NBC Stalls Runway, Readies Copycat

Lifetime switch stalled as Bravo launches Fashion House
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 24, 2008 9:38 AM CDT
NBC Stalls Runway, Readies Copycat
Project Runway's Tim Gunn walks with Heidi Klum, who says she hopes the "fantastic" sixth season airs.   (AP Photo)

NBC is using its legal muscle to keep Project Runway from airing on Lifetime while it launches a copycat show on its Bravo channel, reports the New York Post's Page Six. Details about Fashion House in Cragslist casting calls make it sound like a replica of the fashion original. The lawsuit against Lifetime and Runway producers claims NBC wasn't allowed first refusal when Lifetime scooped up the show with $150 million, double Bravo's pay.

"I don't want them to fight so much that it doesn't air. The sixth season is fantastic," host Heidi Klum says.

(More Project Runway stories.)

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