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Exclusive: Project Runway fans seem to be highly anticipating Heidi Klum’s return to the iconic franchise.

The trailer for Season 21, which landed online July 1, amassed 42.7M views across platforms within nine days of release, making it the highest performing trailer in Freeform history, per Disney.

That’s a pretty monster performance that sets up Project Runway for a promising return to television with this Disney reboot. While Freeform doesn’t often peel back the curtain on its performance metrics, Deadline did previously report that the trailer for Season 2 of Cruel Summer was pacing to break the same record in 2023 with around 24M views in 10 days. Although it was two years ago, that can help illustrate how well Project Runway‘s trailer is doing.

Klum will host Season 21 of Project Runway, and the former model will also serve as a judge. She...

A new season of Project Runway is upon us, and to help find the next big fashion designer, the Freeform reality competition has recruited top talent guest judges.

Heidi Klum, Nina García, and Law Roach are joined on the judging panel by familiar faces from the reality TV series, such as designers Michael Kors and Zac Posen.

Kors was one of the Og judges and part of the panel for the first ten seasons of the franchise. Posen joined the series after Kors left and judged the competition for the next six seasons.

Related: All The Designers Confirmed For ‘Project Runway’ Season 21

Season 21 of the series will also see Sofía Vergara guest judge in a reunion with Klum as the two judged America’s Got Talent for several seasons.

Other guest judges appearing throughout the season include comedian Nikki Glaser, supermodel Tyra Banks, Real Housewives of New York City star and...

Project Runway Season 21 has unveiled the cast of designers competing in the Freeform reality series for a chance to be the next big fashion designer.

The cast includes Project Runway alums, former RuPaul’s Drag Race stars, twins, and more.

Heidi Klum is set to return as host and judge of the competition series. Og Project Runway judge Nina García and stylist superstar Law Roach are joining Klum as judges.

Related: ‘Project Runway’ Season 21 Guest Judges List: Sofía Vergara, Nikki Glaser, Tyra Banks, Michael Kors & More

Project Runway Season 4 winner Christian Siriano returns as mentor to the designers.

The competition series debuted on Bravo in 2004 and revolutionized the reality genre. Project Runway ran for five seasons on Bravo before moving to Lifetime for eleven more seasons. For its 17th season, the show returned to Bravo, where it ran for four seasons.

Related: ‘Project Runway’ Season 21 Gets First Look Teaser...

Heidi Klum is officially returning to Project Runway for the reboot on Freeform, Hulu, and Disney+.

The designing competition will air weekly starting Thursday, July 31, and a first-look teaser showed Klum back home.

“I’m back,” Klum says in the teaser. “And it’s good to be home.”

Klum ends the teaser with a variation of her signature catchphrase, “Get in, or your out.”

Project Runway will premiere Season 21 with a two-episode drop on Thursday, July 31 at 9 p.m. Et on Freeform. The episode will be available to stream shortly after for Hulu and Disney+ subscribers. Subsequent episodes will air weekly at 10 p.m. Et.

Klum will host Season 21 of Project Runway, and the former model will also serve as a judge. She will be joined by Og judge Nina García, with Law Roach rounding out the judging panel. Christian Siriano will mentor the designers.

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Project Runway will make its highly anticipated debut on Thursday, July 31, with a two-episode premiere starting at 9:00 p.m. Edt on Freeform and available to stream shortly after on Hulu and Disney+. Subsequent episodes will air weekly starting at 10:00 p.m. Edt.

As previously announced, Heidi Klum returns to the runway for season 21 and will be joined by judges Nina Garcia and Law Roach, with Christian Siriano set as the contestants’ mentor.

When Project Runway debuted in 2004, the series broke new ground and helped revolutionize the reality competition genre. Since then, the Emmy-winning series has aired in more than 125 countries.

The long-standing series has had a profound effect on the fashion industry, launching the careers of prolific designers, including Christian Siriano, Austin Scarlett, Leanne Marshall, Irina Shabayeva, Michael Costello, and Bishme Cromartie, among many others.

Spyglass Media Group and Alfred Street Industries produce Project Runway. Gary Barber and...

One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out… and Project Runway will be back in at a new network this summer.

The reality competition, which previously aired on Bravo and Lifetime (then Bravo again), will make its Freeform debut on Thursday, July 31, with a two-episode premiere beginning at 9/8c. Subsequent Season 21 episodes will air weekly at 10 pm and will be available to stream “shortly after” their linear airings on both Disney+ and Hulu.

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Versant, the Comcast-owned company that houses former NBCUniversal cable networks including E!, USA Network and Syfy, has unveiled its first programming slate since being split off.

A new drama for USA Network and a new reality show from Kimora Lee Simmons lead the way for the slate, which is the first under President of Entertainment Val Boreland. There will be 16 new series across E!, USA Network, Syfy, and Oxygen True Crime.

“Our audiences are among the most devoted in the industry, and their passion fuels everything we do,” said Val Boreland, President of Entertainment for Versant. “By uniting the power of our iconic brands with a commitment to bold, original storytelling, we’re deepening our connectionwith viewers in meaningful ways. We’re proud to unveil this exciting new programming slate as we move forward under our new name.”

USA Network, which will air The Rainmaker in the summer, has...

The search for the next big fashion designer is back as Project Runway Season 21 begins production.

Heidi Klum is returning to the competition as host and judge and will be joined by Og judge Nina Garcia and Law Roach.

Garcia is the editor-in-chief of the U.S. edition of Elle magazine and has been a judge on the reality series competition since its debut in 2004.

Law Roach joins the judging panel after working as an image architect with celebrities such as Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Celine Dion, and Tom Holland.

Siriano won Project Runway in Season 4 and became a mentor when Bravo rebooted the show in 2019 for Season 17. The Cfda designer will guide contestants in the workroom, having experience designing for personalities like first ladies Dr. Jill Biden and Michelle Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris, Angelina Jolie, Oprah, Zendaya, Ariana Grande, Julianne Moore, Lady Gaga, Tiffany Haddish, Billy Porter, Cardi B,...

Project Runway season 21’s Heidi Klum, Christian Siriano, Law Roach, and Nina Garcia

Host Heidi Klum will be joined by Project Runway veterans Christian Siriano and Nina Garcia on the show’s upcoming season 21. The new season, currently in production, also welcomes new judge and image architect Law Roach.

Season 21 is targeting a summer premiere on Freeform, Disney+, and Hulu.

Siriano is on board to serve as a mentor, and Garcia, who has been with the series since 2004, returns as a judge. Disney+, Hulu, and Freeform offered this description of Project Runway newcomer Law Roach: “Image architect Law Roach is known for transforming celebrities into fashion icons. He has worked with such celebrities as Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Celine Dion, Tom Holland, and many more. Some of Roach’s many accomplishments include being named the most powerful stylist by The Hollywood Reporter in both 2021 and 2022, the West Coast fashion contributing editor of British Vogue,...

Heidi Klum is returning to “Project Runway” after exiting the fashion competition series in 2018.

The news comes after the October announcement that the series had been renewed for a 21st season while moving to Disney’s Freeform after most recently airing on Bravo. Season 21 will debut later this year and run for 10 episodes, which will stream on Disney+ and Hulu after their Freeform airings.

Klum previously hosted “Project Runway” for 16 seasons, beginning with the series’ 2004 debut on Bravo. She remained with the show when it moved to Lifetime in 2009, where it aired for 11 more seasons, then departed alongside Tim Gunn, who mentored designers on the show, when it moved back to Bravo for Season 17. Karlie Kloss and Christian Siriano stepped in as “Project Runway” host and mentor, respectively, for the next two seasons, with Siriano filling both roles for Seasons 19 and 20.

Meanwhile, Klum and Gunn created a new fashion competition...

Heidi Klum is staging a comeback to Project Runway.

Deadline has confirmed that Klum, who originally hosted the former Bravo show from 2004 to 2017, is returning to the unscripted series that’s now at Freeform. In October, the Disney network closed a deal with Spyglass Media Group to bring back the reality competition for a new 10-episode season in 2025.

It will also stream on Disney+ and Hulu.

Klum was the original host of Project Runway, with Tim Gunn starting as mentor on the program and ultimately getting a co-host billing. Klum and Gunn were nominated six times for best reality host Primetime Emmy and won in 2013. (Klum has three additional solo Emmy hosting noms.)

Klum and her Gunn both bid farewell to Project Runway after the 2017 season. Klum said in a statement at the time, “After 16 incredible seasons, I am saying ‘Auf Wiedersehen’ to Project Runway, a show that I was...

Netflix has ordered a special holiday edition of its hit baking competition series “Is It Cake?,” hosted by “SNL” star Mikey Day.

Consisting of four episodes launching Nov. 28, “Is It Cake? Holiday” will feature the return of nine “All Star” bakers from across the first three seasons of “Is It Cake?” for a holiday showdown. The contestants will “craft tasty replicas of ice skates, wreaths, nutcrackers and more in this holiday spin on the mind-bending baking competition” and try to “baffle the celebrity judges with their festive and delicious deceptions and fight their way to the ultimate grand prize.”

Guest judges for the season include Rachel Bloom, Wayne Brady, Sebastian Maniscalco, Hannah Berner, Tiffany Haddish, Devon Walker, James Austin Johnson, Chris Witaske, Sasheer Zamata, Terry Crews, Punkie Johnson and Randall Park.

“Is It Cake? Holiday” competitors include series vets Jonny Manganello (S1), Andrew Fuller (S1), April Julian (S1), Elizabeth Rowe...

One of the O.G. reality competition franchises is attempting a comeback. “Project Runway,” the two-time Emmy Award-winning fashion extravaganza, has a new home. Freeform announced a deal with current franchise rights holder Spyglass Media Group and producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz from Alfred Street Industries for a new “Runway” season to land on the cable outlet in 2025. The 10-episode season will also be available to stream shortly after that (perhaps the next day) on Hulu and DIsney+.

Continue reading Can ‘Project Runway’ Find Life Again At Freeform & Hulu? at The Playlist.

“Project Runway” is headed from Bravo to Freeform with a brand-new season in 2025 with new hosts and judges.

The fashion competition show, which was helmed by Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn for its first 16 seasons, will return next year with a 10-episode season after a creative overhaul. The hosts, judges and premiere date will be announced at a later time.

After launching on Bravo — and then moving to Lifetime before eventually returning to Bravo — “Project Runway” will now be a Freeform original series, after the Disney-owned network closed a deal with “Project Runway” producer Spyglass Media Group. The new season of “Project Runway” will air weekly on Freeform, with new episodes streaming shortly after on Disney+ and Hulu.

This isn’t the first time “Project Runway” has overhauled its hosting team, with model Karlie Kloss and Season 4 winner Christian Siriano taking the reins from Klum and Gunn after they exited...

“Project Runway” is making it work, returning for Season 21 and moving from Bravo to Disney.

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.

The fate of Project Runway has been decided: Freeform is bringing the long-running Bravo reality TV series centered around fashion design back for season 21.

The TV network closed a deal with Spyglass Media Group for a new 10-episode run in 2025, with Disney+ and Hulu also to stream the series shortly after the premiere on Freeform.

“Project Runway is an iconic television juggernaut that perfectly complements the pop-culture spirit at Freeform,” Simran Sethi, president, scripted programming, Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment, said in a statement on Thursday. The new season of Project Runway will be produced by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz from Alfred Street Industries.

Freeform will air the reality TV series weekly. Casting for a new host and judges is underway and will be announced at a future date.

“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,...

Venerable fashion reality series Project Runway is on the move again, this time headed to Freeform. The Disney network has closed a deal with Spyglass Media Group to bring the reality competition back for a 10-episode new season in 2025.

Staying on for the Freeform incarnation of Project Runway are producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz from Alfred Street Industries. No host or judges are being announced yet for the series, which will air weekly on the network and will be available to stream shortly after on Disney+ and Hulu.

Project Runway was a breakout hit when it launched two decades ago on Bravo with Cutforth and Lipsitz (then of Magical Elves) as executive producers. After five highly-rated seasons on the NBCUniversal network from 2004-2008, the series moved to Lifetime in a blockbuster deal between the cable network and The Weinstein Company that triggered bitter litigation.

In May 2018, NBCUniversal announced at...

It might seem like a no-brainer that Law & Order impresario Dick Wolf should extend his murder–centric franchise into the documentary space — or that Netflix, with its many true crime features and miniseries, attempt the same thing in episodic format — but neither really came to fruition until the March premiere of Homicide: New York. Naturally, the long wait carried a fair amount of pressure with it.

“Everyone understood the potential pitfalls of stepping into the true crime space and the tropes that come with it,” says Dan Cutforth, Homicide executive producer and one half of Alfred Street Industries. “We’ve all seen that done… not well. So, it was really important that it be executed on a very high level with this series.”

Homicide: New York dropped five episodes on March 21 and quickly shot to the top of Netflix’s domestic Top 10 chart, even enjoying a run atop David Benioff...

It’s time for all baking enthusiasts, bakers, and fans of baking shows to rejoice, because Is It Cake? Season 3 is landing this spring. But the upcoming third season of the baking competition promises to be bigger and better with higher stakes and crazier cakes that are sure to blow your mind. The Netflix reality series was created by Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz of Top Chef fame and features a game show-style baking competition where contestants design cakes that are made to look like real-life objects and trick celebrity judges. Winners of each episode get a cash prize of $5,000 and a chance to win more money by identifying between a bag of real cash and a fake one put up on display. Is It Cake? is hosted by SNL veteran Mikey Day, who returns once again for Season 3, and drives the “fondant-fueled madness” with his quirky comedic skills and impressions.

Dun dun, Dick Wolf is now coming to Netflix.

The “Law & Order” and “FBI” creator and mega-producer is behind Netflix docuseries “Homicide: New York.” Wolf produces the five-episode show that revisits the most infamous and complex murder cases in New York City.

Featuring real cops, the docuseries showcases interviews with detectives and prosecutors as past cases are reexamined. The official series description teases that “Homicide: New York” will “illuminates the stories of notorious murder cases as told by the people who know them best: the detectives and prosecutors who cracked them.”

“Homicide: New York” is just one half of the two-part series, with follow-up “Homicide: Los Angeles” debuting later this year.

The show hails from Wolf Entertainment and Alfred Street Industries. Wolf executive produces along with Tom Thayer, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, and Adam Kassen.

Meanwhile, Wolf’s “Law & Order” empire is thriving at NBC,...

Dick Wolf, the creator of the beloved police procedural drama Law & Order, is partnering with Netflix for his next project, Homicide: New York. Debuting on March 20, today’s Homicide: New York trailer depicts the first chapter of a true-crime docuseries built with franchise potential. The next installment of the presentation, Homicide: Los Angeles, will launch later this year. Each series is five episodes long, with the project hailing from Wolf Entertainment, Dan Cutforth, and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries.

Homicide: New York explores the Big Apple’s most notorious murder cases by following the detectives and prosecutors who solved them. Wolf’s Homicide franchise is not part of his deal with Universal Studio Group.

In the Homicide: New York trailer, law enforcement individuals share first-hand accounts of some of their gruesome cases. As the footage continues, we hear tales of murder, deception, and depravity happening in the City That Never Sleeps.

Dick Wolf’s next two shows will stream on Netflix.

The megaproducer behind the Law & Order, FBI and Chicago franchises will executive produce a pair of true-crime documentary series — titled Homicide: New York and Homicide: Los Angeles — that will detail several notorious murder cases in the two cities. Notably, the two shows are being made outside of Wolf Entertainment’s long-time home at NBCUniversal; Wolf is teaming with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries.

Wolf and his company remain under an overall deal at NBCU, which runs through 2027.

Homicide: New York, which premieres March 20, will “bring to life five of New York’s most notorious murder cases by following the detectives and prosecutors that cracked them,” according to the show’s logline. A trailer for the series (watch it below) showcases interviews with the law enforcement officials involved in several cases as well as some re-enactment scenes.

Netflix is adding content from another TV titan to its roster of originals. Homicide: New York, a true-crime docuseries from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, is set to debut on the streamer on March 20. It will be followed by Homicide: Los Angeles later this year. Both installments consist of five episodes each.

Homicide, from Wolf Entertainment and Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries, tells the stories of a city’s most notorious murder cases by following the detectives and prosecutors who cracked them.

The project predates Wolf’s current massive deal with Universal Studio Group (signed in 2020 and extended in 2023 through 2027), which includes a first-look agreement with Universal Television Alternative Studio for unscripted/docu-series.

Homicide is executive produced by Wolf, Tom Thayer, the head of the non-scripted arm of Wolf Entertainment who was instrumental in getting the project together, Lipsitz, Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe and Adam Kassen.

Dick Wolf is making his first foray into business with Netflix with a pair of true crime docuseries.

The creator of “Law & Order” and Wolf Entertainment have partnered with Alfred Street Industries on both “Homicide: New York” and “Homicide: Los Angeles.” Both shows will consist of five episodes each, with each episode documenting a different murder case in each city.

The official description states that the show “illuminates the stories of notorious murder cases as told by the people who know them best: the detectives and prosecutors who cracked them.”

“Homicide: New York” will debut on March 20, while “Homicide: Los Angeles” will bow at later date this year.

Wolf executive produces along with Tom Thayer, Jane Lipsitz, Dan Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, and Adam Kassen.

Wolf is one of the most successful television producers of all time, though he has made virtually no streaming shows to date. Wolf...

Exclusive: Atari has enlisted executive producers Jay Blumenfield and Tony Marsh to create a game show centered on the famed gaming brand, tentatively titled The Great Atari Celebrity Showdown.

The pair comes to the project after exec producing such series as The Chelsea Handler Show (E!), Here Come the Newlyweds (ABC), Restaurant Stakeout (Food Network), Gigolos (Showtime), and Tournament of Laughs (TBS).

“We’re beyond excited to partner with Atari to bring you the ultimate celebrity game show, with all the drama, comedy, and nostalgia that comes with it,” Blumenfield said. “This show celebrates the history of gaming, the culture of entertainment, and the joy of competing like we’re kids — it’s one the whole family won’t want to miss!”

Stated Marsh, “It’s going to be amazing! You’ll get to watch celebrities do something they rarely ever get to do – which is actually have fun. And...

Exclusive: Dan Cutforth & Jane Lipsitz, the Emmy and IDA Award-winning filmmakers from Alfred Street Industries, have been tapped to direct and produce a limited docuseries on the iconic consumer brand and interactive entertainment producer, Atari.

The series, tentatively titled Game Changers: The Story of Atari, will present Atari’s definitive history and anticipated future. Founded in 1972, Atari is an arcade game pioneer also responsible for video game consoles like the Atari 2600. Currently, the company owns and/or manages a portfolio of more than 200 games and franchises, including world-renowned brands like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command, Pong, and RollerCoaster Tycoon.

April 2021 marked the beginning of a new era for Atari, as Wade Rosen was named CEO, beginning to work with his team to reignite the legacy brand, while remaining conscious of its unique place in video game history, media and pop culture. Under his direction, Atari has returned to its roots in premium game development and publishing,...

“Chrissy & Dave Dine Out” will premiere on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 10:00 p.m. Est. Chrissy Teigen and David Chang are cracking the restaurant scene wide open alongside Joel Kim Booster with the new series. They will take viewers to must-try restaurants in Los Angeles that are unexpected and, at times, off the beaten path. While David gets his hands dirty in the back of house with the restaurant’s chef, Chrissy and Joel will hold court in the front of house, hosting an always loose, unexpected and entertaining dinner party with undeniably delicious food and great conversation.

Celebrity guests handpicked by Chrissy, David and Joel will bring laughs and unfiltered conversations where no topic is off limits. The premiere episode will find them dining out at the wildly popular restaurant Pizzeria Bianco, where chef Chris Bianco serves up some of the best pizza in the country. Joining them as...

Chrissy Teigen and David Chang’s new unscripted series “Chrissy & Dave Dine Out” has set a January series premiere date at Freeform, the network announced Monday.

The series, which also features Joel Kim Booster as the group explores Los Angeles’ vibrant restaurant scene and discover gems off the beaten path, will launch Jan. 24, at 10:00 p.m. Et.

The official logline is as follows: “While David gets his hands dirty in the back of house with the restaurant’s chef, Chrissy and Joel will hold court in the front of house, hosting an always loose, unexpected and entertaining dinner party with undeniably delicious food and great conversation.”

Opening up with a spotlight on Pizzeria Bianco, Teigen and Chang will be joined by Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, writer and producer Molly McNearney. Throughout the season, the hosts will be joined by guests including John Legend, Kumail Nanjiani, Regina Hall and Simu Liu.

Freeform is ringing in the new year with the return of Good Trouble.

Season 5 of the series will make its midseason debut on January 2, according to the network. A first look at the rest of the season that gives a glimpse at what’s to come is embedded above.

The series, which is a spinoff of The Fosters, follows the 20-something residents of the Los Angeles co-living space, The Coterie. Series star and executive producer Cierra Ramirez will make her directorial debut in an upcoming episode.

In the latest season, the roommates are set to face their toughest obstacles yet as they’re confronted with evolving relationship challenges and new career opportunities. Through highs and lows, romance and heartbreak, The Coterie crew will lean on each other while they navigate the next stage of adulthood.

Also in January, Freeform plans to debut Chrissy & Dave Dine Out, an unscripted series where...

Freeform has added three new unscripted series, “Chrissy & Dave Dine Out,” “Royal Rules of Ohio” and “Sasha Reid and The Midnight Order” to its slate.

Previously set at Hulu, “Chrissy & Dave” and “Royal Rules of Ohio” will now debut linearly on Freeform, with episodes available for streaming on Hulu the next day. Joel Kim Booster hosts the restaurant series alongside Chrissy Teigen and David Chang where they take viewers to must-try restaurants in Los Angeles that are unexpected. As Chang gets to work in the kitchen with the restaurant’s chef, Teigen and Booster host a crop of hand-picked celebrity guests for an entertaining dinner party.

The premiere episode will find them dining out at the wildly popular restaurant Pizzeria Bianco, where Chef Chris Bianco serves up some of the best pizza in the country. Joining them as guests will be late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and his wife, writer/producer Molly McNearney.

Freeform is adding three unscripted series to its slate, including two that originated at Hulu.

Chrissy & Dave Dine Out and Royal Rules of Ohio will now premiere on Freeform where they’re considered a better fit for the female-friendly lineup; they will be available to stream the next day on Hulu.

The third is Sasha Reid and the Midnight Order, a documentary series following Dr. Sasha Reid and her secret society of young women who solve crimes.

Freeform expects to reveal new scripted pickups in the coming weeks.

Chrissy & Dave follows Chrissy Teigen and David Chang, who, along with Joel Kim Booster, will be “cracking the restaurant scene wide open in Los Angeles. While David gets his hands dirty in the back of house with the restaurant’s chef, Chrissy and Joel will hold court in the front of house, hosting an always loose, unexpected and entertaining dinner party with...

Over two decades, Bravo’s Top Chef has introduced viewers to nearly 300 food luminaries — making and breaking careers with what the culinary community has come to regard as the most prestigious (or at least the most taxing) cooking competition.

THR spent months speaking with dozens of the executives, producers, talent and chefs who’ve worked on the show over its 20-season run, and the result is a definitive oral history of the landmark reality competition. Previously untold anecdotes about that frantic first season and early days of “too much” reality drama and testimonials of its reshaping of food media — “Food Network should be paying Bravo residuals!” — and incalculable impact on American dining tell the story of how Top Chef elevated itself from mere genre TV to become an institution.

“But You Can’T Taste The Food …”

Amid a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, Barry Diller’s Universal Television portfolio is...

Bravo is set to launch its first-ever “Project Runway All-Stars” with a two-part premiere on June 15th at 8 p.m. The show will feature 14 designers from previous seasons who will get one last shot to change their lives forever with a career-defining win. The all-stars will be judged by a panel of famous names from the fashion and arts industry, including Alicia Silverstone, Billy Porter, Zac Posen, and Stacey Bendet.

The show’s challenges will include an unconventional test, the classic denim challenge, and a uniform refresh for fan favorites from the cast of “Below Deck.” The All-Stars will get to showcase their creativity in iconic locations such as Fao Schwarz, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, and the skyscraper Summit One Vanderbilt.

Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens will return as the official Grand Prize partner and award $250,000 to the winning designer. In addition, the winning designer will receive a...

If you’re a fan of true crime and Law & Order, this new docuseries from Dick Wolf, Wolf Entertainment, and Alfred Street Industries is right up your alley. Blood & Money takes real stories, real people, and real investigations of greed and murder and tells them through Wolf’s unique lens, utilizing signature Law & Order franchise elements. Each episode spotlights the detectives and prosecutors as they follow the money and pursue justice. Financial scandals that ended in bloodshed covered include billionaire Robert Durst, the Menendez brothers, notorious mother-son grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes Jr., and con artist “Clark Rockefeller.” TV Insider spoke exclusively with executive producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz to get the scoop on this new docuseries, premiering March 7 on CNBC and March 11 on Oxygen. How did the concept of the show come about, specifically focusing on murders motivated by greed? And the title is perfect. Jane...

Exclusive: CNBC is building its own Dick Wolf block after ordering a new true-crime docuseries from the Law & Order creator.

The network has commissioned Blood & Money, a series that is produced by Wolf Entertainment, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Alfred Street Industries.

The series is a ripped from the headlines unscripted series that features real stories, real people and real investigations of greed and murder, told through Wolf’s lens.

Featuring a narrator and the iconic “Dun-Dun that Wolf often employs in his scripted series, the ten-part series spotlights the detectives and prosecutors as they follow the money and pursue justice. It explores the stories of the most infamous financial scandals that ended in bloodshed including billionaire Robert Durst, the Menendez brothers, notorious mother-son grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes Jr. and con artist Clark Rockefeller.

The series will launch on March 7 at 10pm, after a new episode of Wolf’s own Cold Justice.

Showtime Sports Documentary Films is set to release a documentary feature based on the life of basketball star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, entitled “Stand.” The documentary will premiere in early 2023.

Directed by Joslyn Rose Lyons, “Stand” explores the personal and professional struggles of Abdul-Rauf, from being bullied as a child due to his Tourette’s syndrome to becoming a target of hate speech and Islamophobia during his basketball career. The documentary film features exclusive interviews with several basketball and entertainment stars including Stephen Curry, Steve Kerr, Shaquille O’Neal, Jalen Rose, Mahershala Ali and Ice Cube.

“It is an honor to be collaborating with Showtime and the production team and working with our director, Joslyn Rose Lyons,” Abdul-Rauf said in a statement. “Joslyn has brought a stellar, brilliant vision to this film. My hope is that my story will help heal and bring new perspective to the world.”

The film marks Lyons’ feature-length directorial debut.

Chrissy Teigen will be donning her judge’s robes once again for Season 3 of “Chrissy’s Court,” returning exclusively to the Roku Channel this fall.

Roku’s greenlight for a third run of the courtroom series, patterned after daytime TV fare like “Judge Judy” and “The People’s Court,” comes after Season 2 scored as the most-watched unscripted Roku original premiere to date. In each episode, Judge Chrissy adjudicates one small-claims case. The plaintiffs, defendants, and disputes are real, and Teigen’s decisions are final and binding. The show features Teigen’s mom, Pepper Thai, as the “bailiff” who maintains order in the court.

The second season of “Chrissy’s Court” drew more unique views than any prior unscripted Roku original launch during its opening weekend on the Roku Channel in the U.S., from June 17-19, 2022. The series also was the Roku Channel’s No. 1 VOD program in the U.

“Cold Justice” is a true-crime series currently airing on Oxygen. It follows former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and retired investigator Yolanda McLary. The duo travels across the country to small towns, reviving bone-chilling decades-old unsolved homicides, putting criminals to justice, and bringing solace to distraught victims.

You see two professionals at work, taking the assistance of local law enforcement authorities to rebuild cases and confront suspects. The stakes are high as the show is unscripted, and criminals could resort to aggression in self-defense.

Naturally, the drama is not over the top because of the unscripted episodes. However, watching the suspense of the story, the gruesomeness of the crimes, the insidious motives of a killer, and the grief of the victims will keep you on edge.

The show has a rating of 88 rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an 8/10 IMDb score. It is produced by Wolf Entertainment and Magical Elves. Dick Wolf and...

Netflix has renewed competition series “Is It Cake?” for a second season with “Saturday Night Live” veteran Mikey Day returning as host.

The series follows a group of bakers tasked with creating hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects, in the hops of fooling a panel of judges to win a cash prize.

Following Season 1’s premiere in March 2022, “Is It Cake?” spent four weeks on Netflix’s global Top 10 English language TV list and reached the Top 10 in TV in 75 countries around the world. The show first popped up on Nielsen’s weekly streaming viewership lists with a whopping 1.18 billion minutes viewed in the United States in its first week.

The series continues Netflix’s ambitious push into unscripted content which includes popular series such as “The Circle,” “The Ultimatum” and “Selling Sunset.”

“Is It Cake?” is produced by Alfred Street Industries. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Nan Strait,...

Is It Cake? has cooked up a second season at Netflix. The streamer has renewed the hit series, in which talented bakers compete to create hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects, in the hopes of fooling a panel of judges, with cash on the line.

Mikey Day will return as host for Season 2, which will feature a new line-up of contestants and guest judges.

Following its premiere in March, the first season of Is It Cake? spent four weeks on Netflix’s global Top 10 English TV list and reached the Top 10 in TV in 75 countries around the world.

The series is produced by Alfred Street Industries for Netflix. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe and Andrew Wallace serve as executive producers.

Netflix has renewed “Is It Cake?” for Season 2.

The show is a cooking competition in which master bakers work to create hyper-realistic cakes that look exactly like everyday objects. The cakes are then presented before a panel of celebrity judges along with an array of actual objects to see if the judges can tell which of them is in fact cake. If the bakers are able to successfully fool the judges, they win a cash prize.

Mikey Day hosts the series and is expected to return for Season 2. Season 2 will also feature a new lineup of contestants and guest judges. Judges in Season 1 included Karamo Brown, Finesse Mitchell, Fortune Feimster, and Loni Love among several others.

“Is It Cake?” is produced for Netflix by Alfred Street Industries. Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, and Andrew Wallace serve as executive producers. The series is based on the viral memes...

Bravo has slotted Thursday, October 14 at 9 p.m. for the Season 19 premiere of its Emmy-winning fashion competition series Project Runway.

Mentor Christian Siriano returns along with judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth, and 16 new designers from across the U.S. and abroad, each ready to prove they have what it takes to show a collection at New York Fashion Week and win the grand prize of $250,000.

As was previously reported, Karlie Kloss won’t be returning as full-time host for Season 19, but will appear occasionally throughout the season.

Additionally, digital series Project Runway Redemption premieres on Thursday, September 9, with new episodes airing every week until the Project Runway premiere. It will feature alums from Project Runway seasons 17 and 18 going head to head for a $25,000 prize.

Project Runway wrapped its 18th season on March 12, 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic started. The Season 18 finale, which featured Serena Williams as a guest judge,...

Fox released a trailer for “Our Kind of People,” premiering on Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. Et.

Inspired by Lawrence Otis Graham’s critically acclaimed book, “Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class,” the series takes place in the aspirational Martha’s Vineyard community Oak Bluffs, where the rich and powerful Black elite have come to play for over 50 years.

Starring Yaya DaCosta, Morris Chestnut, Joe Morton, Nadine Ellis, Lance Gross, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Kyle Bary and Alana Bright, the show follows a strong-willed single mom as she sets out to reclaim her family’s name and find success in her revolutionary haircare line.

“Our Kind of People” is executive produced by writer Karin Gist, Lee Daniels, Ben Silverman for Propagate, Claire Brown for The Gist Of It Productions, Marc Velez for Lee Daniels Entertainment, Pam Williams and Montrel McKay. Tasha Smith directed the series premiere.

Watch a preview below.

Netflix debuted a trailer for “The Chair,” featuring a new song by The Linda Lindas called “Oh!”

Premiering on Aug. 20, the comedy series follows Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) as she navigates her role as the first woman chair of the prestigious Pembroke University’s English department.

Jay Duplass, Holland Taylor, Bob Balaban, Nana Mensah, David Morse and Everly Carganilla also star, with Amanda Peet serving as showrunner. Oh, David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, Bernie Caulfield and Daniel Gray Longino also executive produce, while Peet, Annie Julia Wyman, Richard E. Robbins, Jennifer Kim and Andrea Troyer serve as writers. Daniel Gray Longino directs.

Watch the trailer below.

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Peacock announced its unscripted dating show “Ex-Rated” will premiere on Aug. 12. Hosted and executive produced by Andy Cohen, the new series will feature single people and their exes, asking them to rate each other in categories like communication,...

Exclusive: Nailed It! and Hell’s Kitchen production group Tinopolis has made its latest peace offer to a group of angry former producers, who are owed £50 million ($70 million) by the company after a controversial financial restructuring.

Around 15 producers, including Magical Elves founders Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, are considering taking legal action after Tinopolis wiped out the value of their loan notes in March. These loan notes were essentially IOUs promised to producers at the point they sold their company to Tinopolis.

Tinopolis said the financial restructuring was critical to securing the future of the business after it was imperiled by the coronavirus crisis. “The damage caused by Covid has been significant and a complete recovery will not be easy,” executive chair Ron Jones said in April.

Now, in a bid to head off a lawsuit, Tinopolis has offered the loan note holders a fixed cash payment of £5,000, or part...

Exclusive: Tinopolis has attempted to make peace with furious former producers, left out of pocket to the tune of £50 million ($70M) as a result of a complex and controversial financial restructuring at the Hell’s Kitchen production empire.

The UK studio has offered around 15 disgruntled producers shares in its new trading company and a small amount of cash under a deal to acquire part of a subsidiary it liquidated, citing financial difficulties relating to the coronavirus pandemic.

Tinopolis management voted in March to liquidate Dmwsl 584, which held around £50M in loan notes owed to producers who were once part of the group. These loan notes were essentially IOUs promised to producers, such as Magical Elves founders Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, at the point they sold their company to Tinopolis.

At the same time as the liquidation, Tinopolis transferred 95% of the group’s trading entities into a new management-owned company,...

Exclusive: Hell’s Kitchen studio Tinopolis may be hit with a class-action-style lawsuit and other backlash after an incandescent group of former producers were left out of pocket to the tune of £50 million ($70 million) as a result of a controversial financial restructuring.

Tinopolis is one of Britain’s largest production groups, owning 16 companies in the UK and U.S. including A. Smith & Co. Productions, which makes Hell’s Kitchen and Ninja Warrior, and Premier League soccer producer Sunset+Vine. But Tinopolis said it was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, during which revenue was dented by canceled sports events and “severe” filming restrictions in California, where it makes shows like the Rob Lowe-fronted Mental Samurai for Fox.

Tinopolis executive chairman Ron Jones launched a rescue mission that culminated in a complex financial restructuring last week. But the maneuver has stoked fury among around 15 producers who were once part of the group.

Tinopolis has completed a major financial restructuring and recapitalization after being badly hit by the coronavirus crisis — but the move has reportedly angered producers who will stand to lose money after selling their business to the Hell’s Kitchen production group.

UK-headquartered Tinopolis announced the refinancing on Monday afternoon, which will involve a “significant” injection of cash from banks, institutional funders, and management. As part of the changes, a majority shareholding in Tinopolis will be sold to a new company, which will be owned by the investors.

Tinopolis added that a non-trading subsidiary, in which loan notes (a type of I Owe You) owned by current and former management are held, will be closed. This will wipe out tens of millions of pounds owed to the founders of companies who sold their production companies to Tinopolis.

Soon after Tinopolis announced the financial restructuring, the Financial Times published a deeply reported piece on the matter,...

Project Runway will return to Bravo for its 19th season but will be missing its full-time host Karlie Kloss.

On Wednesday, Bravo revealed that the fashion competition show will begin production for the upcoming Season 19 this spring in New York City. In addition to the news, Bravo shared that Kloss will only be “making appearances” throughout the new season, as opposed to taking up her hosting gig.

Kloss served as host of the competition series since it moved from Lifetime to Bravo in 2019. Bravo did not provide additional details regarding who might fill in for Kloss going forward.

Although the supermodel, who welcomed her first child with Joshua Kushner last month, will not come back in her full hosting capacity, Bravo confirmed the return of mentor Christian Siriano and judges Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth.

Project Runway wrapped its 18th season on March 12, 2020, just as the coronavirus pandemic started.

Bravo announced Wednesday that filming for Season 19 of “Project Runway” will begin soon, the first time the fashion competition will be produced since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The reality TV perennial, which made its debut on Bravo in 2004, and brought connoisseurship to the genre, completed airing its most recent season in March of last year.

Returning to the show will be Christian Siriano, Nina Garcia, Brandon Maxwell and Elaine Welteroth. Karlie Kloss, who has been the host of “Project Runway” since the show returned to Bravo from Lifetime in Season 17, will make guest appearances. Kloss had a baby last month with her husband, Joshua Kushner, and a source told Variety that the show will be “reimagining the host role.”

Kloss’ marriage to Kushner was responsible for the show’s most viral moment of Season 18. In a challenge in which the designers were to create a dress for Kloss to wear for an event,...