‘Drag Race’ fans rejoice as the show’s 90-minute runtime is restored: “Bullying works”
RuPaul’s Drag Race fans have been fighting an uphill battle this year; the show’s previous 90-minute runtime was pared down to just an hour after its move to MTV and viewers have been fighting tooth and nail to get this egregious wrong made right.A lot of that energy has been directed at the new reality show The Real Friends of WeHo, which was given a 60-minute slot between Drag Race and its sister show Untucked.
The inconvenient placement and the Deadline report that said MTV was using the Drag Race brand to try to launch the new show led many fans to believe that Real Friends was the cause of the deeply edited episodes.In a series of lengthy handwritten notes, Todrick Hall slammed detractors of Real Friends and assured that his show wasn’t the reason the runtime was cut and that 90-minute episodes wouldn’t suddenly be reinstated after his season ended.In a new announcement, the lie detector test determined that was a lie:Get ready, racers ? #DragRace returns to 90-minute episodes starting Friday March 10 at 8/7c on @MTV ?That’s right, full-sized Drag Race episodes are on the way!
This announcement comes as the change.org petition to have the show reinstated (and Real Friends booted off the air) was just a few hundred signatures away from its 35,000 signature goal.“I will not promote something that I cannot stand behind,” says ‘Real Friends Of WeHo’ cast member Dorión Renaud in a revealing new interview.Mind you, half (or more) of the season 15 cast, the largest cast in the franchise’s history, will have departed the main stage by the time its 90-minute episodes return.
