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NEWS ABOUT: Bravo

Bravo stories: 13 news summaries
tv review

 Project Runway 
 Limps to Season's End 

Like the rest of Season 6, finale was a bore

Nov 20, 09 2:19 PM CST
(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 . “... More »

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entertainment • television • reality TV • fashion • Heidi Klum • Bravo • Project Runway • Lifetime • Tim Gunn • Project Runway review

 Real Housewives 
 Spawns Fashion Line 

Plus, NeNe Leakes calls out co-star Kim Zolciak for stealing her song

Sep 18, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Not sure what to wear as you lounge around in your fancy house, engaging in catfights with your neighbors while your reality TV show's cameras roll? Never fear: The Real Housewives fashion line hits a store near you this fall. The collection, inspired by Bravo’s franchise, will consist... More »

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entertainment • reality TV • fashion • cable TV • Bravo • fashion label • Real Housewives of New York City • Real Housewives of New Jersey • reality shows • Real Housewives of Atlanta • NeNe Leakes • Kim Zolciak

TV REVIEW

 Runway Still Chic on Lifetime 


Aug 21, 09 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 in transit,"
... More »

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

Real Housewife's Dark Past Comes to Light

Danielle Staub has a felony on her record

Jun 8, 09 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - The shocking reveal is a reality-TV staple, and The Real Housewives of New Jersey has a doozy—cast member Danielle Staub has a criminal past. Even on a show that trades in bad taste, Staub sticks out for being its first felon, reports the New York Post. In last week's... More »

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FBI • extortion • Bravo • Real Housewives of New Jersey • Danielle Staub

opinion

Off-Screen
Bickering Spoils Project Runway

No designers at Friday's finale as 6th season stuck in court

Feb 19, 09 1:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Cattiness on Project Runway is part of the show's distinctive flavor, but it's legal wrangling between networks and producers that has kept the whole 6th season off the air. As a result, the finale, a live event tomorrow at New York Fashion Week, will be completely anonymous: Designers will be... More »

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reality TV • NBC Universal • Harvey Weinstein • Fashion Week • Bravo • Project Runway • The Weinstein Company • Lifetime

(Newser) - Bravo is making a reality show focused on New York private school students that insiders are calling a “real-life Gossip Girl,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. The show will employ the format used in webisodes the network produced featuring kids from its hit The Real Housewives ... More »

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television • reality TV • Manhattan • Bravo • Gossip Girl

TV REVIEW

 Costello Show 
 Peeks Into 
 Rockers' Heads 

New talk show is heaven for music obsessives

Dec 3, 08 1:27 PM CST
(Newser) - On most talk shows, musical guests are relegated to the end of the program, with only a word or two of interview after a performance. But this week Bravo is premiering a new talk show hosted by Elvis Costello that takes another tack: It places musicians front and center, chatting... More »

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Elton John • Bill Clinton • talk show • Bravo • Lou Reed • Elvis Costello

 NBC Stalls 
 Runway, 
 Readies 
 Copycat 

Lifetime switch stalled as Bravo launches Fashion House

Oct 24, 08 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - NBC is using its legal muscle to keep Project Runway from airing on Lifetime while it launches a copycat show on its Bravo channel, reports the New York Post's Page Six. Details about Fashion House in Cragslist casting calls make it sound like a replica of the fashion original.... More »

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reality TV • fashion • NBC • Bravo • Project Runway • Lifetime • Fashion House

 Bravo Adds Parker's 
 Reality Art Show 

SATC star to produce Runway-style competition

Jul 21, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bravo has picked up a Project Runway-style reality art show produced by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, the Hollywood Reporter writes. American Artist is slated to feature competition between up-and-comers in varying media; it will be co-produced by Magical Elves, the skill-driven reality TV experts behind Top ... More »

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reality TV • art • Sarah Jessica Parker • Bravo • Project Runway • Top Chef

ANALYSIS

 Can Bravo Survive
 Award-Show Malaise? 

As network launches first ever awards show into a crowded market

Jun 12, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though 2008 has seen awards shows take an historic battering in the ratings, Bravo will try to reverse the trend tonight with the launch of its own contender. The A-List Awards—centered on fashion, food, and design and hosted by in-house celeb Kathy Griffin—might take a similar ratings hit... More »

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television • celebrity • award show • Bravo • A-list Awards

OPINION

 Networks Wrangle 
 Over Project Runway 

Show's switch is Buffy all over again

Apr 14, 08 12:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - The upcoming switch of the smash hit Project Runway from Bravo to Lifetime could be Buffy the Vampire Slayer all over again, Andrew Wallenstein writes in the Hollywood Reporter. Buffy's switch from the WB to UPN "spelled the death knell for a once-mighty brand." Meanwhile, Bravo parent... More »

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reality TV • Walt Disney Co. • ABC • NBC Universal • Disney • Heidi Klum • Bravo • Project Runway • Scrubs • Lifetime

Housewives
Get Sweaty for
'Work Out' Star

Women love lesbian trainer's savvy, abs,
and Bravo show

Apr 13, 08 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jackie Warner seems unlikely to spark suburban housewife crushes. And yet the star of Bravo’s “Work Out,” about the lesbian trainer’s elite Los Angeles gym, is much-loved by straight ladies. “I have women that send me photos of themselves with their husbands and three teenage... More »

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reality TV • lesbians • Los Angeles • homosexuality • fitness • Bravo • bisexual • Work Out • Jackie Warner

NBC Looks to TiVo to Help Sell Clients

Network is hoping to corral ad zappers by tapping DVR data

Nov 27, 07 12:22 PM CST
(Newser) - NBC Universal will begin using viewership data gleaned from TiVo digital video recorders beginning in January, making it the first of the major networks to have access to second-by-second ratings of programming and commercials from TiVo, reports the Wall Street Journal. The network hopes TiVo will help it develop effective... More »

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television • NBC • NBC Universal • commercials • Telemundo • DVR • Nielsen Ratings • TiVo • Nielsen Media Research • Bravo

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