Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach season 1 and The Hills season 5 will air marathons this weekend, as well promos for MTV’s Siesta Key, which borrows Laguna’s format.

Watch the trailer for Siesta Key, MTV’s new reality show that follows a group of college students who return home for the summer.

Today is the 10th anniversary of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, best known as the series that spun off The Hills, best known as the reality series that unapologetically scripted itself all the way to its conclusion. The MTV reality series was groundbreaking not because it was like a reality TV version of a successful drama (Fox’s The …

Only on MTV is something that aired eight years ago considered “retro,” but that’s exactly what it’s calling its rebroadcast of two groundbreaking reality series: Laguna Beach and The Hills. Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County debuted in 2004 as a reality version of Fox’s The O.C., and established an entirely new, cinematic visual style …

Some additional details about the future of MTV’s Laguna Beach emerged last month in a piece about MTV’s efforts to focus on fewer series. While the show faced cancellation, it has not been cancelled, at least not as far as MTV is concerned. The network “is moving forward on a new season with an all-new …

After being arrested multiple times this past year, Laguna Beach star Jason Wahler has–what else?–entered rehab. A family member tells People magazine that he is “in rehab, and he’s getting help. He’s doing well, and he’s going to be a new man. There was a deal made [with prosecutors],” she said. That deal means his …

In the middle of a story about MTV’s new online strategy, the Los Angeles Times drops huge news: Laguna Beach may be cancelled. The reason is that MTV “will begin to roll out series that showcase the best of the Web, require heavy viewer participation and feature the lives of real teens,” the paper reports. …