Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search

A short-lived reality competition series pitting twelve hopeful swimsuit models against each other for the grand prize of appearing in the 2005 Sports Illustrated edition of the magazine and a $1 Million dollar modeling deal.

Broadcast
NBC January 5, 2005-February 9, 2005

Judges
Roshumba Williams (Sports Illustrated Hall of Fame Swiimsuit Model)

Joel Wilkenfeld (President of NEXT Model Management)

Jule Campbell (Founder of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and former editor)

Gameplay
The purpose of this show was to document twelve previously uknown fashion models as they competed against one another for a grand prize. In this case, It was a pictorial in the 2005 edition of the Sport's Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and a modeling contract with NEXT Moodel Management worth one million dollars.

Competitions would include how well the contestants did on their photo shoots and their rigorous fitness tests. Based on these, the aforementioned judges would choose who "made the cut" and who would be let go from the competition, until there were two finalists.

Trivia
The 1981 song Girls on Film perfomed by 80's pop rock band Duran Duran was used as a theme song for this series.

The twelve contestants were chosen by NBC and Sports Illustrated launched a nation-wide search, processing around 3,000 potential women.

The show's tagline is "The business of being beautiful is about to get ugly!"