The Gist: Klum is indeed back as host, seven years after she and Tim Gunn left the show to produce and star in Making The Cut on Prime Video. However, Gunn wasn’t asked to return alongside Klum; former Runway winner Christian Siriano remains in the mentor role (he did double duty as host and mentor for the past couple of seasons).

The supermodel and executive producer Michael Rucker discuss their homecomings to the series, the dynamic cast and why Christian Siriano remained as the designer’s mentor with the network shift.

“ Project Runway ‚” which is dropping for the first time on a new channel, is releasing its 21 season’s debut episode on Thursday, July 31 on Freeform at 9 p.m. You can watch both the premiere, and future episodes, live as they air with DirecTV (free trial) or Fubo TV (free trial).