Total Drama Action is the second season of the Canadian animated television series Total Drama Island The show premiered in Teletoon Canada 6 30 et pt on January 11 2009 This series was also created by the makers of 6teen another Teletoon program Plot Like its predecessor Total Drama Island this season s series is an animated reality show starring fifteen teenagers This series still portrays likeliness towards other physical and social shows like Fear Factor and The Real World The original twenty two campers were cut down to fifteen cast mates after the reunion special s dramatic ending between these seasons Both host and assistant Chris McClean and Chef Hatchet will return as the cast mates supervisors and challenge distributors The theme of this series is Cinematography These fifteen cast mates have found out that they will be staying in an abandoned movie studio lot in Toronto Ontario Since the theme is all about movies the competitors are treated as real actors They stay in small unaccomodating actors trailers competing against each other and themselves Challenges come back for this season as well Unlike the random TDI challenges TDA challenges will be based upon which movie genre the cast mates will portray The mess hall of TDI will also be replaced this season with The Craft Services Tent which will also be catered by Chef Hatchet once more The outhouse confession can of TDI was used to let the audience at home know what the campers were really thinking about In TDA this was replaced with the Make Up Confessional a room ful