What do you get when you combine the most-interesting people from Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2, ply them with cocktails and put them in a California resort together?
Less-than-mediocre ratings, apparently!
Teen Mom Family Reunion— which stars cast members from the two longest-running ‘Teen Mom’ shows— premiered this week after much promotion from MTV and the show’s many cast members. Despite the hubbub before the show, ‘Family Reunion’ failed to be the ratings giant that MTV was surely hoping for. The other new spin-off, Teen Mom: Girls’ Night In, brought in relatively feeble ratings for its first episode, which premiered right after the ‘Teen Mom Family Reunion’ episode aired.
While ‘Family Reunion’ failed to bring in big ratings, it did premiere to better numbers than ‘Teen Mom OG’ had during its most-recent season, so there’s that…
According to ShowBuzz Daily, the first episode of ‘Teen Mom Family Reunion’ brought in 463,000 viewers.
‘Family Vacation’ garnered .19 of the coveted 18-49 ratings share. (This is a great guide to learn more about what those ratings numbers mean.) ‘Teen Mom Family Reunion’ finished in the No. 17 slot of the night’s Top 150 cable telecasts.
Unfortunately, MTV was not able to hold all of the ‘Family Reunion’ viewers over to watch ‘Teen Mom: Girls’ Night In.’ The 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk knock-off brought in only 315,000 viewers on Tuesday, getting only .11 of the 18-49 ratings share. It finished in the No. 55 for the night’s Top 150 telecasts. (These are pretty low numbers, especially for a premiere episode.)
As The Ashley has previously reported, ratings for all of the ‘Teen Mom’ franchise shows have sunk drastically over the last year or so. In 2021, ‘Teen Mom OG’ kicked off Season 9B with an unimpressive 405,000 viewers. Those numbers fluctuated over the next 10 episodes, hitting the low 300,000s at times.
(Remember, over 2 million people tuned in to watch the series debut in December 2009 and the OGs kept the momentum going, finishing Season 1 with an impressive 3.6 million viewers. The series went on to finish even stronger the following year, with the Season 2 finale bringing in a whopping 5.6 million viewers. It remained a ratings giant for MTV for years.)
‘Teen Mom Family Reunion’ and ‘Teen Mom: Girls’ Night In’ are currently airing on Tuesdays on MTV. (The Ashley will be recapping ‘Family Reunion,’ by the way. Stay tuned!)
(Photos: MTV)
Pillow Talk is a knockoff of Bravo’s The Peoples Couch.
WONDER IF MTV HAS FIGURED OUT THAT PEOPLE ARE DONE WITH THESE SHOWS. FIND SOMETHING NEW. THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT TEENS ANYMORE. TIME FOR THEM TO GROW UP, AND GET A LIFE AND REAL JOBS….
I was in Chattanooga this weekend, and I never saw Maci or Bentley, but I’m pretty sure I drove past the gas station.
It is such a shame that Amber continued to be not only included but featured. I honestly wish her well but simply can not support a repeated Domestic Abuser. I bet I am not the only viewer that feels this way. I would have enjoyed seeing many of these cast members interact.
If they want their ratings to come back up they need to bring Janelle back to the show
Bullshit, but nice try Duhnelle.
No one wants to see that trash back…Duhnelle, stop trolling, and take care of your kids, before they get removed again. BTW, that would be the best thing that could happen to them. You are unfit to be a parent. Grow the hell up already!
Stop making fake accounts Duhnelle. No one GAF, and you trolling on here is not gonna change the public opinion of you. No one wants to see you back on TM ever. Walmart is hiring.
How do we account for online viewing? I used to watch on cable and I don’t have cable anymore. I use mtv.ca.
McKee ruined all the shows for me. Portwood had me on the fence, but I finally gave up watching when it started to take more effort to watch than not, i.e. I had to start fast forwarding through McKees segments and it became too much of a hassle. I know she’s not on these spin offs, but she’s left such a bad taste in my mouth, I don’t care to watch anymore.
The Ashley Gossip about girls they don’t like has Ruined Teen Mom
No, as someone stated below, it’s the same old story lines replaying for over a decade, along with them becoming totally unrelatable, with their multiple homes and mansions, brand new cars every year, AND thier new entitled bad attitudes, that ruined teen mom!
The Ashley is the only reason I even still watch Teen Mom
Good bye teen mom !!
See ya ?
Adios. ✌?
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It’s incredibly old at this point. These are the same story lines replaying over a decade, yawn ?
Dying a slow and painful death in the ratings. Yay.
It was pure trash. I thought it was terrible.
I don’t know why these girls keep getting surgery to be prettier. The ugly is on the inside. Your children will see all this one day. You should be ashamed.
Why is Gary on the couch doing recaps with Amber, instead of Kristina? Why is she allowing this? And was it my imagination, or did Gary appear drunk?. Go home to you wife already!!!! Not confusing at all for Leah! Amber is a problem, but Gary seems to be enjoying the attention from both of them a little too much. You are all nuts at this point to continue this toxic situation. So sorry for those children.
Cue the funeral march.
The recaps are the only reason I’ve known what was going on with these old hags for the last 10 years! Thanks the Ashley for saving my brain somewhat! LoL
YES!!!!ON THEIR WAY OUT…….PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF THIS TRASH……
When is MTV going to realize that we don’t like these girls. I don’t care what format you put them in, they are trash.
TM is a ratings loser.
Water is wet.
Looking forward to the recap, though. I’m always down for those.