BY DAVID HINCKLEY
DAILY NEWS TV CRITIC
Okay, "Project Runway" fans, you can exhale now.
The spirit of this high-strung design competition has not been broken by its noisy, messy move from Bravo to Lifetime. It does not play like Melrose Place has suddenly been transplanted to Green Acres.
Heidi Klum still smiles as she slips the contestants a subtle warning about what they're walking into. Tim Gunn, who supervises the process, remains one of the most underappreciated hosts anywhere on TV.
Nor does tonight's long-awaited season-six premiere suggest that moving from New York to Los Angeles makes all that much difference when we get to the fun part, which is seeing the screws tighten on the 16 contestants.
That still happens, early and often...
read on!
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