Tyra Banks To End Her Talk Show In The Spring

I guess all good things come to an end. Apparently Tyra Banks has decided to kill off her talk show this spring, taking a cue from Oprah Winfrey. Banks, who has been hosting The Tyra Banks Show since September 2005, when the show replaced the discontinued Ricki Lake Show.

The show has met with some success, receiving two daytime Emmy awards, both for "Outstanding Talk Show (informative)" in 2008 and again last August. The show has been airing on The CW, a joint-venture network owned by the CBS Corporation and Warner Bros that was set up primarily to appeal to women between the ages of 18-34. America's Next Top Model, a show that Banks hosts and created, remains in place at least until the end of the 2010 season. Another series that Banks has had a hand in is True Beauty, that she co-produces along with Ashton Kutcher.

The Tyra Banks Show, although attraching a strong following of younger female viewers, failed to garner the ratings or audiences of more broadly followed talk shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show or The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Banks also plans on producing more films through Bankable, her production company.

Not Model Behaviour For Tyra Banks' Cattle Call

What the heck happened in Manhattan on Saturday? Tyra Bank's show called " >America's Next Top Model" had an open cattle call and thousands and thousands of model wannabes showed up in downtown Manhattan hoping to become the Next Big Thing. The premise was that the applicants had to be "under 5 foot seven" as Tyra wants to "re-define" what is considered beautiful.

Take a look at the Youtube video of America's Next Top Model Riot. A car parked across the street starts billowing smoke and the crowd begins to move and some think it's a bomb scare. The police presence is woefully ill-prepared for the swarms of models and hangers-on and one guy decides it's the perfect time to start swinging at the cops. Stupid. Six people are injured and three more are arrested.

Maybe the show should try having the girls submit video tapes rather than showing up and waiting (some slept in sleeping bags overnight to keep their places in line). After a melee like this, Tyra might want to reconsider how they cast for the show. Luckily the police were quick thinking and took down the troublemakers before it became even more serious.