Sky One cancels Project Catwalk - Will you miss it?

Sadly, there will be no more Project Catwalk after Sky One announced plans to drop the reality TV series in favour of more "female-friendly" shows. Launched back in 2006, the show aimed to discover new British fashion talent, based on the US-format of Heidi Klum's highly successful Project Runway. For the third season, Kelly Osbourne took over the reins as host from Liz Hurley. She was joined by designer Ben de Lisi, who acted as both a judge and mentor.

"Project Catwalk was a great addition to Sky1's schedule," a Sky One spokesperson said. "Kelly Osbourne, Ben de Lisi and the team have provided a fantastic platform for genuine talent, introducing the rising stars of fashion to the UK."

"We felt the series had come to a natural end and we're now looking for some new female-skewed formats for the 8pm slot to complement our success in the 9pm and 10pm hours."

In its third series, just 110,000 viewers tuned in, a drop from 300,000 viewers in its second-year run.

A bit of a blow for the fashion industry, and our yet-to-be-discovered talent. I just really hope that Kelly hasn't been beating herself up over it.

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Will you miss PC or not? Tell us by leaving your comments below.

Nati

I prefer Project Runway (PR). PR was low-budget but Project Catwalk (PC) is even more low-budget, lighting on their runway (looks like ex storage building) is just horrible, I cannot see the outfits even. There are columns everywhere so designers & judges have to squeeze in little spaces between colums, doesn't look comfortable. There is no place for the host ( Hurley) so she sits somewhere between runway and 3 judges.

I miss the PR music, I don't need to listen to all the talk on PC explaining every step designers do there, that typically British "voice over guy", I have my own eyes, I can see it, and I don't need to hear how a heavy designer walks away from the runway, I'd prefer listen to a nice soundtrack (like PR soundtracks).

Hurley is so cold, she doesn't interact with designers, she doesn't talk much at all, and doesn't kiss the designers when they leave (Heidi even being pregnant always came and kissed), hate Hurley's low voice - “Fashion has no mercy. ” Horrors!

Tim Gunn is so sweet in comparison to PC mentor who really irritates me. He talks to cameras and not to people. Watching him and Hurley is a headache. And I don't like when judges speaks bad words like crap or shit.

Why to make all the designers to pack their stuff and bring their suitcases every "runway day". There is no such thing on PR, but on PC they say because 1 of the designers will be out and will go home, they all should pack their stuff, everytime, plain stupidity, it makes people nervois, what a waste of time.

A winning designer on PC can swap the models of other two designers! why? - to "sabotage" them! 1. Why to make someone to sabotage his friends/colleagues? 2. Why to make 4 people less happy and more nervois? Those 2 designers like their models, know their bodies and their 2 models like their designers, so why to do it????! I just don't get it.

To put it briefly PC is a low quality cheap counterfeit of PR. They axed PC as nobody watched it 8) the second and third season the host was Kelly Osborne, I remember she always was on the worst dress list 8)

Valentina

I can't believe it. I adore this programme, I'm an artist and fashion designer and this was one of the few things on TV that made me smile and take notice. It kicked butt!

Natalie

ive just got into pc and i think its great its funny catty and brilliant to watch im sooooo gutted its gonna be axed not fair ive only just got sky!!!

Chantal

Its such a shame they cancelled it as i only started watching series 3. If project runway is still going on why on earth would they drop catwalk? If they wanted to boost ratings all they had to do was add a bit more glamour. Maybe put Gok Wan or Brix Smith Start as presenter keep Julian Mcdonald and Ben Di Lisi and get a decent selection of guest judges like Dita Von Teese or SJP even Emma Watson Bonnie Wright or Keira Knightley, Giles Deacon i think you get my drift. There was so much they could have done to make it better it seems such a shame that they canceled it. So many fashion students ans budding designers could have used this to get their foot in the door

DIVA

OOOOOOOOOOHHH NOOOOO!

Really enjoyed the shows - who else is going to give our young British talent a chance to expose their talents to the world!?

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