Venerable fashion reality series Project Runway is on the move again, this time headed to Freeform.
via: Variety
The fashion competition series will air on the Disney-owned Freeform network before being available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Debuting sometime in 2025, Season 21 will consist of 10 episodes, aired weekly.
Freeform closed an agreement with Spyglass Media Group, producers of “Project Runway” since Season 17, to bring the show over from the NBCUniversal-owned Bravo network.
A host, judges and premiere date have yet to be announced.
Since debuting on Bravo in 2004, “Project Runway” has bounced between networks, producers and hosts. Heidi Klum hosted the series for its first 16 seasons, with Tim Gunn serving as the designers’ mentor. They both left “Project Runway” in 2018 to lead their own fashion competition show, “Making the Cut,” on Amazon Prime Video. Karlie Kloss took over hosting duties of “Project Runway” for the next two seasons, with Season 4 winner Christian Siriano serving as mentor. For Seasons 19 and 20, Siriano took over for Kloss and pulled double duty as host and mentor.
Meanwhile, the series was also embroiled in a messy dispute between networks and production companies after producers The Weinstein Company announced that the show would move from Bravo to Lifetime, prompting a years-long legal battle. Eventually, Harvey Weinstein’s company agreed to pay NBCUniversal an undisclosed settlement for the right to move “Project Runway” to Lifetime, where it aired from 2009 until 2017. NBCUniversal then reacquired the rights to “Project Runway,” and it returned to Bravo from 2019 to 2024.
“Project Runway” is credited with launching the careers of designers including Siriano, Austin Scarlett, Leanne Marshall, Irina Shabayeva, Michael Costello and Bishme Cromartie, among others.
The series is produced by Spyglass Media Group and Alfred Street Industries. Gary Barber serves as executive producer for Spyglass. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Volpe and Nan Strait are executive producers for Alfred Street Industries.
Barber, chairman and CEO of Spyglass, said in a statement, “For 20 seasons, ‘Project Runway’ has captured viewers’ attention and cultivated a loyal following. The series has proven to be a valuable and enduring brand worldwide, and we could not be more excited to broaden the show’s breadth of viewership within the Freeform, Hulu and Disney+ ecosystem.”
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