Why Tyra Banks is Quitting Her Show

By admin
Dec 28, 2009
8:00 pm

Multimedia maven Tyra Banks sent additional shockwaves throughout the daytime talk genre when she announced she’s ending her Emmy Award-winning “The Tyra Show” after five seasons.

Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey caused the greatest quakes when she said she’d end her show after 25 years in 2011. Banks said her show is ending sooner, in the spring of 2010, and her longtime mentors Oprah and Tyler Perry helped influence Bank’s decision.

Relax, fans and junkies of the popular “America’s Next Top Model,” Banks said the show will return for its 15^th season in February and Banks’ ABC show “True Beauty” is continuing as well. But Banks is quitting “The Tyra Show” for the following reasons:

Banks will devote more time to the launching of her dream project, Bankable Studios, a New York-based film production company that is already poring through prospective projects. With this in mind, Banks would have very limited time to be burdened with “The Tyra Show.”
Oprah’s ballyhooed departure announcement: Banks, the former supermodel who made history when she was the first African American model to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine’s swimsuit issue, is said to have gained courage to leave the very lucrative, highly popular and two-time Emmy Award-winning show and take her chances in film production, much like her mentor, Oprah.
“The Tyra Show” was never the end-all, be-all for Banks. The voluptuous beauty has wanted to created films ever since she began acting in TV shows and films such as “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air” and John Singleton’s Higher Learning. “The Tyra Show” and other Banks’ properties enabled her to accumulate the cachet, resources, connections, know-how and foundation to bring her long-held dream to fruition.
Banks devotes much of her shows to empowering women and Bankable Studios will enable her to do this on a larger, albeit riskier, scale. “My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are,” Banks said on her Web site.
Banks has received encouragement from her two biggest mentors and fans, Oprah Winfrey and movie tycoon Tyler Perry, to venture into this medium to “redefine beauty for women in film.” –terry shropshire