Project Runway
Designers given a day and a budget, and Heidi Klum telling one of them they are out.
No single version of the Project Runway titles stands for the rest, so the clip here collects them together across seasons 1–4.
It arrived on Bravo in 2004, when Strong Medicine was also on the network.
The opening titles
Seasons 1–4
108sThe first four seasons' openings in order, rather than the companion series Models of the Runway that had been ranking above them. Filed the way Parks and Recreation is, against every season the compilation covers.
More documentary opening titles from the 2000s
1 sequence
Dancing with the Stars
The American Strictly, which runs two seasons a year and rebuilds its titles for most of them.
- Season 10
2 sequences
Survivor
The competition format that rebuilt American primetime, and rebuilds its titles for every location.
- Season 1
- Season 50
1 sequenceHell's Kitchen
Flames, a skull made of a chef's hat, and Gordon Ramsay shouting — the titles tell you exactly what the hour is.
- Season 1
1 sequenceRuPaul's Drag Race
Eighteen seconds that get remade every season — new logo treatment, new track, new set of queens.
- Season 1
1 sequenceAmerican Idol
The talent format that ran American primetime for a decade, opening on a spotlight and a logo that spins.
- Season 1
2 sequences
Top Gear
Twenty-one seconds of engine noise and a rock riff — a motoring programme that opens like a trailer for itself.
- Season 1
- Season 23