Girl vs. Boy

Project Despair Runway

Posted by: icagirl on: April 2, 2009

Okay, I consider myself open to new channels - I mean that strictly in the television sense of the word channels not the freaky invite for demons to abscond with my brain kind of channel – but I just found out that one of my favorite shows is moving… Project Runway will now be on… Lifetime.  Which… yuck.  I think of Lifetime and (sorry to Lifetime and anyone who routinely enjoys it) I think of sappy, dramatic, unrealistically drenched-in-their-own-tears movies based on books I read only when in the throws of the deepest, darkest depression. 

And maybe that’s the point – maybe Lifetime realizes that’s what I think and in an obvious attempt to get me to tune into their strange, sappy network, they will be hosting shows that I like… Not too many of them, obviously, because they need to keep their core viewership of people who like to cry.  It’s like when Sears was like, “Dudes like us, but the ladies do not.  What can we do?” and some marketing genius came up with “Come see the softer side of Sears”and BAM!  All the sudden there were ladies shopping in Sears.  It was like… what?  really?  But, there they were, and I will be just like that lady in hot pink heels passing the Whirlpool dryers on her way to the lingerie section – only I’ll be sitting in front of Boy’s television, chomping on popcorn, watching Lifetime so that I can see Heidi & Nina & Tim & Michael being wonderful and awesome!

2 Responses to "Project Despair Runway"

I feel exactly the same. Bravo is *sassy* and Lifetime is lame and emotionally manipulative. I *love* to cry in front of the TV, and even I won’t cry along with Lifetime.

Yes – sassy is the perfect word!!! I’m afraid that the new channel will seriously dement the show… Also, there will definitely be weepy commercials :-(

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