The appearance of Sarah Jessica Parker gave me pause - we have never seen the executive producers of any other Bravo network shows make an appearance. Maybe that's because they are not famous in their own right, as SJP is. But why does Bravo even need SJP's Sex and the City fortunes anyway? At first, this seems like a simple show to produce. All they need is a studio and some art supplies - and the grand prize of $100,000 is a lot of money for someone to receive but not a lot for a cable network to give away. Then I started to wonder about the show's rules concerning property, mainly the property of the artist.
Does the show take possession of the artworks produced specifically for the show? In a way, it's like Bravo is commissioning the pieces. I hope they worked out some sort of arrangement with the artists that allows them to keep their own work without having to give any profits to a sold piece (if they even choose to sell them) back to Bravo. Maybe that's where Ms. Bueller-Parker comes in - maybe she's making up for the lost revenue. With Top Chef, they can market cook books and have even started featuring Top Chef contenders in pay-per-view cooking lessons on bravotv.com. They can't really do the same with their Works of Art contestants.
Then again, they couldn't market their Project Runway contestants like that either, so I wonder what the story is here.
No matter what, I just hope the artists aren't getting screwed.
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