Total Drama Island (2007)

Total Drama Island is the first season of Total Drama. It premiered on Cartoon Network on June 5, 2008 and finished its run-on December 18, 2008. Since its airtime, the show became a critical success, gaining more seasons before retiring production while focusing on spin-offs in 2015.
On February 17, 2021, a revival of the show was announced for two more seasons and premiered on Cartoon Network in the U.S. on June 2024, as well as on HBO Max.https://deadline.com/2021/02/warnermedia-preschool-kids-programming-hbo-max-cartoon-network-1234695330/
The series was acknowledged in Cartoon Network’s 30th Anniversary video in October 2022.
== Overview ==
This season involves twenty-two contestants of the age of sixteen, who have signed up to be in a reality show on an island called Camp Wawanakwa. The teens are divided up into teams to participate in challenges. This season, the teams are the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass. The losing team each episode would vote off a teammate, to walk the Dock of Shame and board the Boat of Losers, which officially eliminates them from the competition.
The teams dissolve fourteen episodes in, although the elimination process would continue with various individuals being saved from elimination through invincibility, rather than the entire team. The season concludes with a final challenge, which would result in Owen being the first winner of the series.
== Characters ==
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* Chris McLean
* Chef
* Owen
* Izzy
* Gwen
* Trent
* Duncan
* Harold
* Geoff
* Leshawna
* Bridgett
== Episodes ==
There are twenty-six episodes, twenty-seven counting the exclusives, plus a special that led up to the next season. TDI Rundown was a special recap episode aired only on Cartoon Network.
== Production ==
Camp TV was the original prototype series for Total Drama Island, developed in 2006. The project later underwent major renovation based on feedback from potential broadcasters, including personality changes for various cast members and the additions of several others.
The series premiered to record-shattering ratings on Cartoon Network. The episodes were heavily edited for the US broadcast, eliminating the mature themes to suit the TV-PG rating (some episodes will include the TV-PG-D for some suggestive dialogue, still considered tame compared to the original Canadian counterpart).
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
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