'The Challenge' returns with Season 42

“The Challenge” is heading to a new home, but it’s bringing back a familiar theme. The upcoming Season 42, “The Challenge: Cutthroat,” will debut on August 5 on Paramount+. The show will still have a weekly rollout with new episodes dropping at 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET.

The series, now billed as a Paramount+ original, has aired on MTV since its debut in 1998. While the “All Stars” spinoff was a streaming show, this is the first time the flagship will be exclusively streamed.

“Cutthroat” is a returning theme for “The Challenge,” as it was the title of Season 20, which aired in 2010. It was also the birthplace of the “Johnny Bananas backpack,” so it only feels fitting that both C.T. Tamburello and Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio are back.

Filmed in Thailand, this season will feature 24 competitors — a mix of both newcomers and veterans — fighting for their share of the $500,000 prize. The group will be divided into three teams. “The only way to take home a share of the cash prize is to cross the finish line together as a unit,” the press release reads, but of course, there’s a twist. In the end, the team captain will have the power to decide how to split the winnings — or take it all for themselves. And in this group, that’s likely.

Julie Pizzi, Justin Booth and Jacob Lane serve as executive producers for Bunim/Murray. Diego Amson, Brad Tiemann and Joe Awgul are co-executive producers, and Margaret Morales is supervising producer. Benjamin Hurvitz and Melissa Tallerine are executive producers, with Angela Liao as executive in charge of production for MTV.

-Variety