“ ” is making it work, returning for Season 21 and moving from Bravo to Disney. The fashion competition series will air on the Disney-owned Freeform network before being available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu. Debuting sometime in 2025, Season 21 will consist of 10 episodes, aired weekly.
Freeform closed an agreement with Spyglass Media Group, producers of “Project Runway” since Season 17, to bring the show over from the NBCUniversal-owned Bravo network. A host, judges and premiere date have yet to be announced. Since debuting on Bravo in 2004, “Project Runway” has bounced between networks, producers and hosts.
Heidi Klum hosted the series for its first 16 seasons, with Tim Gunn serving as the designers’ mentor. They both left “Project Runway” in 2018 to lead their own fashion competition show, “Making the Cut,” on Amazon Prime Video. Karlie Kloss took over hosting duties of “Project Runway” for the next two seasons, with Season 4 winner Christian Siriano serving as mentor.
For Seasons 19 and 20, Siriano took over for Kloss and pulled double duty as host and mentor. Meanwhile, the series was also embroiled in a messy dispute between networks and production companies after producers the Weinstein Company announced that the show would move from Bravo to Lifetime, prompting a yearslong legal battle. Eventually, Harvey Weinstein’s company agreed to pay NBCUniversal an undisclosed settlement for the right to move “Project Runway” to Lifetime, where.