'The City' Canceled?

Canceled or not canceled? That has been the question for viewers patiently awaiting season three of "The City." The series' star, designer Whitney Port, called into Ryan Seacrest's radio show on Monday and revealed: "As of right now it doesn't really look like we're doing it anymore." When asked if the show was moving to another network, Port said no, remarking, "I'm working on some other things, but it's okay, one door closes and another opens."

The Cut has a breakdown of the pros and the cons of "The City's" cancelation. From the "People This News Is Good For" column:

• Elle magazine as a whole, which will no longer look silly for fake-employing a socialite who does no work and lacks a basic understanding of how offices operate.
  
• The publishing industry, which no longer has "The City" going around as a "real-life model" of how the business is run. "City" myths, like the one in which magazine websites have "faces" appointed through a series of arbitrary contests and announced in staff meetings to applause and fanfare, can now be busted.
  
• Olivia Palermo, who now has the chance to position herself as someone much more likable than her character and who can actually enunciate her words in the presence of other people.

And who is it bad for? The Cut names Whitney herself, her former roommate Roxy and Erin Kaplan (who should get a spin-off).

What do you think?

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Comments

[Max Shaw]

03:58 PM on 10/26/2010

Damn it! I thought they were canceling Gossip Girl...I despise these 'Teen' dramathons they have on every channel now...But they can cancel this one too..Wont lose sleep over it.

[truth67]

11:28 AM on 10/26/2010

i like Whitney

[cynddii1]

11:19 AM on 10/26/2010

I AM JUST SOOO SOOO SAD THAT THE CITY IS ENDING! :( I had been waiting for the next season to start again and to hear this, just breaks my heart! I REALLY LOVED THIS SHOW.. And as for those people that are quick to judge as soon as you hear that it is was a reality show, just remember that not all shows are created equal, and for your info, Whitney went to fashion school. So she knows her stuff. She just happened to have been working at the same place where Lauren was an intern while filming the hills and that is how MTV became interested in her. Who would if offered the chance, say no to your own show??!!! Come on.. I LOVE WHITNEY! She is different and I am just too sad that her show is ending! :(

[GonzoLoungeLizard]

08:52 AM on 10/26/2010

Olivia, give me a call if you want a job ;)

[wolfiegirl]

08:49 AM on 10/26/2010

OH NO!!

[NevaforLeadership]

07:46 AM on 10/26/2010

Don't watch TV.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:33 AM on 10/26/2010

The only things close to being real on that show is Whitney's sweet nature and Olivia's b!tchy attitude

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:34 AM on 10/26/2010

*are

[plusszdiva]

02:25 AM on 10/26/2010

This show is insult to people that are in fashion. As a fashion design student I can't stand how this show perpetrated "how easy" it is to break into the fashion business. I'm glad it got cancels maybe if Whitney Port can learn what an actual muslin is she wouldn't come out looking like such a ditz.

[Barbie and Ken forever]

03:34 AM on 10/26/2010

LOL

[westphilly726]

09:21 AM on 10/26/2010

LOL

[Hardyman1966]

12:38 AM on 10/26/2010

I must be doing something right, as I had to look up what and where this show is (was).

For 2 years already, is it? :)

[RogerHWerner]

12:07 AM on 10/26/2010

Sorry but I've never heard of the program. In fact, with the exception of Elle magazine I can't say I've ever hear of anything mentioned in the discussion above. The show seems rather silly and a waste of time. Why would anyone give a care about any of these people?

[Trickery]

09:21 PM on 10/25/2010

Maybe this just isn't the right time and atmosphere for the show. I admit I've seen the end of the first and the whole second season and it's great TV stuff people can watch without thinking of their own lives. It's fantasy when you don't want to think about reality. People save the real world..... (bleh) for a show like True Life when they want to see real people with real issues. Fantasy has made people like the Kardashians famous, in reality, we know what they are and famous isn't it :/

[nomadsborker]

10:52 PM on 10/25/2010

Sorry, but shows like this only further dumb down the populace. There is absolutely no value in shoes like this.

[nomadsborker]

10:53 PM on 10/25/2010

or "shows" either. Their shoes are actually nice.

[Uptolatekkate]

08:46 PM on 10/25/2010

Olivia v. Erin was the entire show.

[baileywick]

08:34 PM on 10/25/2010

Three lovely girls with nothing on their minds.

[Nicole Wisen]

08:00 PM on 10/25/2010

As someone who is glued to the TV, I never watched a single episode or had any interest in doing so. I watch a lot of trash tv, guilty pleasure stuff- never had any interest in something that is clearly fake. Like The Hills- which people used to follow religiously "is is or isn't it fake", while all the people on the show were making money and laughing all the way to the bank. These rich girls are rich enough already without making money off another audience they take for fools.

[Uptolatekkate]

08:47 PM on 10/25/2010

Sooo, you're a trash tv-aholic, who prefers ugly poor people.
OK!

[holyghostie]

07:22 PM on 10/25/2010

There are enough fake people in or around publishing without introducing fictional characters.