'Project Runway' Heads to Lifetime, Producers Stay with NBC

buddytv · 05-07-2008, 02:00 AM

Just last month, we watched helplessly as Lifetime snatched Project Runway from NBC/Bravo with a $150 million deal for the rights of the very successful fashion design reality series. While everyone assumed that the whole production is moving to Lifetime, NBC signed on Project Runway producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz to an exclusive contract for NBC Universal.

The producers from Magical Elves shall be developing scripted and unscripted shows exclusively for NBCU, which means that Lifestyle will have to put together their own team to handle Project Runway, once it begins with its new network later this year. Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are reported to stay on the show, but Nina Garcia and Michael Kors have not renewed any contracts as of the moment, despite reports that they are indeed moving to Lifetime.

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addictedtotv · 05-07-2008, 11:56 AM

What does this mean for Canadian viewers? Will it still be on slice?

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05-07-2008, 02:00 AM	#1
buddytv Administrator Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 11,778,730	Just last month, we watched helplessly as Lifetime snatched Project Runway from NBC/Bravo with a $150 million deal for the rights of the very successful fashion design reality series. While everyone assumed that the whole production is moving to Lifetime, NBC signed on Project Runway producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz to an exclusive contract for NBC Universal. The producers from Magical Elves shall be developing scripted and unscripted shows exclusively for NBCU, which means that Lifestyle will have to put together their own team to handle Project Runway, once it begins with its new network later this year. Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn are reported to stay on the show, but Nina Garcia and Michael Kors have not renewed any contracts as of the moment, despite reports that they are indeed moving to Lifetime. To read the rest, click here.

05-07-2008, 11:56 AM	#2
addictedtotv Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 46	What does this mean for Canadian viewers? Will it still be on slice?