Catfish: The TV Present, MTV‘s long-running docuseries exploring the falsities clouding on-line courting, has been canceled after 9 seasons, Deadline has confirmed.
Based mostly on the 2010 documentary movie Catfish from Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, which adopted Yaniv “Nev” Schulman as he constructed a romantic relationship with a lady on Fb, the vital and commercially profitable mission led to an eponymous collection in 2012 and coined the time period “catfishing,” which means the deception an individual engages in when making a faux on-line persona.
The fact present, which continued its investigation of deceptive on-line romances, spanned properly over 200 episodes. MTV will permit the present’s producers to buy Catfish elsewhere, because the cable channel owned by Paramount Skydance will proceed to air reruns.
Hosted by Nev Schulman, the collection includes a “hopeful” who has been deceived of their digital relationship and the “catfish,” with the format typically permitting for the 2 to satisfy. The ultimate ninth season concluded its run in the summertime of final yr, following an early January 2024 renewal for its Tuesday evening slot amid strong cable scores. Later that yr, in October, co-host Kamie Crawford introduced her exit from the fact collection, almost six years into her tenure. She had joined the present in Season 7 in 2018 after being one in every of a number of individuals to visitor host alongside Nev Schulman, following the departure of Max Joseph, who had been co-hosting Catfish since its premiere.
A wildly profitable program for MTV, the collection spawned two short-lived spinoffs and quite a few worldwide editions, together with in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and the U.Ok. Moreover, Wondery launched Catfish: The Podcast collectively with MTV in 2020, which spanned two seasons.
The cancellation comes as Nev Schulman lately acquired his actual property license, posting on social media that he’s wanting ahead to serving to people purchase and promote property in New York. Catfish‘s standing was up within the air following the official closing of the Paramount Skydance merger in August, which is certain to lead to additional shakeups reverberating by content material choices and workers layoffs.
Selection first reported information of the cancellation.
