TV Series Finale

Network: ABC
Episodes: ongoing (hour)

Show dates:
September 28, 2006 — present

Performers include: Alan Dale, America Ferrera, Mark Indelicato, Ashley Jensen, Eric Mabius, Becki Newton, Ana Ortiz, Tony Plana, Rebecca Romijn, Michael Urie, and Vanessa Williams.

Series Description: The series follows the personal and professional life of Betty Suarez (Ferrera) in New York City. Betty lives in Queens with her immigrant father Ignacio (Plana), high-maintenance older sister Hilda (Ortiz) and Hilda’s Broadway-loving son Justin (Indelicato). Betty works at popular NY fashion magazine Mode as the assistant to the magazine’s handsome editor-in-chief Daniel Meade (Mabius). Other colorful workmates include nasty Creative Director Wilhelmina Slater (Williams), venomous assistant Marc St. James (Urie) and sympathetic seamstress Christina McKinney (Jensen).

•	The series was one of the few hits of the 2006-07 season and attracted an average of 12.35 million viewers each week.
•	Ugly Betty is based on a Columbian telenovela entitled Yo soy Betty, la fea or “Betty la fea.” There are many other adaptations around the world but Ugly Betty is the most unlike the original.
•	The series received 11 Emmy nominations for its first season.
•	The series was originally being developed as a 2001 half-hour sitcom for NBC but didn’t move past the planning stages. ABC and producer/actress Salma Hayek came on board in 2004 and reworked it as an hour-long “dramady.”