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Lifetime announced start dates for its new shows during an upfront press luncheon Tuesday in New York. The network also talked about some of its shows in development for 2009, including comedy pilots with Sherri Shepherd, Valerie Bertinelli and Cybill Shepherd. “Project Runway,” which has been kept off...
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The long legal battle over “Project Runway” came to a surprising end as producer Harvey Weinstein agreed to pay NBC Universal to move the award-winning show to Lifetime. The agreement clears the way for the sixth season of the show, which was shot during New York’s Fashion Week in February, to return...
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NBC Universal, the Weinstein Co. and Lifetime have settled their dispute over “Project Runway,” the companies announced today. According to a statement released today, the Weinstein Co. will pay NBC Universal to move “Runway” from Bravo to Lifetime. “All of the parties are pleased with the outcome,”...
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There is no cure for reality TV. This fact will no doubt crush many who work in the business of television, people who have silently prayed for the end of unscripted programming ever since Richard Hatch first strutted naked across the small screen on “Survivor” in the summer of 2000. These folks generally...
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Frances Berwick, general manager of Bravo, met early one morning last month with senior members of her research and marketing team to find compelling arguments the network can employ in its upfront presentations to advertisers. Various studies show that Bravo’s audience is growing increasingly upscale...
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The Insider’s love affair with television developed relatively late in life. For four Air Force brats who spent three formative years in Germany, English-language TV was often unavailable. And it would be years before a sense of irony would develop to make hearing Tonto address the Lone Ranger with ...
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Handing a procedural win to NBC Universal in the case over “Project Runway,” a federal judge on Tuesday rejected Lifetime’s attempt to move the dispute out of state court. NBC Universal had sued to keep “Project Runway’s” production company, Weinstein Co., from moving the show to the Lifetime cable channel...
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For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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Lifetime is trying to make a federal case out of “Project Runway.” Shortly before a judge was set to try to create an expedited schedule for NBC Universal’s lawsuit against the Weinstein Co. for moving “Project Runway” from Bravo to Lifetime, Lifetime asked that the case be moved to federal court, NBC...
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The Weinstein Co. and Lifetime will not be able to promote, market or exhibit “Project Runaway” until further notice after a judge granted NBC Universal’s request for an injunction against the studio. NBC Universal sued the Weinstein Co. after it reached a deal to move the hit show to Lifetime from NBC...
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“Project Runway” is leaving Bravo with a runway show that includes more whimpers than big bangs from the five designers who showed collections Friday in what has become the coda to New York City’s Fashion Week in Bryant Park. Over its five years on Bravo, the runway taping has turned into a must-be-there...
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Bravo not only wants viewers to watch, it wants them to throw a party for its shows. The NBC Universal-owned cable network has launched a viewer party promotion called B-Hive to go with the current season of “Project Runway.” Viewers who host get-togethers and post pictures of the festivities online...
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Jamila Hunter , NBC’s new senior vice president of programming and development, alternative and digital, said the biggest challenge facing creators and networks with reality series is “fatigue with the genre.” “Viewers have gotten so used to seeing three judges on a talent competition, or certain rhythms...
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Actress Natalie Portman will be a guest judge on this week’s episode of Bravo’s “Project Runway,” airing Wednesday at 9 p.m. The designers will face an eco-friendly green challenge this week with some help from their models. Following “Runway” at 10 p.m., celebrity hair stylist Oscar Blandi will be a...