''Living Lahaina'' is an American

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. The series, filmed over a three-month period on location in

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(on the island of

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), focused on a group of twenty-something surf instructors and their father-figure-boss at the Royal Hawaiian Surf Academy. ''Living Lahaina'' also followed cast members throughout travels to

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, and

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. ''Living Lahaina'' premiered on April 17, 2007, on

and was scheduled to run for eight episodes.

(2007)
Living Lahaina
(html). MTV. Retrieved on 2007-04-27. However, only 3 episodes were shown on MTV. Following the style of MTV's '' Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County'', '' The Hills'', and '' Maui Fever'', ''Living Lahaina'' was shot in the format of a scripted television show (rather than in the style of a traditional reality show or documentary). Cast members did not speak directly to the camera. Instead, the show made use of a ''

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'' style voice-over narrative periodically throughout each episode, to give background or sum up storylines.

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