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 Netflix: The America’s Next Top Model Documentary You’ve Been Waiting for Is Coming Did we really “learn something from this”?
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The America’s Next Top Model Documentary You’ve Been Waiting for Is Coming
Did we really “learn something from this”?
BY TROY POZIREKIDES
JAN. 29, 2026
In 2003 — a golden age of reality TV — a simple pitch came in: marry American Idol with The Real World and set it in the world of modeling. Tyra Banks, who had shattered industry norms to become one of its best-known supermodels, would host. Now a new documentary series is taking an unprecedented look behind the scenes of the smash hit that followed, America’s Next Top Model.
On Feb. 16, Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model will unpack the inner workings of the show, which became a viral juggernaut with a global audience of over 100 million people at its peak. Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan (American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden), the three-part series features interviews with ANTM’s key players, who reflect on their time on the show and take stock of its legacy — the highs and the lows — two-plus decades since it first aired.
Read on for everything to know about Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model ahead of its Feb. 16 premiere.
What happened on America’s Next Top Model?
Created by Tyra Banks and developed by Ken Mok and Kenya Barris, America’s Next Top Model ran for 24 seasons — or “cycles,” as they were called on the show — from 2003 to 2016. Each cycle followed a new group of aspiring models from across the US who lived together, competed in challenges, and faced a weekly elimination. The eventual winner was named “America’s Next Top Model” and awarded a spread in a fashion magazine, plus contracts with a major fashion brand and a modeling agency.
The series broke new ground by spotlighting contestants from communities the fashion industry had historically overlooked, but also became known for increasingly outlandish stunt shoots and compulsory cosmetic transformations — including drastic haircuts and invasive dental surgeries. Judges’ biting critiques of contestants’ shapes, weight, and looks became some of the show’s signature viral moments.
Since ANTM ended, a decade ago, longtime fans and new audiences alike — fueled in part by pandemic-era binge-watching — have revisited the show and taken to social media to reconsider its place in the culture, scrutinizing controversial moments and questioning whether contestants were treated fairly. In the docuseries, Banks, Mok, and former judges and contestants speak directly to those questions and reflect on the show’s complicated history.….
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/reality-check-inside-americas-next-top-model-release-date-news
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