Project Runway is back

Clear a spot in your viewing schedule ("Private Practice" is lame-o anyway) - Project Runway returns for a fourth season on Nov. 14. I've seen the first episode (perk of the job). The names are new, but the characters are starting to blend together - the plump and capable funny guy, the effeminate weirdo, the antisocial girl, the arrogant butch guy. Heidi Klum looks ridiculously good. Tim Gunn needs some new lines if he has even the remotest hope of escaping the caricature he's become. Michael Kors and Nina Garcia are back for more (as if they'd give up the spotlight?). Even so, the show remains totally watchable and one of the best reality series on TV, whether or not you're obsessed with fashion. Monique Lhuillier is the first guest judge and I'd tell you who is first to be booted, but Bravo would undoubtedly hunt me down and have me permanently muzzled. Wonder if they'd use cotton or silk?