UPN to bring back more Top Model

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

UPN has picked up 10 more episodes of America's Next Top Model, which
has brought the network some of its best news of the entire TV season.

The show, executive-produced by supermodel Tyra Banks, has improved its
Tuesday 9 p.m. time period by 91% among adults 18-34 year-to-year; by 70% among
adults 18-49; by 62% among total viewers; by 136% among women 18-34; and by 108%
among women 18-49.

Banks and Ken Mok executive-produce, and Banks also acts as coach to the
show's contestants, who share a penthouse in New York while they compete to be
the sole winner of a modeling contract.

America's Next Top Model is produced by 10 by 10 Entertainment in
association with Ty Ty Baby Productions.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.