I don’t know about all of you, but I love the show “Ugly Betty”. Well, I should say I loved the show “Ugly Betty” the first and only season I ever watched it. Turns out, most people are like me and have decided to flip over to NBC to spend Thursday nights yucking it up with Tina Fey and company on “30 Rock.”
ABC announced today their plans to bench the show beginning March 26. The show will be replaced with the Christina Applegate show “Samantha Who?” and the new Megan Mulally/Cheryl Hines (aka Karen Walker/Larry David’s wife on “Curb Your Enthusiasm”) comedy “In the Mother hood”.
The dozen or so of you who still watch “Betty” need not to worry. ABC also announced plans for the show’s return.
ABC statement via EW:
“Ugly Betty will return to Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. following the run of In the Motherhood and Samantha Who?”
If Samantha and Motherhood don’t tank (let’s not hold our breath), this means that Betty won’t return until sometime in June, after the end of the regular viewing season. The network is stating that this move has been created to not only help launch the new comedy but also to have Betty return sans reruns.
Uh-huh. Sure. It’s a good thing America Ferrera has her “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” cash to fall back on. But what about the rest of the cast? Time to warm-up those vocal chords Vanessa Williams.
