The faint sounds of Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” that you’re hearing is not a dream. During last night’s MTV Video Music Awards it was announced that MTV is rebooting The Hills with many of the original cast members.
Members of the original series and Laguna Beach — Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Audrina Patridge, Jason Wahler, Stephanie Pratt, Justin Bobby and Frankie Delgado — were all in attendance at the VMAs and will be featured on what MTV is calling The Hills: New Beginnings.
The rebooted series will reunite original cast members, alongside their children and friends, and follow their personal and professional lives while living in Los Angeles. With new faces in the picture and returning favorites, The Hills will be back for a new beginning with a 2019 premiere.
Although Lauren Conrad hosted a The Hills reunion special in 2016, it’s unlikely that the original star and focus of the original series will be part of the revival. Conrad has long said that time is behind her and unless they threw buckets of money at her, I doubt she’d be interested. Kristin Cavallari, who is now on her own reality show on E!, has said she’d be in for a new incarnation of the series so there’s a possibility she’ll be involved.
MTV aired The Hills, a spinoff of its reality series Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, from 2006 to its series finale in July 2010. The network has seen success with its reality series revivals, most recently its Jersey Shore spinoff, which was cable’s top-rated series in adults 18-34 for Season 1 and returns for Season 2 on Thursday. Its offshoot Floribama Shore returned for Season 2 in July and scored a series-high with nearly 1 million total viewers, up 34% over its Season 1 average.
Check out the short teaser that premiered during last night’s ceremony below:
