Project Runway on Lifetime? Let’s think long and hard about this
Posted by Dan
April 9th, 2008 at 11:55am
In Project Runway
The following post is in the form of a letter to God. I apologize to all those who take issue with my use of the Almighty while tackling the issue of cable reality television.
Dear God,
Are you there? It’s me, Dan.
I know that things have been weird between us for a while, but I was wondering why you pulled this latest shenanigan with Project Runway.
There are certain things that I know to be true. Orange and chocolate will always be a delicious combination. Wearing a white belt is never a good idea unless you are either extremely gay or extremely European. And Project Runway was meant to be on Bravo. It’s just a fact.
I mean, Bravo was nothing until Project Runway came on. It was the network that had snoozey art movies and Inside the Actor’s Studio — which is still only tolerable in small doses (if it’s still on, which I’m not completely convinced of).
But now you’ve gone and moved it to Lifetime — a move that I find both perplexing and mildly offensive. Very mildly.
First of all, there’s a difference between Lifetime and networks like We and Oxygen. Oxygen is fun for Roseanne reruns and vaguely girl-centric television. Lifetime is for Meredith Baxter-Birney-loving middle-aged ladies who like to watch movies about mistreated wives, missing children and miracle babies. I can’t imagine that people are going to easily make the transfer to Lifetime.
Perhaps, though the network is going to try to reinvent itself as the New Bravo. After all, it has that show Gay, Straight or Taken that I can’t be bothered to research whether it is still on or not (doubt it). I just don’t necessarily feel like making room in my life for another gay man/single gal TV network. Bravo was, frankly, filling that void quite amply.
So, God — back to you — could you just make NBC’s lawsuit work and bring Project Runway back to Bravo. It only makes sense. Then, we can all get back to our old lives.
Talk to you soon,
DAN
P.S. — Thanks for whiskey and puppies.
It will never be the same.
Haven’t you heard? Meredith Baxter divorced Birney. I wonder how Alex P. Keaton feels about it.
I think I read that Bravo only had a verbal agreement with the Weinstein Company regarding Project Runway. Legally binding or not, that is fucking stupid and whether he had anything do with it or not I’m blaming Ben Silverman. Who in their right fucking mind makes a verbal agreement with Harvey Weinstein about anything more important than cab fare? Jesus. They almost deserve to get screwed. But we don’t.
Oxygen has Bridezillas; if the show were going there maybe the designers could make over some of those shrieking hags. That I would watch.
I actually read that NBC thought Project Runway was too big for Bravo but not big enough for NBC so they were thinking about moving it to USA Network! I dunno which move is worse, PR to Lifetime or PR to USA. Maybe Bravo will get Project Runway Canada, which I could live with.
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