Heidi Pratt's had babies on the brain as of late, and soon, the would-be mom will be swapping spots with another on-air personality who's ready for the miracle of birth. Yep, while Elisabeth Hasselbeck's out on maternity leave, the Hillzie will be one of several celebs taking a turn as guest-co-host on The View!

+ Think Heids will do a good job filling in for the show's resident right-winger? Take the poll and tell us whether this Hills gal can hold her own next to industry vet Barbara Walters, plus mark your calendars: Pratt will be joining the View crew on Thursday, Oct. 1!

This week's episode of The City confronts some pretty serious relationship issues. All that stuff about trust hit a little close to home: Barbara Walters has been kind of distant lately. She comes home in the wee hours of the night, and she's always so vague about what she's been up to. It's getting hard to ignore the tell-tale signs: lipstick on her collar, mysterious phone numbers scrawled on cocktail napkins and the lingering smell of Axe "Dark Temptation" body spray (I use "Instinct.") Bottom line: I feel for you, Whitney and Allie.

If you love that drama, you'll love the MTV insider secret I just got my hands on, which I'm sharing on tonight's Detox: We're premiering a brand new spin-off of The City! That's right, although some of the faces have changed and all the people have been replaced with talking cakes, the high-tension drama you've known and loved is bigger and better! I also heard that one troublesome character from The City shows up later on in the season to stir up trouble! (SPOILER ALERT: Judgmental Cat may or may not eat one of the new characters -- tune into Detox to find out!)

Also remember to catch Detox tomorrow night when I'll be recapping From G's to Gents and T.I.s Road to Redemption with a little help from rapper MIMS. See ya there!

Sometimes when life gives you lemons, you have to get pink eye. What?? Let me explain!

Things got pretty real on this week's wacky (and at times, thanks to Ryan's "Tampon Song," unhygienic) episode of the RW: Brooklyn. Originally we'd planned for an awesome band to come by and visit me in the United States of Detox, but unfortunately their green cards were out of order and they were denied passports to my land of fun and magic. (In other words, they had car trouble.) Fortunately, the Gods of Awesome blessed us in the form of a visit from Pink Eyes, singer of the great Matador Records' band F**ked Up! (They might be banned by MTV Canada, but MTV Detox isn't chicken sh*t like our neighbors to the north.) So not only did we write IMHO the best song of 2009 (in your face, Animal Collective!) but we also had one of the most fun Detox shoots yet. Thanks to one of our writers, Adam Baran, for making it all possible! Weeee!

We were also introduced to some new, great anthropomorphisized characters because sometimes talking to cardboard cutouts just isn't enough. Shout out to super P.A. Adam Murphy for contorting his body into the Machine costume. He may have complained about how uncomfortable it was, but he was the one to design it. Just sayin'.

Speaking of cutouts, my dear friend Barbara Walters (channeling Devyn from this week's episode of Real World) introduced me to THE BFF-O-METER! A BFF-o-meter, for those who don't know, is a useful tool when one needs to measure the proximity of intimacy between friends. Kind of like a mood-ring but for buddies.

Anyway, that's enough talk from me. Check out tonight's MTV Detox for drama, excitement and, oh yeah, the world premiere of the brand new single: Pink Eyes + Jim Cantiello's "Sanitary Napkin!"

+ American Idol producers seem to think "America loves Paula [Abdul]." We'd argue, if we weren't so soul-crushingly apathetic. (Damn you, Seinfeld, damn you!) (TV Watch)

+ Meanwhile, British children have voted: and they think Simon Cowell's even more famous than God! We'd be willing to bet he's infinitely more recognizable, too. (TV Squad)

+ Breaking: Lipstick Jungle isn't officially canceled yet! Which means there's still at LEAST two more episodes to ogle that hot twentysomething Kirby fellow who never, ever wears a shirt. (E! Online)

+ Good news, ATL lovers! Bravo has just picked up The Real Housewives of Atlanta for a second groundbreaking season. Bring on the crazy! (Usmagazine.com)

+ The Today Show copies Barbara Walters does something completely new and unexpected and offers up their own picks for the 10 Most Fascinating People Top 5 People of 2008. (Psst...our money's still on Obama). (E! Online)

• How I Met Your Mother star Alyson Hannigan is about to be a mommy! She and her husband, Alexis Denisof, are expecting their first beh beh. Wait, is anyone else thinking spinoff? (Usmagazine.com)

• Bill O'Reilly will not go quietly into the night. The tv pundit just signed on for four more years of Fox News. (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Meanwhile, Bill also found time to swing by The View, just in time to see his fellow right-winger Elisabeth Hasselbeck get slammed by Barbara Walters for showing up to work in a John McCain t-shirt. (Jezebel)

• Lance Bass thinks the Dancing With The Stars judges were way harsh in their critique of his (amahzing!) partner, Lacey Schwimmer. Gawd, it's like they've never seen an episode of So You Think You Can Dance, or something! (TV Watch)

•: Tina Fey to get the Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair treatment once again. We're thinking she should go for the patented Miley Cy-in-a-bed-sheet look this time. (Radar)