
Yes, DIRECTV STREAM includes Cartoon Network as part of the DIRECTV STREAM Entertainment package for $69.99 a month. McGillis says when Total Drama Island aired in the U.S., Cartoon Network edited out some of the racier language – words like "sucks" and "idiot.Can I watch Cartoon Network with DIRECTV STREAM? Then there's the question of whether the "sucks" issue will rear its ugly head again. McGillis says not to fret some of those missing from Season 1 will also be featured in four "reunion" shows that will be sprinkled throughout the season, featuring characters who have been kicked off, and a panel reliving the juicy moments from the ongoing season. Of course, that's another reason why some of this season's moves are risky, considering that most fans of the show pick a character to root for, and that some might be upset if their favourite didn't make the cut to Season 2. That's why they can get so caught up in the mythology. McGillis says that today's tweens are "backstorians," which means they are the biggest consumers of DVD extras and ancillary information about media that they like. I mean, it's really over the top, but we knew they could handle it." So that's why we took it to this extra level. "And what they came back to us with (was) they had a really high-end knowledge of how these shows work, what's real, what's fake. We asked a whole bunch of questions specifically to 8- to 12-year-olds about reality shows – what shows do you watch, which shows do you like, hate, why? "One of the things we did before we started the first season (was) a countrywide online research project. "It's such a high-concept show it's really amazing to me because it says a lot about tweens these days, and how bright they are and their media consumption," says McGillis.
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This year the cast is being pared down to 14 characters, and the show is now set it in a fictional studio backlot in Toronto, so the show can send up reality TV stereotypes in the right milieu to lampoon filmmaking clichés.
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As such, tonight's premiere of Total Drama Action (the series plans to change the third word in the title as it progresses) is hotly anticipated. The show is just as popular with the tween set in Canada, and is unabashedly and proudly Canadian in its references. with incredible ratings, dominating with under-14-year-olds, and in some ages groups showing a 500 per cent ratings increase in the time slot. What are you going to do about this?' And I was like, 'I don't know.' So I went through this ridiculous process trying to shut down the Wikipedia site and the spoilers, which were all over the place. "When we sold the show to Cartoon Network, one of the first things that the head of programming said to me was `Tom, I just Googled your show, and I know who wins. Like most "real" reality shows, this one is serialized, which – considering it airs later in the U.S. There are challenges, and, obviously, the voting off of a character until there is a winner. The show mixes in elements from Survivor, Fear Factor and The Amazing Race. Each character is a teen version of reality-show stereotypes: there's Owen, the happy-go-lucky fat guy Leshawna, the homegirl Beth, the wannabe sycophant and Lindsay, the princess. The first season of the series featured 22 teenagers at a fictional camp in Muskoka. "It's a really fun thing that Canadians get this really sought-after show well in advance."

We have to watch it on BitTorrent or YouTube chunks before it gets pulled off.' So it's this whole kind of subversive thing for them to see it early," says creator and executive producer Tom McGillis. It's like, `Oh, those Canadians, they get to see everything first. "If you go on the blogs of the American viewers, there is a kind of jealousy there. The second season of the series, now titled Total Drama Action, debuts at 6:30 on Teletoon tonight, a good six months before the hit cartoon reality show – created by Liberty Village-based Fresh TV – returns to Cartoon Network in the U.S.

In the eyes of the many tween American fans of the Total Drama Island animated series, Canada sucks.įirst off, there's obvious jealousy over this locally created series.
