I've been a dedicated viewer of Runway, and I didn't watch this one very much at all. Why? 1. The Olympics. 2. DNC and RNC conventions, back to back, immediately following the Olympics. 3. By this point, I was out of the loop and didn't feel like catching up.
It's interesting they are claiming that it was underpromoted. I did notice one thing: I used to receive a teaser e-mail from Bravo on the day of the show, suggesting that I watch that night. This season, they didn't send those messages until after the episode aired, to let you know what happened. KR -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark J. Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 5:01 PM To: TVorNotTV Subject: [TV orNotTV] Runwaygate: Harvey Sez NBCU Didn't Promote Season 5 In the latest skirmish over "Project Runway," The Weinstein Co. says that Bravo didn't promote the recently-aired season 5 (which may be the last aired season if Lifetime is stopped from showing season 6) and diluted the value by copycat reality comp series (most of which were developed by Bravo and former "Runway" co-producer Magical Elves when both were still in Harvey's good graces) and overscheduling (which Bravo has done with almost *every one* of their original series and what they consider keys to the series' success): http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i28df3 fc9f6707d14674165924e868431 NBCU says that Season 5 of "Runway" was the series' highest-rated--and would probably like to mention that this all would not have taken place had Harvey not tried to make Bravo take a package of his TWC theatrical feature bombs (which has been almost EVERY SINGLE ONE of his releases since he left Disney in a huff) along with a multi-year contract for "Runway." --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
