I think the problem was that David was so utterly, ravingly gay that there was no other choice except to ship him off somewhere. The fact that these two women fought over him (and clearly had the gaydar of a cement block) was the funniest thing I've ever seen.

That, and when practically once an episode one of the models would flip out, start screaming, and then run out the back door to try and commit suicide by drowning herself in the ocean. It happened EVERY. DAMN. WEEK. I always wondered if they would do a cross-over with Baywatch.

Models, Inc. Wow, I forgot that show was around in 90s. What was Fox thinking?

It was indeed a car wreck, but I liked the work the Australian did- what was her name? I think the name of the actress was Kylie Travis or something.

Heh. I went to high school with Brian Gaskill, and he wasn't gay then. He was sort of "dorky cute." He was in the Performing Arts Program, and I believe he graduated in 1988.

I had NO clue that he was Rafe on Port Charles. That's funny! He's actually pretty cute now!

Models, Inc. was HORRIBLE! There was another actor on the show, David Goldsmith, from my hometown. Totally forgot about this show until now!

Cassidy Rae, of Lifetime movie stardom was one of the leads in this. She was Sarah Owens, the "just fell off the sweet potato" truck one who was at odds with the Kylie Travis character(Julie Dante- great name). Garcelle Beauvais and Carrie-Anne Moss also were part of the cast. It's amazing who winds up with a decent career from these crap shows and who gets stuck in Lifetime and B- movie hell. Granted, The Matrix was a sure thing for stardom, but still...
I enjoyed it at the time, but I had to suspend my disbelief since it was another soap case of "top models" all being under 5'9" and not too model-y.

I liked this show, but I thought it was so fucked up the way Carrie Ann's character ended up in a brothel somewhere in South America (or Mexico- or whatever). Her character was such a wimpy underdog, but that was a horrible end for such a nice character.

Yeah, that was an eff-ed up way to end the show for that character. I never got it. But yeah, I'm ashamed to say I liked it too- but only for the Julie character.

I just have to say that I think Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon is one of the most beautiful women ever. There's just something about her. I would put her above all the other stick-figure blondes in Hollywood that supposedly embody beauty.


Also, Models Inc. was WAY cheesy, but I think they should have at least wrapped things up and not left all of the crazy cliffhangers.

I loved this show and if it was given more of a chance, I think that it would have been as popular as Melrose Place & BH 90210 were. Does anybody know when it will be on DVD?

I liked it too, but then again I was a teeny weeny horny (pre)pubescent boy. Lauren Hutton was in it, wasn't she? that was pretty cool. and that was undoubtedly Carrie Ann Moss' finest work.

Lauren Hutton was on Central Park West (an underrated show, IMO, much like this one), not Models.

Man, I remember that finale when Carrie Ann woke up in Mexico without her passport. I thought FINALLY the show was going to get as crazy and campy as Melrose and then...it was cancelled! Come on, I wanted to see Carrie Ann in her life of forced prostitution!


I remember that Sassy did a feature on Models, Inc. They showed one of the episodes to a photographer, a model, and an agent and they transcribed their comments as they watched. One of the major complaints was that Cassidy was not pretty enough or skinny enough to be a model. During one scene when she was running on the beach, the photographer said, "Now you've got the right idea - keep running!"

I remember Stephanie Romanov (Lilah on Angel) being on the show but I don't remember much about her storyline. The main plot point I remember was Sarah being nice to the bitchy girl and giving her Preperation H to depuff her eyes. I thought why does the new girl know this "beauty secret" but the supposed pro doesn't?

Didn't Stephanie play Terri, the supermodel that was "killed" at the beginning of the show? And then she came back as her lookalike, "Cari" or something?

Stephanie was actually quite good in her one-shot deal as bitchy supermodel Teri Spencer (who was actually first introduced on Melrose Place during the spinoff storyline episodes), Carrie Spencer's younger sister; and then she came back as unrelated lookalike Monique Duran, good girl who was as interesting as oat bran.

I wonder if this will ever see the light of dvd- I'd totally netflix it, just to see how excuriatingly bad it was.

It was pretty tasty cheese for those of us who did watch it. Believe it or not, there was some actual good in it, namely in the form of the divine Kylie Travis as bitch on wheels Julie Dante. (Whatever happened to her? She later turned up on Central Park West and Gia before seemingly falling off the face of the earth) But the bad was indeed very bad, but in a highly entertaining way. Emma Samms was completely, totally, utterly ridiculous as madam/drug dealer (!) turned head of Models, Inc. Grayson Louder, but damn was she entertaining. Even Cassidy Rae's hapless overacting as pudgy farm girl-turned-diva model Sarah Owens was good for some delicious schadenfraude guffaws. I do give the writers/producers credit in that the token African-American model, Cynthia Nichols, played by Garcelle Beauvais, was not treated as such (even though she was a last-minute addition) and got some pretty meaty storylines. Love how her psycho stalker storyline then morphed into a rape storyline which then became a bulimia story.

Yeah, I'd buy a DVD of this in a second...it was such a camp riot. I had to see early Dallas again to be reminded that Linda Gray can act if she has a director, a script, and a safety net, apparently, because here...yeah, not so much. I think this one TV reviewer summed it up best when he or she said something like "Linda Gray thinks she's being sultry by ending every scene with pouty pursed lips, but in reality it looks like someone wedged a harmonica in her mouth."

THE best was when Carrie Ann Moss, who was ABYSMAL here, went off the deep end and started pretending to be Linda Gray(!), and when Linda Gray found out, there was a Bad Act-Off that had to be seen to be believed, capped by Carrie Ann Moss blurting, "OH MY GOD I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING!" Oh, ain't that the truth, honey. (I did read an interview with her years later where she said that Models Inc. taught her everything not to do as an actress. Heh.)

And then there was the time that a coked-up Sarah signed away millions of dollars so this guy would dance with her to "The Whole World Lost Its Head" by the Go-Gos....ah, good times, good times.

I agree...Kylie Travis was legitimately awesome, however.

I wonder if SoapNet would consider bringing this one back on Saturday nights like they've done with Pasadena, Paper Dolls, and others?

I don't remember much from this show, though I do remember really liking it when it was on.

Also, I remember the last episode I watched (which I thought was the last episode before getting cancelled) was that one of the models was marrying Emma Samms's ex-husband. They were at the alter, Emma's kid goes running, then a gun shot. I remember being pissed because the show was cancelled and I never knew who got shot.

Was I wrong? Did I miss it?

I don't remember Carrie Ann Moss's storylines. However I thought she was an ugly model and couldn't believe she was cast as one. Before you start throwing things, this was back in the days when I was a teeny bopper and everything had to be fabulously, physically beautiful. Now, I'm all "growed up" and think Carrie Anne Moss is actually quite beautiful.

Yeah, she is beautiful but she wasn't back then...she had weird legs for a model.

As I recall it, it was Emma Samms who got shot...supposed to be ironic or something, I guess, as the hit-man she herself hired ended up killing her.

Oh, and Sarah was the most annoying character on the show...no, wait, that was Monique Duran...no, Julie's red-haired sister (who absolutely did not look like a model, and what a shithead Cynthia's boyfriend was, when she needed him)...my point is, lots of annoying characters in this show....and I still watched.

So, wait. All these years I've been pissed the show was cancelled and I never got closure to that storyline when, in reality, I was the dumbass who didn't check my local listing? Figures.

Actually, when the season finale aired on Fox, it was a cliffhanger, and we didn't know who got shot. It was presumed that if the show returned that more than likely the kid would've been the one to bite it (as we all know, kids in sleazy soaps don't have a place).

However, seeing the writing on the wall, the producers shot an ending that aired overseas and on the reruns that aired for a while on E!. Grayson was the one who was shot; Hilary shut down the agency; Craig proposed to Julie. Everything was tied up... that is, 'cept for Carrie being trapped in hooker hell, and with Grayson dead, guess she was left there to rot.

blobbygirl, thanks so much for reminding me of Julie's redhead sister Anna. Now there was one ugly chick. Never understood how she became a model on the show.

The Last Dodo--that was indeed one awesomely, amusingly awful storyline when Carrie tried to take over Hilary's life. It was definitely a step up in the Carrie storylines though; before that we had her whining (1) about being over the hill and (2) about the son she gave up for adoption.

I don't understand why the producers brought back Stephanie Romanov only to make her new character a good girl. They had way too much faith in her "range." I wished Stephanie Smith, the murderous receptionist played by Heather Medway (talk about your *obvious* whodunit there), came back on the show and killed Monique since she was a dead ringer for Teri.

My fave bad Sarah storyline? When she fell in love with the apprentice priest (played by the dude who would later play Ryan McBride on MP). That was a doozy.

One terrible sin of this show was how Teresa Hill's Linda Holden was quickly put on permanent backburner once her porn storyline was over. She was one of the more tolerable (read: more attractive) people on the show.

Sigh... all that could've been had this show gone on beyond one season. But damn, typing all that, I realize just how much *did* go on in that one season...

I remember my local paper running a piece where a panel of people who actually worked in the modeling industry discussed Model's Inc. They all said the models were completely and totally all wrong on every level, except for perhaps Teresa Hill, but only because she was skinny. Apparantly, all of the other girls were too fat and old to be real models.

Interesting. Well, Cassidy Rae was certainly looking like she was approaching plus-size level, that's for sure. Stephanie Romanov's modeling days were behind her when she started acting; ditto, Garcelle Beauvais, so it makes sense...

I just managed to locate an old tape I had of episodes. My God, I wish this show lasted longer. Some great stuff here: the Carrie/Hilary thing is starting to reach its climax (Carrie just picked up some random stranger using Hilary's name and fucked him in Hilary's own bed); Julie just met Craig, and they have their bet on whether or not she could seduce Adam (great moment--Julie comes out of the hot tub naked and tells Adam, "Why have one dish... when you can have a smorgasbord?"); Monique finds out ("That little stunt you just pulled in the jacuzzi? You were NAKED!"), and she and Julie proceed to slap each other hard a few times (Julie: "I will GIVE as good as I GET!"); Linda's storyline with the possessive rich guy is about to end, but then that leaves her with no story at all, so I guess that isn't so great. Bad stuff? Sarah is falling for priest guy but she nor the audience doesn't yet know he's a priest (that reveal is to come shortly); Cynthia is starting to get the psycho stalker phone calls, which means Johnathon Schaech and his wreched acting are soon to follow.

And in the next scene, the models are laughing and joking about Monique's honeymoon. So I guess when Grayson was shot at the wedding, they just shoved her dead corpse out of the way and carried on with the ceremony.

Just found another tape that had the last few episodes of its run (from the original Fox airings), and I have to say that this show was consistently cheese-amusing through its entire run though it was really hitting its stride at the end. Grayson laundering drug money and hookers through the agency, leading to the rather thrilling reign of terror (or, as Mitch Pileggi's hitman put it, "quite a rampage") in the season/series finale; coke-snorting, quaalude popping, pot smoking, heavy drinking Sarah doing impromptu stripteases in clubs and then getting into brawls--and, of course, completely blacking out about it the next day; poor, pathetic Carrie being suckered into prostitution by Grayson; and, as physically repulsive (and wretched an actress) as she is, Julie's sister Anna skanking it up trying to break up both Julie and Craig *and* Brian and Cynthia. They were obviously trying to do something along the lines of MP's Sydney, but this being Models, they found a way to up the cheap sleaze/skeeve factor with Anna. I even enjoy Hilary being Grayson's doormat since that means Linda Gray not doing that harmonica lip thing as much. Of course, Monique and Adam are still boring as all hell, and it sucks how Linda was reduced to being a best friend to everyone type without a storyline of her own. Hell, even her ex Eric had his manwhore storyline going with Kim Zimmer...

Oh, I almost forgot about that! Kim Zimmer looked extremely embarrassed the whole time she was on. Of course, this was before Reva was an Amish amnesiac, clone, and psychic, so little did she know her material would only get more laughable.

And in other daytime crossovers, the detective who helped her was played by Nancy Lee Grahn (Julia, Santa Barbara; Alexis, General Hospital), who stole every scene she was in merely by virtue of the fact that she could act. I remember there's one scene where she's explaining something to a gaggle of the usual Not Ready For Anything Players and they're all looking at her all like, "Hmmmm....so that's how you do it!"

Nancy Lee Grahn also turned up on MP a couple of seasons later as Matt's sister, am I not mistaken?

Something like that...his sister or his sister-in-law. I think he was trying to get custody of her child because she was unfit or unreliable.

I know this is an old topic, but i was recently watching some Models Inc clips on youtube... They brought back a lot of memories. while a lot of the show was so outrageous...I so heart Emma Samms as Grayson. What a bitch. I wish they gave it just one more season, as I think it was just hitting its stride when they cancelled it.