'Project Runway' gets one more season on Bravo

SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford, MA, USA - OK, "Project Runway" fans, it's official: You're in for a "PR"-heavy 2008.

Bravo executives confirmed last week that the hit fashion competition would return for its fifth season in July on that network before strutting over to its new home on Lifetime, on which Season 6 is scheduled to air in late November.

The news was announced at Bravo's up-front breakfast, held at Craft, the Flatiron restaurant owned by "Top Chef's" Tom Colicchio. Bravo President Lauren Zalaznick said the network was in the best shape it had ever been.

"Ours is not a comeback story," she said. "Ours is a story of absolute continued momentum that we're really proud of."

Of course, there is that pesky matter of the "Runway" lawsuit, filed by Bravo's parent company NBC Universal last week after the Weinstein Co. announced it was moving the show over to Lifetime.

"Regarding last week's news, as you can well imagine, I have not much to say," Zalaznick said. "It's ongoing litigation, and the no comment starts here and ends here."

She did add that "Runway" executive producer Harvey Weinstein had planned to attend the breakfast but was probably too busy doing favors for NBC Universal chief executive Jeff Zucker.

"Harvey was going to come, but Jeff has four kids, so it takes a long time to drop them at school, and then he has windows and cleaning to do, so he may or may not make it," she quipped, referring to Weinstein's earlier comments that he and Zucker will be friends again once Weinstein finishes three years of personal servitude for the media mogul.