Lifetime goes for broke, brings in Trump

April 14, 2008 NEW YORK -- "Project Runway" made a splash at Lifetime Networks' upfront presentation Monday, in some ways overshadowing the cable network's new development slate that includes "Trump Tower," a soap executive produced and narrated by Donald Trump. "Runway" exec producer Harvey Weinstein and co-star Tim Gunn took the stage in midtown Manhattan a week after the bombshell announcements of "Runway's" moving from NBC Universal's Bravo to Lifetime and of NBC Universal filing a lawsuit against the Weinstein Co. to block the switch. Declining comment on the lawsuit, Weinstein said that "Runway" at Lifetime and Disney (which owns 50% of the cable channel) would be "bigger, better but still keeping the idealism" that has made it a hit during its three years on Bravo.

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