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Dear Lifetime,
I have another humble suggestion for Project Runway Season 9... a "Wild Card" competition.
It could happen like this:
The designers are narrowed down to the top three and these three are guaranteed spots in the finale, but before sending them home to create their collections there is a little twist.
The eliminated designers receive a note asking them to meet Heidi and Tim and the finalists on the runway. Heidi announces that they are ALL going home to create collections. They all receive a budget and plenty of time to create their looks. (In my scenario, they go home in July and have until January to create their collections for the February show.) When they all come back for fashion week, the eliminated designers present three looks to the judges and the judges select a "Wild Card" designer for the fourth spot in the finale.
The Wild Card designer is not a decoy but is eligible for the win and receives the same options (models, stylists, etc.) as the regular finalists.
I believe this would be good for everyone - the designers, the fans, the show, the judges, and the network.
Click here to continue.
Dear Lifetime,
I have another humble suggestion for Project Runway Season 9... a "Wild Card" competition.
It could happen like this:
The designers are narrowed down to the top three and these three are guaranteed spots in the finale, but before sending them home to create their collections there is a little twist.
The eliminated designers receive a note asking them to meet Heidi and Tim and the finalists on the runway. Heidi announces that they are ALL going home to create collections. They all receive a budget and plenty of time to create their looks. (In my scenario, they go home in July and have until January to create their collections for the February show.) When they all come back for fashion week, the eliminated designers present three looks to the judges and the judges select a "Wild Card" designer for the fourth spot in the finale.
The Wild Card designer is not a decoy but is eligible for the win and receives the same options (models, stylists, etc.) as the regular finalists.
I believe this would be good for everyone - the designers, the fans, the show, the judges, and the network.
Click here to continue.
Project Runway is my favorite show and I will watch it until the very last episode, however I would like to respectfully submit several suggestions that might possibly improve things in the future:
1. Production: Please bring in a new production team. I would like to suggest Rich Bye. He's the man who brought the magic to the Magical Elves and now he has his own production company called Goodbye Pictures. You might already know him...
I'd also like to suggest Tim Gunn as Executive Producer. Tim knows and cares more about Project Runway than anyone else. He is the heart of the show. The fans adore and respect him. Perhaps he should have more input and decision-making power.
Also the show really only needs 60 minutes. A tightly-edited 60-minute show would be great.
If you are interested in a new 30-minute show I would like to suggest a show that follows Mondo Guerra as he moves to Los Angeles, deals with his new-found fame and meets prospective clients etc. I would watch that.
Click here to continue.
Project Runway is my favorite show and I will watch it until the very last episode, however I would like to respectfully submit several suggestions that might possibly improve things in the future:
1. Production: Please bring in a new production team. I would like to suggest Rich Bye. He's the man who brought the magic to the Magical Elves and now he has his own production company called Goodbye Pictures. You might already know him...
I'd also like to suggest Tim Gunn as Executive Producer. Tim knows and cares more about Project Runway than anyone else. He is the heart of the show. The fans adore and respect him. Perhaps he should have more input and decision-making power.
Also the show really only needs 60 minutes. A tightly-edited 60-minute show would be great.
If you are interested in a new 30-minute show I would like to suggest a show that follows Mondo Guerra as he moves to Los Angeles, deals with his new-found fame and meets prospective clients etc. I would watch that.
Click here to continue.
Lifetime is getting the full episodes posted much earlier this season! Click here to watch Episode 2, "Larger Than Life". Look for it also On Demand with your local cable provider.
Project Runway again was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Reality - Competition Program. Congratulations to Lifetime, The Weinstein Company, Miramax Films, Bunim-Murray Productions and Full Picture for this honor. Congrats also go to Heidi Klum who was again nominated in the Outstanding Host For A Reality Or Reality-Competition Program. You can click here for all of the nominees and you can watch the award ceremony August 29th at 8 PM Eastern on NBC.
First, here is a great photo of Nick Verreos and Rami Kashou at the GLAAD Media Awards Presentation in Los Angeles on April 26th.
The New York Observer weighs in on Project Runway's move to Lifetime.
The Miami Herald reports from Jay McCarroll's appearance. Don't miss the slide show.
Tim Gunn and Bravo President Lauren Zalaznick will be among the panelists discussing "What We Watch" on Sunday, May 4th at Sunday With The Magazine in NYC. Click here for more info.
Cheetah Girl Adrienne Bailon wearing a Rami Kashou design - also at the US Weekly "Hot in Hollywood" event. Cute shoes!
There are a couple of interesting items in this release from Variety.
First, Season Five on Bravo will be 14 episodes. That's nice to know... BUT - the five-year deal with Lifetime includes 28 episodes per year for a total of 140! Two seasons per year, BPRs. Fall and Spring Fashion Weeks perhaps?
Team BPR will have to increase the budget for travel expenses....
Here is the really long run-on sentence describing this: "Any matching would be convoluted because the Lifetime deal encompasses not only 140 future episodes of "Runway" (28 a year over the five-year length of the contract) but 70 Weinstein movies, and two more 14-episode reality series: a half-hour spinoff called "The Models of Project Runway" and "Project Pygmalion," a career-makeover show in which an average woman goes through a training drill with experts and consultants to learn about a discipline she aspires to pursue."
Meanwhile, the latest Ninaville gossip from Jezebel. I'm actually kind of hurt that I haven't observed any of this on BPR. It wasn't long ago that Nina appeared on a talk show (I think it was Larry King) and when asked, declared that she didn't read blogs.
Check out Nina's take on Spring trends here at Flypaper.
Advertising Age magazine has posted a very interesting article concerning the Bravo/Lifetime kerfluffle and its impact on the corporate sponsors. Lots of juicy details, but this one really jumped out at us:A Saturn spokesman told Ad Age, "We're definitely a major sponsor of Season Five, which is in production and will run on Bravo this fall." He could not confirm their plans for the move to Lifetime.Season 5 to run in the fall? That's news to us and further questions Lifetime's announcement of a November premiere for Season 6. Assuming that the Magical Elves could somehow pull this off, could we really be faced with the prospect of two new seasons running concurrently on competing cable channels?More news from this piece:...a Bravo spokesperson confirmed all of Season Four's integrated sponsors -- Elle Magazine, L'Oreal Paris, Alberto-Culver's Tresemme, Saturn and Bluefly.com -- will be returning for Season Five.There is much more in this article, including specific advertising revenue figures. Did you know Top Chef pulls in more ad revenue than Project Runway?Click here for the whole thing.
