Snappy newsletters. Simple Facebook sharing. Spirited comments. Sweet features are waiting… GET THEM NOW!

Hot on Facebook
Guy Buys $123 Safe on eBay, Finds $26,000 Inside Seller tries to get half the cash back, fails »

Runway Still Chic on Lifetime

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2009 1:28 PM CDT
Email

(Newser) – Project Runway is back after an interminable absence on a new network in a new city, but critics agree the fashion design reality show has kept all its charm intact.

  • PR has "hopped channels from Bravo to Lifetime with none of its appeal damaged in transit," Troy Patterson writes on Slate. And the move from NYC to LA has the show "cultivating an US Weekly populism and making its take on the grammar of chic more approachable."

  • "Project Runway chez Lifetime is the same show we've been obsessed with since 2004," Missy Schwartz writes in Entertainment Weekly. "Though yes, the commercial breaks were packed with a greater number of birth control and tampon commercials than we ever saw on Bravo, no? Gotta know your audience!"
  • The premiere "was, frankly, fairly forgettable," James Poniewozik writes in Time, but amid all the shuffle, thank God, Tim Gunn is still there. " With him, the show is sweet where it could be melodramatic, sly where it could be broad, witty where it could be too-clever-by-half."

Heidi Klum.
Heidi Klum.   (AP Photo)
Tim Gunn.
Tim Gunn.   (AP Photo)
The new cast of Project Runway.
The new cast of Project Runway.   (AP Photo)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
To report an error on this story, notify our editors.
A snapshot of the day's best news stories.
 
COMMENTS
Showing 1 of 1 comment
youngblood
Aug 21, 2009 6:42 AM CDT
You always know when this show is in trouble because Heidi Klum then wears shorter skirts and poses with her legs wider apart...I hope the show has a troubled season!

 
television • reality TV • Los Angeles • Heidi Klum • Bravo • Project Runway • fashion designer • Lifetime • tech review • Tim Gunn

More Newser Stories

Project Runway Limps to Season's End

NBC Releases Project Runway to Lifetime

Networks Wrangle Over Project Runway

Off-Screen Bickering Spoils Project Runway

NBC Stalls Runway, Readies Copycat
NEWS FROM OUR PARTNERS
Other Sites We Like:   24/7 Wall St.   |   Betty Confidential   |   BuzzFeed   |   Cracked   |   Fark   |   Timelines   |   The Frisky   |   Geek Sugar   |   NewsOne