There was a time when Carson Kressley was the golden boy of a little network called Bravo, an underdog in a sea of cable channels looking to cement their voices. He led four other charges on a New York metro area witch hunt for heterosexual fashion mistakes on a show called Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, later chopped down to just Queer Eye. After a season or two, his show began tanking in the rankings, and its buzz factor wore off as other programs with similar formats entered the market. Kressley looked doomed to be ushered into the shadows of reality television has-beens. And then Lifetime came knocking. They had a little show called How to Look Good Naked naked they wanted him to host, and in February 2007, word arrived he'd be leading yet another makeover show about feeling good about yourself, but this time for women. When the show premiered nearly a year later in January, it set record numbers with Lifetime; 1.6 million viewers tuned in, and Kressley was solidified as a television commodity. Very quickly, Kressley became the male face of Lifetime; perhaps more importantly, it was Lifetime's acknowledgment that its unofficial tagline, "Television for women (and gay men)" was part of its operating procedure. So it's only logical, then, that Lifetime wants to extend its investment in Kressley. With his own talk show. This is big.

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• Aw, fake news anchor and all-around nice guy Jon Stewart has pledged to continue paying his writers' salaries for up to two weeks! At which point, they'll all be fired.

• Is creating a website to find a random girl on the 4 train creepy or endearing? And, more importantly, will it get you laid?

• When you're standing next to a drag queen, it's hard not to look manly. And yet, Carson Kressley pulls it off masterfully.

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Now that we are pretty much over Hearst's big move (though anyone who has pictures from inside Cosmo, please feel free to forward!) our interest over this latest media transfer piqued our interests a bit. Turns out (like we really know where radio folks are kept captive) WNYC has had its staffers stashed in a real shithole over on Centre Street, forced to work amongst a sea of coffee stains and dilapidation.

But those days are through. The radio program is moving on up to the chic streets of Varick and Vandam, merely a crosstown skip from the likes of Nerve, BlackBook, and Mediabistro. But the new space will have other perks, too: room for staffers, windows, cockroach free bathrooms, and seats that aren't broken. It's even (unlike their previously government run HQ) gay friendly.

And with less cumbersome security requirements than at the Municipal Building, should he agree to revisit, Carson Kressley of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” would probably not be late for a radio interview — as he was a while back — because of panic that his large, spiked belt contained explosives.

Though, if there is anyone out there who wants to bomb their new digs, we know we can always count on the New York Times to show them how.

WNYC’s Planned Move Will Finish Its Breakup With the City [Glenn Collins, New York Times]