voice actors began recording lines for Season 5 in December 2012.

On January 28, 2013, Cartoon Network confirmed that the new season title will be Total Drama All-Stars. One day later on January 30, both Christian Potenza and Drew Nelson confirmed the title for Episode 4 which is "Food Fright" Drew Nelson also confirmed that the two new teams for this season are the Heroic Hamsters and the Villainous Vultures. Rumors started floating in early 2010 about the season being "Heroes vs. Villains" and that both the original and the new cast would compete together, but it wasn't until December 19, 2012 when Tom McGillis confirmed on ABC3 Australia that the theme for this season will indeed be "Heroes vs. Villains".

On February 1, 2013, Christian Potenza released a new video that contains several new information about Total Drama All-Stars, including season episode titles, new voice actors, and plot information. That same day, Christian Potenza also released the first lines of the season from Episode 4:

When a Hero's eating time is up, they hear this ... and the Villains get this ... Last time on a very special episode of Total Drama All-Stars: ... Say hello to my metal friend! ... I sincerely doubt it, Al ... next, I'll allow it, his pain was our gain ... Which team will finish their barf-tastic breakfast first? Find out after the break on Total Drama All-Stars!

On June 11, 2013 it was confirmed that the airdate for the whole season will take place in early 2014; mostly during the winter of 2014. Tom McGillis later confirmed on Twitter that the Canadian airdate will be on January 2014, while the U.S. airdate will be on September 2013. On August 19, 2013, Cartoon Network released the first official trailer for TDAS along with a new website that reveals all the characters.

Reception

Total Drama All-Stars has received mixed reviews from fans. While many fans have praised the love triangle between Courtney, Duncan, and Gwen being resolved, many have criticized this season for being too rushed. The 11th episode of this season, Sundae Muddy Sundae, caused outrage from fans due to Courtney and Gwen no longer being friends and Courtney acting out of character compared to the way she had been acting in previous episodes. Major points of contention with the season include uneven character development that was ultimately negated by the events of the season, the elimination order of the season being revealed months ahead of each episode's individual airing, and numerous continuity errors.

See also

• Animation
• Television
• Canada

References

1. ^ Fresh TV reveals number of episodes for Season 5
2. ^ http://www.teletoonmedia.com/en/index.php/teletoon/highlight/category/january_2014_programming_highlights
3. ^ Date of Release Announced for Total Drama All-Stars!
4. ^ http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1181701/inspector-gadget-reboot-tops-off-teletoon-canada-s-latest-original-production-slate
5. ^ MIPCOM News with Tom McGillis!
6. ^ http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/2013-8-9-kid-cartoon-network-total-drama-all-stars
7. ^ Interview with Christian Potenza and Tom McGillis Cite error: The named reference "s5" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
8. ^ http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/total-drama-all-stars-ready-to-shine-on-cn/
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10. http://www.toynewsi.com/news.php?itemid=19834
11. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/08/08/total-drama-all-stars-to-premiere-tuesday-september-10-on-cartoon-network/196401/
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13. Aaron Sagers (September 1, 2009), "Pop 20: If Facebook were a dinner party", The Monitor {{citation}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
14. http://www.abc.net.au/abc3/shows/14898.htm
15. ^ Interview with series creator, Tom McGillis (Skip to 1:42) on video
16. ^ http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/cnservice/cartoonsvc/content/xml/getContentById.do?contentId=338850&depth=5
17. ^ Total Drama All-Stars - Part 1
18. http://www.followgram.me/i/482669631496432517_372348497
19. Total Drama All-Stars - Part 2
20. http://www.freshtvinc.com/blog/total-drama-all-stars-speculation/
21. http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/total-drama/preview/index.html
22. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjrLoHtxotY
23. Skip to 8:55
24. "Season 5 is Coming!". Youtube.com. 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2012-10-16.
25. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152459894935338&set=a.10150434372575338.630062.834770337&type=1&relevant_count=1
26. Early talks about Season 5 in 2010
27. http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/total-drama-all-stars/articles/224630/title/episode-11-recap-know-drill-with-spoilers

External links

• Official TDAS site on Cartoon Network
• First Teaser Trailer for TDAS (Cartoon Network)
• Total Drama All-Stars Official Trailer

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