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John from Cincinnati Brings Luke Perry Back To Cali

Looks like Palm Springs won't have all the Television Travel fun. This Sunday, John from Cincinnati debuts on HBO, yet again blowing up the California tourism spot like The OC, The Hills and Laguna Beach before it. (And 90210 before them. Speaking of, we're thrilled that JFC brings Luke Perry back to Cali!)

Unlike Hidden Palms, the new HBO "surf noir" series will be set in Imperial Beach instead of the blazing desert oasis of Palm Springs--and we're ok with that. After all, any time surfers are on screen, it means hot bods, which is what we're watching TV for in the first place, right? (Prime example.)

Imperial Beach has a few spots that could become the next great travel pilgrimages, if the series doesn't tank. Says the local paper--the Eagle & Times-- the new Peach Pit will be called Beach & Beans:

Producer David Milch has used the shop regularly as a set for his new HBO series John from Cincinnati. Just like a character, the shop will have its own fictional name, Beach & Beans

We'll be eating yogurt parfaits until Luke comes to sweep us away on his longboard.

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Hidden Palms Gives Old Resort Town A Teen Makeover

Between the hipification of the Dinah Shore Weekend and the dehydrated hipsters of Coachella, Palm Springs looks poised to give The O.C. a run for its money as an oasis of California cool. (Hey, if our favorite world travelers have stayed there...) The mystique can only grow with last night's premiere of soapy CW teen drama "Hidden Palms," whose website proclaims, "Scandal. Suicide. Murder. Some towns get all the fun." The summer leftover even boasts two former featured guests on "The O.C." who apparently have been forced to move inland by the ghost of Marissa Cooper.

While the show is actually filmed on a soundstage in Phoenix, Arizona, Kimberly Pierceall of the SoCal-based paper the Press-Enterprise notes on PE.com's tourism blog that the reviews of "Hidden Palms" have so far reflected the popular conception of Palm Springs as a place past its prime, while local residents are concerned that audiences will take the fictional seamy underbelly of the show for plain truth.

Still, with Kevin "Dawson's Creek" Williamson at the helm of the show, maybe a new generation of partiers will make like Paris Hilton's granny and flock to the desert instead of the ocean. The New York Times has already tantalizingly described the show as "a sick world, but one for which you wouldn't mind having the swatches."

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