Project Runway moving to Lifetime channel

[MonkeyFunk]

http://tv.yahoo.com/show/36319/news/urn:newsml:tv.eonline.com:20080407:3b134fad_bdd848f9_a2e6_89c12bef0c28__ER:77798


Project Runway Shocker
By Joal Ryan
Mon Apr 7, 7:33 AM PDT

No one said the fashion world was boring.

In a major TV shakeup, Project Runway will say auf Wiedersehen to Bravo and jump to cable rival Lifetime, it was announced Monday.

NBC Universal, which owns Bravo, responded swiftly to the defection with a lawsuit, according to Lifetime and the Weinstein Co., which produces Project Runway. The suit was noted, if buried, in the two companies' joint press release trumpeting the programming coup.

[philosophie_en_rose]

1. That's terrible.

I like my pseudo-fancy reality shows on one channel.

And I can't believe Tim Gunn would be seen on Lifetime.

[dropkickpa]

2. They're gonna ruin it

They'll chase out the "gay", make it less interesting, and then I'll have to slit my wrists.

[MonkeyFunk]

3. this is really gonna fuck up Bravo's plan

to gayify the airwaves.

[MissMillie]

4. I don't think they will chase out the "gay"

After all, they have that show w/ Carson from Queer Eye, and that's LOADED w/ gay.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. Yeah, but

Bravo just turned me gay. Lifetime might turn me into a woman! :cry:

[MissMillie]

7. You should rejoice in that

After all, no one every wrote a song "I enjoy being a man"


LOL

[MonkeyFunk]

8. I'll miss my doodle

:cry:

[siligut]

9. You'll miss your doodle?

:spray: :rofl:

[MissMillie]

10. yeah, well, as Elaine on Seinfeld once said

"I don't know how you guys walk around w/ those things..."

[MonkeyFunk]

16. Walking around with 'em isn't much of a problem

but sometimes ya gotta be careful when ya sit.

[LynneSin]

13. I don't think Lifetime Channel for Women and Gay Men would do that

That's what one of my gay friends calls the Lifetime channel - he watches it all the time

[dropkickpa]

15. Change BAAAAAAAADDDDDD!

Fire burn Thog!

[MonkeyFunk]

17. Yeah, but before

if I didn't bother to change the channel, I could at least watch a top chef rerun for the 10th time. Now I'm afraid I'll have to watch a Meredith Baxter movie about vaginal polio.

[graywarrior]

6. I saw that yesterday and was so distraught I couldn't say anything

Thanks for posting. Lifetime. Sheesh.

[WinkyDink]

11. Lifetime is too hausfrau-associated; this is a mistake.

[Shine]

12. Hmm...I wonder what's up with that? Are they at least finishing out the season on Bravo?

:shrug:
weird.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. I think they're doing one more season on Bravo

they're casting it now. Then next season it moves to Lifetime.

[KamaAina]

14. Why don't they just move all those shows to "The Reality Channel"

and then not carry The Reality Channel? :shrug:

[MonkeyFunk]

19. Cuz then I wouldn't see my gay daddy Tim Gunn!

[AngryOldDem]

20. Oh God. Not Lifetime.

That network has got to be the biggest waste of broadcast space ever. Let me guess -- will the models now have to portray Women In Jep as they walk down the runway, and will all the men now have to be unapologetic, mysogynist assholes?

Good luck to Bravo and Universal with the suit.