In a recent article I read in Ad Age, the show "Project Runway" will be leaving Bravo and launching on Lifetime. A lawsuit was filed April 7th in New York State Supreme Court. According to Harvey Weinstein, one of the reality show's owners, he was only going to allow NBC and Bravo have "Project Runway" beyond this year if they agreed to pay for a bunch of other "second-tier" films they really did not want. And despite the fact that Mr. Weinstein promised NBC Universal President-CEO Jeff Zucker that he would not embarrass him, apparently he has.
NBC maintains that it never relinquished its right to first refusal or to any spinoffs and also states that Lifetime has been granted the right to a spinoff, and that the Weinstein Co. has also granted them to right to market and promote future episodes before the expiration of the "holdback period." NBCU is asking the court to prevent Weinstein Co. from allowing rights to anyone else other than NBCU for any future iterations of "Runway", without first honoring its right to first refusal and negotiating in good faith. The Weinstein Co. has 20 days to answer the suit.
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