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Tyra Struts to Daytime TV
Daytime television is headed for an injection of fierce.
Riding high on the success of her hit reality show, America's Next Top Model, Tyra Banks has signed with Telepictures Productions to host her own syndicated talk show, which would be distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.
The show would reportedly follow a format similar to Oprah Winfrey's multitopic gabfest, but would be geared to a younger audience. Banks' talker is anticipated to launch in fall 2005.
Banks, 30, started making appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1999, and quickly earned herself a spot on the radar among network execs, who saw veteran yakker Winfrey's numbers rise by as much as 10 percent among woman 18 to 34 when she was visited by her supermodel cohort.
"Tyra is a very impressive person; she's obviously more than a model," Dick Robertson, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, told the Hollywood Reporter.
"It's her appearances on Oprah that we looked at and said, 'If there's ever a future Oprah, she could be the one.' "
Aside from her turns on the catwalk and her Top Model series, Banks has appeared in a handful of movies, including Halloween: Resurrection, Coyote Ugly and Love and Basketball.
She's also made television guest-appearances on American Dreams, Felicity, All of Us and Soul Food.
"[Tyra]'s really emerged as a role model for the next generation of young women. She has a feel for this generation of women and she's worked with women for a long time," Jim Paratore, president of Television Productions, told the Hollywood Reporter.
"I think that's a big part of what's driving her to create a show that's not only entertaining and fun to watch but also relevant to her generation of women."
America's Next Top Model, on which Banks serves as creator, executive producer and star, has been a meteoric success for UPN.
The show features a gaggle of leggy beauties, who live together and compete against one another in various fashion-themed challenges upon which they are judged. Each week, one hopeful is eliminated, effectively crushing her dreams of becoming a top model.
This time around, the model wannabes are playing for a contract with Ford Models, a photo spread in Elle magazine and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl.
Currently in its third season, Top Model scored the net's best Wednesday night rating ever for its timeslot this week, coming in second in the coveted demographic of women 18 to 34.
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