Editing America's Next Top Model (section)

==Background==
{{expand section|the history of the show before 2006|date = September 2022}}
It was announced on January 24, 2006, that ''Top Model'' would be part of the new [[The CW]] network, a merge between [[UPN]] and [[The WB]], when the seventh cycle started in September airing on Wednesdays. The series became the first series among regular programming to air on the network. Prior to the announcement of merging with The WB, UPN had committed to renewing the series through its ninth cycle on January 20, 2006,<ref>http://www.thefutoncritic.com/calendar.aspx?view=renewals {{dead link|date=April 2011}}</ref> for which casting was conducted throughout mid-2006. ''America's Next Top Model'' was the only show left on the network that was originally from UPN.

On July 21, 2006, the writers of ''America's Next Top Model'' went on strike while working on cycle 7, set to premiere on the new CW Network in September 2006. The writers sought representation through the [[Writers Guild of America, West]], which would allow them regulated wages, access to portable [[health insurance]], and [[pensions|pension benefits]]. These benefits would be similar to those given to writers on scripted shows. The strike was the focus of a large rally of Hollywood writers coinciding with the premiere of the new network on September 20, 2006.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1220040,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060813114842/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1220040,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 13, 2006|title=Strikers on the Catwalk|magazine=Time|access-date=September 16, 2006 | first=Jeanne | last=McDowell | date=July 27, 2006}}</ref> The dispute was chronicled in a July 24 interview on the website [[Television Without Pity]] with Daniel J. Blau, a former recapper on the site who covered the series, and at the time was an ''America's Next Top Model'' show producer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/americas_next_top_model/the_djb_interview.php|title=The DJB Interview|work=Television Without Pity|access-date=January 26, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208220644/http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/americas_next_top_model/the_djb_interview.php|archive-date=February 8, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> In November 2006, the writers on strike were taken off payroll.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6389164.html 
 |title=Top Model Takes Strikers Off Payroll 
 |work=The Business of Television 
 |access-date=April 22, 2007 
 |url-status=dead 
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070315193025/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6389164.html 
 |archive-date=March 15, 2007 
}}</ref>

To celebrate its tenth cycle, ''America's Next Top Model'' aired a special installment called ''America's Next Top Model: Exposed'' in two parts on the CW on Wednesday, February 6 & 13, 2008. It reviewed the best catfights, mishaps and most memorable photo shoots, personalities, defining moments and contained other segments about the show since cycles 1 to 9, and featured a special opening fusing all three openings together. Camille McDonald (cycles [[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 2|2]] and [[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 17|17]]), [[Toccara Jones]] ([[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 3|cycle 3]]), [[Eva Marcille|Eva Pigford]] (cycle 3 winner), [[Bre Scullark]] (cycles [[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 5|5]] and 17), Cassandra Whitehead (cycle 5), Joanie Dodds ([[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 6|cycle 6]]), Jael Strauss ([[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 8|cycle 8]]), Dionne Walters (cycle 8), [[Heather Kuzmich]] ([[America's Next Top Model, Cycle 9|cycle 9]]), and Bianca Golden (cycles 9 and 17) all returned to comment on events that happened in their or other cycles.

After announcing that the seventeenth season would be an All-Stars version, Banks said on The CW upfronts in May 2011, that there would not be a "normal" season of the show anymore.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/05/tyra-banks-promises-no-more-normal-seasons-of-top-model.html |title=Tyra Banks promises no more 'normal' seasons of 'Top Model'&nbsp;– From Inside the Box&nbsp;– Zap2it |publisher=Zap2it |access-date=July 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725150717/http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/05/tyra-banks-promises-no-more-normal-seasons-of-top-model.html |archive-date=July 25, 2011  }}</ref> With the start of the eighteenth ''British Invasion'' cycle, the program converted to [[high-definition television|high definition]], becoming the second-to-last primetime show on the five major English-language broadcast networks in the United States to make the switch, and the last to air in the regular season to do so.

The show is syndicated to [[NBCUniversal]]'s [[NBCUniversal Cable|cable division]], with [[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]] as well as [[Style Network]] carrying the series, usually in marathon form throughout the daytime period on either network, and running through most of or an entire cycle. [[Bravo (American TV network)|Bravo]], [[MTV]], and [[VH1]] have also aired the series in the past. [[E!]] also currently airs reruns of ''ANTM''.