TEEN Mom OG ratings are said to be “horrific” and have dropped 25 percent.
The decrease in viewership comes as fans call the season the “most boring ever.”
According to the Ashley’s Reality Roundup, ratings for both Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant have drastically declined in their current seasons.
Teen Mom OG’s Season 9B began with an unimpressive 405,000 viewers, while the numbers have fluctuated over the following ten episodes.
According to Starcasm, Tuesday’s episode only pulled in 395,000 viewers.
The decline in viewership may be surprising to MTV execs, as Teen Mom OG used to draw in high ratings for the network.
However, ratings have been struggling for the past few seasons leading up to season 9.
Over 2 million people watched the series debut in December 2009, while fans continued to tune in with Season 1 finishing with an impressive 3.6 million viewers.
The following season also earned good ratings, with the Season 2 earning 5.6 million viewers.
Teen Mom OG’s numbers may be bad, though Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant’s viewership is ever worse.
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YOUNG AND PREGNANT’S DOWNFALL
After debuting on March 12, 2018 with 660,000 viewers, Young and Pregnant climbed into the high-800,000s in the first season.
Viewers stopped tuning in during the second season, with the finale only bringing in 470,000 viewers.
The viewership for the show has continued to go downhill, as the most recent September 7 premiere only had 260,000 viewers.
In light of Teen Mom OG’s low ratings, Starcasm reported MTV and the show’s advertisers are more concerned with the percentage of viewers that fall between the ages of 18 and 49.
The show has historically had many viewers from that age range tune in, though Tuesday’s episode barely made the Top 30 and Young and Pregnant ranked 83 in the metric.
The decrease in viewership comes as fans regularly complain on social media that the current season of Teen Mom OG is “boring.”
TEEN MOM SPIN-OFF
Despite the downfall in ratings, the network previously revealed the franchise is getting a spin-off.
The new show will include current Teen Mom OG stars Maci Bookout and Amber Portwood and Teen Mom 2’s Briana DeJesus, Ashley Jones and Jade Cline living in a “retreat” together.
However, stars Cheyenne Floyd, Catelynn Lowell and Mackenzie McKee was opted out of the spin-off.
Additionally, former Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham will also appear on the anticipated spin-off.
It was previously reported Farrah’s surprise appearance created a massive fight with certain cast members.
A source revealed: “The producers didn’t tell the other cast that Farrah was coming because they wanted a big reaction.
“They definitely got what they wanted: everything basically exploded on the set… again.”
The fight on set reportedly turned physical: “Everyone was absolutely pissed when they found out about Farrah. Words were said.
“One of the Teen Mom OG girls actually flipped some furniture in anger.
“Another girl threw something [toward Farrah] and it hit a different cast member on accident.
“It was complete chaos.”
