Top Model. Zostań modelką (Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 for Top Model. Become a Model) is an ongoing reality

Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 based on Tyra Banks

Tyra Banks

Tyra Lynne Banks is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, but television appearances were her commercial breakthrough...

' America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model

America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modeling industry....

that pits contestant

Contestant

A contestant is someone who takes part in a competition, usually a professional competition or a game show on television. The participants competing against each other have to go through rounds...

s from Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model and a lucrative modeling contract with NEXT

NEXT Model Management

NEXT Model Management is a Global modeling agency with offices in New York City, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Milan and Paris. Founded in 1989 by Faith Kates, the agency is one of the top 3 model agencies in the world...

 agency as well as an appearance on the cover of the Polish issue of Glamour

Glamour (magazine)

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and a nationwide Max Factor

Max Factor

Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maksymilian Faktorowicz , Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for $500 million dollars...

campaign in hopes of a successful future in the modeling business.
The competition is hosted by Polish born

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 supermodel

Supermodel

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 Joanna Krupa

Joanna Krupa

Joanna Krupa is a Polish-American model and actress. Krupa was born in Warsaw, Poland. She has a younger sister, Marta Krupa, also a model. Joanna Krupa moved to India, Delhi, Illinois, with her family at the age of five...

 who serves as the lead judge alongside fashion designer Dawid Woliński, journalist Karolina Korwin-Piotrowska and photographer Marcin Tyszka. It has also been confirmed that international topmodels Anja Rubik

Anja Rubik

Anja Rubik is a Polish model.-Early life:Rubik and her family left Poland in 1988 and lived in Greece, Canada, and Umtata, South Africa. She used to study in a primary and secondary school in Częstochowa, Poland. Rubik was introduced to modeling while attending a British high school in Paris...

 and Magdalena Mielcarz

Magdalena Mielcarz

Magdalena Mielcarz is a Polish actress and model.In 1997 she graduated from Jaroslaw Dabrowski High School in Warsaw. She then studied at the Department of Journalism and Political Science at Warsaw University. She debuted as an actress in 1989 in a TV mini-series for children.- Filmography...

 will make guest appearances and coaching the contestants in some episodes.

The Challenge

The challenge usually focuses on an element important to modeling which will help the girls along the way, and help them improve for the week's photoshoot. A guest judge, who is unique to each episode, evaluates the contestants and decides the winner of each challenge. The winner of the challenge receives a prize for her victory. Sometimes the challenge winner is permitted to choose a certain number of other contestants to receive a similar, but lesser, reward, while the others are given nothing.

Judging and Elimination

Based upon the girls' performance in the week's challenge, photoshoot, and general attitude, the judges deliberate and decide which girl must leave the competition. Once the judges have made their decision, the girls are called back into the room. The host calls out the names of the girls who performed well in the challenge and photoshoot, handing them a copy of their best photo from the shoot. The last two girls, whose names have not been called, are given criticism about why they have landed in the bottom two, and ultimately one girl is eliminated from the competition. The contestant who is eliminated does not receive a photo.

Cycles

Cycle	Premiere date	Winner	Runner-up	Other contestants in order of elimination	Number of contestants	International Destination
1 Poland's Next Top Model, Cycle 1 Top Model. Zostań modelką, Cycle 1 is the first Cycle of an ongoing reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that pits contestants from Poland against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model and a lucrative...	September 8, 2010	Paulina Papierska	Aleksandra "Ola" Kuligowska	Zuzanna Walkowiak, Sonia Wesołowska, Paulina Pszech, Nicole Rosłoniec (quit), Pamela Jedziniak, Marta Szulawiak, Emilia Pietras, Magdalena Swat, Beata Szarłowska, Weronika Lewicka, Katarzyna "Kasia" Smolińska, Anna "Ania" Piszczałka	14	Italy Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
2 Poland's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 Top Model. Zostań modelką, Cycle 2 is the second Cycle of an ongoing reality documentary based on Tyra Banks' America's Next Top Model that pits contestants from Poland against each other in a variety of competitions to determine who will win the title of the next Polish Top Model and a lucrative...	September 7, 2011	TBA	TBA	Eliminated: Karolina Henning, Gabriela Pacholarz, Magdalena Roman, Natalia Piaskowska, Vera Suprunenko, Viktoria Driuk, Dorota Trojanowska, Oliwia Downar-Dukowicz, Honorata Wojtkowska, Joanna Kudzbalska Still In The Running: Anna Bałon, Olga Kaczyńska, Michalina Manios	13	Early Modern France Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...    Kenya Kenya Kenya Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...