MTV is currently working on Teen Mom 2, according to the executive producer of the show, who confirms the news to USA Today. The show will follow the latest crop of 16 and Pregnant stars as they struggle to raise their children. As for the fate of the current Teen Mom show, starring Maci, Farrah, Amber and Catelynn, it sounds like they’re not sure whether they’ll do something like a special or whether they’ll have an entire new season. You can bet that the legal issues and criticism they faced over airing Amber’s domestic abuse of Gary will factor into their decision. It’s not like they’re going to give up this lucrative format, though. Here’s more, from Access Hollywood:
MTV is shooting a new season of “Teen Mom” with a group of girls pulled from the latest cast of the network’s hit, “16 And Pregnant,” according to USA Today.
“’Teen Mom 2’ is shooting right now,” executive producer Morgan J. Freeman reportedly told the paper.
As for the fate of the original “Teen Mom” cast, including Maci Bookout, Catelynn Lowell, Farrah Abraham and Amber Portwood, Freeman said the network has yet to determine if they would continue with a third season.
“We’re doing some continuous-type shooting with the original ‘Teen Mom’ [cast],” Freeman told the mag. “But nothing’s been announced yet about what we’ll do with that.”
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, the reality show has seen its share of conflict. Debra Danielson — mother of teen mom Farrah Abraham — was arrested for allegedly hitting her daughter in January. Meanwhile, a criminal investigation was reportedly launched into Amber Portwood’s behavior in October, after she was caught on camera on the MTV series kicking and punching the father of her 2-year-old daughter in front of their young child.
“Teen Mom 2” is slated to premiere on January 11, 2011.
[From Access Hollywood, link has automatic video]
I haven’t watched the latest series of 16 and Pregnant, but I’ve seen Teen Mom and am now going back and watching the 16 and Pregnant episodes with those young women. (I wanted to call them girls, but I guess I should call them women since they’re moms .) There’s something really fascinating about this show, but I also understand the criticism that it can be exploitive. I’ll probably watch this show, too, and MTV is counting on people like me getting used to a new crop of teen moms. Does it help these young parents at all to put them on TV? They’re sure serving as a cautionary tale for a lot of kids. They also make some money out of it, as much as the show tries to hide that aspect of it.
Photos from MTV, where you can watch full episodes of the show online.
so hope they’ll be doing season 3 with the original girls. bet the delay is due @ least in part to contract negotiations.
Some of the 16 and Pregnant episodes are emotional but compelling to watch. These soon to be teen mom’s haven’t a clue about what they are up against in life, and the difficult lives that lay ahead for them and their children.
While these young people ARE being exploited by the show, I sincerely hope that young viewers see why having a baby before graduating high school is very poor choice. Safe sex or abstaining are positive life choices for people who haven’t finished childhood!
I think this is a great show. Talking to some teens about getting pregnant does no good at all however, putting the facts in their face in a format that hits home makes them consider the long term consequences of protectionless sex. I know young men who watch it and they’re now spending more time in the bathroom than the backseat.
No, I don’t think they all deserve to be called “women” merely because they gave birth. Some are still girls – not regular girls, idiot girls (AMBER!)
Hmm terribly sensitive and hugely diverse and complex topic, but it still always saddens and angers me how high the pressue is in the american society to be overtly sexual at such young ages. Poor GIRLS havent even a clue about their own body but they are off and concerned about being sexy for the BOYS and it enrages me to no end. Such mistreatment and exploitation not from the show but from the boys of the young girls. Absolutely sick. Sexuality is great but i think at that age, they arent doing it for themselves yet. Social pressures and pressures from males are playing a larger role.
They dont even know how to avoid a pregnancy, for christs sake. Such a disgusting atmosphere. Not even much older women know their own sexuality but are more concerned with the mens interests and ‘making against all the the competition’…terrible.
I can see how some teen moms women up and face up their own responsibility to take care of their own kid and STILL go to school (without help). But some get too damn lazy and expect everyone living around them to everything for them and to be the ones to take care of the child. I agree, I hope this show shows to at least wait and not to be having kids at such an early age. I mean, some of the younger generation is RIDICULOUS…even 13 year olds getting pregnant, it’s REALLY sad. :/ But I think the teens (like celebs) are wanting to get pregnant and pop out babies, thinking it’s a toy and that it’s going to be easy, when not…and cause they think it’s the latest “trend.”
I hope they show the one with the twins.
The most recent epidsode of 16 and pregnant (with the “white dude with dreads”) was pretty painful to watch. While I have had children early (not a teenager, but I was 7 mo pregnant when I turned 21–still young), it was surreal for me to watch that poor child’s situation, I hate to say that baby doesn’t stand much of a fighting chance 🙁
I recently watched the episode with the couple who had twins. They knew each other for 1 MONTH before she got pregnant, and something that particularly stands out in my memory:
GIRL: It’s your fault (I’m pregnant);
GUY: Well, you told me your shot was still in effect;
GIRL: You have a 4 or 5 day window to get your next shot.
Um, no. No you don’t. Get Depo 4 or 5 days EARLY but don’t EVER get it late!
(Yes, I was a teen mom; I did without a TV show, child support, family to baby-sit, and I moved into my own place when my son was 3 weeks old.)
I think this show is a good thing for teens to watch bc teen pregnancy is out of control. These young kids think they’re in love and the next step is having a baby. Some of them don’t even think that far ahead, they think they’ll look cute pregnant and like all the attention. This show shows them about real life. The point of this show is that these kids are miserable! I have not seen 1 that has turned out ok… and even the Amber situation, showing them fight was real! I know so many young couples that fight like that. So i think it does exploit, but it something that kids should see. Maybe it would help them make better choices!
I agree that the show raises some interesting topics that are atleast being discussed. To be honest I think the biggest pressure on young women is from the media and from society. I was a late bloomer when it came to my interest in boys and I remember at 16 feeling alot of pressure to sleep with boys just because being a virgin was like having some terrible disease. Still, in the end it is up to parents to set rules and no tv show is every gonna fix the fact that too many kids are being raised by the media and not by their own parents.
I think the show tends to glamorize being a teen mom – which is sad. It never ceases to amaze me how “shocked” the girls are, after the baby is born, in realizing it is a 24/7 JOB!!! What in the heck did they expect? And the fact that so many continue to live at home with their parents – does not convince me that they’re independent by any means. And, definitely not ADULTS!
i want a season 3!i love them!
Lord knows I watch my fair share of trash tv, but I can’t bring myself to watch these teenage pregnancy shows. I feel like everybody (the infants and the child-mothers) is getting cheated out of a childhood by the very nature of teen pregnancy – and the ickiness is further compounded by a multibillion dollar corporation handing out paychecks to cover the cost of child exploitation. Gross.
But I do have a couple of questions for some of the more loyal viewers. . .
The kids they tend to select for the show seem to be relatively well-off, suburban types from medium-income homes. And one or both teen partners tend to be white. Is that a fair observation?
I only ask because I don’t feel it’s a fair representation of teen pregnancy statistics and I think its disingenuous on the part of MTV. The innercity high school Mr. Missy is interning at has a very high dropout rate – with a strong percentage of those dropouts being young ladies who have found out that they are to be young mothers. The school is primarily black and latino, and the vast majority of children come from low-income, single parent homes.
I hope they have the girl who had the twins. I always wanted to know how everything was going for her. And I also want to know what happened with the girl who had the jackass boyfriend and got the child’s last name change. He was the worst of all the dads!
@potatopeel
I watch the show and enjoy it but I have never seen any glamoritization of these girls. They are pregnant, often the boys they think they love end up leaving them, they have no money and usually cannot finish school. I think it is a very frank look at being 16 and pregnant. I am 32 and it turns me off of having kids for now.
@ MissyA –
THANK YOU! My high school was about 2/3 Hispanic, Indian, & African-American, and 1/3 Anglo. When a girl in my high school got pregnant (regardless of race), she was automatically shipped off to “continuation school” or she dropped out.
This show IS NOT an accurate representation of teen pregnancy. As I’ve said before, I moved out of my parents’ home (they sold it & told me there was no Bellaluna’s room at their new home) when my son was 3 weeks old; the only time they watched my son was when I took my college entrance exams; I had a room-mate who was also a single mom; I had no car, so I walked or took a bus wherever I needed to go; I traded childcare with other single moms; and I provided care for other single moms’ children for money as I was able, since I received sporadic (at best) child support.
@madylane – If you consider $60K (and not for full-time work, either) no money, while the majority of the teen moms depicted live with their parents, then you are correct; they have no money. Surviving off of $600 a month (including food stamp benefits) and trying to pay rent, utilities, and buy diapers and food (and only eat after your child has eaten their fill) – THAT is having no money! (Especially in SoCal!)
Those pictures above except the first two are from season 2 of 16 and Pregnant so they won’t be on Teen Mom 2. There is a season 3 of 16 and Pregnant so they will probably be the ones featured.
MissyA thank you I’m sure Mtv does it to avoid charges of racism, so its political correctness probably at work here: Larger point, this is why Mtv needs to go off the air – remember the 80s when mtv was actually about music and gave us MJ’s thriller, U2, Madonna, old school hip hop, big hair bands, all the funky stuff from England, the alltime best vid Freedom, etc. now we get this – no wonder so many of today’s youth are lame and angry in part because pop culture has become so lame and wornout and isn’t the slightest bit interesting.