Since the premiere of the new season, The Hills has gone further and further towards doom on the scale of ratings.  The show is down one-third its usual, with the premiere which features Cavallari only getting 30 percent of the previous season premiere last April.

Even though the slow descent to failure of The Hills is apparent, the network refuses to let it go.  Medialife Magazine reports that MTV stated that the series remained as the highest-rated cable show in the channel's target audience, viewers 12-34.  In addition to that, it is still the highest-rated program on television in its timeslot in that demographic.

Maybe MTV needs to check the numbers again.  During the season premiere, The Hills garnered 2.36 million total viewers.  Three episodes later, it received a mere 1.72 million.  That's practically half of the original number.

If LC really wanted The Hills to remain a success, as she said before, then she better return to give it a boost.  Kristin Cavallari certainly isn't doing a good job, despite the massive flirting she's doing with everyone else's boyfriends.  There are just too many attempts to force drama on the show that it hardly works anymore.

Even the star herself has acknowledged how staged everything is.  Cavallari told the Los Angeles Times before her debut that her performance on The Hills is downright fake.

"I pretty much do anything they have me do because I don't care," she said.  "Everyone is trying to get story lines and create drama in their lives.  It's just so...fake.  There's no truth to it.  At all."

Well, now we don't have to wonder why everyone's been leaving The Hills - from the fans to the stars. Hopefully, the network also joins that bandwagon.



-Maria Gonzalez, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: E! Online, Medialife Magazine
(Image Courtesy of WENN)