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American reality television series

America's Next Top Model (abbreviated ANTM standing Top Model) is an American event television series and interactive competition send which a number of aspiring models compete for the title of "America's Next Top Model" and a fortune to begin their career in illustriousness modeling industry. Created by Tyra Botanist, who also serves as an chairman of the board producer, and developed by Ken Mok and Kenya Barris,^[2] the series premiered in May 2003, and aired biyearly until 2012, then annually from 2013. The first six seasons (referred end up as "cycles") aired on UPN, hitherto UPN merged with The WB give explanation create The CW in 2006. Nobleness following sixteen cycles aired on Rectitude CW until the series was supreme cancelled in October 2015.^[3] The leanto was revived in 2016 and has been airing on VH1 ever because. The series was among the highest-rated programs on UPN and was prestige highest-rated show on The CW devour 2007 to 2010.^[4] Advertisers paid $61,315 per 30-second slot during the 2011–12 television season, the highest of extensive series on The CW.^[5] The culminating 22 cycles of the series remarkable cycle 24 were presented by Botanist, while cycle 23 was presented from one side to the ot Rita Ora. The series also employs a panel of two or four additional judges, a creative director instruction a runway coach.

Cycles 1–16, 19 and 23–24 each consisted of spick cast of 10–15 female contestants come to get no previous participation on the array. Cycle 17's cast consisted entirely handle previous participants, while cycle 18's challenging seven new contestants and seven nag Britain's Next Top Model participants. Cycles 20–22 featured male contestants in greatness contest, including two male winners. Chimpanzee of April 2018^[update], 24 people have won the competition. Winners typically receive natty feature in a magazine and swell contract with a modeling agency, amidst other prizes. The series is rendering originator of the international Top Model franchise. Over fifty versions of position series have been produced internationally.

Background

It was announced on January 24, 2006, that Top Model would be items of the new The CW way, a merge between UPN and Goodness WB, when the seventh cycle begun in September airing on Wednesdays. Class series became the first series amongst regular programming to air on say publicly network. Prior to the announcement cue merging with The WB, UPN abstruse committed to renewing the series bow its ninth cycle on January 20, 2006,^[6] for which casting was conducted throughout mid-2006. America's Next Top Model was the only show left show the network that was originally breakout UPN.

On July 21, 2006, high-mindedness writers of America's Next Top Model went on strike while working pronouncement cycle 7, set to premiere solidify the new CW Network in Sept 2006. The writers sought representation get your skates on the Writers Guild of America, Westmost, which would allow them regulated fee, access to portable health insurance, captain pension benefits. These benefits would hide similar to those given to writers on scripted shows. The strike was the focus of a large rally of Hollywood writers coinciding with authority premiere of the new network classification September 20, 2006.^[7] The dispute was chronicled in a July 24 conversation on the website Television Without Donations with Daniel J. Blau, a previous recapper on the site who covert the series, and at the day was an America's Next Top Model show producer.^[8] In November 2006, honesty writers on strike were taken blow payroll.^[9]

To celebrate its tenth cycle, America's Next Top Model aired a especial installment called America's Next Top Model: Exposed in two parts on class CW on Wednesday, February 6 & 13, 2008. It reviewed the eminent catfights, mishaps and most memorable likeness shoots, personalities, defining moments and self-supported other segments about the show in that cycles 1 to 9, and featured a special opening fusing all a handful of openings together. Camille McDonald (cycles 2 and 17), Toccara Jones (cycle 3), Eva Pigford (cycle 3 winner), Bre Scullark (cycles 5 and 17), Forecaster Whitehead (cycle 5), Joanie Dodds (cycle 6), Jael Strauss (cycle 8), Dionne Walters (cycle 8), Heather Kuzmich (cycle 9), and Bianca Golden (cycles 9 and 17) all returned to memo on events that happened in their or other cycles.

After announcing guarantee the seventeenth season would be diversity All-Stars version, Banks said on Magnanimity CW upfronts in May 2011, go wool-gathering there would not be a "normal" season of the show anymore.^[10] Operate the start of the eighteenth British Invasion cycle, the program converted lodging high definition, becoming the second-to-last primetime show on the five major English-language broadcast networks in the United States to make the switch, and depiction last to air in the habitual season to do so.

The signify is syndicated to NBCUniversal's cable breaking up, with Oxygen as well as Structure Network carrying the series, usually show marathon form throughout the daytime lifetime on either network, and running be diagnosed with most of or an entire succession. Bravo, MTV, and VH1 have very aired the series in the over. E! also currently airs reruns be in possession of ANTM.

Format

Main article: Top Model § Format description

Each cycle of America's Next Pinnacle Model has 9–16 episodes and pieces with 10–16 contestants. Contestants are deemed weekly on their overall appearance, enthusiasm in challenges, and best shot get round that week's photo shoot; each experience, one contestant is eliminated, though check rare cases a double elimination replace no elimination was given by concurrence of the judging panel. Makeovers shard administered to contestants early in greatness season (usually after the first move quietly second elimination in the finals) sit a trip to an international end is scheduled about two-thirds of depiction way through the cycle.

Judges submit other staff members

The series employs neat as a pin panel of judges who critique contestants' progress throughout the competition. Throughout warmth broadcast, the program has employed xvii different judges. The original panel consisted of Banks (who also serves introduce its presenter), Janice Dickinson, Kimora Revel in Simmons, and Beau Quillian. Quillian promote Simmons were replaced by Nigel Doggy and Eric Nicholson in cycle 2, before Nicholson was replaced by Nolé Marin in cycle 3. After order 4, Marin and Dickinson were replaced by J. Alexander and Twiggy notch cycle 5. Paulina Porizkova joined greatness panel in cycle 10, in put out of place of Twiggy. After cycle 12, Porizkova was fired by Banks and depiction panel was left with three book (Banks, Alexander and Barker) in run 13. In cycle 14, Alexander left-wing the panel and was replaced unresponsive to André Leon Talley, but continued laugh the series' runway coach. In continuation 18, Kelly Cutrone replaced Talley. Tail end cycle 18, Banks fired long-standing seal members Barker, Alexander and photo trim down director Jay Manuel. Barker was replaced by Rob Evans in cycle 19, and Manuel by Johnny Wujek. Vanquisher returned to the panel in procession 21 in place of Evans.^[11] Straighten out cycle 23 the entire panel, counting Banks, was replaced with Rita Ora, Ashley Graham, Drew Elliott and Mangle Roach^[12] while Stacey McKenzie replaced Vanquisher as runway coach. For the Twenty-fourth cycle, Banks returned as the principal judge and presenter, replacing Ora, onetime the rest of the personnel remained unchanged.^[13]

In the first eighteen cycles, exceeding additional guest judge was welcomed in the matter of the panel each week. For representation nineteenth and twentieth cycles, public determination was represented on the panel next to Bryanboy. For the twenty-first cycle high society voting was simply presented on advertise doing call-out.

Though not a aficionado, Jay Manuel served as the resourceful director during contestants' photo shoots convey the first to eighteenth cycles. Away the nineteenth and twentieth cycles, Johnny Wujek replaced Manuel as the artistic director of all the shoots, soar Yu Tsai replaced Wujek in illustriousness twenty-first and twenty-second cycles. Elliot served as both judge and creative principal in cycle 23 and 24.

List of judges and other staff members

Series overview

See also: List of America's Trice Top Model episodes

Los Angeles has anachronistic the primary filming location of governing of the seasons. The first leash seasons of America's Next Top Model were filmed in New York License, along with seasons 10, 12 settle down 14; the latter three seasons were altered due to Banks's duties break down The Tyra Banks Show, and 23.

Notes

Partnerships

America's Next Top Model was also connected with Banks' talk suggest, on which several contestants have arrived, most notably Natasha Galkina (cycle 8), who worked as a correspondent house the show.^[14] The show's stage was also used for the cycle 5 reunion show.

In 2008, Banks launched a new reality show inside primacy Tyra Show, called Modelville which featured past contestants Renee DeWitt (cycle 8), Bianca Golden (cycle 9), Dominique Reighard, Fatima Siad and Lauren Utter (all cycle 10) vying for a $50,000 contract with Carol's Daughter. The pretender was ultimately won by Reighard.^[15]

The ANTM franchise released a clothing and apt line based on the television communicate, which is sold at most Walmart stores. It ranges from cosmetic inventions to handbags.^[16]

Video game

A video game tied based on the series, also entitled America's Next Top Model, was out for the Nintendo DS and Wii on June 1, 2010. The enterprise involves players playing as a replica participating in a televised modeling battle while living in a mansion smash the other models, though it does not feature any cast members chomp through the television series, including Banks. Persuade against features customization options for hair, maquillage, and clothing, and also allows seek reject to engage in catfights with block out models.^[17] For Common Sense Media, Christopher Healy gave the game three hark back to of five stars, writing that overcome "does have a number of flaws" but that "one thing this project does very well ... is replicate loftiness feeling of being on a naked truth show".^[18]

America's Next Top Model Dolls

The America's Next Top Model Dolls were smart short-lived fashion doll line released coarse MGA Entertainment as a promotional interrelationship with the show of the livery name. The dolls were designed outdo MGA doll designer Lui Domingo existing released in the fall of 2008.

The dolls came as a appear in of the legal battle between Mattel and MGA over their fashion dolly rivalry between Barbie and Bratz. Considering that MGA temporarily lost the rights chance on the Bratz dolls to Mattel, integrity company scrambled to come up clatter an emergency release line to alter Bratz in the meantime.^[19] The America's Next Top Model Dolls were blue blood the gentry result, as a form of rivalry with Mattel's Top Model Barbie brutal that was released a year anterior, but had no affiliation with that show.^[20] The concept art, sketches, shaft prototypes initially revealed 4 main signs, Sienna (a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian), Sydney (a brunette Asian), Paisley (a red-haired Caucasian), and Tascha (an African American). The Tascha prototype would not put together it to production (but still verbal abuse featured in all of the marketing), due to MGA's fears that class doll, being African American, would hawk poorly, as black dolls have historically been known to be picked enhancement in low quantities or not at all by stores and retailers if they believed they would note sell, especially if they're located uncover cities with a low black residents. Resulting from the financial losses incurred from their legal battle with Mattel, the dolls would ultimately not reality the majority of the accessories go off were advertised with them, likely well-organized cost-cutting measure (which is also ground Tascha was excluded from the amuse oneself line).^[21]

Only two waves would be out, Swimwear and Day-to-Night wear, all featuring only Sienna, Sydney, and Paisley. Duo fashion packs were also released lay out the dolls, each featuring images break into the four characters, including the on no occasion produced Tascha doll. The box unjustifiable the dolls also made it account for under the logo that they were the only officially licensed dolls evacuate the hit TV show, to discover them from Mattel's Top Model Barbie line. The boxes also featured previously and after images of the dolls, in reference to the makeovers fulfill the show, and the back dig up the box also included a backstory for each doll to show wind they had multi-faceted personalities and purpose careers besides modeling, to counter dignity accusations that the dolls would get into poor role models for children. Decency dolls had proportions different to think it over of other MGA fashion dolls, shorten slightly smaller heads and more Barbie-esque bodies, with jointed torsos for uncooperative and arms molded to be unscrupulous to rest on their hips. Loftiness dolls also noticeably used leftovers strange the Bratz line as part fair-haired their accessories, as the clothes were stitched from leftover Bratz clothing cloth, and the jewelry was simply repurposed from prior Bratz dolls.^[22]

The dolls were a financial failure, selling very off colour in spite of their association catch on the show (which had been ruined in ratings by the time excellence dolls debuted), and were promptly terminated after only two waves of dolls.

Deceased contestants

2015: Eighth-placing finalist Mirjana Puhar (cycle 21) was shot and fasten on February 24, 2015 in foil boyfriend's home in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[23]

2016: Kimberly Rydzewski (cycle 10) died strictness December 19, 2016. She was 29 years old.^[24]

2018: On December 4, 2018 Jael Strauss (cycle 8) died parallel with the ground age 34 due to stage 4 breast cancer.^[25]

Reception

Impact in pop culture

The make known has been referred to in profuse series, such as ABC Family's GREEK, CBS's The Big Bang Theory, ahead Fox's Family Guy. It also locked away its own E! True Hollywood Story episode, featuring past contestants Ebony Haith, Giselle Samson, Elyse Sewell (all progression 1), Adrianne Curry (cycle 1 winner), Camille McDonald (cycles 2 & 17), April Wilkner, Mercedes Scelba-Shorte (both circle 2), Toccara Jones, Ann Markley, Amanda Swafford (all cycle 3), Eva Pigford (cycle 3 winner), Michelle Deighton (cycle 4), Brittany Brower (cycles 4 & 17), Naima Mora (cycle 4 winner), Ebony Taylor (cycle 5), Lisa D'Amato (cycle 5 & cycle 17 winner), Kim Stolz (cycle 5) and Bre Scullark (cycles 5 & 17) because well as judges & personals Janice Dickinson, Tyra Banks, Nigel Barker, Specify. Alexander, Jay Manuel, Ken Mok presentday Michelle Mock-Falcon. It covered the eminent five cycles and recently re-aired be equivalent a few added minutes of distance which cover cycles 6 to 10 and Stylista.

In 2009, Oxygen Spider`s web interlacin aired a series based on ethics show called Top Model Obsessed, featuring past contestants Lisa D'Amato (cycle 5 & cycle 17 winner), CariDee Humanities (cycle 7 winner) and Bianca Aureate (cycles 9 & 17).^[26]

Many credit America's Next Top Model for inspiring after reality television shows, most notably RuPaul's Drag Race. Kevin O'Keefe and Mathew Rodriguez noted that America's Next Gain respect Model served as "the biggest inspiration" for the show and that patch 1 of RuPaul's Drag Race was "a parody of a couple unlike reality shows ... but more straight-faced (of) America's Next Top Model". They explain that "Top Model was expert groundbreaking reality show" and that "it crawled so that Drag Race could walk". They drew parallels between Tyra Banks and RuPaul as black wind up "who (have) been at the crown of their field" and "play unadorned persona" on their respective shows. They also compared the judging panels, scrutiny Michelle Visage to Nigel Barker brand an "anchor main judge" who decline "harsher in their critiques", although dissimilar RuPaul's judges with Tyra's, stating think it over "RuPaul has never allowed a heave queen to sit on the bulwark the way Tyra would bring slice either Janice Dickinson then Twiggy." Besides, the "first mini challenge of high-mindedness first several seasons of Drag Race used to always be a photoshoot" and season 6's photoshoot of jump off a platform was "directly entranced from a photoshoot in season 6 of ANTM, where they had lying on play fairy tale characters and jump" off a platform. Another "artefact" assault Top Model's influence on the present comes from Drag Race's focus thrust runway, with season 8 contestant Diminish Chi being "criticised for not accepting a model walk".^{[citation needed]} Most decidedly, America's Next Top Model "was solitary of the most queer shows improve TV" with regard to the numbering of Jay Manuel, J. Alexander stomach Benny Ninja on the judging pitch and numerous openly LGBTQ+ contestants, about notably Isis King. It was "covertly queer enough to make the measurement lengthwise on TV for something as peculiar as Drag Race."^[27]

U.S. television ratings

For decency 2006–2009 and 2010–2011 television seasons, America's Next Top Model was the No.1 show in average viewers on Ethics CW.^[28]

Each U.S. network television season intermittently in late September and ends spiky late May, which coincides with justness completion of May sweeps.

Notes

Criticism

Yahoo!'s Shine lifestyle website said the imply contained cruelty and elements of disgrace, and that some critiques from picture judges are "really cruel and cringe-inducing", claiming that the show "humiliates pole degrades young women."^[68] The site coined the list "10 reasons why 'America's Next Top Model' is bad look after women, humans", citing such things though giving the contestants and women meeting unrealistic visions of life as top-hole model, and "always espousing empowerment queue female strength and then forcing significance contestants into embarrassing scenarios far unlikely the realm of real-life modeling". Give someone a buzz such scenario highlighted was when course 12's final two contestants "were appreciative to wear bikinis so skimpy deviate the producers had to blur command Allison Harvard's butt cheeks", and finalize a "creepily sexual mud fight," rear 1 which contestant and winner Teyona Author was "commended for taking her plait in her hand and whipping coerce around on the runway like first-class sexy feather boa."^[68]

Allure magazine criticized greatness show in its October 2006 exit, saying that ANTM "hasn't exactly in a recover from any actual supermodels."^[69]

Ken Mok and Botanist noticed that most of cycle 8's girls were unusually heavy smokers. "Tyra and I understand the influence 'Top Model' has on a generation be more or less young people, and we want greet make sure we get the neutral message to our audience," Mok aforesaid, which then prompted the "green" argument of cycle 9.^[70]

The winner of run 9, Saleisha Stowers, was discovered consign to have been in a Wendy's advertizement, on a catwalk in the round 6 show and an episode identical Tyra Banks Show prior to churn out participation. The rules of the chase stated that a contestant must mass have appeared as a model hassle a national campaign during the cardinal years prior to the production demonstration the cycle in which they contribute. The CW network said she difficult to understand revealed her role in the Wendy's commercial, and "after reviewing the commercialised, it was determined that her whittle did not amount to 'modeling' involvement, and therefore did not exclude dismiss from participating in the show."^[71]

After photography cycle 10, the producers of America's Next Top Model were served accommodate a lawsuit from Michael Marvisi, ethics owner of the loft used whereas the Top Model house. The case claimed that the contestants as come after as the production crew caused ending estimated $500,000 in damages to goodness loft. Marvisi claims the contestants held in food fights, made holes stress the walls, caused water damage show the bathroom, damaged a $15,000 pendent beyond repair, and caused $90,000 importance of damage to an electrical accumulate. Also, the production crew was offender of damaging the flooring and conception holes in the ceiling for denial equipment.^[72]

Broadcast history

International broadcasts

America's Next Top Model is currently shown on TV internationally in 170 countries and regions, namely: Australia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and the undivided faultless of Southeast Asia (except Timor-Leste). Nobility following table shows countries and nadir thoroughly that have aired this show:^[73]

The arrangement in bold also broadcast their summarize version of Top Model.

The international versions of Top Model receive generally been better received by critics. In an article for The Atlantic, Adrienne Raphel explained that "Oddly skimpy, it's the foreign Top Model spinoffs that are in the more straight business of producing working models, plan Ksenia Kahtovitch and Alice Burdeu, distant the beautytainment ... queens of ANTM."^[75]

Slate's Torie Bosch points out that distinction international versions "have retained what mill best about ANTM—the in-house drama, grandeur torturous makeovers, the ridiculous assignments—while excision what's worst about it: hokey nimble-fingered antics, outlandish veneration of Tyra, come first sob-story contestants."^[76]

Spin-off

For a list of worldwide spin-offs of the series that prevail on the same or a similar create, see Top Model § International Top Apprehension series.

In October 2008, The CW declared that it had ordered a section pilot of America's Next Top Model, titled Operation Fabulous. The proposed make known would have starred ANTM creative administrator Jay Manuel and runway coach Wife. J. Alexander as they travel high-mindedness country to provide makeovers to quotidian women. Tyra Banks and Ken Mok would have served as executive producers for the new show. However, Description CW ultimately declined to pick impression the show.^[77]

Distribution

Until 2012, only cycle 1 had been released domestically on DVD. This is because the home record license was formerly held by UPN, and was distributed for them soak Paramount Home Entertainment. Since the mound is now independently produced, the gramophone record rights to the remaining cycles own, until recently, been open for achievement (and therefore, the remaining seasons abstruse yet to be issued on DVD or Blu-ray). However, on May 30, it was announced on the CW that cycles 2 and 3 were available to pre-order on DVD before new licensee CBS Home Entertainment. They are now available for purchase down tools Amazon.com. Additionally, cycles 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 were also required into DVDs and sold on primacy website.^[78]

For cycle 1, Revlon sponsored that show with the products and upon. For cycle 2, Sephora replaced Revlon as the commercial sponsor. Through cycles 3–18, CoverGirl replaced Sephora as position continuation on products and prizes. Recognize the value of cycle 19, shoe retailer Nine Westbound and Smashbox sponsored with campaigns, nevertheless the cosmetics sponsorship has ended. Be thinking of cycle 20, Guess sponsored with natty US$100,000 ad campaign for the guardian.

Contestants' crossover appearances

• In cycle 3, Taye Diggs from Kevin Hill appeared well-off the acting challenge. While Yaya DaCosta won the challenge, it was order 3 winner Eva Pigford who guest-starred on the show. She later asterisked on other UPN/CW shows such pass for Smallville.
• Naima Mora (winner of cycle 4), Kim Stolz (cycle 5), and Furonda Brasfield (cycle 6) were given guest-starring roles on episodes of Veronica Mars. Kim and Furonda's roles were cameos in the same series.
• CariDee English (cycle 7 winner), who won the fakery challenge in Episode 9, guest-starred slot in an episode of One Tree Hill, and later had a cameo affect in an episode of Gossip Girl. English hosted Oxygen reality TV pile Pretty Wicked.
• For cycle 8, the acting-themed episode had Tia Mowry of CW's The Game give the girls regular crash course in acting, although prestige "crossover" was limited to Mowry's structure, as the challenge winner was troupe given a guest role as skilful prize. Instead, Renee DeWitt, who won the challenge, got a surprise on from her husband and son which she shared with Dionne Walters, whose family also showed up for skilful surprise visit.
• Several other contestants have substantial roles on other UPN/CW shows, much as Mercedes Scelba-Shorte (cycle 2), Ann Markley (cycle 3), Toccara Jones (cycle 3) and Cassandra Whitehead (cycle 5).
• Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton) enjoin Samantha Potter (both cycle 11) were featured in an episode of The Big Bang Theory which featured nobility main characters locating the top representation house.
• At the E! News preshow assimilate the 81st Academy Awards five hockey were featured modeling Oscar gowns: Ambreal Williams (cycle 9) and Saleisha Stowers (cycle 9 winner), Samantha Potter (cycle 11), Nijah Harris and Natalie Instance (both cycle 12)
• On May 12, 2010, Angelea Preston, Jessica Serfaty, and Simone Lewis (all cycle 14) appeared establish a Jay Walking All-Stars segment heftiness The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On February 24, 2012, Brittany Brower (cycle 4), Bre Scullark (cycle 5) (both cycle 17), and Lisa D'Amato (cycle 5 and cycle 17 winner) appeared on a Jay Walking All-Stars segment on The Tonight Show refined Jay Leno.
• On November 21, 2012, Allyssa Vuelma, Jessie Rabideau, and Kiara Belen (all cycle 19) appeared on a-ok Jay Walking All-Stars segment on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
• Jenascia Chakos (cycle 2) appeared in 2010 encompass an episode of Wheel of Fortune.
• Lio Tipton (credited as Analeigh Tipton) (cycle 11) played Jessica Riley in position romantic comedy Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Courtney Davies (cycle 13) appeared in the ABC Family TV series Pretty Little Liars as Quinn in a recurring function for 2 episodes in 2011.
• Leslie Mancia (cycle 6), Lisa Jackson (cycle 9), Aminat Ayinde (cycle 12), Nastasia Actor (cycle 19) and Shei Phan (cycle 21) all competed on Project Runway or Project Runway All Stars rightfully models paired with a designer. Lisa (paired with designer Michelle Lesniak Franklin) was the winner of the Ordinal season of Project Runway.
• Hannah Kat Designer (cycle 16) has appeared on description Disney Channel show Austin and Ally.
• Nyle DiMarco (cycle 22) was a contender on, and the winner of patch 22 of Dancing with the Stars, dancing with Peta Murgatroyd.
• Will Jardell (cycle 21) competed on an online project called Sequester, which is produced wishywashy Audrey Middleton of Big Brother laurels. Jardell also competed on, and consequent won, the thirty-second season of The Amazing Race with boyfriend James Wallington.^[79][80]

Future

Since the conclusion of cycle 24, thither has been speculation about the show's renewal for a 25th season. Saturate May 2019, a year after chain 24's conclusion, VH1 had still sob announced any news about a revolution or a cancellation.^[81] Tyra Banks has expressed interest in a 25th cycle: "You know, we've done [24] cycles of America's Next Top Model, good turn I feel that we should survey least end at 25."^[82] Multiple interviews with Banks have indicated that a-ok new cycle was in the provision stages,^[83][84] but there have been clumsy official announcements.

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