Total Drama Island

***Total Drama Island*** is an upcoming Canadian animated competition series created by Jennifer Pertsch and Tom McGillis, the fourth series in the *Total Drama* franchise, and a revival of *Total Drama*. The first season is expected to premiere on Boomerang in Canada in late 2023.

## Plot

Set thirteen years after the end of the original series, hosts Chris McLean and Chef Hatchet invite sixteen new contestants to compete on a new island (modeled after Camp Wawanakwa) for the chance to win one million dollars.

### Gameplay format

* **Teams:** During the first part of the competition, contestants compete as two teams. Around halfway through the competition, the teams are disbanded.
* **Elimination:** At the end of each challenge, a Campfire Ceremony is held where the contestants vote for someone to eliminate. Chris then gives each safe camper a marshmallow, and the eliminated contestant must walk down the Dock of Shame and be taken away by the Drone of Despair.
	+ One episode features contestants removed from the competition due to injury.
	+ One episode features contestants being eliminated as the result of a challenge.
* **Returning contestants:** The second season features a rematch of every contestant from the first.
	+ All sixteen contestants were allowed to return for the second season.

## Main cast and characters

### Debuted in season one

* Kwaku Adu-Poku as Caleb
* Tamara Almeida as Axel
* Brandon Michael Arrington as Bowie
* Eman Ayaz as Priya
* Julius Cho as Chase
* Jack Copland as Wayne
* Gerardo Gismondi as Zee
* Katie Griffin as Scary Girl
* Fred Kennedy as Ripper
* Melanie Leishman as Emma
* Deven Mack as Chef Hatchet
* Barbara Mamabolo as Millie
* Terry McGurrin as Chris McLean
* Daniel Keith Morrison as Damien
* Varun Saranga as Raj
* Julie Sype as Julia
* Tymika Tafari as Nichelle Ladonna
* Kimberly-Ann Truong as MK

## Episodes

* Season 1
* Season 2

## Availability

### Streaming

The entire first season is available for streaming on Max in Italy (where it was originally released on Discovery+ before their merger with HBO Max) as of April 10, 2023 and is expected to release in the United States on the same platform later in the year. Following it's airing on CBBC the season also became available on BBC iPlayer.

## Production

The series was announced with a two season order on February 17, 2021. Terry McGurrin later clarified on December 9, 2022 that the series, despite acting as a sixth and seventh season, was being produced as a reboot. On October 26, 2022, Deven Mack was announced to be replacing Clé Bennett as the voice of Chef Hatchet after voicing his alternate universe counterpart in *Total DramaRama*, while Terry McGurrin is revealed to not be voicing anyone. However it was later revealed that McGurrin would be replacing Christian Potenza as the voice of Chris McLean on March 28, 2023.

## Trivia

### General

* Terry McGurrin and Deven Mack replace Christian Potenza and Clé Bennett as the voice of Chris McLean and Chef Hatchet.
	+ Deven Mack previously voiced Chef's alternate universe counterpart in *Total DramaRama*.

### Continuity

* The series is set fifteen years after the events of "Not So Happy Campers," placing the series thirteen years after the end of the original series and it's first spin-off.

## Notes

1. ↑ According to Christine Thompson on a now unavailable post on the Official *Total Drama* Facebook Group, *Island* (2007) and *Action* take place in "year one," *World Tour* and *Revenge of the Island* take place in "year two," and *All-Stars*, *Pahkitew Island*, and *The Ridonculous Race* take place in "year three." If fifteen years have passed since "year one" (making it "year sixteen") it's been thirteen years since the end of *Total Drama* and *The Ridonculous Race*.

## References

1. ↑ Warner Bros. Discovery on February 17, 2021
2. ↑ Terry McGurrin on Twitter, December 9, 2022
3. ↑ Terry McGurrin on YouTube, October 26, 2022
4. ↑ Terry McGurrin on Twitter, March 28, 2023

### Episodes

1. ↑ *Total Drama Island* Season 1, Episode 1 "Meet the Victims"