Even if Project Runway's imminent departure from Bravo seems trapped in a seemingly endless on-again/off-again limbo, the cable network won't become a chic-free zone if Tim Gunn (above), Heidi Klum and the gang set sail for Lifetime.

Bravo recently announced four new shows for the fashion lover in you. Find out more about them after the break!

In the two-part finale of the Heidi Chronicles video blog, John and Colin head over to Bryant Park to discuss the big finish of Project Runway Season 5. And once the winner is crowned, Colin welcomes Season 4 faves Chris March and Kevin Christiana to discuss the good, the bad, and of course the ugly.

Check it all out after the break!

That's right, folks: Our debate fatigue has gotten to us and we're liveblogging the big finale of Project Runway Season 5 ... so that we can be good and pickled by the time we watch Obama and McCain on our DVR.

Seeing as how none of Team Gay made the final 3, this may seem like an anticlimactic year. And in some ways it is ... but we're die-hard PR fans and if nothing else, tonight we'll get to see everyone's favorite mentor and Dapper Dan Tim Gunn sit in the judge's seat for the first time. I'm just looking forward to seeing some of the words Tim will come up with to describe Leanne, Korto and Kenley's final looks. (Resplendent? Mellifluous? Onomatopoeia?)

Join us after the jump and refresh often to join the fun, as-it-happens (updates will appear at the bottom of the page, real-time). Make a cocktail and make it work!

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This year's Emmy Awards added a category for Outstanding Reality TV Host, and now the LA Times is reporting that next year's awards might add another reality TV prize, this one for reality TV judges.

My first reaction was surprise. After watching the five nominees for Outstanding Reality Host share hosting duties, I started questioning what qualified any one of them for an award. How could someone be up for an Outstanding Reality Show Host award at an event where there were doing such a bad job of hosting the industry's biggest reality show? It's kinda like if the 2002 Oscars ceremony (when Chicago took Best Picture) opened with Richard Gere and Catherine Zeta-Jones unironically recreating that infamous Snow White/Rob Lowe musical number.

And then came my second reaction: "Tim Gunn still wouldn't be eligible for an Emmy!" While there would be plenty of gays eligible for the award (such as Dancing with the Stars' Bruno Tonioli, Project Runway's Michael Kors or Top Design's Jonathan Adler) I keep thinking it'd make more sense to dedicate the category to any supporting cast member. While hosting a reality show does have its unique demands, I don't see a Nigel Barker bringing a dynamic to America's Next Top Model that a Jay Manuel couldn't.

What do you think? Will a Best Reality Show Judge Emmy debut as badly as the hosting award did? Which gay reality show regulars do you think deserve some recognition?

Let's discuss it in the comments!

Last night the first half of the two-part Project Runway finale threw a few curveballs at the four remaining designers, who were sent off to create their final collections for Bryant Park with the knowledge that one of them would not be in the running to win the competition when they returned (they would all actually show, of course ... and then some!).

If you remember the previous episode, Jerell won the evening gown challenge and Kenley and Korto tied for the lose ... but the whole "we're sending everyone home!" gag meant that even Jerell could be up for elimination when they returned to NYC. Not that this is meant to foreshadow anything.

As the episode starts we learn that Heidi and her fellow behind-the-scenes sadists have thrown another challenge at the designers: one of their final looks must be a wedding dress. Ugh. You mean "being the last deckhands on a sinking ship of a series" wasn't punishment enough, and now they have to find their inner David's Bridal as well?

You're a cruel mistress, Frau Klum.

As though we needed reminding, a bit more time is spent cementing Kenley's spot as the resident brat, with her claiming that she was "sabotaged" on the runway (um ... I don't think that word means what you think it means) and Korto's calling her "rude as hell" and commenting on her "stinky attitude". Glad that's all out of the way.

The designers are shipped home (likely in boxes, given the apparent budget this season ... they aren't even offering press photos for the episodes anymore!) and Globetrotting Gay Uncle Tim Gunn is dispatched to visit them to check on their progress.

First up is Korto, who is holed up in an amazing forest retreat in Arkansas and drawing from grass and snakes and stuff for her final collection.

The colors are stunning and it's what we've come to expect from the gal ... until she pulls out a drum and plays a duet with one of her friends. It's pretty damn cool, I must say ... although was I the only one secretly hoping that Tim would start dancing like the Fussy Old White guy in a Chris Rock movie?

Next up is Leanne in Portland (one of my favorite cities ever, I must add). Her line is water-based (like Astroglide!) and features the pleated foldy-wavey things that have become her hallmark and lots of seafoamy aquas.

She actually manages to outdo Korto's drum party by getting Tim on a "bicycle built for two" and taking him on a picnic, like this was a Donald and Daisy Duck cartoon.

Seriously, though ... am I the only one who had something snap into place when Tim got on the bike? It's like the accessory he's been missing all along:

He'd be a waxed mustache away from being a megaphone crooner!

Guten Tag, Heidi Chronicles viewers! John and Colin apologize for the lateness of their recap this week - but the Logo mothership moved offices and they fell a little behind on their vlogging. (I'm sure the booze and beer bottles that appear in this week's ep had nothing to do with it...)

But! The fellas still watched this week's nature-themed / L'Oreal-themed episode of Project Runway and had a thing or two to say regarding ... Kenley's Ursula dress, what Kenley should have said to Heidi on the runway and how Jerell seems to be enjoying his new-found alone time (mmmm ... lemony ...).

Check it out after the break.

Okay, this was hands-down the best Project Runway of this otherwise rather lackluster season. Not because the designs were particularly inspired or because the challenge was especially unique or exciting (because they weren't), but because it delivered in two of the most important of the reality show columns:

Tears and talkback.

We may be in the homestretch already, but it's never too late for the waterworks to sluice in and wash away a competition's sins, as last night's episode proved beautifully. After having been beaten down by sleep deprivation, repeated "licious"ings, and the Voluptuous Horror of Nina Garcia, the four remaining designers (Korto, Jerell, Kenley, and Leanne) all delivered buckets of tears.

And it was good.

Before things kick off, we check in with the Final Four, who are a little worse for the wear, at this point. Kenley and Leanne are in full-on Crystal and Alexis mode, with Kenley accusing Leanne of "sabotaging" her hip-hop outfit (am I the only one BEGGING for Leanne's buffalo girl hairdo from last week to somehow reappear?) and Leanne thinks, correctly, that Kenley is a grade A brat.

Meanwhile, poor Jerell is all alone in the boys' dorm and has taken to assigning the names of his departed brethren to inanimate objects (including an Aunt Jemima syrup bottle) and making them talk to one another. Nope, nothing odd going on here! 

This week's challenge involved a trip to the New York Botanical Gardens (swoooon) in which the Designsketeers were supposed to draw inspiration from nature for an evening gown. For some reason L'Oreal's Collier Strong is waiting amongst the bouganvalia to give them the details of their challenge ... okay, already I'm confused. It already feels like they came up with this challenge idea at the last minute, and having the makeup guy lurking in the perennial beds isn't exactly helping the concept to gel for me.

Still, they're gonna get $250 for fabric and two days for this puppy, so it could be good.

Only it's not.

At Mood (which will play an important role in tonight's drama), Jerell points out that "there's such a thin line between luxury and low class". Churrrrrch. And wait a second, did someone just leave one of their bags at the counter by accident?

Dun-dun-dunnnnnnnnn!

And Then There Were Four... or, as we like to think of this week's design-for-each-other Project Runway challenge, And Then They Finally Got Rid of Suede... or, according to most PR fans out there, And Then Kenley Crossed The Line And Now She's Evil.

Whatever you took away, for this week's edition of The Heidi Chronicles John and Colin discuss the Kenley hostility - probably not that serious - Kenley's hip-hop outfit - not that bad, really! - and a certain Blind Item which might explain Nina Garcia's two-episode absence. Eek!

Check it out after the break.