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The Challenge: Battle of the Exes

The Challenge: Battle of the Exes (2012) is the 22nd season of MTV's reality competition, pairing 13 former couples in Sosúa, Dominican Republic; Camila Nakagawa and Johnny Devenanzio won the $300,000 prize over CT and Diem in the Iceland final.

The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II

The Challenge: Battle of the Exes II (MTV season 26, 2015) is a sequel to Battle of the Exes: 13 ex couples, filmed in Panama and Norway, $350,000 prize, won by Jordan Wiseley and Sarah Rice.

The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons

The Challenge: Battle of the Seasons (2012) is season 23 of MTV's The Challenge, the second season-themed edition, with eight four-person Real World and Fresh Meat teams; filmed in Turkey and Namibia, won by San Diego's Ashley Kelsey and Frank Sweeney.

The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros

The Challenge: Champs vs. Pros (2017) is MTV's six-week Challenge spin-off in which ten Challenge champions competed against ten professional athletes, including Lolo Jones, CM Punk, and Shawne Merriman, hosted by Victor Cruz for charity; later rebranded Champs vs. Stars.

The Challenge: Cutthroat

The Challenge: Cutthroat (also called Cutthroat II) is Season 42 of The Challenge, premiering Aug 5, 2026 on Paramount+: 24 competitors in Thailand, three locked teams of eight, $500,000 shared prize.

The Challenge: Cutthroat (2026 season)

The Challenge: Cutthroat (2026 season) is season 42 of MTV's The Challenge, the first as a Paramount+ original, premiering August 5, 2026. 24 competitors in Thailand, three teams, $500,000 prize, captains divide winnings.

The Challenge: Double Agents

The Challenge: Double Agents is the 36th MTV season, an espionage-themed pairs game filmed in Reykjavík, Iceland, aired December 2020 to April 2021, won by Amber Borzotra and CT Tamburello for $900,000.

The Challenge: Final Reckoning

The Challenge: Final Reckoning is the 32nd season of MTV's The Challenge and the finale of the Revenge trilogy, premiering July 10, 2018, set in South Africa, pairing rivals for $1 million, with purge challenges and a Dolph Ziggler-hosted reunion.

The Challenge: Free Agents

The Challenge: Free Agents, the 25th season of MTV's The Challenge (2014), an individual-game format with 28 players, The Draw kill-card twist, filmed in Uruguay and Chile, won by Johnny Bananas and Laurel Stucky.

The Challenge: Fresh Meat II

The Challenge: Fresh Meat II (season 19 of MTV's The Challenge, 2010) paired 13 rookies with 13 veterans in Whistler, British Columbia, for $300,000; Landon Lueck and Carley Johnson won, defeating the Kenny-Wes rivalry season's dominant pair Kenny Santucci and Laurel Stucky.

The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions

The Challenge: Invasion of the Champions (originally promoted as The Challenge: Invasion) is season 29 of MTV's The Challenge, filmed in Krabi, Thailand, in which 18 Underdogs faced 8 invading Champions; Ashley Mitchell and CT Tamburello won the $350,000 prize.

The Challenge: Ride or Dies

The Challenge: Ride or Dies is season 38 of MTV's The Challenge, filmed in Argentina in 2022, airing October 12, 2022 to March 1, 2023, with self-chosen fixed pairs competing for a share of $1 million; Devin Walker and Tori Deal won.

The Challenge: Rivals

The Challenge: Rivals (2011) is the 21st season of MTV's The Challenge, its first pairs format, pairing 28 veterans as same-gender enemy duos in Costa Rica and Argentina for a $300,000 prize, won by Johnny/Tyler and Evelyn/Paula.

The Challenge: Rivals II

The Challenge: Rivals II, season 24 of MTV's The Challenge, aired July-September 2013. Filmed in Phuket, Thailand, it paired 32 rivals for a $350,000 prize; CT & Wes and Emily & Paula won.

The Challenge: Rivals III

The Challenge: Rivals III, the 28th season of MTV's The Challenge and third Rivals installment, aired May 4 to August 3, 2016. Filmed in Huatulco, Mexico and Mendoza, Argentina, it used 13 co-ed rival pairs for a $350,000 prize and was won by Johnny "Bananas" Devenanzio and Sarah Patterson.

The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies

The Challenge: Spies, Lies & Allies is season 37 of MTV's The Challenge, airing August-December 2021. A spy-themed Croatia season with 17 US and 17 international players, the Infiltration Lair twist, record-low 506,000-viewer episode, winners CT and Kaycee, and the franchise's last spy theme.

The Challenge: Total Madness

The Challenge: Total Madness is the 35th season of MTV's The Challenge, premiering April 1, 2020. 28 contestants, solo format, Red Skull twist, Prague bunker, $1 million prize; winners Johnny Bananas and Jenny.

The Challenge: Vendettas

The Challenge: Vendettas, season 31 of MTV's The Challenge (2018), a Spain-filmed individual grudge-format season with Big Brother and UK castings, mercenaries, grenades, and the franchise's first solo winner.

The Challenge: Vets & New Threats

The Challenge: Vets & New Threats is the 41st season of the reality competition series The Challenge. It features 32 players, including 16 veterans and 16 newcomers.

The Challenge: War of the Worlds

The Challenge: War of the Worlds is the 33rd season of MTV's The Challenge, airing February–May 2019, pairing veterans with international reality-show rookies for a $1 million prize under a Tribunal, Killing Floor, and Relic format.

The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2

The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2 (season 34, MTV, 2019) pit Team USA against Team UK, 32 competitors in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with Tribunal, Turncoat, and Purge twists, and Team UK winning the $1 million final.

The Challenge: World Championship

The Challenge: World Championship is a 2023 Paramount+ reality competition, the franchise's first global tournament, pairing MVPs from the Argentina, Australia, UK, and USA editions with MTV Challenge Legends for a $500,000 prize, hosted by T.J. Lavin.

The Champ (1931 film)

The Champ (1931) is King Vidor's MGM melodrama starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper as a washed-up boxer and his son; it won Oscars for Beery (tied with Fredric March) and Frances Marion and was remade in 1953 and 1979.

The Champ (1979 film)

The Champ (1979) is a Franco Zeffirelli MGM drama, the first official remake of the 1931 King Vidor film, starring Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, and debutant Ricky Schroder as a boxer, his ex-wife, and his son; a critical failure but international box-office hit with an Oscar-nominated Dave Grusin score.

The Champions

The Champions (神勇斗士) is a 1968-1969 British ITC espionage-fantasy TV series: three Nemesis agents gain superpowers after a Himalayan plane crash; 30 episodes, created by Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner.

The Chang'an Youth (长安少年行)

The Chang'an Youth (长安少年行) is a 2020 Chinese historical romance drama, 24 episodes, directed by Zhou Jiawen, starring Wang Yuwen and Wu Xize, about a cook who cross-dresses into the Shang Yi Guan academy in Tang Chang'an; distinct from the 2026 short drama Da Tang Shao Nian Tian Xing Zhuan.

The Change-Up

The Change-Up is a 2011 American body-swap comedy directed by David Dobkin, starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman as a bachelor and married lawyer who switch bodies.

The Changeling (film)

The Changeling (1980) is a Canadian haunted-house horror film directed by Peter Medak, starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, and Melvyn Douglas; it won nine Genie Awards and is ranked among the scariest films by Scorsese.

The Changeling (TV series)

The Changeling is an eight-part Apple TV+ horror drama (2023) adapted from Victor LaValle's 2017 novel, created by Kelly Marcel, starring LaKeith Stanfield and Clark Backo, with LaValle narrating.

The Changeover (film)

The Changeover (2017) is a New Zealand supernatural thriller directed by Miranda Harcourt and Stuart McKenzie, adapting Margaret Mahy's 1984 Carnegie Medal novel. Erana James, Timothy Spall, Melanie Lynskey, and Lucy Lawless star; set in post-earthquake Christchurch, released 28 September 2017.