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Runway Still Chic on Lifetime

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2009 1:28 PM CDT

(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

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