Reality TV News, Notes: Bravo Adds to Lineup

Bravo has announced a couple of news reality shows, each of which sounds similar to a couple of other reality shows.

First, the network is developing Top Chef: Masters, a Top Chef spinoff that will pit culinary professionals against one another in a series of weekly challenges.

Unlike Top Chef, which focuses on amateurs in the kitchen, the news series cast "some of the brightest stars in the world of food, award-winning, widely-renowned chefs," according to Bravo's press release.

Meanwhile, with Project Runway moving to Lifetime after this season, Bravo needs a replacement.

It has announced an American adaptation of Fashion House, a former European reality show that features teams of designers living together, creating entire lines of designs.

Fashion House aired for seven weeks in Fall 2003 and featured 20 young European designers that were organized into four five-person teams representing Great Britain, Italy, Sweden, and France competing against each other at a "fashion house" set within Rome's Costume and Fashion Academy.

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