“ 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).

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.

It lost Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn, but brought in Karlie Kloss and Christian Siriano. Then Kloss left and Siriano did double duty. Now, the show is on its third network — Freeform, backed by streaming on Hulu and Disney+ — with Klum returning as host.