Project Runway 8

['Project Runway' - 'A Look in the Line']

The previews for this week's 'Project Runway' really hyped-up the big cheating scandal, which turned out to be, well, over-hyped. It wasn't dramatic and it didn't impact the contestants at all. Also, the previews had Tim Gunn telling some mystery person that they will not be returning to the show. That scene never happened.

The challenge this week was to create a look for Heidi's activewear line for New Balance, and the big twist was that they had to make a mini collection of three looks. Oddly enough, none of the clothes in Heidi's dossier were actual exercise clothes, but rather things that Heidi imagined normal people would wear in the real world.

To her all women like drab grays, blacks and oversized elements. While the contestants had money to buy fabric at Mood, Heidi emphasized using fabric she already had in her line because of cost issues.

In addition to the usual stresses and strains, bitchiness, in-fighting, and flashes of sheer design brilliance that we've come to expect from the show, 'Project Runway' fans can expect a few changes when it returns for its eighth season tonight. In an interview with tvguide.com, host and creator Heidi Klum dropped some hints as to what we can expect.

First up, the show's now starting at 9PM ET instead of 10PM ET (check your DVRs, people), and is 90-minutes long instead of 60. Klum said she always thought the original start time was too late, so now we can all watch a longer show and still catch up on our beauty sleep a whole half hour earlier than before.

Plus, having an extra 30 minutes in the show means we'll get to see much more of the judges' deliberation: "Elimination day is all day, but on the show it was down to about 10 minutes. ... Now we have the freedom to show it much longer than we ever could," says Klum.

After seven seasons the competing designers are, by now, knowledgeable fans of the show who know what's coming and know (or think they know) how to play the game. So, this season will throw them some curve balls, such as the first-ever hat challenge, and Klum says this time around "we are going a little harder on the designers and with the challenges. We just try to pump it up a little more and give the designers twists. ... We need to surprise them too, and not just viewers at home."