List of programs broadcast by MTV

MTV is an American cable television channel which was the first television channel dedicated to music, music industry and history in the United States upon its founding in 1981. MTV Networks has since produced various original television shows, many of which concern genres unrelated to music. This is an incomplete list of MTV shows that have aired.

Current programming

Music shows

• MTV Unplugged (since 1989)
• Fresh Out Playlist (since 2020)

News shows

• Fresh Out Live (since 2020)

Reality shows

• Teen Mom OG (since 2009)
• Teen Mom 2 (since 2011)
• Catfish: The TV Show (since 2012)
• Floribama Shore (since 2017)
• Siesta Key (since 2017)
• Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (since 2018)
• Ex on the Beach (since 2018)
• Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant (since 2018)
• Game of Clones (since 2019)
• The Hills: New Beginnings (since 2019)
• Ghosted: Love Gone Missing (since 2019)
• 16 and Pregnant (2009-14; since 2020)
• Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny (since 2019)
• Revenge Prank (since 2020)
• True Life Crime (since 2020)
• The Busch Family Brewed (since 2020)
• Families of the Mafia (since 2020)
• 16 & Recovering (since 2020)

Competitive shows

• The Challenge (since 1998)
• Are You the One? (since 2014)

Variety shows

• Ridiculousness (since 2011)
• Deliciousness (since 2020)[1]

Upcoming programming

• Making the Band (Revival) (2021)[2]

Former programming

Music shows

• I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge (1983–87)
• MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1984–97)
• Heavy Metal Mania (1985–87)
• 120 Minutes (1986–2000, moved to MTV2)
• Dial MTV (1986–91)
• Headbanger's Ball (1987–95)
• Club MTV (1987–92)
• Yo! MTV Raps (1988–95)
• Just Say Julie (1989–92)
• Master Mix (1990)
• Street Party (1990)
• MTV's Most Wanted (1991–96)
• Alternative Nation (1992–97)
• MTV Jams (1992–2000)
• The Grind (1992–97)
• Postmodern MTV (1993-1997)
• Superock (1994–1995)
• M2 on MTV (1996–98)
• Amp (1996–2001)
• Popular Videos People Prefer (1997)
• Adult Videos (1997)
• Pinfield Suite (1997)
• Authentic Reproduction (1997)
• MTV Probe (1997)
• Countdown to the 10 Spot (1997)
• Mattrock (1997–98)
• 12 Angry Viewers (1997–98)
• Indie Outing (1997–98)
• Live From the 10 Spot (1997–98)
• MTV Live (1997–98)
• All-Time Top 10 Videos (1997–98)
• Say What? (1998–99)
• The Daily Burn (1998)
• Total Request (1998)
• Pinfield Presents (1998)
• Eye Spy Video (1998–99)
• Total Request Live (1998–2008; 2017–2019)
• MTV Rocks Off (1998–99)
• Pleasure Chest (1998–99)
• Video Cliches (1999)
• Spankin' New Music (1999–2000)
• Hot Zone (1999–2001)
• Global Groove (1999)
• Beat Suite (1999–2000)
• Making the Video (1999–2009)
• TRL Wannabes (1999–2000)
• The Return of the Rock (1999–2001)
• Direct Effect (2000–06)
• Carmen's Hypermix (2001)
• Señor Moby's House of Music (2002)
• MTV Soul (2002)
• Sucker Free (2006–08)
• AMTV (2009–2017)
• MTV First (2011–14)

News shows

• Profiles in Rock (1982)
• Fast Forward (1983)
• The Week in Rock (1987–97)
• Now Hear This (1988–89)
• The Big Picture (1988–93)
• House of Style (1989–2000; 2012)
• Rockumentaries (1989–97)
• Famous Last Words with Kurt Loder (1990–91)
• Sex in the '80s (1990)
• Like We Care (1992)
• MTV Sports (1992–97)
• Sex in the '90s (1992–94)
• MTV News Raw (1994–97)
• UNfiltered (1995)
• BIOrhythm (1998–2000)
• MTV News 1515 (1998–2000)
• Ultrasound (1998–2001)
• Diary (2000–14)
• MTV News Now (2000–04)
• Sex 2K (2001–04)
• ET on MTV (2002–07)
• Big Urban Myth Show (2002–04)
• All Eyes On (2003–2008)
• My Block (2005–07)
• Trippin' (2005)
• Detox (2009)
• How's Your News? (2009)

Reality Shows

• The Real World (1992–2017, moved to Facebook Watch)
• Road Rules (1995–2004, 2007)
• FANatic (1998–2000)
• True Life (1998–2017)
• Global Groove (1999)
• Fear (2000–02)
• WWF/E Sunday Night Heat (2000–03, moved to Spike TV)
• WWE Tough Enough (2001–03)
• Becoming (2001)
• Dismissed (2002–03)
• Flipped (2002)
• FM Nation (2002–03)
• Jammed (2002)
• Made (2002-14)
• Making the Band (2002–09)
• Sorority Life (2002–03)
• Surf Girls (2003)
• Burned (2003)
• Fraternity Life (2003–05)
• High School Stories (2003–06)
• One Bad Trip (2003)
• Punk'd (2003–07, 2012)
• Rich Girls (2003)
• Room Raiders (2003–09)
• Viva La Bam (2003–05)
• Wade Robson Project (2003)
• Pimp My Ride (2004–07)
• Battle for Ozzfest (2004)
• Date My Mom (2004–06)
• Faking the Video (2004)
• I Want A Famous Face (2004)
• Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (2004–06)
• Miss Seventeen (2005)
• My Super Sweet 16 (2005–17)
• Next (2005–08)
• PoweR Girls (2005)
• Score (2005–06)
• Trailer Fabulous (2005–06)
• Trick It Out (2005)
• The Trip (2005)
• Wildboyz (2003–06)
• 8th & Ocean (2006)
• Call to Greatness (2006)
• Exposed (2006–08)
• Fast Inc. (2006)
• My Own (2006)
• The Hills (2006–10)
• The Shop (2006)
• Tiara Girls (2006)
• Twentyfourseven (2006)
• Two-A-Days (2006–07)
• Wanna Come In? (2006)
• Why Can't I Be You? (2006)
• Celebrity Rap Superstar (2007)
• Barrio 19 (2007)
• DanceLife (2007)
• Engaged and Underage (2007–08)
• I'm From Rolling Stone (2007)
• Juvies (2007)
• Life of Ryan (2007–09)
• Maui Fever (2007)
• Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County (2007–08)
• Once Upon a Prom (2007)
• Room 401 (2007)
• Scarred (2007)
• The X Effect (2007–09)
• Wrestling Society X (2007)
• Buzzin' (2008)
• Exiled (2008)
• Sex with Mom and Dad (2008–09)
• The City (2008–10)
• The Paper (2008)
• The Phone (2009)
• College Life (2009)
• Gone Too Far (2009)
• Is She Really Going Out with Him? (2009)
• Jersey Shore (2009–12)
• Taking the Stage (2009–10)
• Downtown Girls (2010)
• Hired (2010)
• I Used to Be Fat (2010-14)
• Megadrive (2010)
• My Life as Liz (2010-11)
• The Buried Life (2010)
• The Dudesons in America (2010)
• The Vice Guide to Everything (2010)
• World of Jenks (2010–13)
• When I Was 17 (2010–11)
• Cuff'd (2011)
• Friendzone (2011–13)
• Plain Jane (2011)
• The Electric Barbarellas (2011)
• Caged (2012)
• Snooki & JWoww (2012–15)
• The Valleys (2012)
• Big Tips Texas (2013)
• Buckwild (2013)
• Scrubbing In (2013)
• Teen Mom 3 (2013)
• The Alectrix (2013)
• Virgin Territory (2014)
• Epic Win (2015)
• Follow the Rules (2015)
• Todrick (2015)
• Promposal (2017)
• How Far Is Tattoo Far? (2018-2019)
• Pretty Little Mamas (2018)
• Too Stupid to Die (2018)
• Winter Break: Hunter Mountain (2018, moved to MTV2)
• Lindsay Lohan's Beach Club (2019)
• Made in Staten Island (2019)
• True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories (August 5, 2020)[3]
• Pretty Wild

Celebrity shows

• MTV Cribs (2000–13)
• Carmen and Dave: An MTV Love Story (2002)
• The Osbournes (2002–05)
• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica (2003–05)
• The Ashlee Simpson Show (2004–05)
• 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave (2004)
• 4EVER (2005–09)
• Hogan Knows Best (2005-2007)
• Meet the Barkers (2005–06)
• Run's House (2005–09)
• Cheyenne (2006)
• Rob & Big (2006–08)
• There & Back (2006)
• Adventures in Hollyhood (2007)
• Bam's Unholy Union (2007)
• Celebrity Rap Superstar (2007)
• Hilary Duff: This Is Now (2007)
• Life of Ryan (2007–09)
• MTV Requested with Wiqar Ali Khan (2007–09)
• Taquita + Kaui (2007)
• Wiqar is MTV Style Guru (2007–09)
• Rock the Cradle (2008)
• Daddy's Girls (2009)
• Nitro Circus (2009)
• Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (2009-15)
• T.I.'s Road to Redemption (2009)
• The Pauly D Project (2012)
• This Is How I Made It (2012)
• Ke$ha: My Crazy Beautiful Life (2013)
• Miley: The Movement (2013)

Competitive shows

• Remote Control (1987–90)
• Turn It Up! (1990)
• Lip Service (1992–95)
• Sandblast (1994–96)
• Trashed (1994)
• Road Rules (1995–2004, 2007)
• Singled Out (1995–98)
• Idiot Savants (1996–97)
• The Blame Game (1998–2000)
• The Cut (1998)
• Say What? Karaoke (1998–2001)
• webRIOT (1999–2000)
• Sisqo's Shakedown (2000)
• Dismissed (2001)
• Sink or Swim (2001)
• I Bet You Will (2002)
• Kidnapped (2002)
• Taildaters (2002–03)
• Boiling Points (2003–08)
• MC Battle (2003–04)
• The Assistant (2004)
• Date My Mom (2004–06)
• Wanna Come In? (2004–05)
• Your Face or Mine? (2004)
• Damage Control (2005–06)
• MTV's The 70s House (2005)
• Next (2005–08)
• Parental Control (2005–10)
• Exposed (2006–08)
• Final Fu (2006)
• Yo Momma (2006–08)
• A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila (2007)
• A Shot at Love II with Tila Tequila (2008)
• From G's to Gents (2008–09)
• 50 Cent: The Money and the Power (2008)
• America's Best Dance Crew (2008–12)
• A Double Shot at Love (2008–09)
• Legally Blonde: The Musical – The Search for Elle Woods (2008)
• MTV's Top Pop Group (2008)
• Paris Hilton's My New BFF (2008–10)
• Silent Library (2008–11)
• That's Amore! (2008)
• Bromance (2009)
• Bully Beatdown (2009–10)
• Disaster Date (2009-2011)
• The Girls of Hedsor Hall (2009)
• House of Food (2014)
• Snack-Off (2014)
• The Almost Impossible Game Show (2016)
• 90's House (2017)
• The Challenge: Champs vs. Stars (2017–18)
• Fear Factor (2017–18)
• Stranded with a Million Dollars (2017)

Talk shows

• Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (1985–1987)
• Mouth to Mouth (1988)
• Rockline on MTV (1991–1993)
• The Jon Stewart Show (1993–1994)
• Loveline (1996–2000)
• The Rodman World Tour (1996–1997)
• Squirt TV (1996)
• Oddville, MTV (1997)
• Kathy's So-Called Reality (2001)
• Mandy (2001)
• The New Tom Green Show (2003)
• Dogg After Dark (2009)
• It's On with Alexa Chung (2009)
• The Seven (2010–2011)
• Savage U (2012)
• Nikki & Sara Live (2013)
• The Show with Vinny (2013)
• Are You the One? The Aftermatch Live (2014)
• Wolf Watch (2014–2015)

Variety shows

• Zoo TV (1997)
• Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out (2005–19, moved to VH1)
• Amazingness (2017)
• SafeWord (2017-2018)

Drama

• Catwalk (1992–1994)
• Dead at 21 (1994)
• Undressed (1999–2002)
• Live Through This (2000)
• Spyder Games (2001)
• Kaya (2007)
• $5 Cover (2009)
• Valemont (2009–10)
• Skins (2011)
• Teen Wolf (2011–17)
• Finding Carter (2014–15)
• Eye Candy (2015)
• Scream (2015–16, moved to VH1)
• Sweet/Vicious (2016)
• The Shannara Chronicles (2016, moved to Spike TV)

Comedy

• Al TV (1984–99)
• 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour (1988)
• Way USA (1988)
• Just Say Julie (1989–92)
• Jimmy the Cab Driver (mid 1990s)
• Kevin Seal, Sporting Fool (1990)
• Pirate TV (1990)
• Totally Pauly (1990–93)
• The Ben Stiller Show (1990–91)
• The Idiot Box (1991)
• You Wrote It, You Watch It (1992–93)
• Comikaze (1993)
• The State (1993–95)
• Buzzkill (1996)
• Apartment 2F (1997)
• Austin Stories (1997–98)
• The Jenny McCarthy Show (1997)
• The Sifl and Olly Show (1998–99)
• The Tom Green Show (1999–2000)
• 2ge+her (2000–01)
• Jackass (2000–02)
• The Lyricist Lounge Show (2000–01)
• Now What? (2001–02)
• The Andy Dick Show (2001–02)
• Doggy Fizzle Televizzle (2002–03)
• Scratch and Burn (2002)
• The Assistant (2004)
• Top Buzzer (2004)
• The Andy Milonakis Show (2005–07)
• Blastazoid (2006)
• Blowin' Up (2006–07)
• The Gamekillers (2006)
• Connected (2007)
• Human Giant (2007–08)
• Pranked (2009–12)
• The CollegeHumor Show (2009)
• The Hard Times of RJ Berger (2010–11)
• Warren the Ape (2010)
• Awkward. (2011–16)
• Death Valley (2011)
• I Just Want My Pants Back (2011–12)
• The Inbetweeners (2012)
• Underemployed (2012)
• Girl Code (2013–15)
• Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (2013)
• Faking It (2014–16)
• Happyland (2014)
• Inside Amy Schumer (2015)
• Key & Peele (2015)
• Loosely Exactly Nicole (2016)
• Mary + Jane (2016)
• Acting Out (2016)

Animated

• Stevie and Zoya (1987–89)
• Æon Flux (1991–95)
• Animania (1991)
• Liquid Television (1991–95; 2014)
• Beavis and Butt-head (1993–97; 2011)
• Jean-Claude LeThargic (1994–95)
• The Brothers Grunt (1994–95)
• The Head (1994–96)
• The Maxx (1995)
• Migraine Boy (1996–97)
• Cartoon Sushi (1997–98)
• Daria (1997–2001)
• Celebrity Deathmatch (1998–2002, moved to MTV2)
• Super Adventure Team (1998)
• Weird-Ass Cartoon Classics (1998)
• Downtown (1999)
• Station Zero (1999)
• Spy Groove (2000–02)
• Undergrads (2001)
• 3 South (2002–03)
• Clone High (2003)
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
• The Adventures of Chico and Guapo (2006)
• Where My Dogs At? (2006)
• Friday: The Animated Series (2007)
• Fur TV (2008–09)
• DJ & the Fro (2009)
• Popzilla (2009)
• Good Vibes (2011)
• Greatest Party Story Ever (2016)

Acquired programs

Title	First aired	Last aired
Angry Kid	????	????
Beauty and the Geek	2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer[4]	2010
Degrassi: The Next Generation	2008	2014
The Flintstones[5]	1994
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	2014	2015
Chappelle's Show	2009
Futurama	2008
Friends	2017
George Lopez	2014	2015
Grounded for Life[6]	2009
How I Met Your Mother	2016
The Monkees	1985	1987
Monty Python's Flying Circus	1988
My So-Called Life	1994	1998
My Wife & Kids	2014	2015
New Girl [7]	2015	2016
Queen Bees	2008[8]
The Ren & Stimpy Show	1992	2016
Rocko's Modern Life [9]	1994
Rosie	1987	1998
Scrubs[10]	2009
Speed Racer [11]	1993
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	2008
South Park	2009	2020
SpongeBob SquarePants [12]	2000	2016
That '70s Show [13]	2010	2013
The World's Strictest Parents	2009	2010
Kenan & Kel	2008
The Young Ones	1985	1988
Instant Star[14]	2006
Life as We Know It	2004
America’s Next Top Model	2005	2008 [15]

Special events

Seasonal or annual

• MTV's New Year's Eve (1981–2014)
• Camp MTV (1989)
• MTV Rock N' Jock (1990–2004)
• MTV's Beach House (1990s)
• MTV's Live and Loud (1993)
• Fashionably Loud (1996–2002)
• Motel California (1997)
• Wanna Be a VJ (1998–2000)
• MTV's Summer Share (1998)
• Spankin' New Music Week (1998–2009)
• Springer Break (1998)
• All Access Week (1999–2002)
• Isle of MTV (1999)
• SoCal Summer (2000)
• MTV Icon (2001–2003, moved to MTV2)
• Summer in the Keys (2001)
• MTV's Shore Thing (2002)
• Summer on the Run (2004)
• Summer on the Strip (2005)
• Summer Sizzle (2006)
• Hottest MCs in the Game (2007–present)
• MTV Tr3s presents: The Wintery Christmas Fiesta (2007–08)

Award shows

• MTV Video Music Awards (1984–present)
• MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992–present)
• MTV Europe Music Awards (1994–present)
• mtvU Woodie Awards (2005–2016)

Public awareness campaigns

• Books: Feed Your Head (1991 campaign against aliteracy)
• Choose or Lose (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008)
• Fight for Your Right, MTV Think, and MTV Act (1999–present)

See also

• MTV
• List of MTV channels
• List of MTV award shows
• List of MTV VJs
• MTV News
• MTV2
• List of programs broadcast by MTV2
• List of programs broadcast by MTV Classic

References

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11. "The Kids' Plate : NETWORK, CABLE AND INDEPENDENTS OFFER A FULL COURSE OF LIVE-ACTION AND ANIMATION". Los Angeles Times. 29 August 1993. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
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14. Talk:List of programs broadcast by MTV#Former acquired programming?
15. America's Next Top Model#Background

Notes