Friday, May 19, 2006

THE CW Announces Official Renewals For AMERICA′S NEXT TOP MODEL And BEAUTY AND THE GEEK

The CW Network unveiled the schedule for its premiere 2006-2007 season at Madison Square Garden before more than 3,000 advertisers, affiliates and national media. The announcement was made by Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment, The CW.

AMERICA′S NEXT TOP MODEL

Returning with its seventh cycle, the runaway runway hit series features supermodel Tyra Banks. The show gives real people an opportunity to prove that they can make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of supermodeling. With mentoring by Tyra Banks and exposure to high-profile fashion-industry gurus, young women of various backgrounds, shapes and sizes must endure a highly accelerated modeling boot camp and face weekly tests to determine who will make the cut as they vie for a professional modeling contract. The executive producers are Ken Mok ("Making the Band"), Tyra Banks and Anthony Dominici ("The Amazing Race"). The dramality series was created by Tyra Banks and developed by Mok and Kenya Barris. AMERICA′S NEXT TOP MODEL is produced by 10 by 10 Entertainment in association with Bankable Productions.

In between cycles of AMERICA′S NEXT TOP MODEL, The CW will air returning hit BEAUTY AND THE GEEK.

BEAUTY AND THE GEEK

Returning for its third cycle, BEAUTY AND THE GEEK is from the producing team of Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg. The hit social experiment pairs eight beautiful and socially savvy women with eight intellectually endowed, but socially stunted men. Living at opposite ends of the social spectrum, the geeks try to pass their brains on to the beauties, while the beauties provide social skills to the geeks. One couple will make it to the end and walk away gifted and gorgeous with a cash prize of $250,000. BEAUTY AND THE GEEK is from fox21, produced by Katalyst and 3 Ball Productions with executive producers Ashton Kutcher & Jason Goldberg ("Guess Who," "Punk′d"), Nick Santora ("Prison Break," "The Guardian," "The Sopranos"), J.D. Roth ("The Biggest Loser," "For Love or Money") and Todd A. Nelson ("The Biggest Loser", "For Love or Money").