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Project Runway is set to sign on with a new producer, Bunim-Murray.

Bunim-Murray are the folks behind MTV’s “Real World” series. Talks have been going on for weeks to take over the show for Runway’s sixth season and first on the Lifetime network.

“Bunim-Murray is no stranger to Lifetime, having recently produced ‘America’s Psychic Challenge’ for the cabler. Company’s other recent credits include E!’s ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ and ‘Living Lohan.’ It also produces ‘Bad Girls Club’ for Oxygen.

“In choosing Bunim-Murray to take over the franchise, TWC and Lifetime went with a company that knows the reality space well, having produced 21 seasons of ‘The Real World.’ In the competition space, its credits include the music shows ‘Making the Band’ and ‘Born to Diva.’”

Hmmm…the same producers as ‘The Real World’ and ‘Bad Girls Club’. Why do we get the feeling that ‘Project Runway’ just got violent?

Other changes include moving the show from New York to Los Angeles. We wonder if the final contestants will show at New York Fashion Week or Los Angeles Fashion Week? The faces of Heidi Klum, Tim Gunn, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia have all signed back on.

We hope these changes don’t eff the show all up. We’ll be watching to see.

Project Runway will air their fifth and final season on Bravo this summer. It will be the last under current producer Magical Elves. (We love that name btw…Magical Elves…hehe….hehe.)

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