'Real-Life Gossip Girl' Heads to Bravo

Like the rest of Season 6, finale was a bore

(NEWSER) - It was hard to care who won last night’s Project Runway season finale, but it was easy to say who lost: fans. The move to Lifetime—and, probably more important, the switch in production companies—proved disastrous for the once-brilliant reality show, Heather Havrilesky writes for Salon . “The story of Season 6 was that there was no story.” Either the contestants had no personalities or the producers did a terrible job finding them. More»

(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."

Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp premieres on Lifetime later this year

(NEWSER) - Bristol Palin will be back on the tube in her own reality TV show. It's called Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp and will premiere on Lifetime later this year, reports USA Today . The premise of the "docuseries" is to follow Bristol in Alaska as she "steadfastly moves forward both personally and professionally," notes New York's Vulture blog , adding, "Aw, man, just as she was fading from public consciousness." The network has ordered 10 half-hour episodes to start. More»

Ex-rapper's renovation show will run on DIY Network

(NEWSER) - Stop, collaborate, and set your DVRs. Ice is back with a second season of "The Vanilla Ice Project," a show on the DIY Network that stars the 44-year-old rapper as he renovates a run-down mansion in Palm Beach County, Florida. Returning on the heels of a hit first season, the peculiar home improvement show will run 13 episodes beginning tomorrow, reports AP . More»

We need to get these people mental health

(NEWSER) - The suicide of Real Housewives hubby Russell Armstrong ought to make us think twice about reality TV, which has become “the soft-bellied, 21st century American TV version of a gladiatorial contest,” writes Matt Zoller Seitz on Salon . “As your parents may have warned you, it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. People are getting hurt.” We don’t know for sure why Armstrong killed himself, but it’s hard to imagine being on a show like Housewives helped. More»