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Created by
  
Narrated by
  
Chrissy Schwartz

First episode date
  
13 August 2007

Theme song
  
5.7/10
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7.3/10
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Starring
  
See below

Country of origin
  
Final episode date
  
2 January 2008

Network
  
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Genre
  
Reality televisionTeen drama

Opening theme
  
"Come Clean" by Hilary Duff

Cast
  
Clay Adler, Chrissy Schwartz, Mandy Burhoe, Savvy Burhoe

Similar
  
Laguna Beach: The Real Ora, The Hills, The City, The OC, Baldwin Hills

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Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County, often referred to simply as Newport Harbor, is an MTV reality television series, documenting the lives of several teenagers living in Newport Harbor, an affluent seaside community located in Orange County, California, United States. It differs from the usual reality show in that it is structured as a traditional narrative (seen more commonly in fictionalized television dramas or soap operas) than a straightforward observant documentary style.

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The series premiered on August 13, 2007 and concluded on January 2, 2008. The series was created as a successor to Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County to avoid cancelling the series for lack of a fourth season plotline. However, Newport Harbor proved to be unsuccessful and was cancelled after two seasons.

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Development

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Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County was initially developed as a documentary of teens living in the wealthy, beachside community of the same name. The first two seasons were successful, which led to the creation of the spin-off, The Hills, though the third season's ratings took a massive dip after the original cast left the series and was replaced by a set of current high school students.

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With a lack of interest in egg casting for the fourth season, MTV and the producers considered relocating, scouting numerous other wealthy Southern California towns, including San Marino, Anaheim Hills, Rancho Santa Fe, and Malibu before deciding to base the show in Newport Harbor, an area of the city of Newport Beach. This series was labeled a "love story show", since it seemed most of the series was based around Chrissy Schwartz and Clay Adler.

Cancellation

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MTV decided to pull the plug on Newport Harbor due to under-performance of ratings. The show was officially cancelled January 2, 2008.

Season 1

  1. Crush...Interrupted
  2. Pretty In Pink
  3. Thrill Of The Chase
  4. Sealed With A Kiss
  5. Shes Out, Im In?
  6. The 'V' Word
  7. You Are Not Replaceable
  8. Nothing's Going To Be The Same

Special bonus episode aired before Crush...Interrupted titled Get to Know the cast which lasted 12 minutes featuring all cast members apart from Sasha.

Season 2: Home For The Holidays

  1. Are We Or Aren't We?
  2. Caught In The Act
  3. It's O-V-E But Not R
  4. All I Want for Christmas...

Season 2, or aka "Home For The Holidays" is a special set of 4 episodes. The kids of Newport Harbor are returning home for the holidays from college. This is a special appearing for four weeks which means four new episodes of the cast coming home for Thanksgiving/Christmas break. This special showed Chrissy's new college life at UC Santa Barbara and her interactions with her newfound college friends and sorority sisters. People in college are a lot different from high school people and one college student in particular, named Billy has caught Chrissy's attention. Chrissy's long distance boyfriend Clay back in Newport Beach was starting to fade away gradually when she started to hang out with Billy more. Clay and Grant decided to do a surprise visit to Santa Barbara and attended a college party and caught Chrissy with Billy. After talking to Clay, both she and Clay have decided to take a break. However, upon returning for Thanksgiving Chrissy realized she regretted breaking up with Clay. In the last episode, Chrissy was able to win Clay's heart back and gain back his trust for good. These episodes are in fact depicted as Season 2 according to MTV. After only 2 seasons, the show was canceled.

DVD Release

The website Amazon.com had struck a deal with many companies to produce DVDs of certain shows, through the CreateSpace service. Using a concept similar to print on demand, Amazon made the discs, cover art, and disc art themselves. The complete series was released on Amazon's website on August 29, 2008, in a three disc set. Both seasons are also available for digital download on Itunes

References

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