• Netflix released a trailer for Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, featuring Tyra Banks and former cast members.
  • Banks admits “I knew I went too far” while the doc explores behind-the-scenes controversies.
  • The series includes interviews with Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker and former contestants and arrives on Netflix Feb. 16.

Trailer pulls back the curtain on the ANTM era

Netflix on Monday debuted a trailer for Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, a new docuseries that revisits the hit reality competition and its most controversial moments. The teaser includes an unguarded moment from host and creator Tyra Banks: “I knew I went too far.”

What the trailer shows

The trailer stitches together interviews with judges and producers, archival footage and former contestants. It spotlights disputed segments — including a photo shoot in which models swapped ethnic identities — and scenes that production and talent describe as intense and escalating in pursuit of ratings.

Voices from the show

Participants in the docuseries include Jay Manuel, Nigel Barker, Jay Alexander and former winners and contestants such as Whitney Thompson (cycle 10), Dani Evans (cycle 6) and Giselle Samson (cycle 1). Manuel says in the trailer, “I realized Tyra could do anything for the success of her show.”

Behind the camera: directors and approach

Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, the series promises “unprecedented access to former contestants, judges and producers” to explore the “chaos in front and behind the camera.” The filmmakers frame the story around the show’s 24-season run from 2003 to 2018 and aim to trace how creative choices, competition pressure and cultural moments collided on set.

Tyra’s reflection

In one trailer clip, Banks acknowledges the show’s intensity and her role in pushing contestants harder: “It was very, very intense. But you guys were demanding it and so we kept pushing … more and more and more.” That admission sits alongside raw recollections from contestants and judges about the emotional toll of reality TV.

When and where to watch

The docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model arrives on Netflix Feb. 16. The full trailer is available on YouTube below.

As streaming brings renewed scrutiny to legacy reality brands, this america’s next top model documentary seeks to give viewers a clearer picture of how the show was made and why it remained so influential — and controversial — for more than a decade.

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