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From BBM Canada:

• Top programs – Total Canada
  #11 Canada’s Next Top Model (957,000)
  #19 The Listener (871,000)

From BBM Canada:

• Top Programs – Total Canada
  #22 Canada’s Next Top Model (797,000)
  #23 The Listener (793,000)

From a media release:

1.36 Million Viewers Watch Meaghan Become CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL on CTV

• Season Finale up 31% compared to season average
• Full-season marathon airs this Saturday on Star!

Last night, 1.36 million viewers* (*total viewers 2+ at 8:58 p.m., BBM Nielsen Media Research) were watching CTV as Meaghan Waller, 19 from Winnipeg, became the last model standing and took home the title of CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL, preliminary data from BBM Nielsen Media Research confirms. More than two million viewers watched all or part of the broadcast and with an average audience of 957,000 viewers, the season finale was the most-watched episode of the season, up 31% compared to the season-to-date average. Winning its timeslot at 8 p.m. in total viewers and the key A18-34, A18-49 and A25-54 demos, the episode was the most-watched program on Canadian television last night for A25-54 and the key female demos F18-49 and F25-54. Additionally, CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL was also the #1 reality show of the night, delivering more viewers than a simulcast of BIG BROTHER on Global (943,000).

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From a media release:

There wasn’t a dry eye in the house at final judging on CTV’s CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. After weeks of challenges, trips, and photos shoots, Meaghan, 19 from Winnipeg, outlasted 11 eliminations to become the last model standing and win the title of CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. Host Jay Manuel and the judges, FASHIONTELEVISION’s Jeanne Beker, supermodel Yasmin Warsame, Montreal native and A-List photographer Mike Ruiz, and photo shoot Creative Director Nolé Marin, all agreed she had what it takes to win the competition and become Canada’s next model sensation. “Every emotion is pouring through my veins right now,” Meaghan said immediately after being named Canada’s Next Top Model. “I want to travel. I want to do as many photo shoots around the world as possible. I want to make it all happen. It is official – Meaghan Waller is a model.”

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From Kate Taylor of the Globe and Mail:

• Modelling competition fails to produce a real winner
  “Even by the standard of TV talent contests, those overhyped and tearful exercises in humiliation and jubilation, Top Model is pretty nasty. The American show on which this franchise is based has been widely criticized both for humiliating its contestants with painful critiques and skimpy costumes, and for the bitchy behaviour of the young women themselves. The Canadian show is also full of bathing suits and underwear, but the judges generally know how to criticize without demolishing: Host Jay Manuel sets the tone here, and while he may look like an alien from the planet Aryan, he is a cheerful sort who is pleasant with all comers. It’s the women themselves who were behaving like vindictive school girls last week in an incident that had embarrassing undertones of racism.” Read more.

Tuesday, July 14

8 p.m. – CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL – “Rockin’ The Runway” – SEASON FINALE

It all comes down to this. The top three dive into a high-stakes cover-try photo shoot for Fashion Magazine. The best two advance and continue to compete – and the worst goes home in a mid-show elimination. The final two models then enter the final challenge of the competition – a walk-off in a heel-to-heel runway fashion show. In the end, only one will be named CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL.

From BBM Canada:

• Top programs – Total Canada
  #16 The Listener (798,000)
  #23 Canada’s Next Top Model (698,000)

From Kat Angus of Dose:

• Q&A with Canada’s Next Top Model reject Maryam Massoumi
  “Ultimately, ripping Linsay’s toilet paper dress was the last straw for Maryam, and the 18-year-old Iranian (now living in Vancouver, B.C.) was sent home.” Read more.

From Brian Coulton of Metro:

• Being a Top Model can take its toll
  “It can’t be easy to outlast eight model hopefuls in pursuit of the Canada’s Next Top Model title, let alone to face constant criticism from the show’s panel of judges. But for the competition’s three finalists, their harshest criticism may have come after the show began airing.” Read more.

From a media release:

Maryam Moves On and it’s Down to the Top Three on CTV’s CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

• Alberta and Manitoba claim top three finalists
• Catch encore presentations on Star!/FT, MTV, and ‘A’
• The CNTM finale airs on Tuesday, July 14 at 8 p.m. ET

After a challenging week of drama, ripped dresses, tears, and bickering, Maryam was cut loose on tonight’s CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL on CTV, leaving the top three competitors to model-it-out in next week’s season finale. The journey has been difficult for Maryam who struggled with a language barrier and passport issues throughout the competition. And while she was disappointed not to be CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL, she wasn’t devastated and she’s not giving up. “I really wanted to win this, but I also really wanted to have the experience too,” Maryam said on her departure. “It’s not like this was the only way that I could go. I have a scholarship; my average was ‘A’ in school. I guess I’m going to go back to school and I’ll send my portfolio to the agency and see what happens.”

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From Brian Coulton in Metro:

• From Iran to the top 4
  “Maryam Massoumi may not have won Canada’s Next Top Model, but she left the show with a new understanding of what it means to be Canadian.” Read more.

Tuesday, July 7
8 p.m.
CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL – Rippin’ It Up
The models have to nail a Cover Girl photo shoot under the watchful eye of this week’s photographer – judge Mike Ruiz and, as usual, Nole Marin is on set as creative director, putting the girls through the paces. The stress of it all really takes a toll on the competitors. One of them is reduced to tears at the thought of losing and is sent off the set.

From CTV:

• ‘Top Model’ coach issues breast cancer challenge
  “Working with the finalists on Canada’s Next Top Model in a challenge that involved bathroom tissue ended up being a whole lot more meaningful than Miss J. Alexander ever anticipated.” Read more.

From BBM Canada:

• Top programs – Total Canada
  #26 Canada’s Next Top Model (649,000)

From Jennifer Fong of Canwest News Service:

• Top model’s strength, beauty and poise inspire aboriginal youth
  “A regular model for the Edmonton Journal, Willier has garnered a devoted following, especially among aboriginal youth who see her as a role model.” Read more.

From Kat Angus of Dose:

• Q&A with Canada’s Next Top Model Reject Heather Delaney
  “After failing to wow New York designers, Nikita and Heather found themselves in the bottom two, and ultimately, shy and sweet Heather Delaney of Halifax wound up re-stuffing her suitcase — this time for the trip home.” Read more.

From a media release:

Heather Hits the Hills on CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

• Hottest women come from Western Canada as final four face-off
• Catch encore presentations on Star!/FT, MTV, and ‘A’
• The next episode of CNTM airs on Tuesday, July 7 at 8 p.m. ET

In one of the most exciting episodes yet, and one of the toughest eliminations to date, Heather from Halifax was the sixth hopeful to get cut from CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL. The 21-year-old student wasn’t completely shattered by her departure saying “I kind of realized when I was in New York that maybe modeling wasn’t what I want to do. I’m not really that person and I am okay with that.”

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From Allyson Snelling of the Bracebridge Examiner:

• Wildlife centre helps Top Model photo shoot
  “The contestants in Canada’s Next Top Model may come from across the country, but the wild animals they were paired with in the show’s first episode came from our own backyard. Muskoka Wildlife Centre in Severn Bridge was contracted to provide a group of wild animals for the first photo shoot with the model hopefuls.” Read more.

Tuesday, June 30 8 p.m.

CANADA’S NEXT TOP MODEL

Bright Lights- No Pity

Host Jay Manuel and a special guest shock the Final 5 when they announce that they’ll be making their second international trip of the competition – this time to one of the toughest cities in the world – New York. It is a whirlwind as the models race through fashion go-sees, meeting major designers and the fashion elite in a bid to make an impression.

From BBM Canada:

• Top programs – Total Canada
  #6 The Listener (1.079 million)
  #27 Canada’s Next Top Model (707,000)