America's Next Top Model

Fast National ratings for Friday, Nov. 27, 2009
The broadcast networks were mostly in rerun and movie mode on the day after Thanksgiving, but as usual CBS finished the night on top.
CBS averaged 5.3 million viewers and a 3.5 rating/6 share in households in primetime. Fox (4.8 million, 2.6/5) finished second. ABC's 4.4 million viewers and 2.9/5 were good enough for third, topping NBC's 3.7 million and 2.4/4. The CW (1.2 million, 0.8/1) was in the back of the pack.
Fox led the adults 18-49 demographic, albeit with just a modest 1.4 rating. CBS took second with a 1.2, and ABC and NBC tie for third at 1.1. The CW came in at 0.5.
Friday hour by hour:
8 p.m.
CBS: "Ghost Whisperer" rerun (5.6 million viewers, 3.8/7 households)
Fox: Movie - "Ice Age 2: The Meltdown" (4.4 million, 2.4/4)
NBC: Movie - "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" (3.9 million, 2.5/5)
ABC: "Supernanny" (3.5 million, 2.3/4)
The CW: "Smallville" rerun (1.6 million, 1.0/2)
18-49 leader: "Ghost Whisperer" and "Ice Age 2" tied at 1.3
9 p.m.
Fox: "Ice Age 2" (5.2 million, »
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"America's Next Top Model" just wrapped up a season where all the models were 5-foot-7 or shorter, which in the fashion industry is considered a liability.
The short girls of "Antm" have nothing on the contestants of "Britain's Missing Top Model."
The show, which premieres Tuesday on BBC America (it aired in the U.K. last year), is a modeling competition in which all eight contestants have disabilities. Some of the models are missing limbs, others are deaf and one, Sophie Morgan, is paralyzed from the waist down. Here she is on the runway:

"Missing Top Model" says it wants to challenge ideas about beauty, in addition to giving one of the models a chance to break into the fashion world via a cover shoot with the British edition of Marie Claire. Also among the competitors is Debbie Van Der Puten, who lost her right arm in a bus accident »
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A bunch of aspiring models spotted in an international destination has given rise to rumors of what's in store for Cycle 14.  The Nz Herald reports that the America's Next Top Model contestants are already filming an episode, and it's set in New Zealand.
Fashion blogger Isaac Hindin Miller wrote that the models have been shooting a runway challenge, together with some local models.  A source has even told him that Tyra Banks is getting ready to fly in to the country next week.  The host herself has confirmed the news, posting the announcement on her Twitter account.
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