Like its name suggests, 90 Day Fiance is a TLC show that covers couples that are either seeking or have sought a K-1 visa. This is relevant because K-1 visas are given out to the foreign fiances of American citizens so that said individuals can get married. However, K-1 visas offer no more than 90 days’ time, thus explaining the name of the TLC show.
How Long Has 90 Day Fiance Been Running?
On the whole, 90 Days Fiance has been very successful. After all, the show has had six very successful seasons, with the sixth season managing an average total of 2.5 million viewers. Something that makes 90 Day Fiance one of the most formidable shows in TLC’s line-up. As a result, it is no wonder that it has been renewed for a seventh season that will presumably start up sometime in the next few months. Furthermore, so long as 90 Days Fiance can continue to command the interest of the viewers, it seems safe to say that TLC will continue to film because its very nature means that it can never run out of content.
How Big Has the 90 Day Fiance Franchise Become?
Over time, 90 Days Fiance has become a full-fledged franchise that encompasses multiple shows. This is perhaps unsurprising, seeing as how the show is set up so that each season covers a small number of couples for the titular length of time before the next season moves on to the next set of couples. As a result, the viewers don’t get much of a chance to follow up with the couples that have managed to capture their interest through the standard format of the show once the relevant season has come to a conclusion.
Fortunately for said individuals, TLC has decided that there is sufficient demand to support the filming of further shows. This has resulted in not one, not two, but six separate spin-offs, which cater to a wide range of interests on the viewers’ part.
First, there is 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After. Based on this name, it should come as no surprise to learn that this show follows up on some of the most famous couples from its parent show. This means that its content is more or less what most people would expect, which is to say, the couple’s relationship issues, the couple’s struggles with their marriage, and the couple’s interactions with their friends and family members. This show started up in 2016 and can be expected to continue so long as it has enough people tuning in on a regular basis. After all, if one of its featured couples isn’t performing up to expectation, the people behind it can just switch them out for one of the later couples from one of the later seasons.
Second, there is 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days, which is focused on couples who haven’t reached the point in their relationships that would make them suitable material for the parent show. As a result, it has less of a connection with 60 Day Fiance, but it stands out in that it can offer something new to interested individuals as well. Like the others, 90 Day Fiance: Before the 90 Days has an advantage compared to a lot of other reality shows in that it isn’t founded on the premise of following either a particular person or even a particular set of people, meaning that it can continue with new potential couples for new seasons so long as the interest from the viewers exist.
Third, there is 90 Day Fiance: What Now? that serves a very similar role to 90 Day Fiance: Happily Ever After but is still different enough to allow for some differentiation. For instance, this particular spin-off isn’t limited to covering couples but provides updates about those who have broken up as well. Furthermore, it isn’t quite as in-depth as its counterpart, meaning that it has the time to cover more couples. Finally, 90 Day Fiance: What Now? is a digital spin-off, meaning that it is available to interested individuals through a different avenue.
Fourth, there is 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk. This one is a reaction show for the parent show, meaning that it can be a bit scattered in nature. Generally speaking, the episodes cover the reactions of past participants to whatever has been broadcast on the parent show. However, there have been a couple of tell-all episodes as well. Due to this, for people who love 90 Day Fiance and enjoy interacting with those who love it as well, 90 Day Fiance: Pillow Talk might be something that they would want to check out.
Fifth, there is 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way, which works on much the same basis as the parent show but in reverse. In other words, this show follows couples consisting of one American and one non-American. However, while the couples on the parent show have chosen to live in the United States, the couples on 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way have chosen to live in the country of the other partner. As such, this show provides interested individuals with a different perspective on the same process seen in the parent show, thus making it familiar enough to comfort and not so familiar enough to tantalize. With that said, 90 Day Fiance: The Other Way is a relatively new spinoff that started up in May of 2019, so it remains to be seen whether it will be able to claim the same kind of staying power as its parent show.
Sixth, The Family Chantel is what one might call an inevitable product of 90 Day Fiance’s popularity. Sooner or later, one of the couples featured on the parent show would become either popular enough or at least eye-catching enough for them to secure a show of their own instead of having to share with others. As it turned out, the first couple who have succeeded in this regard are Chantel Everett and Pedro Jimeno, whose time on 90 Day Fiance was controversial to say the least.
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