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The reset the format survives.
The relaunch. New host, new mentor, new panel, same Manhattan workroom — the show rebuilt around fresh chairs.
Four format changes, one relaunch.
The reboot. Project Runway returns to Bravo with the biggest reset in its history — a new host, a former winner installed as the workroom mentor, and a refreshed judges' table, all in the Manhattan workroom the format was built around. The new creative team finds its chemistry quickly, and the season's argument is that the format survives a full personnel change because the format was always the show. The canon places it at the top of the modern era.
The #09 slot.
Slot #09 of 21 in the Project Runway Editor's Canon. Season seventeen is the reboot, and the canon ranks it as the high mark of the modern era. Project Runway returned to Bravo with the biggest personnel reset in its history — a new host, a former winner installed as the workroom mentor, a rebuilt judges' table — and the Manhattan workroom carried it without a stumble. The new creative team finds its chemistry fast, and the season's argument lands cleanly: the format survives a full change of chairs because the format was always the show. tiered.tv places it ninth because the relaunch is the most consequential structural success in the catalog after the early Bravo run.
3 moments, no spoilers.
- Ep 1 · The reset
The biggest format reset in the show's history lands in the opener. Watch the new host, the new mentor, and the refreshed panel establish the rebooted dynamic.
- Ep 5 · New chemistry
By this stretch the new creative team has found its footing. Notice how the workroom mentor's read differs from the classic era's — a different presence in the same room.
- Ep 10 · Late run
The pre-finale field narrows here. Watch the rebuilt judges' table operate at speed once the ensemble settles into its rhythm.