‘Project Runway’ Season 6 Delayed Until 2009
Entertainment Weekly magazine is reporting that the 6th season of Project Runway, the first at its new network Lifetime TV, is being delayed for a few months and instead of rushing to premiere this year in November has decided to premiere next January to fit in with the regular Project Runway yearly TV season schedule:
In a surprise development, Lifetime has confirmed that it won’t debut the sixth season of Project Runway until January so it has more time to promote the show that it swiped from Bravo last spring. It had been expected the show would debut on its new network sometime this autumn. “With this move, the series will resume its traditional cycle of two seasons per year,” according to a Lifetime spokeperson. “We look forward to ringing in the New Year by giving Project Runway loyal fans a superlative season six with Heidi, Tim, Nina, and Michael. The new date and time will be announced soon.” The news comes as a lawsuit over the rights to Project Runway continues to wind its way through the New York courts … One source familiar with the lawsuit believes the delay (the show had been set to debut sometime in late fall) has less to do with the ongoing litigation and more to do with Lifetime’s inability to get the production together for an autumn start. Bunim-Murray Productions, the company behind The Real World, is now producing Runway since Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Magical Elves left the show when it moved networks. A Lifetime insider, however, says production is on schedule and the new cycle has already been cast.
As much as I was really looking forward to having 3 seasons of Project Runway all in the same year (season 4 aired earlier this year, season 5 is currently airing now and season 6 would’ve begun airing in November, according to reports) I think this is a smart move. More time to promote the show on Lifetime’s part is very integral to the success of the migration. I wish I could believe that the new cycle “has already been cast” but I’m not sure about that. I’m also very worried that Bunim-Murray Productions is taking over … no offense to them but they’ve been in this biz for so long, I doubt they will be able to come up with a fresh new look for the show. At best, I think they’re gonna just try to copy the look created by Magical Elves Productions … which isn’t a good thing necessarily. In the end, tho, more time means more chance that they will somehow get “it” right. Here’s hoping …
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September 6th, 2008 at 9:57 am
no! the same people who brought the Road Rules/Real World sersies into our lives?! I don’t see this going well.
September 6th, 2008 at 9:58 am
SERIES not sersies. sorry :-P
September 6th, 2008 at 10:02 am
my bf just got hired by bunim-murray to help log footage for next season…maybe i can use this as an excuse to get him to watch the show with me to “study” up on the original style, haha!
September 6th, 2008 at 10:52 am
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September 6th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Yesterday, at Michael’s Crafts, I spotted Project Runway
paper dolls and designing projects. It was really, really hard to tear myself away considering my daughter is 23 and out grew paper dolls a loooong time ago!
September 6th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
WHAT? I’m getting those now!!!
They should come out with a talking Tim Gun doll.
“Make it work!” “Don’t bore Nina.” “Holla at ya boy…?”
I can’t imagine PR on Lifetime and in Los Angeles. It will be definitely different for sure. Praying for the best.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
I live in downtown LA, and there has been buzz about this on the downtown blogs…
It seems like the building they want to use to house the contestants (the EVO building that is also being featured on the show “Hardhats” on the National Geographic channel) just isn’t done being built yet. The producers were scrambling to find another building, but doesn’t look like they did.
Not making sure the building you want to film in is done being built: big oops.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Production for Project Runway is taking place at FIDM in downtown LA.