Project Runway - Season Eleven - premieres January 24th @ 9pm

[Arielflies]

No to the teams all season long. But, maybe a team will be eliminated each week. I still smell disaster.

Zac Pozen is a more "modern" designer than Kors so this should be interesting.

[pikachu]

We might have to use more artifices here at the forum to keep watching the show. Perhaps a weekly challenge, a drinking game, snarky recaps, etc? The show alone doesn't sound like it will keep us entertained.

[bevorules]

The news I saw had Teams all season long but I imagine they will break that for the final runway collection for the finale. I hope so anyway. MK is my favorite judge so I will be a bit sad that he will be missing but I did like ZP for the challenges that he guest judged on in prior seasons.

[Little Sew&Sew]

Here's the link to the page where you can find bios on all of the upcoming contestants: Project Runway Season 11 Portfolio - myLifetime.com

[Little Sew&Sew]

Here's a rundown of their names/hometowns/ages:

Amanda Valentine - Nashville TN - 31
Benjamin Mach - Sydney, Australia - 35
Cindy Marlatt - Kent WA - 59
Daniel Esquivel - Austin TX - 48
Emily Pollard - Falls Church VA - 24
James Martinez - Dallas TX - 29
Joseph Aaron Segal - Providence RI - 30
Kate Pankoke - Chicago IL - 23
Layana Aguilar - New York NY - 28
Matthew Arthur - New Orleans LA - 30
Michelle Lesniak Franklin - Portland OR - 34
Patricia Michaels - Taos NY - 46
Richard Hallmarq - Sacramento CA - 39
Samantha Black - Brooklyn NY - 28
Stanley Hudson - West Hollywood CA - 44
Tu Suthiwat Nakchat -Springfield, VA - 26

[Little Sew&Sew]

Don't Forget . . . . there will be TWO episodes next week (January 24th) to mark the premiere of the new season.

First episode, airing from 8 to 9pm
Road to the Runway Season 11:
Introducing designers from the upcoming season of ``Project Runway''; commentary with former contestants Mondo Guerra and Laura Kathleen.

Second episode, airing from 9 to 10:30pm
There Is No I in Team:
Sixteen designers are surprised to discover that they will be participating in the series' first teams edition; the designers must use New York as the inspiration for their garments.

[Tilden]

I can't recall a team challenge I actually liked, and now they're doing a whole season of them? Ugh. PR has become less and less interesting since it moved to Lifetime, and the team concept strikes me as a really bad idea. Kind of like the dreadful "family" season of AR.

[Little Sew&Sew]

Here's the write-up EW magazine wrote in their "What To Watch" section - Oscar edition (Jan 25 & Feb 1 - special double issue)

The decision to fill this season with team challenges has fans up in arms. Nobody likes forced collaboration because it prevents designers from going after their own unique vision. Luckily, the contestants are judged individually and each team's work doesn't have to be cohesive, so it's not a drastic shake-up. The bigger change: Michael Kors is out and Zac Posen is in, meaning a noticeable decrease in catty one-liners. But there's still fun to be had - try drinking every time a contestant say some variation of "I am not a team player".

[Allie]

Here's the write-up EW magazine wrote in their "What To Watch" section - Oscar edition (Jan 25 & Feb 1 - special double issue)

The decision to fill this season with team challenges has fans up in arms. Nobody likes forced collaboration because it prevents designers from going after their own unique vision. Luckily, the contestants are judged individually and each team's work doesn't have to be cohesive, so it's not a drastic shake-up. The bigger change: Michael Kors is out and Zac Posen is in, meaning a noticeable decrease in catty one-liners. But there's still fun to be had - try drinking every time a contestant say some variation of "I am not a team player".

So if they are judged individually and the work doesn't have to be cohesive, why have teams? What point it there? Would love to know what is different or what it adds.

[MFWalkoff]

It's yet another way that the producers can secretly play with results and save bad designers because they are good television.

Apparently Tim Gunn was a big proponent of this twist -- I doubt he realized these unintended consequences.