Okay, originally I thought that beautiful people Nikki Taylor and Tyson Beckford would be handing us an empty bite off of America's Next Top Model. What I didn't know, was that unlike ANTM, this show deals with the technical side of trying to be a model more than the actual life of a model.

We opened to a montage of characters thanking God and their mamas for the opportunity of a lifetime: being chosen as one of the few, the proud, the model wannabes. Nikki and Tyson welcome the hopefuls to Times Square on a rather frigid day. Nikki reminds them that only one of them will win (a line I'm sure we'll hear quite a few more times), and tells them that the competition starts immediately. For some reason, some of them are surprised. Continue reading.