Having Lost Project Runway, Bravo Picks Up SJP's Reality Show
The Sarah Jessica Parker-backed reality show that promised to be the Project Runway of the art world has finally been picked up by Bravo, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
America Artist is an hour-long art competition show in which contestants compete in front of judges—start guessing names!—to draw, paint, sculpt, and hopefully do some performance art until a winner is chosen. (Then all they have to do is go on to have a successful career in the art world.)
The show was created by Ms. Parker's production company, Pretty Matches, that she runs with partner Alison Benson, and The Magical Elves, better known as Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, whose credits include Bravo's Project Runway, Top Chef, and Top Design.
The show was shopped around earlier this year, but it wasn't until Bravo lost Project Runway to Lifetime that Bravo decided to give it a go.
The network is expected to announce the deal on Sunday at the Television Critics Association press tour.
Perhaps the contestant list could include a magician who could make Ms. Jessica-Parker's last venture "Bitten" reappear like magic from the land of too-good-to-be-true scams and schemes.
Audrey Roberts, creator of the ARTV AWARDS, which aired on Bravo, March 2007, also submitted the ART REALITY SHOW concept to NBC Bravo titled " ART STAR" In 2006....
Funny, how Ms. Parker's production company is taking credit??? Dan Cutforth is a producer at Bravo.
Having been in the arts for 35 years, my main objective is to get artists in front of a larger audience. Therefore, project " ART STAR" will be shopped around to networks to compete with this show. Hopfully, it will have a impact much like AMERICAN IDOL!
ARTV has over 100 fine fine artists in 15 different mediums already done as a pilot to launch. The last artist standing
will go to the 3rd International ARTV AWARDS as " Artist of the year"! see trailers of awards event from Las Vegas.
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sarah jessica parker has come a long way from playing the dog in the broadway show ANNIE.
The ARTV reality Pilot, created by Audrey Roberts, has changed its name for the show!
The "BIG BRUSH OFF"! ARTV will be screening fine artists at the ART EXPO -Las Vegas - September 19-21, 2008 at Mandalay Bay! We look forward to competing with Bravo in bringing the fine artists "Out from BEHIND the CANVAS"!
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