On the bright side, we've still got all of our original judges, Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum. And if you check out the designers' profiles on Lifetime.com, they don't immediately seem like terrible humans or anything. There's a pretty good selection of glasses and hairstyles amongst them, so there's that.

The press release says that this first episode is supposed to feature "one of the toughest first challenges in the series' history." Is this for the competitors, or just a note on how hard the producers are going to have to work to make us believe in this series again? Either way: Make it work.

Project Runway premieres tonight at 9 PM on Lifetime.