Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Bravo: Lifetime lands the Runway

So, after years of toiling to produce some of the best reality programming for the fashionistas of the world, the Weinstein company's Project Runway will finally be moving from the Bravo network to Lifetime.

I still think that it should replace The Apprentice in that time slot since it's actually an interesting show (not that I watched last season, mind you, I am on a reduced intake diet of television)

Well, all this will happen if NBC's law suit to stop it gets decided in the brother's Weinstein's favor, that is:

The suit asserts Harvey Weinstein, the chief executive of the Weinstein Company, promised NBC that it would have an opportunity to match any offer to the rights of “Project Runway” and that instead, Mr. Weinstein concluded a deal with Lifetime on Feb. 7, even though he continued to negotiate with NBC Universal for two more months.

In a statement, NBC said “NBC Universal has continuing rights related to ‘Project Runway,’ including a right of first refusal to future cycles of the series, which the Weinstein Company unfortunately has refused to honor.”

My (obligatory) response to this is to say that in network programming, NBC: sometimes you're in. And then, you're out.

2 Comments:

At 12:23 AM, Blogger Emily R Powell said...

NBC is definitely in with me when 30 Rock is on!

(nice to see you post some writings again)

 
At 12:46 AM, Blogger Eliel Mamousette said...

30 Rock is one of those shows we like but never get around to watching.

Perhaps when our TV cabling issue is addressed, we'll get on it.

Thank you for reading my random writings.

 

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