The Tyra Banks Show

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The Tyra Banks Show

Genre	talk show
Running time	60 minutes
Creator(s)	Tyra Banks
Executive producer(s)	Tyra Banks, Benny Medina, Kerrie Moriarty, John Redmann
Starring	Tyra Banks
Country of origin	USA
Original channel	Syndicated by Warner Bros.
Original run	September 12, 2005–
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The Tyra Banks Show is an American daytime talk show hosted by former supermodel Tyra Banks. It premiered on September 12, 2005 and is performed in front of a live audience at CBS Television City in Los Angeles. The show mainly focuses on issues facing women of today; however, this is not always the case. It currently airs in syndication in the United States and Canada, on LIVINGtv2 in the UK, on Arena in Australia, and on TV2 in New Zealand.

1 Notable Episodes
2 Trivia
3 Airings
4 External links

[edit] Notable Episodes

In the shows first month on air, a notable episode featured Banks undergoing a sonogram to prove that her breasts are not fake. In November 2005, Banks went undercover as a 350-pound woman to show people the ugly side of weight discrimination; she later said that the reaction she got from people on the street as well as from three blind dates she was set up with made the experience "one of the most heartbreaking days of her life".

In March 2006, Banks went undercover into a strip club in an attempt to understand what men get from attending such places. She was set to perform but backed out at the last minute. In May 2006, Banks went to a maximum security prison to meet some of the female inmates, in order to learn about their stories. As a visitor, she was subjected to all tests and searches that regular prisoners are faced with, this included a public and invasive strip search. Back on the show, she said it was, "one of the hardest things she had ever had to go through." She also interviewed prisoners released the day she went into jail. In November 2006, Banks put on a "panty party" show in which she stripped down to her bra and underwear, then revealing a full audience in robes who followed suit.

Other themes of episodes have included a interview with white and black girls being treated differently and an interviewed with a mixed woman having a baby with a white man and a white woman with black descent.

[edit] Trivia

Mikalah Gordon who placed 11th place on season 4's American Idol is now a correspondent for the show and has appeared on 6 episodes so far.
The second season of her show started on September 11, 2006 and it's averaging a little more than 2 million viewers per episode. ^{[citation needed]}