List of programs broadcast by MTV

This article is about shows that have aired on MTV in the United States. For MTV's sister channel, MTV2, see List of programs broadcast by MTV2. For all of MTV's international channels, see List of MTV channels.

Current MTV Logo.

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)
• My Life on MTV (since 2021)

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)
• Ghosted: Love Gone Missing (since 2019)
• 16 and Pregnant (2009–2014; since 2020)
• Double Shot at Love with DJ Pauly D and Vinny (since 2019)
• Revenge Prank (since 2020)
• True Life Crime (since 2020)
• Families of the Mafia (since 2020)
• 16 & Recovering (since 2020)
• Teen Mom: Family Reunion (since 2022)
• Teen Mom: Girls' Night In (since 2022)
• Help! I'm in a Secret Relationship! (since 2022)

Celebrity shows

• MTV Cribs (since 2021; previously aired 2000–2013)

Competitive shows

• The Challenge (since 1998)
• Sounds Like a Game Show (since 2021)
• Becoming A Popstar (since 2022)

Variety shows

• Ridiculousness (since 2011)
• Deliciousness (since 2020)
• Adorableness (since 2021)
• Messyness (since 2021)

Programming from international MTV affiliates

• Catfish UK: The TV Show (since 2022)

Former programming

Music shows

• MTV Saturday Night Concert (1981–1987)
• I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge (1983–1987)
• MTV Top 20 Video Countdown (1984–1998)
• Heavy Metal Mania (1985–1987)
• 120 Minutes (1986–2000, moved to MTV2)
• Dial MTV (1986–1991)
• Headbangers Ball (1987–1995)
• Club MTV (1987–1992)
• Yo! MTV Raps (1988–1995)
• Post-Modern MTV (1988–1990)
• Deja Video (1989)
• Classic MTV (1989, 1992–93)
• Yo! MTV Raps Today (1989–1992)
• Hard 30: MTV's Headbangers Half Hour (1989)
• Just Say Julie (1989–1992)
• Awake on the Wild Side (1990–1992)
• Martha's Greatest Hits (1990)
• MTV Prime (1990–91)
• Master Mix (1990)
• Street Party (1990–1992)
• Earth to MTV (1990–1992)
• MTV's All Request (1990–91)
• The Hot Seat (1990–91)
• Top 10 at 10 (1990–91)
• Bootleg MTV (1991)
• Power Pack (1991)
• MTV's Most Wanted (1991–1996)
• Fade to Black (1991–92)
• Buzzcut (1992)
• Countdown to the Ball (1992–93)
• Hangin' with MTV (1992)
• Flashback (1992)
• Weekend Blast-Off (1992–93)
• MTV's Rude Awakening (1992–1997)
• Stopless Hits (1992–93)
• Alternative Nation (1992–1997)
• MTV Jams (1992–2000)
• The Grind (1992–1997)
• MTV Rocks (1992–93)
• MTV Blocks (1992–1995)
• MTV Prime Time (1992–1997)
• MTV Dreamtime (1992–1997)
• Rock Videos That Don't Suck (1993–94)
• Daily Dose (1994)
• Superock (1995–96)
• Best of the 90s (1995–96)
• Yo! (1996–1999)
• M2 on MTV (1996–1998)
• Amp (1996–2001)
• Popular Videos People Prefer (1997)
• After Hours (1997–2007)
• 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 (1997–1998)
• All-Time Top 10 Videos (1997–98)
• Artist Cut (1998–99)
• Say What? (1998–99)
• The Daily Burn (1998)
• Total Request (1998)
• Pinfield Presents (1998)
• Lunch with Jesse (1998)
• Eye Spy Video (1998–99)
• Total Request Live (1998–2008; 2017–2018)
• MTV Rocks Off (1998–99)
• Revue (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 (2000–2006)
• MTV Video Wake-Up (2000–2008)
• MTV's Rock|D (2000)
• Carmen's Hypermix (2001)
• Live at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2001–02)
• Señor Moby's House of Music (2002)
• MTV Soul (2002)
• Prime Time Players (2002–2004)
• All Things Rock Countdown (2002–2005)
• Beat Seekers (2002)
• Album Launch (2002–03)
• MTV Hits (2002–2006)
• Advance Warning (2003–2005)
• Video Clash (2003–2005)
• Hard Rock Live (2003–2005)
• Weekend Dime (2005)
• A.D.D. Videos (2006)
• The Big Ten (2006–2008)
• Sucker Free (2006–2008)
• MTV Live (2007)
• 45th at Night (2007)
• FNMTV (2008–09)
• FNMTV Premieres (2008–09)
• AMTV (2009–2017)
• MTV First (2011–2014)
• Wonderland (2016)
• TRL Top 10 (2019)

News shows

• Profiles in Rock (1982)
• Fast Forward (1983)
• The Week in Rock (1987–1997)
• Now Hear This (1988–89)
• The Big Picture (1988–1993)
• House of Style (1989–2000; 2012)
• Rockumentary (1989–1997)
• MTV News at Night (1989–90)
• Buzz (1990)
• Famous Last Words with Kurt Loder (1990–91)
• Sex in the '80s (1990)
• This is Horror (1990)
• The Day in Rock (1991–92)
• Like We Care (1991–92)
• MTV Sports (1992–97)
• Sex in the '90s (1992–1994)
• MTV News Raw (1994–1997)
• UNfiltered (1995)
• MTV Mega-Dose (1995–1997)
• alt.film at MTV (1996–1998)
• BIOrhythm (1998–2000)
• MTV News 1515 (1998–2000)
• Ultrasound (1998–2002)
• Rockumentary Remix (1998)
• MTV News Link (1999–2000)
• Diary (2000–2014)
• MTV News Now (2000–2005)
• Sex 2K (2001–2004)
• ET on MTV (2002–2007)
• Movie House (2002–2004)
• The Assignment with Iann Robinson (2002–03)
• Big Urban Myth Show (2002–2004)
• Making the Game (2002–2005)
• All Eyes On (2003–2008)
• Never Before Scene (2004–05)
• My Block (2005–2007)
• Trippin' (2005)
• Detox (2009)
• How's Your News? (2009)

Reality shows

• The Real World (1992–2017, moved to Facebook Watch)
• True Life (1998–2017)
• FANatic (1998–2000)
• The Road Home (2000–2002)
• Fear (2000–2002)
• WWF/E Sunday Night Heat (2000–2003, moved to Spike TV)
• WWE Tough Enough (2001–2003)
• Becoming (2001)
• Jammed (2001)
• Dismissed (2002–03)
• Flipped (2001–02)
• Vice (2002)
• FM Nation (2002–03)
• Making the Band (2002–2009)
• Sorority Life (2002–03)
• Suspect: True Crime Stories (2002)
• Made (2003–2014)
• Made Presents: Camp Jim (2003)
• Morning After (2003)
• Surf Girls (2003)
• Burned (2003)
• Fraternity Life (2003)
• One Bad Trip (2003)
• Punk'd (2003–2007, 2012)
• Rich Girls (2003)
• Room Raiders (2003–2009)
• TRL Presents MTV's Duets (2003)
• Viva La Bam (2003–2005)
• Wade Robson Project (2003)
• Wildboyz (2003–04, moved to MTV2)
• High School Stories (2004–2006)
• Pimp My Ride (2004–2007)
• I Want A Famous Face (2004–05)
• Battle for Ozzfest (2004–05)
• Faking the Video (2004)
• Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (2004–2006)
• Homewrecker (2005)
• Miss Seventeen (2005)
• My Super Sweet 16 (2005–2017)
• PoweR Girls (2005)
• The Reality Show (2005)
• Score (2005)
• Trailer Fabulous (2005)
• Trick It Out (2005)
• The Trip (2005)
• 8th & Ocean (2006)
• Call to Greatness (2006)
• Fast Inc. (2006)
• My Own (2006)
• The Hills (2006–2010)
• The Shop (2006)
• Tiara Girls (2006)
• Twentyfourseven (2006)
• Two-A-Days (2006–07)
• Why Can't I Be You? (2006)
• Band in a Bubble (2007)
• Barrio 19 (2007)
• DanceLife (2007)
• Engaged and Underage (2007–08)
• I'm From Rolling Stone (2007)
• Juvies (2007)
• Living Lahaina (2007)
• Maui Fever (2007)
• Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County (2007–08)
• Once Upon a Prom (2007)
• Pageant Place (2007)
• Reunited: The Real World Las Vegas (2007)
• Room 401 (2007)
• Scarred (2007)
• The X Effect (2007–2009)
• Wrestling Society X (2007)
• Buzzin' (2008)
• Exiled (2008)
• Sex with Mom and Dad (2008–09)
• The City (2008–2010)
• The Paper (2008)
• The Phone (2009)
• College Life (2009)
• Gone Too Far (2009)
• Is She Really Going Out with Him? (2009)
• Jersey Shore (2009–2012)
• Taking the Stage (2009–10)
• Downtown Girls (2010)
• Hired (2010)
• I Used to Be Fat (2010-2014)
• 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 (2010–2013)
• When I Was 17 (2010–11)
• Cuff'd (2011)
• Friendzone (2011–2013)
• Plain Jane (2011)
• The Electric Barbarellas (2011)
• Caged (2012)
• Snooki & JWoww (2012–2015)
• The Valleys (2012)
• Big Tips Texas (2013)
• Buckwild (2013)
• Scrubbing In (2013)
• Teen Mom 3 (2013)
• The Alectrix (2013)
• The Ex and The Why
• Virgin Territory (2014)
• Epic Win (2015)
• Follow the Rules (2015)
• Todrick (2015)
• Promposal (2017)
• How Far Is Tattoo Far? (2018–19)
• 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)
• Game of Clones (2019)
• The Hills: New Beginnings (2019–2021)
• The Busch Family Brewed (2020)
• True Life Presents: Quarantine Stories (2020)

Celebrity shows

• Carmen and Dave: An MTV Love Story (2002)
• The Osbournes (2002–2005)
• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica (2003–2005)
• The Ashlee Simpson Show (2004–05)
• 'Til Death Do Us Part: Carmen and Dave (2004)
• Meet the Barkers (2005–06)
• Movie Life: House of Wax (2005)
• Run's House (2005–2009)
• Cheyenne (2006)
• Rob & Big (2006–2008)
• There & Back (2006)
• Adventures in Hollyhood (2007)
• Bam's Unholy Union (2007)
• Hilary Duff: This Is Now (2007)
• Life of Ryan (2007–2009)
• Taquita + Kaui (2007)
• Daddy's Girls (2009)
• Nitro Circus (2009)
• Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory (2009-2015)
• 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)

Competitive shows

• Remote Control (1987–1990)
• Turn It Up! (1990)
• Lip Service (1992–1995)
• Sandblast (1994–1996)
• Trashed (1994)
• Road Rules (1995–2004, 2007)
• Singled Out (1995–1998)
• Idiot Savants (1996–97)
• The Blame Game (1998–2000)
• The Cut (1998)
• Say What? Karaoke (1998–2003)
• webRIOT (1999–2000)
• Sisqo's Shakedown (2000)
• Dismissed (2001)
• Sink or Swim (2001)
• Who Knows the Band? (2001–02)
• I Bet You Will (2002)
• Kidnapped (2002)
• Taildaters (2002–03)
• Boiling Points (2003–2008)
• MC Battle (2003–04)
• Who's Got Game? (2003)
• MTV's Prom Date (2004)
• The Assistant (2004)
• Date My Mom (2004–2006)
• Wanna Come In? (2004–05)
• Your Face or Mine? (2004)
• You've Got a Friend (2004)
• Damage Control (2005–06)
• MTV's The 70s House (2005)
• Next (2005–2008)
• Parental Control (2005–2010)
• Exposed (2006–2008)
• Yo Momma (2006–2008)
• Little Talent Show (2006)
• Celebrity Rap Superstar (2007)
• Making Menudo (2007)
• 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 (2008–2012)
• 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 (2008–2010)
• Rock the Cradle (2008)
• Silent Library (2008–2011)
• That's Amore! (2008)
• Bromance (2009)
• Bully Beatdown (2009–10)
• Disaster Date (2009-2011)
• The Girls of Hedsor Hall (2009)
• Moving In (2010)
• Are You the One? (2014–2019)
• 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)
• MTV's Big ---- Show (1989)
• Rockline on MTV (1991–92)
• The Jon Stewart Show (1993–94)
• Loveline (1996–2000)
• The Rodman World Tour (1996–97)
• Squirt TV (1996)
• Oddville, MTV (1997)
• The Carson Daly Show (1998)
• 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 (2010–11)
• Savage U (2012)
• Nikki & Sara Live (2013)
• The Show with Vinny (2013)
• Are You the One? The Aftermath Live (2014)
• Wolf Watch (2014–2015)

Variety shows

• Zoo TV (1997)
• Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'n Out (2005–2019, moved to VH1)
• Amazingness (2017)
• SafeWord (2017-2018)

Scripted shows

Drama

• Catwalk (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 (2011–2017)
• 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 (1984–1999)
• 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour (1988–1993)
• Way USA (1988)
• Just Say Julie (1989–1992)
• Jimmy the Cab Driver (mid 1990s)
• Kevin Seal, Sporting Fool (1990)
• Pirate TV (1990)
• Totally Pauly (1990–1994, 1996)
• The Ben Stiller Show (1990–91)
• Colin Quinn's Manly World (1990)
• The Idiot Box (1991)
• You Wrote It, You Watch It (1993)
• Comikaze (1993)
• The State (1993–1995)
• Buzzkill (1996)
• Apartment 2F (1997)
• Austin Stories (1997–98)
• The Jenny McCarthy Show (1997)
• The Jim Breuer Show (1998)
• The Sifl and Olly Show (1998–99)
• The Tom Green Show (1999–2000)
• 2ge+her (2000–01)
• Jackass (2000–2002)
• The Lyricist Lounge Show (2000–01)
• The Andy Dick Show (2001–02)
• Now What? (2002)
• Doggy Fizzle Televizzle (2002–03)
• Scratch and Burn (2002)
• The Andy Milonakis Show (2005, moved to MTV2)
• Blowin' Up (2006)
• The Stew Channel (2006)
• Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz (2007)
• Human Giant (2007–08)
• The Gamekillers (2007)
• Pranked (2009–2012)
• The CollegeHumor Show (2009)
• The Hard Times of RJ Berger (2010–11)
• Warren the Ape (2010)
• Awkward. (2011–2016)
• Death Valley (2011)
• I Just Want My Pants Back (2011–12)
• The Inbetweeners (2012)
• Underemployed (2012)
• Girl Code (2013–2015)
• Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous (2013)
• Faking It (2014–2016)
• Happyland (2014)
• Inside Amy Schumer (2015)
• Key & Peele (2015)
• Loosely Exactly Nicole (2016)
• Mary + Jane (2016)
• Acting Out (2016)

Animated

• Stevie and Zoya (1987–1989)
• Animania (1991)
• Liquid Television (1991–1995; 2014)
• Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997; 2011)
• Jean-Claude LeThargic (1994–95)
• The Brothers Grunt (1994–95)
• The Head (1994–1996)
• The Maxx (1995)
• Æon Flux (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 (2000–2002)
• Undergrads (2001)
• 3 South (2002–03)
• Clone High (2003)
• Spider-Man: The New Animated Series (2003)
• Fur TV (2008–09)
• DJ & the Fro (2009)
• Popzilla (2009)
• Good Vibes (2011)
• Greatest Party Story Ever (2016)

Programming from MTV2

• The Andy Milonakis Show
• Celebrity Deathmatch
• Chart2Chart
• Discover & Download
• Final Fu
• Makes a Video
• MTV2 $2 Bill Concert Series
• Sportsblender
• Team Sanchez
• Where My Dogs At?
• Wonder Showzen

Acquired programs

Title	First aired	Last aired
America's Next Top Model	2005	2008
Angry Kid	????	????
Beauty and the Geek	2008
The Beatles	????	????
Britney and Kevin: Chaotic	2005
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	2010
Degrassi: The Next Generation	2008	2014
Fastlane	2002	2003
The Flintstones	1994
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	2014	2015
Chappelle's Show	2009
Futurama	2008
Friends	2017
George Lopez	2014	2015
Grounded for Life	2009
How I Met Your Mother	2016
Instant Star	2006
Kenan & Kel	2008
Life as We Know It	2004
The Monkees	1985	1987
Monty Python's Flying Circus	1988
Music in High Places	2001	2002
My So-Called Life	1994	1998
My Wife & Kids	2014	2015
New Girl	2015	2016
The Office	2021
Queen Bees	2008
The Ren & Stimpy Show	1991	2016
Rocko's Modern Life	1994
Saturday Night Live	1991
Scrubs	2009
Speed Racer	1992	1995
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	2008
South Park	2009	2022
SpongeBob SquarePants	2000	2016
That '70s Show	2010	2013
Veronica Mars	2004
The World's Strictest Parents	2009	2010
The Young Ones	1985	1988

Special events

Seasonal or annual

• MTV's New Year's Eve (1981–2014)
• Camp MTV (1989)
• MTV Rock N' Jock (1990–2004)
• MTV Beach House (1993–1996, 2003)
• MTV's Live and Loud (1993)
• MTV's Ultimate Winter Vacation (1995)
• Fashionably Loud (1996–2002)
• MTV Winter Lodge (1996–1997)
• Motel California (1997)
• Wanna Be a VJ (1998–2000)
• MTV's Summer Share (1998)
• Spankin' New Music Week (1998–2009)
• Springer Break (1998)
• Snowed In (1999–2001)
• 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)

Award shows

For a full list of MTV's international award shows, see List of MTV 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