Aspiring models compete for a chance to break into the business in this runaway hit. Created and executive-produced by supermodel Tyra Banks, its formula of beautiful women plus unappealing behavior make it enormously popular and one of the more intriguing reality shows, with its wannabe cover girls living together in a house and, between catfights, going out on photo shoots while they vie for a modeling contract.
Women compete to win the affections of Poison front man Bret Michaels. In the first two seasons, the ladies lived in Michaels' Hollywood Hills home, while Season 3 found the girlfriend wannabes traveling with the rocker aboard a tour bus.