Yesterday
the show won a Golden Globe for Best Television Series
Musical or Comedy. America Ferrera (who plays
Betty Suarez) also received a Golden Globe for Best
Performance by an Actress in a Television Series
Musical or Comedy.
The
show was adapted in India by Sony as Jassi Jaisi
Koi Nahin. Ugly Betty follows Betty Suarez,
a seemingly plain, but intelligent and hard-working,
secretary at fashion magazine Mode. Few people get
to know her because in the world of fashion, Betty
is the oversized square peg in the petite round hole.
When publishing mogul Bradford Meade hands the reigns
of his fashion magazine over to his son Daniel (Eric
Mabius), he hires Betty as his son's new assistant,
because she's the only woman in NYC who Daniel won't
sleep with. Neither of them knows the ins and outs
of the fashion world, but together they're a formidable
team against the label-wearing sharks who will do
anything to see them fail.
Ugly
Betty is based on Yo Soy Betty La Fea the Colombian
telenovela. Cuatro has also picked up the other Touchstone
Television series Day Break and Six Degrees.
Taye Diggs stars in the thriller Day Break
that takes a bad day and multiplies it by infinity.
Detective Brett Hopper (Diggs) is having a hellacious
day; the kind of day where nothing goes his way and
he just cant wait to put it behind him... only
he cant, because hes living the same day
over and over again. Only when Hopper figures out
why his life is broken and how to fix it will he awaken
to a brand new day.
Six Degrees created by J.J Abrams Lost, is
an ensemble drama which follows the notion that everybody
is connected to one another by a chain of six people,
which means that nobody is a stranger for long. Six
very different New Yorkers go about their lives not
realising the impact they're having on each other
- yet. A mysterious web of coincidences will gradually
draw them closer, changing the course of their lives
forever.