Catfish: The TV Show Cancelled At MTV After 9 Seasons

Nev Schulman has caught his last Catfish for MTV.

Catfish: The TV Show has been cancelled after a nine-season run, Variety reports, adding that "the network is allowing the producers to shop the series elsewhere."

Catfish, which sprang from Schulman's 2010 feature documentary of the same name, followed Schulman as he helped people track down their online romantic partners in real life — and see if they're really who they say they are. This led to many heated confrontations where online scammers were exposed for creating fake profiles, sometimes to specifically entrap the person they were in an online relationship with. The show, along with the original movie, helped popularize the term "catfish" as someone faking a persona online to lure in victims.

Debuting in 2012, Catfish: The TV Show first featured Schulman along with co-host/cameraman Max Joseph. After seven seasons, Joseph left the series in 2018 and was at first replaced by a rotating series of guest hosts, including singer Elle King and rapper Machine Gun Kelly. Eventually, swimsuit model and podcast host Kamie Crawford was chosen to be Schulman's permanent co-host, joining him for two additional seasons. Catfish's total run clocks in at an impressive 242 episodes, last airing in July 2024.

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