NBC and Time Inc. present Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 50 Years of Beautiful, a two-hour TV special celebrating the 50th anniversary of Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit franchise.

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2010 gives you an all access pass to the making of the highly anticipated annual SI Swimsuit issue. Take a journey with Bar Refaeli, Brooklyn Decker, and 16 other super models to the hottest locations around the world.

Come along for an exclusive behind the scenes tour of Exposure: Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2011. See the SI Swimsuit Models as they travel the exotic locations around the world.

Seven Brazilian models grace the beaches of Brazil, four knockouts dance to Reggae in Jamaica, Oluchi and Tori get the blues in Memphis. The 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit show takes you around the world to where music comes alive. Even body painting has a music theme this year with iconic concert t-shirts painted on some of your favorite models. Your favorites are back: Marisa, Veronica, Anne V, Daniella, Brooklyn and they are joined by some rookies: Bar Refaeli, Selita Ebanks and Tori Praver. So sit back, turn off the cell phone, and prepare for a trip to paradise.

From the studio of Hollywood to sailboats in Colombia to the pristine waters of Tahiti, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2006 takes you on a journey with the world's most beautiful women. Find out everything you wanted to know about Swimsuit's hottest models including Marisa Miller, Petra Nemcova, Molly Sims, Heidi Klum, Ana Beatriz Barros and many more. And you won't want to miss eight of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue's most famous cover models in Harbour Island for one incredible shoot. This once-in-a-lifetime event features Elle Macpherson, Rachel Hunter, Rebecca Romijn, Carolyn Murphy, Veronica Varekova, Daniela Pestova and Yamila Diaz-Rahi. Sports Illustrated 2006 a fun-filled trip that you will never forget.

The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Search is a reality TV show produced by NBC that debuted in January 2005, prior to the launch of that year's Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.The purpose of the show was to document twelve previously unknown 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 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and a modeling contract with NEXT Model Management worth one million US dollars.The twelve contestants were chosen after NBC and Sports Illustrated launched a nation-wide search, processing around 3,000 potential women.The three-judge panel consisted of Roshumba Williams, Joel Wilkenfeld and Jule Campbell.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.The show's tagline was "The business of being beautiful is about to get ugly."

The 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit show takes you around the world to where music comes alive. Even body painting has a music theme with iconic concert t-shirts painted on your favorite swimsuit models.

Fifty years ago in the Bronx, a new genre of music was born, the product of a people searching for their voice and the opportunity to be heard. For decades, the community was bound by the words of leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X before their assassinations attempted to thwart the messaging. While their lives ended, the impact of their words never would, instead paving the way for others. Soon, athletes and entertainers would step to the microphone and boldly become the sound of a new generation and an inspiration to their people. When the world looked to silence them, the culture found a way to speak louder than ever before. From Muhammad Ali to Public Enemy, Jay-Z to Lebron James and beyond, the impact on sports has been indelible.

Documentary charting and celebrating five decades of often groundbreaking, boundary-pushing comedy from BBC Two.

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