MTV’s longest-running reality franchise has been in dire straits for a while now.

Ratings for both Teen Mom OG and Teen Mom 2 have been plummeting for several seasons, and Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant has yet to take off the way the network hoped it would.

Cancelation rumors have been circulating for years, but aside from Jersey Shore and endless marathons of Ridiculousness, MTV doesn’t have much else in the way original content these days.

So what does a network exec do when he needs the carcass of a dead franchise to shamble on just a little while longer?

Well, he gathers up all the scattered components, cobbles them together, and hopes that the sum is greater than the parts.

Yes, according to a new report from…



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