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"  Just as ABC&amp;#039;s Desperate Housewives and The O.C. gave way to Bravo&amp;#039;s wildly popular The Real Housewives franchise, the network&amp;#039;s newest documentary series, NYC Prep, trails the true exploits of privileged Manhattan youth, cribbing from the CW&amp;#039;s cult-fave teen drama Gossip Girl. On the surface, NYC Prep, airing June 23, and its lineup will sound eerily familiar to fans of the fictional Upper East Siders: There&amp;#039;s Camille, who unabashedly declares, in a true Blair Waldorf\u2013ian manner, that her family is among the richest one-half of one percent of Americans; and there&amp;#039;s also PC, whose scarf/blazer combos (not to mention ladies&amp;#039;-man status) are truly a nod to Chuck Bass. But the show&amp;#039;s Madison Avenue shopping sprees, dating dramas transcribed via BlackBerry, and love-to-hate teens (who give us lines like these: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s important to be perceived to have, like, status and money&amp;quot;) are real, and produce such jaw-dropping, hand-over-mouth TV, it goes down like junk food but feels so sociologically satisfying you can&amp;#039;t help but indulge. And yet, it&amp;#039;s not all guilty-pleasure story lines. On Prep, Bravo manages to do what it did best with its Housewives series: Show the dark side of immeasurable wealth. Sure, we would have gladly swapped soda-fueled basement hangouts for fashion week parties, but not necessarily for the lives of Kelli and her brother, who live alone in their UES apartment because their parents seem to prefer the Hamptons to them. Prep makes public school alums realize fancy uniforms and disposable cash don&amp;#039;t necessarily build character in still-maturing adolescents. But it does make for TV-worthy characters. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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