Does anything she does shock you? It shouldn’t
Monday, January 4th, 2010
When Tyra Banks announced this week that she’ll be ending her daily talk show when the current season wraps in May, some were completely taken off-guard. But one trait that’s followed the talented mogul throughout her career is the pursuit of new challenges. After five years of candid topics and two Daytime Emmy awards, Tyra’s ready to conquer film production—and there’s little doubt she’ll succeed. One of the industry’s true supermodels, Tyra began captivating runway audiences as early as her junior year in high school. Her meteoric rise as a fashion model coincided with a taste of television, her first role coming as Will Smith’s steady girlfriend on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. A decade later she launched America’s Next Top Model, a reality franchise with more than 40 international spin-offs; and there have been jaunts into music, paperback and films. She recently held her first “B.I.O. Summit” in New Zealand, promoting a feature of her online magazine which encourages finding unique Beauty Inside and Out. It’s an ever-expanding empire for the 36-year-old who admires other ‘fierce’ female entrepreneurs like Martha Stewart. Over the next five months, savor the entertaining talk show and, like us, marvel at the conversation skills Tyra employs to educate and inform. She’s a larger-than-life afternoon presence with subjects both outrageous and unpredictable. Just the way Tyra likes it.
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Spread the word and “stuff the ballot box” for several deserving CW series to receive national recognition at the first awards show of 2010. The deadline to vote for your favorite People’s Choice nominees is Tuesday, Dec. 8, and this competition encourages the public to cast a ballot as often as possible. Just log on to 
It’s a big week for The CW, with tomorrow’s unveiling of the new Fall lineup. Media outlets have already confirmed three of the slots will go to Melrose Place, The Vampire Diaries and The Beautiful Life…all star-laden and buzzworthy additions. Fans of the original Melrose Place melodrama can expect much more, as the reboot opens with a bloody body floating in the courtyard pool. More series pickups are expected to be announced in New York. On the local front, WBNX is excited to add seven more high-profile series, a diverse mix which includes:
Okay, so whose brand of justice do you prefer, Judge Marilyn Milian or Judge Penny Brown Reynolds? Their two WBNX courtroom shows will battle head-to-head for Outstanding Legal Drama at the 36th annual Daytime Emmy Awards—to be shown live, Sunday, August 30 on The CW. This is the second consecutive nomination for The People’s Court and the first for Family Court with Judge Penny. The Martha Stewart Show also garnered four nods: Outstanding Lifestyle Program, Decoration in a Culinary Series, Set Design and Technical Direction; while The Tyra Banks Show will vie for five statuettes: Outstanding Informative Talk Show, Hairstyling, Makeup, Lighting Direction, and Multi-Camera Editing. CW animated dramas Legion of Super Heroes, Ben 10: Alien Force, and The Batman were nominated in categories for Sound Editing & Mixing. Congrats to the four daytime stars for this well-deserved recognition. And, incidentally, Judge Milian offers some helpful legal advice on 21 common topics. 
Ian Somerhalder is coming home to the network family that launched his TV career. In a bit of inspired casting, he’ll play one of the two blood-sucking brothers in The Vampire Diaries pilot many consider a shoo-in for pick-up. His character is a “smug vampire” who can switch “from playful to evil in a split second,” Variety teases. (How perfect would it have been for Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford to play the other fanged sibling?) A top male model since his teen years, Ian found a breakout role in The WB summer series Young Americans back in 2000, costarring with young up-and-comers Kate Bosworth and Katherine Moennig. He was part of the 
Tyra Banks has been known to get a little wild-n-crazy during each cycle of America’s Next Top Model, and she pulls no punches on her Emmy-winning daytime talk show. But who knew she had this exciting surprise up her sleeve? The supermodel/actress will move her popular chatter, The Tyra Banks Show, out of syndication and onto The CW next fall, further enhancing her solid partnership with the network. Beginning in September, two full hours will air weekday afternoons on WBNX—a classic episode from the first four seasons at 3pm, followed by an all-new installment of Tyra-tainment. Time and again, her guests and topics create headline buzz in the industry, so this will be a fun, unpredictable addition to our daily lineup. The new TV home also creates natural synergy for Tyra’s primetime hit, as Top Model just wrapped its 11th edition and has already been picked up thru the 2009-10 season. In addition, the runway queen is a cocreator and executive producer of first-year competition series Stylista.
