The Look Ahead: Yet Another Challenge Invasion? And Real World Returns

BY DC CUEVA                      

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As we're now into late November right now and we're on the edge of the holidays beginning tomorrow, it's no doubt been an eventful 2018 for those in the MTV beat: the return of Jersey Shore, the middle & last legs of the current trilogy of The Challenge, Cory & Cheyenne coming over to Teen Mom, and much more. And the coming year and last few weeks of this year should be something else: last night, The Challenge Final Reckoning had its always intense final challenge with $1 million going to the winners - and with a Bananas-like twist to go along with it. This year's Are You The One? cast also came away with seven figures with a furious late charge down the stretch to snatch it at the end. Floribama Shore will answer the question of what happens next with the group and them fighting Kortni's man Logan next week, as will who will take over for Max Joseph as Nev Schulman's cohort on Catfish. And in exactly one month from now, we'll soon think about more love with a new batch of originals and exes for Season 2 of the American version of Ex On The Beach.

As for what 2019 has in store for us, there are several things: the Lohan Beach Club with Lindsay Lohan, The Hills rebooting with New Beginnings with old and new faces, and other new shows and seasons too many to mention or too early to call - both on the MTV channel itself and on new digital platforms as part of the newly-launched MTV Studios unit. But for the biggest interest of this site, there are two new seasons of the two shows that we have followed our entire five year run here. For one, it will be the first since Invasion of last year to not be connected to the trilogy we've been experiencing in the past three seasons, and it will have plenty of new faces to come. For the other, it returns to an old formula and to a new platform as it reintroduces the kind of television that glued everyone to a new genre and changed how we are entertained.

After the jump, we'll take a peek into the crystal ball to look ahead to Season 33 of The Challenge and the return of The Real World. Gather around for some tea, friends…