America’s Next Top Model Blog

It’s a good thing that the CW finally has online replays of their shows. My wife has an art class on Wednesday nights, and the Bears play some games on Sunday nights (when the Top Model reruns are on).

Since I won’t be “reporting” on the episodes as they air, I’m not sure what the future of this blog will be. Of course, I never intended this to be a “news” blog, but a place for me to air my opinion that’s a little bit higher up the food chain than in general forums.

So, if you’re looking for the “latest” in Top Model news or something, you’ll probably want to click over to somewhere else. But if you want to read and leave some comments, that’s cool.

About.com’s Reality TV section has full photos of the 13 finalists. The pictures on the CW site cut off about half way down, so with the About.com one you can examine legs and shoe choice. Some of the girls have a lot of posing practice to do.

Probably don’t want to look around the site too much, but NS4W.org has some promo pictures of Tyra for Cycle 9.

The Yahoo Group Reality-TV reveals the Name, Occupation, Age, and Hometown of the 13 finalists. I’m pretty sure that was pasted from a press release, but I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

BuddyTV is reviewing the models based on their promo shots (Ambreal, Bainca, Chantal, and Ebony - I think they’re going in alphabetical order). It’s not much to go on, but it’s a start for those who are looking for early ideas. There’s a part 2 with 4 more models here (Heather, Janet, Jenah, and Kimberly). There’s a little more info on Kimberly (Leemans) at Ocala.com (Florida):

Last year Leeman, West Port High School graduate, was the winner of Ocala Magazine’s inaugural Ocala’s Next Top Model contest. She was featured on the cover of its June 2006 edition.

In the issue, the magazine wrote she was a “world traveler” who spoke French and Spanish and was learning Mandarin.

Her parents are also named, but that seems to go a little too far to me. You’ll have to click over if you really need that info.

It was going to be 2 hours. Alas, it will now only be 1.

CW has taken a look at their schedule and decided that the Cycle Nine premiere needs to slim down - drastically.

The show will still premiere on the same day and time, but it will now only be a normal one-hour episode as opposed to the two hours originally planned.

Hopefully that means they’re cutting out the part where they start with 30 girls and then they all bumrush past Mr. and Mrs. J to find their photos. Sure, it’s interesting to see what kind of girls made the cut and got that far, but really, since we never see more than half of them again, it’s kind of a waste of time.

And I kind of want to see Gossip Girl. Sure, it looks like it’ll probably end up as a generic OC-type show. But it could be good for a while. And if it’s on right after Top Model anway, I’ll already be sitting in front of the TV…

Right now, the Cubs are preempting the “full night” of America’s Next Top Model advertised on the CW and CWTV.com. Granted it’s Cycle 7, but still, it’s kind of fun to watch the old episodes every once in a while. I mean, I would love to watch Cycle 2 again (it’s not out on DVD yet). Also, weird that Project Runway comes out on DVD so quick, but ANTM still only has one season out. Is that because Project Runway is on cable, so they want people who don’t have cable to get hooked on it? Cause if so, it worked!

Anyway, the point of this post was originally that the Cubs are preempting Top Model. So, when Top Model Cycle 9 start on Sept.19th, are the going to preempt the Season Premiere for the Cubs game that night? And - even worse (sorry Cubs fans) - if the Cubs make the playoffs and end up playing on a Wednesday, will the once again preempt Top Model?

Well, my guess is that the playoffs will be on cable and/or a station that isn’t the CW, so it won’t be a problem, but you can see when it comes to the Cubs and Top Model where my priorities are. Now, if it were the White Sox, that’d be a different story…

Just saw it last night… only had Tyra, but revealed a futuristic look and tagline indicating ANTM is the future of modeling. That will be an interesting theme for the cycle if they stick with it.

Can’t wait!