'The Swan' will emerge for a second season

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TV and cultural critics will have a second season of "The Swan" to kick around sometime in the not-too-distant future.
Fox says it will begin searching for candidates for the second season of the show, which in each episode takes two average-looking women, isolates them from the outside world (and mirrors) for 90 days as they undergo extensive cosmetic surgery, fitness and diet training and "life coaching," then shows them what their new selves look like.
Then, the show's team tells one of them: Sorry, you're still not quite good enough and sends her home, while the "winner" goes on to compete in a beauty pageant with the other winners at the end of the season.
The network is touting "The Swan" as "the most popular makeover series in America," which, thanks to an "American Idol" lead-in for its premiere, it is. The show is drawing about 10.5 million viewers a week thus far. (Since moving to its regular Monday home, though, it has averaged about a half-million fewer viewers than ABC's "Extreme Makeover.")
Auditions coming up
"The Swan" will conduct auditions for the show's second season in several cities in the coming weeks, on top of the thousands of applications Fox says it's already received. Further details on the casting process are at www.swancasting.com.