Ugly Betty

Network: ABC
Episodes: 84 (hour)
Seasons: Four

TV show dates: September 1, 2006 — April 14, 2010
Series status: Cancelled

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

TV show description:
The series follows the personal and professional life of Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) in New York City.

Betty lives in Queens with her immigrant father Ignacio (Tony Plana), high-maintenance older sister Hilda (Ana Ortiz) and Hilda’s Broadway-loving son Justin (Mark Indelicato). Betty works at popular NY fashion magazine Mode as the assistant to the magazine’s handsome editor-in-chief Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius).

Other colorful workmates include nasty Creative Director Wilhelmina Slater (Vanessa Williams), venomous assistant Marc St. James (Michael Urie) and sympathetic seamstress Christina McKinney (Ashley Jensen).

•	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.”