The CW Ending ‘America’s Next Top Model’ After 22 Cycles

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CW ending America’s Next Top Model after 22 Cycles

The Tyra Banks reality show, which premiered on UPN on May 20, 20003, will end after this season. There are plans to air a retrospective special sometime in 2016. Announcing the news on Instagram, Banks wrote: “Yeah, it’s time. It really is. Wow, I am SO proud of what Top Model has done. #ANTM brought the intimidating modeling world to the masses. We were the first reality show based in the fashion world. I never thought my little idea would have people everywhere thinking differently about how they take photos.”

Steven Spielberg is “hooked” on Homeland

Speaking to the NY Times, Spielberg sings the praises of the golden age of TV. “Something has happened in the last seven or eight years. Some of the greatest writing today is for television,” he says. “Look at series like Transparent, Bloodline, Wolf Hall and Downton Abbey. A wonderful series I’m hooked on, Homeland.”


Kellie Pickler to host a daytime talk show, from exec producer Faith Hill

The American Idol alum will host a lifestyle show featuring “cooking, gardening, entertaining and everything in between.”


E!: Keeping Up with the Kardashians is not filming at Lamar Odom’s Las Vegas hospital

E! wanted to clear up reports that Khloe Karashian was accompanied by a camera crew.


HBO celebrates the 15th anniversary of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Bitmojis

The Larry David comedy debuted on Oct. 15, 2000.


Nick Offerman to guest on Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Andre Braugher’s ex

He’ll play a police captain who once dated Andre Braugher’s character.


Peter Sarsgaard: I’m not part of the Twin Peaks revival

Sarasgaard tells EW, “I would love to be in Twin Peaks.” But despite a report last week, “I’m not doing Twin Peaks,” he says. “But it certainly was a rumor that was not founded on nothing.”


Sarah Silverman to sit down for Inside the Actor’s Studio

Silverman taped her interview with James Lipton this week to air on Oct. 22.


Ryan Murphy and Gwyneth Paltrow team up for a One Hit Wonders cable drama

Murphy is shopping a cable drama in which Paltrow will play a 40-something washed-up one hit wonder whose career is revived when she becomes part of a super-group. PLUS: Murphy originally tried to develop Orange is the New Black as a TV series.


NBC orders Adam Levine’s hidden-camera pilot based on Maroon 5’s Sugar music video

The hidden-camera show will feature superfans who get surprised by their favorite celebrities.


FX may create a Y: The Last Man TV series

Brian K. Vaughan is set to bring his beloved comic book  to the small screen.


Charlamagne Tha God is coming to Empire

The MTV fixture and radio personality will play himself on the Fox drama.


CNN’s Democratic debate draws a record 15.3 million audience

Despite the lack of Donald Trump, last night’s debate was the sixth highest-rated non-sports event in cable history.


Sela Ward replaces Susan Sarandon on Epix’s Graves

The former CSI:NY and Once and Again star will play the first lady opposite U.S. president Nick Nolte.


Teresa Giudice writing a prison tell-all book

Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again will be based on the diary the Real Housewives star kept behind bars.


2 Broke Girls
will return next month, bumping Jane Lynch’s Angel From Hell to midseason

CBS opted to make the change even though promos have already announced the premiere of the Lynch comedy for this fall.


ABC is developing futuristic skyscraper drama The Thousandth Floor

Greg Berlanti is producing a drama based on the upcoming young adult book series, revolving around a scandal that takes place in 2118 when a woman falls from the 1,000th floor of a futuristic skyscraper.


Spike TV renews Ink Master: Redemption

The Dave Navarro-hosted Ink Master spinoff will be back for a 13-episode second season.


TV Land’s Younger returns Jan. 12

Watch the Sutton Foster comedy’s cast announce a one-hour premiere for Season 2.


Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki insist they’re just friends

Despite romance rumors, the co-stars and former couple posted pics on Instagram declaring that they have a “profound friendship.”


CBS orders Married With Roommates, a NYC housing crisis comedy

The proposed comedy is inspired by a NY Times article earlier this year about couples who have roommmates in NYC.


BET acquires reruns of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne

All 254 episodes of the 2006-12 sitcom will air on BET, starting with a maratghon on Nov. 1.