Tyra Banks is US Primetime TV's Top Earner

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Forbes.com has compiled a list of the top-earning women of US primetime TV, and coming out on top is former supermodel and now reality TV host/producer Tyra Banks.

Tyra, who created The Tyra Banks Show, as well as produces and judges America's Next Top Model, reportedly earned $23 million between June 2007 and June 2008.

And her earnings could only get bigger with her signing a lucrative deal with Warner Bros for a new reality show set around a magazine called Stylista.

A supermodel also landed second on the list, as Heidi Klum, host of Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model, raked in $14 million.

Rounding out the top five are Grey's Anatomy's Katherine Heigl with $US13 million, Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria with $US9 million and ER's Maura Tierney with $US7.5 million.

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