Is Nashville ready for its own version of "The Hills?"

Well, ready or not, here comes "Music City."

The new TV "docu-series" will premiere on CMT in early 2018. It was created by Adam Divello, who was behind MTV's smash hits "Laguna Beach" and "The Hills."

Like those shows, "Music City" appears to blur the lines between reality TV and soap opera.

The eight-episode series was filmed in Nashville and will follow "a group of young emerging artists chasing their dreams of success in the music industry, while struggling to balance their personal lives and relationships."

This isn't the first time CMT has given a hit MTV show a southern makeover. "Party Down South" was the network's answer to "Jersey Shore," for example.

"Music City" arrives four years after a brief wave of Nashville-centered reality TV shows: TNT's "The Private Lives of Nashville Wives," A&E's "Crazy Hearts: Nashville" and Lifetime's "Chasing Nashville." None found a substantial audience or lasted more than one season.

"Music City" has a key advantage, however: it will premiere alongside the sixth season of CMT's "Nashville," which returns with new episodes in January.