“Ugly Betty,” the ABC series that won a Golden Globe award for best comedy in its first season on the air in 2006-7 but whose audience has fallen by half over its four seasons, to about five million currently, will end its prime-time run this spring, the network and the show’s producers said.
ABC said it will broadcast eight more original episodes, including a series finale.
An adaptation of a popular Spanish-language soap opera, “Betty La Fea,” about an unattractive but cheerful secretary at a fashion magazine, “Ugly Betty” was imported to the United States by Reveille Productions and featured America Ferrera, left, as Betty, a role for which she won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for acting in her first season. The initial buzz around the show was strong even before the series premiere, but convoluted story lines alienated some viewers.
This season ABC moved the series to Friday nights, where ratings fell dramatically, before shifting the program to 10 p.m. Wednesdays after the cancellation of “Eastwick.”
Vanessa Williams On The Show Being Canceled:
I gotta be honest, we’re devastated. We’re sad, we’re not ready for it to end,” she said.
And Williams — who plays magazine creative director turned editor-in-chief Wilhelmina Slater in Betty — is outraged network bosses canned the show just a year after uprooting the cast and crew from Los Angeles to film in New York.
“We just moved to New York. We just got on a roll,” she said. “Our season this year has been the best we’ve ever had. But numbers and ratings were a concern. A lot of people couldn’t even find us.
“We switched — we were put on Thursday then taken off then [we were on] Fridays, now we’re finally on Wednesday nights. But we’re sad.”
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