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Article: NBC Universal locks up producers of `Project Runway' even if show leaves network
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- May 5, 2008
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"Project Runway" may switch U.S. TV cable channels, from Bravo to Lifetime, this fall, but Bravo owner NBC Universal ensured Monday that the show's producers won't go with it.
NBC Universal, whose properties include Bravo, USA and Oxygen, announced a deal that ties it to producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, giving the company first look at their projects. In effect, it forced the duo to choose between staying with "Project Runway" or the promise of more work at NBC.
Lifetime last month announced it had agreed on a $150 million (97 million) deal with the Weinstein Co., owners of "Project Runway," to televise five seasons of the cable hit ...