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Casting calls for the next America’s Next Top Model season last month took an unexpected frightening turn when multiple fights broke out while hundreds waited for an audition. But producers are holding another audition coming up in New York.

The auditions will take place April 11. Like the earlier call, producers are looking for women age 18-27, who are 5′7″ and under – and from diverse backgrounds. As a safety concern, new rules state that nobody is allowed to line up overnight or before 6 a.m. on the day of. Prospective models will also be given wristbands while waiting. READ MORE »

The show will go on for “America’s Next Top Model.”

Following a Manhattan casting call that erupted in chaos over the weekend, host and executive producer Tyra Banks says auditions for the reality series will go forward.

“To all the ‘Top Model’ hopefuls who were affected by the New York casting, we are doing everything we can to make sure that ALL the girls who weren’t seen, get an opportunity to audition – we’ll update you on our plans very soon,” Banks said in a statement issued by the CW network Monday.

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Do you think she’ll be grounded? Tyra Banks is in big trouble with the Parents Television Council.

The controversy comes after an episode of Banks’ reality contest show, “America’s Next Top Model.” During the episode, one contestant’s assignment was to recreate Marilyn Monroe’s naked photoshoot in a bed. All private parts were blurred or obscured for the show.

But that’s not enough for the Council. Its president, Tim Winter, told TV Guide the photoshoot “crossed the legal threshold for broadcast indecency.”

“This is not simply a matter of artistic freedom, as some might claim. Rather, this is about a television network intentionally pushing the envelope to establish a new acceptable nudity standard for the broadcast medium.”

Winter also believes that the length of the photoshoot scene – more than a minute – proves that it was “wholly gratuitous and undoubtedly intended to titillate,” he said.

If you haven’t seen the conclusion of the seventh cycle of America’s Next Top Model you may want to stop reading now.

Last night, Tyra Banks and co. crowned CariDee English the winner in a surprising victory over the solid, but older, Melrose Bickerstaff in the CW show’s finale.

CariDee was set on beating Melrose, especially after third place finalist Eugena Washington was ousted. CariDee didn’t hide her hatred for Melrose as the series went on, often calling her fake and a suck-up.

CariDee takes home a management deal from Elite Model Management, the cover and spread of Seventeen magazine, and a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl cosmetics.

Wait 14 more weeks, though, and claws will come out on the eighth cycle of ANTM beginning Jan. 20, 2007.

Meanwhile, the application deadline for Canada’s Next Top Model is drawing near. Click over to citytv.com for your chance to end up on top in Canada’s competition.

The new season of “America’s Next Top Model,” is set to premiere on Sept. 20 on the new CW network in the United States.

E! Online reports that the show announced its newest contenders for the spot of top model today.

The candidates are: AJ, 20, from Sacramento, Amanda, 18, from Anaheim, Anchal, 19, from, Homestead, FL, Brooke, 18, from Keller, TX, CariDee, 21, from Fargo, ND, Christian, 19, from Columbia, SC, Eugena, 21, from Palmdale, CA, Jaeda, 18, from Parkersburg, Iowa, Megg, 18, from Los Angeles, Megan, 23, from San Francisco; Melrose, 23, from San Francisco and Monique, 19, from Chicago.

This season’s version will take place in L.A., and producers have said that the winner will receive a different prize from previous years, though they haven’t announced what yet.