Where's 'Project Runway'? Invisible, even though a new season begins soon

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Bravo Has Zero Reason to Promote Project Runway, So It Isn't Gonna
Published 7/9/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... “A representative for the network said it was part of an effort to ‘protect the secrecy’ of the fifth season,” blogs Maureen Ryan. HAHAHAHA, please. You know the reason. ...

Is Bravo Trying to Kill Project Runway ? [Death]
Published 7/9/2008 by Richard at Gawker
... The fashion design competition show has but one short season left on Bravo, where it has helped shape and brand the once obscure network. And, hey, it starts next week! Did you know this? I certainly didn't. Where is the typical tsunami of press releases and meet-the-cast rosters and, um, internet advertising? TV writers won't even get a screener until Monday, two short days before the season premiere. What gives? ...

Bravo says it is trying to "protect the secrecy" of Project Runway 5 by ignoring it before the debut
Published 7/9/2008 by Andy Dehnart at reality blurred
... And they really are. Besides the lack of promos, The Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan notes that it's "[e]ven more strange" that "[w]e won't even be finding out who the Season 5 contestants are until Monday -- two days before the season premiere." ...

Where’s ‘Project Runway’?
Published 7/10/2008 by admin at Reality TV @ Real Television
Where’s ‘Project Runway’? On Wednesday, “Project Runway’s” fifth season begins. And guess what I have to say about that? Nothing. Because Bravo hasn’t sent out the DVD screener of the season premiere. Normally critics would have gotten that screener weeks ago. But this year, we’re not getting an advance peek at the first episode. At all. Read More Filed Under: ...

Dead Tree Alert 2: Tim Gunn Endorses Obama
Published 7/11/2008 by James Poniewozik at Tuned In - TIME.com
... Michelle Obama, that is. Also in the current print edition of TIME, Tim Gunn escapes the suspicious Bravo fortress of silence surrounding Project Runway to take 10 Questions from the readers of the magazine. None of which have to do with Project Runway itself. (I'm told, though I haven't listened, that at least some Runway questions made it into the additional set included in the podcast—they just didn't make the cut for the print issue.) But he does weigh in on the presidential election, in a way: Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain? Sharlin Aldao MIAMI LAKES, FLA. Michelle ...

Bravo Is Uncharacteristically Mum About 'Runway'
Published 7/14/2008 by Brian Stelter at TV Decoder
... . “But this time, there’s been a noticeable dearth of promotion for Bravo’s No. 1 show.” As of last week, critics had not received a screener of the season premiere. This led Maureen Ryan, the Chicago Tribune TV critic, to posit: “Maybe the network is not interested in promoting ‘PR’ any more and is giving it the kiss auf?” Bravo told Entertainment Weekly that it had waited to promote the show’s contestants until production wrapped on Sunday. The timing sure seems convenient. As for the cast, judges, challenges, and sponsors, all the details are now out. ...

Are You Excited About Project Runway 5?
Published 7/15/2008 by BuzzSugar at BuzzSugar -- Entertainment hourly.
... , all the press had been about how there was no press. Instead of the typical weeks of teasers and bus ads for this season, we've mostly been met with silence. ...