Total Drama Action!

The series spinoff to Total Drama Island made it's long awaited premiere last Thursday to huge numbers for Cartoon Network. It was the most watched among kids 6-11, 9-14 and all boys for the day. This propelled the network to its best Thursday performance year-to-date.

15 of the original 22 contestants (Chris and Chef also) make their return to this cartoon version of a reality game show. Instead of a camping/wilderness setting this series takes place in an abandoned movie studio. All the challenges revolve around movie themes. The elimination ceremony that took place around a bonfire with marshmallows for awards has been replaced with an awards ceremony and Gilded Chris Statuettes in place of the marshmallows. Storylines and relationships are carried over from TDI which add to the growth of the characters.

I loved TDI and can't wait to see what happens in this series. Think my favorite characters are Duncan, Gwen, Leshawna, Bridgette, DJ and Izzy. Now I can't wait for Stoked and hope they make another season of 6teen.

Marathon Weekend

This Memorial Day Weekend was more like a marathon weekend for me... well at least Sunday and Monday.

Saturday I decided to trim the hedge at the studio and stop at the comic shop to check out the sale they were having over the weekend. It was a pretty good sale too. Picked up a nice $10 stack of comics at .25¢ each and 5 regular sized Uglydolls at 25% off, $15 each (Trunko, Winkolina, Blue Fea Bea, Orange Ox, Plunko).

On Sunday and Monday, Cartoon Network had a Total Drama Island marathon. They split the series between between both days, so it ran half-and-half. Monday they had a 6teen marathon which only consisted of only 6 episodes, not much of a marathon there. Then Boomerang ran a Teen Titans marathon. On that very same day SciFi aired their Land of the Lost marathon from 8am-4am... totally forgot how campy that show was and how I used to like it. That same morning was the L.A. Marathon too.

Needless to say that I hardly got anything done on Monday. No way was I about to go out in the morning/afternoon to deal with street closures and detours from the L.A. Marathon. Decided to just watch TV instead. I did try to organize some sketches that I found. May put a few up later.

Goodbye Foster's and Friends.

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends is coming to an end. The last 5 episodes air later today, right after the Foster's marathon. Just like many other popular cartoon series that have aired on Cartoon Network that have ended while they were still popular, like... Teen Titans, JLU, Dexter's Lab, Power Puff Girls, Samurai Jack, Kids Next Door. I missed the past few season's episodes, so I hope they put seasons 3-6 on DVD.

I'm going to miss seeing Foster's, but I can't wait for Total Drama Action and Stoked to air. Hoping that there will be a 4th season of 6teen too, but as far as I know that ended after the 3rd season in 2008 on Canadian TV.