Heidi Klum chats about 'Project Runway

Los Angeles Times - CA,USA - While NBC Universal and the Weinstein Co. fight over the rights to “Project Runway,” host and executive producer Heidi Klum is trying to focus on the future of the show. She’s taping the sixth season of the popular fashion design competition — set in Los Angeles instead of New York — even though it remains unclear where or when it will eventually air. On Friday, she spoke about this season of “Runway” (which concludes Oct. 15), the program’s recipe for success and what it’s like to work on the show amid so much uncertainty.

What do you think distinguished Season 5? How was it different than past seasons?

It was not as clear to all of us I think who was going to go to the end. The season before we kind of had a feeling of which designers are going to make it into the running in the end. We always had five or six designers that we were like, every time, they’re going to come up with something good. And this season, it was a little bit all over the place. It was very literal when I said, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out.” It was like one week, someone did something fabulous, and the next week it was awful and then that person was gone. So it was kind of not so clear for us who was going to be in the finale.