MTV has cancelled The City, meaning the official end to the three-series franchise that helped to transform both MTV and reality TV. Its second season concluded this summer, on the same day that The Hills ended forever, too. Whitley Port told Ryan Seacrest that “As of right now it doesn’t really look like we’re doing …
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Whitney Port has taken to the internet to assure worried fans that her fake MTV reality series, The City, has not been cancelled. Fashionista reported an unsourced rumor “that MTV has canceled (seemingly) successful scripted reality series The City” after this season. In her post, which is preceded by a giant picture of her because …
The Tuesday return of MTV’s two pseudo-reality shows brought bad news for one of them and good news for the other. Without Lauren Conrad, The Hills lost viewers compared to its April season premiere, with 2.1 million viewers watching. Broadcasting & Cable reports that although those numbers are “down from 3 million viewers for the …
MTV’s leading faux reality shows are moving to a new night when they debut next week. The Hills and The City will now air on Tuesday nights, at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET respectively. Each series has 10 new episodes, and after Lauren Conrad’s departure, The Hills is bringing back actor Kristin Cavallari for what …
The star and producer of The City, the New York-set spin-off of The Hills that follows Whitney Port’s life, both admit that the life it follows isn’t actually Whitney’s real life, from the way her friends receive text messages with dialogue to the way she has an entire life we never see. First, The Los …
After Whitney Port’s Hills spin-off The City aired half of its debut season, MTV announced that it had renewed the series for a second season. MTV said in a press release that the series had been renewed, along with Daddy’s Girls, “[b]ased on the early success of a number of these shows.” That may be …
Not that there was any question, but The City, which debuted last night on MTV, is just as set-up and fake as the series that spawned it, even though it does have elements of reality. New York Magazine’s profile of the new series says it is “at once totally genuine and ridiculously contrived” but insists …