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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 …

Read More about The Hills loses 900,000 viewers without Lauren Conrad, but The City is up 43 percent

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 …

Read More about The City cast members get dialogue via text message; Whitney has “a whole ‘nother life”

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 …

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