Ugh. This is no good.
Lifetime makes us feel like wrapping up in the sweater-blanket that sat on the back of Roseanne’s couch and drinking chocolate milk and eating ding dongs (and we don’t even know what ding dongs are). We can’t believe the network inked a deal with PR. Lifetime is the gray sweat suit of television, and what could be less fashion forward than that?
In an estimated $150 million deal, the Weinsteins say “you’re out” to Bravo and NBC Universal and move to the land of needlepoint and old maids. The only good news is that the deal includes 5 new cycles of the show, but we don’t even know if we will still be watching it. Are you allowed to wear avante garde clothes on Lifetime network? Is the president going to demand that all models wear panty hose on the runway? Eek.
Obviously, the folks at Bravo are not happy with the Weinstein Company (the producers of PR) and have filed suit. Hopefully they won’t be able to get away with this fashion faux pas… Here’s to the big(ger) guy winning!
For more, click here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/business/media/07cnd-runway.html?em&ex=1207713600&en=c249afd1403c7e27&ei=5087%0A
3 Comments
April 9, 2008 at 3:10 am
And did you hear that Golden Girls has left Lifetime and moved to the Hallmark Channel?
I love your blog eLaney…Kelly told me about it today and I can’t stop reading!!
April 9, 2008 at 4:33 am
Lindsay - yea! So glad you like it! Hope you are well. xo
April 18, 2008 at 8:03 pm
“Lifetime is the gray sweat suit of television, and what could be less fashion forward than that?”
Agreed. There’s something edgy and a bit fabulous about Bravo that, to me, is part of the allure of Project Runway. I am quite surprised that the show switched to Lifetime. Isn’t that the channel that shows made-for-TV movies about pregnant teens, eating disorders, and mysterious disappearances? Goes to show that everything’s for sale for the right price.
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