While shooting scenes for the upcoming season of ABC’s (OMG! ABC! We know them!) Ugly Betty, America Ferrera slipped in to a hot dog suit in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood earlier today. What’s odd is that she left what appears to be her I Dream Of Jeanie costume on underneath.
Gasp!
What is my mother going to do?!
I just pray that Big Bang Theory will continue to put on new episodes, because Ugly Betty is being temporarily shelved by ABC, and I’m really not entirely sure how my mom is going to get through her life without her favorite show. My mom losing Ugly Betty is kind of like taking my Ambien away from me. I just don’t know how I’d function.
(Side note: I got a text from a girlfriend today: “Ambien update: My house phone and my glasses are missing.” I was like, “I know! I lost my glasses to an Ambien attack, too. I never found them!” She was like, “What do I do?” and I was like, “Blame the dog.” I told her that the next dog I get, I’m just going to name Ambien, so that there’s less lying involved in my day. Like, “Beet, why is there a sandwich and a Diet Coke wrapped in a sweater vest under the couch?” “Um … Ambien did it.”)
What was my point?
Oh, right, they’re putting America Ferrera’s show on hold so they can show more of that Christina Applegate crap. Here’s the low-down:
In a surprising move, ABC just announced that its former comedic golden child, Ugly Betty, will be shelved on March 26 in order to bring back Christina Applegate’s Samantha Who? and launch a new comedy called In the Motherhood, starring Megan Mullally and Cheryl Hines, in the Thursday 8 p.m. slot.
ABC President Steve McPherson’s nostalgic favorite (and old stomping ground) Scrubs and another new comedy, Better Off Ted (Portia de Rossi, Jay Harrington), will take the hour-long block starting Wednesdays at 8 p.m. (The former home of the dearly departing Pushing Daisies.)
So why is one of ABC’s highest-profile shows getting a time-out? …
According to ABC insiders, the Alphabet net is looking at more of a cable model when it comes to its programming and scheduling. “McPherson is interested in reducing the number of reruns,” one well-placed insider tells me, adding that Betty—after its dip in the ratings this season—seemed the best place to slot in Samantha and Motherhood.
Betty had an audience of about 8 million at the start of the current third season, but then consistently lost about a million viewers each week, sinking as low as 3.6 million. This month, it jumped back up to 7.5 million, but that’s still shy of last year’s audience of 9 million viewers.
What do you guys think?
Is this a smart move on ABC’s part?
Yes, her boobs do look that pointy and ridiculous in all the photos.
Great dress, great hair, great makeup, wrooooooooong bra.
Congrats to America, who “is a leader for all women, but especially those in the Hispanic community,” according to the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s an honor to be in such esteemed company,” Ferrera said in a statement. “And it’s a thrill to see talented women recognized for their work behind the camera.”
… but if my legs were actually coneshaped, I just wouldn’t wear a whole lot of those dresses with the really high slits. I just wouldn’t. Honestly, Tyra, you are still a very beautiful woman, but play down the legs. Play them down.
For good measure, America Ferrera, doing it (almost) right. Prop up the breasts, America. Prop them up.
Here I thought we were done with Valentine’s Day, but, alas, I still have to write about all the romantic crap that happened to people who aren’t me last night. So okay.
Keri Russell decided the only thing better than getting knocked up would be to actually marry the kid’s father before the kid’s born. Well, either she decided that or her father did. So Felicity and longtime man Shane Deary tied the knot at a small ceremony in NYC last night. They’re expecting the baby this summer.
Meanwhile, word has circulated all this morning that 22-year-old Ugly Betty star America Ferrera got engaged to her no-name boyfriend last night (or last month, depending on which rumor you believe). Her rep says it’s not true. I wouldn’t have been at all surprised that he proposed to America, who is rapidly rocketing light-years away from his league, but I would have been really shocked if she’d said yes. Although it’s nice to see that amidst all the fame and attention she’s getting lately, she’s sticking with the man she met in film school. And I haven’t seen a picture of her holding hands with Paris Hilton yet. I have high hopes for this girl.
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