It gave the world the concept of “smizing” (smiling with one’s eyes), but Tyra Banks’s modelling talent show American’s Next Top Model will end its long run in December, the CW confirmed on Wednesday. The show, currently in its 22nd season, has been on the air for 12 years.
Banks has served as its host since it first aired in 2003 on UPN. It moved to the CW in 2006, becoming the channel’s first show.
The series finale will air on 4 December. Variety reports that a retrospective is being planned for late 2016.
Before the CW formally announced the show’s end, Banks posted the following message to her fans on Twitter:
America’s Next Top Model immediately became one of UPN’s top-rated programs, and remained popular on the CW for years.
Its success made Banks a force in the entertainment industry, leading to her hosting her own talkshow, The Tyra Banks Show, which aired on the CW for five seasons and won two Daytime Emmy awards.
The reality series is also notable for launching the careers of actor Analeigh Tipton (Crazy, Stupid, Love), model/reality TV star Adrianne Curry, and actor YaYa DaCosta, who played Whitney Houston in Lifetime’s biopic, I Will Always Love You: the Whitney Houston Story.
The show currently averages 1.25m same-night viewers in the US.
On Tuesday, the CW also ended Sherri Cooper-Landsman and Jennifer Levin’s series Beauty and the Beast after the show’s fourth season.
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