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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

CW Banks On Tyra...

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The CW has greenlit a new fashion-magazine reality series from Tyra Banks and Ken Mok, the creative team behind the network's No. 1 show "America's Next Top Model."

The new series received an eight-episode order and will begin production in April for a summer launch, eyed as a companion piece to "Top Model."

"It is a competition show about assistant editors at a fashion magazine," Mok said.

"At the same time they're trying to prove themselves as aspiring fashionistas, that they have a sense of style and savvyness, all the things to make it in the fashion world."

In each episode, contestants will compete in two challenges, individual competition and team competition, in which each squad will submit a page for "The Book," a mock edition of the magazine...