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Article: 'Project Runway' Struts Over to Lifetime. Not So Fast, Says NBC.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 8, 2008
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Those bad-boy Hollywood moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein have
transferred the favor of their "Project Runway" -- cable's top-
rated reality competition series -- from that sweet little chick
cable network Bravo to the older, better-endowed chick cable network
Lifetime, starting with the show's sixth edition.
Bravo's outraged parent, NBC Universal, has sued the Weinsteins
for breach of promise, er, contract.
The scandal broke just days after those downright upright Peabody
Awards people announced they would bestow one of their prestigious
prizes on "Project Runway" -- the first reality series to receive
one -- because the show about fashion wannabes "redeems the