America's Next Top Model
Plot
On this eight-part reality series, ten average young women were selected to be groomed as professional models, with the winner landing a cover in Marie Claire magazine and a big-bucks modeling contract. Sequestered in a single Manhattan penthouse for the duration of the series, the wannabes were carefully coached in the attitudes, responsibilities, rigors, and occasional disadvantages of the glamour industry. On each episode, a handful of the contestants were eliminated by a panel of celebrity judges, among them supermodels Tyra Banks (who created and co-produced the series) and Janice Dickinson, fashion editor Beau Quillan, and designer Kimora Lee Simmons. America's Next Top Model premiered May 20, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviCredit
Tyra Banks - Executive Producer, Ken Mok - Executive ProducerEpisodes
America's Next Top Model: Season 01 (2003)The first season (or first "cycle") of the UPN reality series America's Next Top Model swiftly sets up the premise of 14 gorgeous girls living together in the same fashionable New York City loft as they compete for the titular title with the prestigious firm of Ford Models. It doesn't take long to establish "heroines" and "villains," nor is any time wasted before the girls are seen undergoing the grueling ritual of the Brazilian bikini wax. One by one, the contestants are eliminated, for reasons ranging from clumsiness in front of the camera to being "too sexy" (can anybody be "too sexy?"). And each week, a special guest judge sits in on the "sifting" process. Nine episodes later, the season is over, with the competition boiling down to two girls named Shannon Stewart and Adrianne Curry. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- The Girl Wants It So Bad
- The Girl Is Here to Win, Not Make Friends
- The Girl Gets Rushed to the Emergency Room
- The Girl Drives Everyone Crazy
- The Girl Who Everyone Thinks Is Killing Herself
- The Girl Deals with a Pervert
- The Girls Who Get Really Naked
- How the Girls Got Here
- The Girl Becomes America's Next Top Model
A new crop of 14 beautiful young women crowd into a swank loft apartment to prepare for the competition that will determine "America's Next Top Model" in the second season of the series of that name. This year, the action takes place in New York City, just like season one (or to be more accurate, "cycle one"). In addition to the usual competition rounds, the girls are taken on a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple, every so often performing impromptu "fashion shows" for appreciative male spectators. Interestingly, whereas one of the contestants in season one was eliminated for being "too sexy," the first casualty of season two is dropped because she refuses to pose nude. One thing that hasn't changed from the previous season is the range of temperaments amongst the contestants, from simperingly sweet to fire-eating monster. In lieu of giving away the end results of the second season, suffice to say that it comes down to four finalists, who go by the names of Yoanna, Shandi, April, and Mercedes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- The Girl Who Overslept
- The Girl Who Floats Like a Butterfly and Stings Like a Bee
- The Girl Who Can Cry at the Drop of a Hat
- The Girl Who Needs Six Months of Modeling School
- The Girl Who Is a Visual Orgasm
- The Girl Whose Lips Puffed Up
- The Girl Who Is Dripping with Hypocrisy
- The Girl with the Signature Walk
- The Girl Who Is Afraid of Snakes
- The Girl Who Cheated
- The Girl Who Is America's Next Top Model
Thirteen new episodes of America's Next Top Model are served up for the reality series' third season (or third "cycle"), with a new bevy of young lovelies vying for the title. Forsaking the New York City locale of the series' first two seasons, season three begins in Los Angeles. The opening episode features a pool party, in which the viewer is given an up-close-and-personal look at the curvaceous contestants -- just before the first elimination round, in which 34 semi-finalists are whittled down to 20. This is followed by another elimination round, which leaves 14 girls standing (or swimming). Now we finally get to New York, and to the fashionable loft apartment where the 14 finalists will live together and prepare for their modeling careers. First on the docket is a fashion makeover at Peter Coppola Studios, followed by a training session with the winner of the season-two competition, Yoanna House. Then comes the posing session, the obstacle course (obstacle course?), the shopping trip, and all the rest of the rituals -- with girls being eliminated from the game on a steady and systematic basis. Following the "final three" elimination round -- and for the record, those three are named Eva, Yaya, and Amanda -- the season ends with a "where are they now?" special catching up with the winners and losers of the first three seasons. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- The Girl with the Secret
- The Girl Who Is Co-Dependent
- The Girl Everyone Thinks Is a Backstabber
- The Girl Who Sets a Trap
- The Girl Who Cries When She Looks in the Mirror
- The Girl Who Mutilated the Precious Brownies
- The Girl Who Forgot Her Shoes
- The Girl Who Is Panic Stricken
- The Girls Meet Taye Diggs
- The Girl Who Goes Ballistic
- The Girl the Lionesses Are Hunting
- The Girl Who Didn't Hug Goodbye
- The Girl Who Wins It All
Season three of America's Next Top Model began with the first elimination rounds in Los Angeles, then moved to the reality series' familiar New York stamping grounds. Season four breaks from this tradition by being staged in its entirety in L.A. The 14 girls who live together and train together for high-priced modeling careers run the usual gamut of naïve ingenues to conniving vixens. Clearly, some of the ladies have been watching the series' previous three seasons, for not only do they anticipate most of the rituals and challenges, but some complain that the reality of the situation is not what it seemed to be when they were watching at home (we've got a few attitude problems here). The season closes like all seasons before, with a three-way final competition, a winner, and a retrospective of the year's episodes. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- The Girl Who Is a Lady Kat. Reow!
- The Girls Who Hate Their Makeovers
- The Girl Who Suddenly Collapsed
- The Girl with the Worst Photo in History
- The Girl Who Is Contagious
- The Girl with the Deliciously Tacky Dance
- The Girl Who Sends Tyra Over the Edge
- The Girl Who Gets Bad News
- The Girl the Lionesses Are Hunting
- The Girl Who Flops in the Mud
- The Girl Who Is Special
- The Girl Who Walks on Water
- The Girl with the Twisted Catch Phrase
- The Girls Become Super Heroes
- The Girl Who Needs a Miracle
- The Girl Who Makes a Disclaimer
- The Girl Who Gets a Boob Job
- The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks to Plants
- The Girls Are 1940s Pin-ups
- The Girl Who Wants to Step on the Pretty Flower
- The Girl Whose Boyfriend Is Cheating on Her
- The Girl Who Talks Behind Everyone's Back
- The Girl Who Retaliates
- The Girl Who Takes a Pill
- The Girl on the Cover
- The Girl Who Learns How to Dance.
- The Girls Go Bald
- The Girl Who Is a True Miss Diva
- The Girl Who Kissed the Roach
- The Girl Who Kissed a Male Model
- The Girl with Two Bad Takes
- The Girl Who Has a Temper
- The Girl Who Has Surgery
- The Girl Who Is a Model, Not a Masseuse
- The Girl Who Is Going to the Moon
- The Girl Who Is Rushed to the Emergency Room
- The Girls Go to Phuket
- The Girl Who Walked Through the Ancient City
- The Girl Who Marks Her Territory
- The Girl Who Hates Her Hair
- The Girl Who Goes to Texas
- The Girl Who Joined the Circus
- The Girl Who Punk'd Ashton
- The Girl Who Graduates
- The Girls Who Made It This Far
- The Girl Who Wrecks the Car
- The Girl Who Breaks Down
- The Girl Who Sticks Her Foot in Her Mouth
- The Girl Who Grates
- The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model
- The Girl Who Won't Stop Talking
- The Girls Who Go to Prom
- The Girl Who Cries All the Time
- The Girl Who Changes Her Attitude
- The Girl Who Takes Credit
- The Girl Who Gets Thrown in the Pool
- The Girl Who Impresses Pedro
- The Girls Who Go Down Under
- The Girl Who Picks a Fight
- The Girl Who Blames the Taxi Driver
- The Girl Who Does Not Want to Dance
- The Girl Who Becomes America's Next Top Model
- The Girls Go Cruisin'
- The Models Go Green
- The Girls Go Rock Climbing
- The Girl Who Goes Bald
- The Girl Who Is Afraid of Heights
- The Girl Who Gets a Mango
- The Girl Who Runs Into the Glass Door
America's Next Top Model: Season 11 (2008)
America's Next Top Model: Season 12 (2009)
America's Next Top Model: Season 13 (2009)
America's Next Top Model: Season 14 (2010)
America's Next Top Model: Season 15 (2010)
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