TV News: Gus Van Sant to direct project in development — Kelsey Grammer is plotting a return to TV.

TV News: Gus Van Sant to direct project in development — Kelsey Grammer is plotting a return to TV.

Reaction to Project Runway 8′s finale has largely centered around the decision made by the judges, but there’s also discussion and debate about whether this season improved.
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Executive producer Jon Murray explains why Project Runway changed this season
The Project Runway-watching population, or whatever’s left of it, is in an uproar today over the finale of season eight last night, when fan-favorite Mondo Guerra lost to Gretchen Jones. As Lifetime noted in its press release, Gretchen “ultimately won with her bohemian inspired, fashion-forward collection that won the praise of host Heidi Klum, judges Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, and guest judge, Jessica Simpson.” The response was near-universal disappointment, with responses ranging from “NOT HAPPY…
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Project Runway’s results may have alienated the show’s remaining fans
The search for seven people under the age of 35 who want to spend time naked at a nudist colony for a new reality show Nak’d Truth–which seems more like a publicity stunt right now than anything else–will occur online, but although prospective cast members will be required to strip, that won’t be shown online, because apparently someone thinks there’s another reason why people would watch. While viewers “will get to vote on who they’d..
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Nudist colony show (publicity stunt?) online auditions, episodes will be nudity-free
TV News: Electus teams with Subway for online series — Ben Silverman’s Electus shingle has partnered with Subway to launch a new high school-themed online series.

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‘High School Heroes’ launches on Facebook
TV News: It’s happy time for thesp, Peacock — “Sex and the City” alum Kristin Davis is attached to star in and produce a laffer for NBC and Universal Media Studios about a woman’s yearlong quest to become happier.

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Kristin Davis heads to NBC laffer
A former Project Runway cast member, Chris March, and the show’s host, Heidi Klum, are both getting their own reality shows. Heidi will host a new series on Lifetime, the new home of the fashion competition, that’s basically Kids Say the Darndest Things.
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Project Runway’s Heidi Klum and Chris March get their own reality shows
Brad Goreski, the weeping assistant who starred in Bravo’s The Rachel Zoe Project since the first season, is leaving the stylist’s employment, and thus presumably will no longer be featured on the series–if it even returns for a third season. Brad told People, “I love Rachel and she’s taught me everything I know. But there’s a point where either I do it now or I’ll never know what it’s like to spread my wings and..
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Brad Goreski quits Rachel Zoe, which means her Bravo show should now die
Tim Gunn’s detailed criticism of Project Runway producers’ incompetence was removed from Facebook voluntarily, he said. Vulture asked yesterday if Lifetime was censoring him.
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Tim Gunn’s detailed criticism of Project Runway’s producers not censored by Lifetime
TV News: Senegal station delayed two years by government concerns — Senegalese singer Youssou N’Dour two years after his plans were put on hold by government officials.

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Singer Youssou N’Dour bows own TV channel