Another <i>Top Model</i> Starts In March

Nature abhors a vacuum — even on the runway.

UPN has ordered two more cycles of Tyra Banks' reality-TV foray America's Next Top Model, guaranteeing its run through 2007.

The program, which features 13 want-to-be models cohabitating and competing for a $100,000 modeling contract and an Elle photo spread, will resume on March 8 with its sixth cycle.

Fifth-cycle winner Nicole Linkletter is current on the cover of Elle Girl, and she recently made U.S. Magazine's "Look of the Week" for a chic red-carpet ensemble. Former winners Yoanna House and Adrianne Curry have also found their own niches on television: House (season 2's winner) as the host of a show on the Style Network and Curry (season 1's champ) on VH-1's The Surreal Life and My Fair Brady.
,br>Judges Nigel Barker, Twiggy, runway trainer J. Alexander, and photo shoot director Jay Manuel will also return to the show, while former judge Janice Dickinson jumps into her own spotlight on the Oxygen Network's The Janice Dickinson Project.

There has been no announcement about the place of Top Model within the UPN-WB merger, which was announced earlier this week; however, the show's high ratings and the pre-existing contract make it likely that Banks' starmaker will find a place on the new network.