Behind the Screen: Challenge Preview Specials

For over two decades, MTV's The Challenge has been the proving ground where reality TV's fiercest competitors come to cement their legacies. What started as a Real World/Road Rules spinoff has evolved into one of the most physically and mentally demanding competition series on television.

The franchise's expansion — with spinoffs in the USA, UK, Argentina, and Australia — speaks to a global appetite for the brand of cutthroat competition and alliance-driven gameplay that Vevmo's community has been tracking since 2007.

Why would you need one. It's the same cast members coming back over and over again anyway...

— JustinMG

jhl182;54931 wrote:Why don't they do "Preview Specials" anymore for the challenges. I loved watching these in the beginning...

— ghnstry

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Challenge Preview Specials

jhl182 ·
Why don't they do "Preview Specials" anymore for the challenges? I loved watching these in the beginning. They would show each castmember and they would talk about what they've done since their season and show clips of their season or past challenges they've done. I think the last preview special they've done was in BOTS2.
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JustinMG#2
Why would you need one? It's the same cast members coming back over and over again anyway.
ghnstry#3
jhl182;54931 wrote:
Why don't they do "Preview Specials" anymore for the challenges? I loved watching these in the beginning. They would show each castmember and they would talk about what they've done since their season and show clips of their season or past challenges they've done. I think the last preview special they've done was in BOTS2.
The last preview they did was for Fresh Meat
V1man#4
ghnstry;54988 wrote:
The last preview they did was for Fresh Meat
Actually the 25 Greatest Moments special started out as a preview/
RW561015#5
JustinMG;54939 wrote:
Why would you need one? It's the same cast members coming back over and over again anyway.
I thought about this as well. Since Fresh Meat, I guess, there hasn't been as much a need to do preview shows since most of the people on the challenges had done one within a year or two. But preview shows have been a tradition, they could serve as an update on what some of them have been doing when they haven't doing a challenge, they introduce the cast to newer viewers, they could tie history into the fold, and they could highlight cast dynamics. It's kind of a treat to the viewers as well if done well. I know the previews haven't always done all of what I said, but I think some of these things could be used as a purpose to still continue preview shows.
Debut Album#6
JustinMG;54939 wrote:
Why would you need one? It's the same cast members coming back over and over again anyway.
Yeah there's no point in doing them anymore. We just saw most of them on the last challenge.

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