OK, I'll admit it: Whitney Port is my favorite Hills [1] girl, by far. I love her eye rolls, her spot-on comments about Lauren's messy love life, and the way she's managed to turn her TV exposure into a bona fide career (instead of just tabloid fame [2]).

So, unsurprisingly, I'm excited for Whitney to get her turn in the spotlight tonight at 10 p.m. when The City [3] premieres on MTV. I'm sure it will have its share of Hills-style fakery and manufactured drama — and yet, there's this tiny part of me that just believes Whitney's better than all of that.

She certainly has the shiny new career to promote, a job working in PR for Diane von Furstenberg. And of course she has a passel of gorgeous frenemies, including socialite Olivia Palermo [4], who bear a shocking resemblance to the Hills girls back home. (There's even a brunette one among all the blondes — hi, Audrina 2.0!)

I'm trying to keep my expectations low, but I'm also hoping this will be exactly the thing I need to get through the cold winter months. What about you? To check out the trailer, just .

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