Channel Ten drops Next Top Model after copping it for murder episode

Tim Burrowes

January 7, 2009 9:26

Network Ten has dropped America’s Next Top Model from its schedules – just days after it was criticised for airing an episode in which the aspiring models played mutilated murder victims in a photoshoot.

However, the reason is more likely to be the poor audience of around 400,000 than any outrage at the show, which had already been broadcast on pay TV’s Fox 8 and was nearly two years old.

Update: Ten have found a new slot for ANTM in the early hours of the morning.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.

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MediaMook 7 Jan 09

Damn! I’ll have to wait for Channel 7’s Sunday Night ‘news’ show to start to get my weekly trash TV fix.

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