All episodes Season 5 S05E01 2008-07-16 90 min 2000s Bravo/Lifetime

Project Runway

Let's Start from the Beginning

TV Flash files “Let's Start from the Beginning” as the first listed hour of season 5 — Project Runway (2004–present) on Bravo/Lifetime, season 5, episode 1, aired 2008-07-16, 90 min.

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How this hour is filed

This leaf is S05E01: listed hour 54 of 303 in the Project Runway guide, first listed hour of season 5. It aired 2008-07-16 (90 min). The listed hour before it is “Finale, Part 2” (S04E14). Next is “Grass is Always Greener” (S05E02).

Project Runway — Let's Start from the Beginning (S05E01)

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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.

The 16 new designers are introduced and their first challenge: making clothing out of unusual sources.

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Where does Let's Start from the Beginning sit in the Project Runway guide?

S05E01 is listed hour 54 of 303 — first listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 1.

When did Project Runway S05E01 air?

Let's Start from the Beginning aired 2008-07-16 and is listed at 90 minutes.

Bravo or Lifetime — does the move matter?

It premiered on Bravo in 2004 and moved networks while remaining a franchise pillar. Timed challenges, Gunn, Heidi's verdict are the grammar.

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Why this series still plays

One day you're in, the next you're out, and Tim Gunn is murmuring make it work like a secular blessing. Project Runway turned designer panic into elimination sport — timed challenges, fluorescent craft, Heidi's verdict, mentorship as the actual weekly drama.

One day you're in, the next you're out, and that is not a catchphrase so much as a crime-scene label on a workroom. Eli Holzman and Jonathan Murray's Project Runway premiered on Bravo in 2004, later Lifetime, remaining a franchise pillar: Heidi Klum as host/judge, Tim Gunn murmuring make it work like a secular blessing, Nina Garcia, Michael Kors. Aspiring designers, timed challenges, fluorescent craft, elimination sport. Gunn as mainstream mentor icon. Twenty-two seasons and counting in this pack, 303 episodes.…

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