The Best TV Shows on MTV

Every MTV Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Notable series such as MTV Video Music Awards and The Real World from MTV first graced the screens in 1984 and 1992. With its programming history stretching from 1984 to N/A, MTV offers an impressive lineup of over 20 shows. Stay up-to-date with over 20 of MTV’s elite series, with our list refreshed for August 2025.

  • MTV Roadies
    MTV Roadies (2003)9.0

    MTV Roadies is a youth-based popular reality television show. It is an Indian version of the original show, Road Rules. In this show, a group of contestants travel to different destinations and participate in various tasks that challenge their physical, social and mental strength.

  • Teen Wolf
    Teen Wolf (2011)8.5

    Scott McCall, a high school student living in the town of Beacon Hills has his life drastically changed when he's bitten by a werewolf, becoming one himself. He must henceforth learn to balance his problematic new identity with his day-to-day teenage life. The following characters are instrumental to his struggle: Stiles, his best friend; Allison, his love interest who comes from a family of werewolf hunters; and Derek, a mysterious werewolf with a dark past. Throughout the series, he strives to keep his loved ones safe while maintaining normal relationships with them.

  • MTV Movie & TV Awards
    MTV Movie & TV Awards (1992)8.1

    The annual film & TV awards show presented by MTV. The nominees are decided by producers and executives at MTV with winners decided online by the general public.

  • Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out
    Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out (2005)8.1

    Nick Cannon and an A-list celebrity lead a team of improv comedians as they compete against each other.

  • MTV Video Music Awards
    MTV Video Music Awards (1984)7.6

    An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.

  • Undressed
    Undressed (1999)7.5

    A peek behind closed doors at the intricacies of modern relationships. Each episode features three different fictional stories and follows various characters to see what happened during their most intimate moments. No subject is too taboo. All the stories have one very important thing in common, though: someone inevitably gets undressed.

  • RuPaul's Drag Race
    RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)7.5

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in the U.S. will vie for drag stardom as RuPaul, in full glamazon drag, will reign supreme in all judging and eliminations while helping guide the contestants as they prepare for each challenge.

  • WWE Tough Enough
    WWE Tough Enough (2001)7.4

    WWE Tough Enough is a professional wrestling reality television program produced by WWE where in participants undergo professional wrestling training and compete for a contract with WWE.

  • Awkward.
    Awkward. (2011)7.4

    An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes an epic misunderstanding and is blown way out of proportion. Narration in the first-person voice of Jenna's blog posts captures the humor within the struggles and experiences everyone can relate to from their formative years.

  • The Challenge
    The Challenge (1998)7.3

    Each Challenge pits numerous cast members from past seasons of reality shows against each other, dividing them into two separate teams according to different criteria, such as gender, which show they first appeared on, whether or not they're veterans or rookies on the show, etc. The two teams compete in numerous missions in order to win prizes and advance in the overall game.

  • Jersey Shore: Family Vacation
    Jersey Shore: Family Vacation (2018)7.2

    The cast of Jersey Shore swore they would always do a vacation together. Now, five years, five kids, three marriages, and who knows how many GTL sessions later, the gang is back together and on vacation in a swanky house in Miami Beach.

  • Beavis and Butt-Head
    Beavis and Butt-Head (1993)7.1

    Two dimwitted teenagers discuss TV, heavy-metal music, nachos, and trying to "score with chicks." When the duo aren't sitting on the couch, they try to pick up girls at the local convenience store, slack off at school, or wreak havoc while working at a burger joint.

  • The Shannara Chronicles
    The Shannara Chronicles (2016)7.0

    A young Healer armed with an unpredictable magic guides a runaway Elf in her perilous quest to save the peoples of the Four Lands from an age-old Demon scourge.

  • Scream: The TV Series
    Scream: The TV Series (2015)6.9

    What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

  • Ridiculousness
    Ridiculousness (2011)6.8

    Rob Dyrdek takes the funniest amateur internet videos and builds them into an episode of edgy, funny, and most importantly, timeless television.

  • Catfish: The TV Show
    Catfish: The TV Show (2012)6.8

    Nev and his co-hosts -- from Max to Kamie to celebrity guests -- help people in dubious online relationships track down their baes IRL so they can sort out what's fact and what's fiction.

  • The Real World
    The Real World (1992)5.7

    Each year, seven strangers in their twenties, from different backgrounds and countries, are chosen to come live together in a major city.

  • WWE Heat
    WWE Heat (1998)5.1

    WWE Heat is a professional wrestling television program that was produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).

  • Punk'd
    Punk'd (2003)5.0

    What happens when the biggest stars in the world get too high on the Hollywood hog? When their bank accounts start swelling bigger than their heads? Master prankster Ashton Kutcher is there to punk 'em down to earth.

  • Apartment 2F
    Apartment 2F (N/A)N/A

    Apartment 2F, often written Apt. 2F, is a 1997 MTV sitcom, sketch comedy, and stand-up television series based around Randy and Jason Sklar's characters living in New York City. The show aired from July 13, 1997 through November 1997.