About the show: I want "The Tyra Banks Show" to be our place to kick back every day. Of course we're going to learn and grow and cry sometimes, but mostly, we're going to have fun. I'm talkin' laughin', screamin', dancin', catwalkin', fun! I'll be talking to some of our favorite celebrities - I promise I'll try to be professional, but I might get a little crazy with the really fun ones. And you know there will be makeovers, but I think we should all learn to appreciate our inner-beauty too. I want us to feel fierce the moment we wake up, before we throw on all that fabulous makeup and those hot clothes. I'll hook you up with the best experts who can help out with that, and I'll talk to real-women guests about the things that matter most - everything from self-esteem, to family, relationship and friendship issues. We can all learn a lot from these stories. And yes, I promise to fess up to all my own personal drama. I've been cheated on, lied to and heartbroken one too many times! It sounds like we have a lot to talk about, huh? So make sure you're tuned in and ready to go on a wild and crazy journey together.

Premieres September 12th

They have an ad out with Tyra shilling for people to sign up as guests. I think Tyra does this whole "lets be BFFs!" a little to much for my taste.

I know this show isn't exactly aimed at my gender, but that's never stopped me from snarking on a show.


Clearly Tyra and I have different ideas of fun if "catwalkin" is in the list.


Great. Just what I was hoping for.

I can't see this show lasting too long. Tyra's not exactly someone that most people can relate to.
Also, the shows executive producer has a spotty history: EP for Wayne Brady and Tony Danza. Not exactly blockbuster shows.

I give this show three months, tops, before it gets cancelled.
Tyra is a beautiful woman, but most guys are not home at that time of day to drool over her.

No thanks. I'll stick to America's Next Top Model.

She's hot until she opens her mouth. I couldn't see many guys tuning in even if it were on primetime.

I like Tyra but I just don't see her as a talk show host. Everybody thinks they can do it, including myself, and the truth is, WE CAN'T.



I thought the WB was very successful. I mean it won an Emmy. Although I know that Emmy doesn't equal people watching. Everyone I knew was watching.

True about the Emmy, but the show only lasted for two seasons - there must have been ratings problems for the network to can it.

We should start a pool on how long TB Show will last.

She does this all the time on ANTM and she's just so damn insincere. You just know she drop kicks the contestants to the curb once they're eliminated.

Maybe they should just have her sit there in Victoria Secret underwear. It might get better ratings than anything that either lets her talk or has her mother on every other show.

At first I read this as "insecure." Tyra strikes me as the type to likes to be liked, but she doesn't do a good job of faking caring, though. I'll watch the show, though. If only in the hope that she screams at her guests the way she did with Tiffany (How DARE you! We were all ROOTING for you! TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY, WHEN MY MAMA . . . etc.). I also have a feeling that I'm going to have to create a drinking game for everytime she mentions her mama or says "fierce".

What would make this show fierce is if she had a RuPaul-esque sidekick. Hell, turn it into a big ol' gay guy and his galpal gabfest. I know I and my queer facilitator have some funny as hell conversations. But I don't think La Banks' ego could stand that.

To be fair though, ratings aren't always an indication of quality. See any reality tv show currently showing. I mean there are some truly awful things that people are watching.

Man, that's funny. I'm picturing them both duking it out over the wigs.

I could be wrong, but aren't talk shows contracted for an entire season? I know afliates can drop them halfway through the season, but don't they usually air somewhere through an entire season? Sharon Osbourne and Ryan Seacrest's talk shows come to mind.

Very true, you got me there.

We'll see how it turns out I guess. Maybe she'll be the next Oprah...doubt it though.

I saw a preview of her show over the weekend...It was pretty good. I think it will do well with it's target audience (young women).

I saw the part of the preview, too and it looked like a fun show. Tyra took two audience members and they all reappeared without their make up. Since the National Enquirer and Fox love to run stars without their make up stories and specials, I thought she was pretty honest but I think she's done it on ANTM before. She does the Ellen dancing thing but with more women and on the catwalk.

Tyra is a bitch. I met her in Las Vegas with some of the other victorias Secret girls. Hedi, Adrianna, and Alexandra were the picture of sweet women. Tyra turned down an autograph to a 10 year old boy right in front of me for no reason. His response? He stated he had driven all the way from Colorado with his parents to meet her. She just seemed so snub. This show will be awful. Tyra's daddy was a rich man when she was young. She grew up wealthy, then became a supermodel. I don't think it's too relatable to an audience. Now Oprah on the other hand...

Yeah, that commercial where Tyra was reminiscing at an old beaten down house where her family managed to perservere or something was such a lie. Why'd she turn down the autograph?

I went to test group yesterday and show part of her new show. Most of the women liked the segments and she seems to be really natural in front of the audience. I saw:
a girl with an eating probelm and her mother,
three young women with an empty apartment get a house makeover from Dennis Brown,
what your shoes say about you,
Tyra gets a breast sonagram(under her robe) to disprove rumors that she has implants and
a couple go on free pass dates. The woman goes salsa dancing and gets a friendly good bye hug. The man goes rock climbing, wines and dines the new woman and buys her a pair of $6,000 diamond earrings. The boyfriend and new woman also spend the night at his place, him on the couch,her in the bed. Despite them dating for 2 and a half years, they broke up on camera. Tyra was good at telling the girlfriend to direct her anger and questions at the boyfriend and not the new date.

Oh good, because that was really keeping me up at night wondering if she has implants. I can hardly wait.

Thanks for the insider info, mimsy61.

She was really upset about the boob job rumors. Her voice cracked and her eyes welled with tears. Her show was doing a whole hour on breasts Another woman who had a sonogram did have implants, so they looked different.

Did she have a heart to heart talk with her mother while curled up on a bed or was this a new weepy act? Though the idea of her pulling out the sonogram and yelling to the audience "respect the real boobies" has plenty of potential.

Not a good sign, there's already changes in the production team for the show. The executive producer, who was named to that position in June, has been replaced by a former producer for The Larry Elder Show, Sharon Osbourne, Change of Heart (I'd forgotten about that show!) and Jenny Jones

Call me crazy, but I have a hunch this might be a surprise hit.
Tyra may not have Oprah's journalistic pedigree, but she is no less sincere than Miss Winfrey; They both can do fake "i'm Your Buddy, hon" very well...


And for whatever reason, I always thought that Tyra would be Showbiz' next big female African American multi-million-raking celebrity multi-tasker ...

I think Tyra may be a hit too. You never know whose is going to make it in daytime TV. Tony Danza is still on and Jane Pauley not? Who would have predicted that?

There's a great article about Tyra in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, for those who are interested.

I was hoping the show was precancelled or something, but people seem to be saying good things about it.



Still hate her.

I'll watch this long before I watch Oprah. She's cute and she isn't pretending to be smart. (a la Dr. Phil) she's just running a televised Seventeen, and I can deal with that.

I have a hunch this will be the worst show ever, and it is. It is on right now, and I am so hoping it is cancelled quickly, so they can get my judge shows back on. I am at work, and it killing me listening to highly Tyra thinks of herself.
tothemax I am with you-I Hate Her!

I didn't think the show was on yet. Weird.

The more I hear about this show, the more I hate it. For example: The set will have a runway. Yes, a runway. Why? According to Tyra:

She always struck me as one of those celebs (coughHalleBerry*) who was always out to prove her "blackness" and how down she was when it wasn't necessary...not to mention, she just tries too hard at stuff, and to echo what everyone said....a Supermodel who sides as a star effer and dabbles in stuff she shouldn't be doing is just not relatable...

I'm not the biggest Tyra fan but I did think that was quite a clever and original idea.

OK -- who has seen this? It was supposed to start today. But I didn't know until I was in the car on the way to work and heard a radio interview with Tyrant -- so I couldn't set my TiVo. She was supposed to wash off all of her make-up and show unaribrushed pictures of herself today. Now that I would have watched.

Her first guest was supposed to be....her MOM!!!! She has issues. Cut the apron strings, Honey.

So???? Talk to me, People!!

I have. The fact that the sucker started minutes late and ended minutes early is not a good sign; they seem to be having trouble selling enough commercials in it. The show began with a typical long, boring, self-aggrandizing Tyrant monologue. I think I saw about three men in the audience. Typrah showed a few before and after montages of familiar Tyra shots from ANTM, and the difference in amount of flesh present was predictably shocking.

After the TyMom segment, Typrah moved on to that daytime staple, makeovers. She performed the usual "spontaneous" walk-in on a woman who just happened to have a camera crew in the house at the time. The woman had unfortunate Bugs Bunny teeth that made Kahlen from ANTM S4's look good, but the rest of her was conveniently thin, shapely, and tall. All the better to make you over with, my dear. Typrah decided that this woman also had to have lasik surgery, although her glasses really weren't ugly or unflattering and lasik complications can be permanent. Her After teeth bore a marked resemblance to Shannon from ANTM S1's giant choppers, and naturally the dentist got an extended product placement plug. The whole creepy segment had more than a little bit of The Swan in it.

Next up was another highly staged segment at the DMV, showing women how to pose better for their pictures. Nothing helps that DMV line move along like Typrah directing a photo shoot and demanding multiple takes per woman. Typrah is so secure with herself that only her driver's license shot had her weight--but not her height--blurred out along with the address information; the other women's licenses had unblurred heights and weights.

The removing-the-makeup segment was last and lasted about a minute, broken up by another commercial break. It was overhyped at best.

Typrah is taking herself very seriously and failing to sense the high level of cheese and phoniness in everything she does, as always. About the closest she came to honesty was admitting that her music "career" was a flop. I don't think Oprah's sweating any bullets over this show.

I watched this crap (well, background noise at least). Tyra cried during practically every segment. Lame.

And sometimes whent he camera cut to the audience, they looked like they wanted to be anywhere but there.

I watched this yesterday and ITA with this. So many of the faces they cut too had major WTF looks on them. Most of them didn't look like they believed anything that came out of Tyra's mouth.

I have to admit that I want to like this show. But all the crying and Oprah moments seem almost fake or forced. Tyra cries at the drop of a hat and it just doesn't seem real. I'm willing to give it a shot because she does seem to play up the whole self esteem is important for young girls thing.

I hate the runway thing though.

I've got it on my TiVo season pass since I"m working when it's on. So hopefully it'll get better.



Seriously. In DC, we didn't even have the Tony Danza show last season. But now it's on right after Tyra.

I thought it was okay. I must be the only one on the board that doesn't hate Tyra!

I think her talk show will serve those single young women (like myself) who can't always relate to the topics (marriage, kids etc.) that's always on Oprah and The View...

This is my first time watching the show and it's boring so far.

I tivo'ed this so I could be sure to catch it. I also Tivo'ed Martha. I'm tivoing Martha today but have given up on Tyra.



That's my biggest issue. Tyra is just too danged serious about everything. I get tired of it. I appreciate what she does to a certain extent but then I'm just like "Oh shut up! You do not have that many life lessons to impart on me and if I see you drag out your damn mama one more time I'm going to scream!"

But she still has a hair weave! And an eyelash weave. And the technician can be paid off.

Look, being a "full-figured" gal myself, her boobs are probably be real, but the attitude ain't. I've seen parts of the show and I see it going two seasons because she'll pull young and that's what the advertisers want and there is not a lot of product out there which is why they're giving shows away to anyone that comes along or has a blog or column read by 50 people.

I had no idea that she grew up wealthy, but this greatly disturbs me if she's perpetuating a fake "ghetto baby" story because, well, don't all black people grow up poor and live in raggedy houses? What would happen if a black entertainer actually grew up middle class from 1950 until current? How would the world survive this horrid reality?

I'm being sarcastic in my delivery, but not in my point: stop pimping and romanticizing race and poverty. There's nothing any of us can do about our childhood. We're stuck with whatever we get. But your adulthood is a different matter and Tyra ain't po' now. Like I'm supposed to watch a show regularly just because the host was "poor and strugglin'" and "pulled themselves up"?

I'll hold off on watching until the day she throws her cue cards down and yells at the guest because she "cares".

But Tyra had a bad sibling rivalry as described on the Oprah show.

Re the quoted piece above - GIMME A BREAK!!!!

No sympathy here. And where was Mama when all this was going on?

And if you still hate each other, give us a call. You can be the next guests on Tyra!

Typrah's got to do something to pretend to be relatable to ordinary people. Today was the body image/eating disorders episode, and it wasn't terribly convincing to have Typrah, whose body image struggles revolve around whether she's better looking than 99.999% of women this week or only 99.99%, giving a pep talk about "You're beautiful, girl!" The audience again looked bored, as was I.

The best part today came at the end of the show, when Typrah was blinking repeatedly and looking old and tired--in her second episode!--as she gazed into the camera, all in a manner amusingly reminiscent of Sandra Lee's outdoor episodes. Again this hour show was more like 57 minutes, with local commercials before and after taking up the slack time that Typrah's producers evidently can't sell.

My favorite part in yesterday's show was when she had a teenager on who thought she was fat even though she really wasn't. Tyra wanted to prove to her that even though this girl wanted to be like Tyra that she wasn't all that skinny herself. Tyra lifts up her shirt to expose her "belly". Except I didn't really see any belly. Yeah, there was a teeny bit of excess there but it was still a pretty nice midsection. Just what exactly did this prove?

The craziest thing with the story of that teenager was how concerned her mom was for her and how her mom couldn't understand why her daughter was fat...until it's revealed that her mom "jokingly" tells her daughter all the time that she's fat and ugly and has bad teeth. *sigh*

This show sucks...a lot.

I had high hopes for this, being an ANTM fan, but Tyra is just as bad here as she is there. She tries too hard and it comes off so phony for me. I can't buy into any of this.

To make matters worse, the set/theme/overall feel of this show is played out. It just seems really "been there, done that." I definitely don't see a hit for Tyrant.

ITA. When I was watching on Monday I felt like I had entered a time warp to the era of Rikki, Tempest, Gabrielle and all of those other crappy daytime talk shows that have thankfully gone away.

...she had a music career? Where was I when that happened? Did I forget to set my alarm clock again?