Bravo's Over Project Runway: It's All About The Artist ... And Rachel Zoe
Since Bravo's abandoning and/or sabotaging the Project Runway name as the network loses its biggest show to Lifetime - or at least it seems like they are: now the Wikipedia page is revealing the eliminations! - I've wondered which projects they actually will focus on.
Along with Top Design season two and The Rachel Zoe Project (what that project involves/who of her clients would ever appear on it, I'm not sure) Bravo officially announced the recently mole-less Sarah Jessica Parker-produced American Artist, a competition show for "aspiring contemporary artists who will create and compete in a range of disciplines including sculpture, painting, photography and industrial design."
More Bravo newbies and renewals after the jump...
More good news: Bravo will renew Make Me a Supermodel and Top Chef (this time set in NYC) ans will create a Top Chef spin-off, which sounds basically the same as its originator except it's only "world-renowned chefs."
In ... OK? news: The Real Housewives of New York City will be coming back, and a new show called Fashion House will join the fashion-y fam. I'm actually not sure what to expect from Fashion House; all I know is: "Teams of designers replicate the workings of the fashion business through a fashion house by designing an entire, cohesive line with the opportunity of having their line mass marketed."
Bravo's worried me in the past weeks with this Project Runway drama, but I need to have faith in the gay-rrific network, even without everyone's favorite show in its repertoire. Bravo knows what it's doing with these kinds of shows at this point ... but no Step It Up And Dance with Elizabeth Berkley season two?!
It sure seems like Bravo is trying to kill it... no message board thread, no assets, nothing. Thankfully we're still playing the last 2 game.
http://www.last2left.com/whatsinplay/project-runway-5
Posted by: Halle | July 22, 2008 at 08:03 AM