Title: Ch 5 New Series - Ugly Betty
agnesleong - March 1, 2007 04:47 PM (GMT)
A new series on Channel 5 - Ugly Betty.
Premieres on 4 March Sunday 10.30pm.
Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera and Eric Mabius.
The Casts
America Ferrera -- Betty Suarez
Eric Mabius -- Daniel Meade
Alan Dale -- Bradford Meade
Vanessa L.Williams -- Wilhelmina Slater
Becki Newton -- Amanda/Ruthie (#)
Ana Ortiz -- Hilda Suarez
Ashley Jensen -- Christina McKinney
Tony Plana -- Ignacio Suarez
Michael Urie -- Marc St. James
Mark Indelicato -- Justin Suarez
Kevin Sussman -- Walterą
Rebecca Romijn -- Alex/Alexis Meade
Ugly Betty follows the daily life of Betty Suarez, a young woman from a struggling Latino family in Queens, who works as an executive assistant at MODE fashion magazine in Manhattan. Most of her female co-workers are more attractive than she is; they often humiliate and insult her because of her appearance (one of her only friends is Christina McKinney, the Scottish seamstress). Suarez is not very interested in fashion and is sometimes clueless about the company's motives and organizations, although she does have a passion for photography. Her boss, the womanizing Daniel Meade, also lacks fashion experience. However, both are intent on performing well at their jobs, even at the expense of those trying to stop them, most prominently Mode's creative director, Wilhelmina Slater.
The series includes a serialized plot involving Daniel's predecessor Fey Sommers, who was supposedly killed in a fiery hit-and-run accident. Fey's name was actually used as the backdrop for a plot to take over the company, thanks to a hospital patient swathed in facial bandages who was actually Daniel's post-operative transsexual brother Alex/Alexis Meade. Alexis was first seen in The Pilot Episode, though she was only known as "The Masked Woman" until the episode "In or Out." Alex staged his death in order to undergo surgery to change his gender and become Alexis, then frame their father, Bradford Meade, as the person who murdered Fey. In "Brothers", however, Claire Meade, the family matriarch, confessed to Betty that she was Fey's actual murderer. Because Claire was drunk when she made the admission just as many doubts of who Fey's murderer really is still remain.
Another recurring storyline involves Betty's father, Ignacio Suarez, who admitted to coming to the United States as an illegal immigrant which could put his family in a legal bind. He revealed his reason for immigrating was to avoid being arrested in Mexico for murdering a banker in self-defense after falling in love with the banker's abused wife, who happens to be Betty and her sister Hilda Suarez's now deceased mother.
It mostly remains true to the original Betty La Fea. It is similar to another ABC dramedy series, Desperate Housewives, in that it combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, camp, soap opera and satire, though in a lighter way. The show is filmed like a traditional network drama (with motion picture film), rather than the videotape production of the original telenovela.
*source from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Betty
CLICK HERE - Trailer of Ugly Betty
Premieres on 4 March Sunday 10.30pm.
Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera and Eric Mabius.
The Casts
America Ferrera -- Betty Suarez
Eric Mabius -- Daniel Meade
Alan Dale -- Bradford Meade
Vanessa L.Williams -- Wilhelmina Slater
Becki Newton -- Amanda/Ruthie (#)
Ana Ortiz -- Hilda Suarez
Ashley Jensen -- Christina McKinney
Tony Plana -- Ignacio Suarez
Michael Urie -- Marc St. James
Mark Indelicato -- Justin Suarez
Kevin Sussman -- Walterą
Rebecca Romijn -- Alex/Alexis Meade
Ugly Betty follows the daily life of Betty Suarez, a young woman from a struggling Latino family in Queens, who works as an executive assistant at MODE fashion magazine in Manhattan. Most of her female co-workers are more attractive than she is; they often humiliate and insult her because of her appearance (one of her only friends is Christina McKinney, the Scottish seamstress). Suarez is not very interested in fashion and is sometimes clueless about the company's motives and organizations, although she does have a passion for photography. Her boss, the womanizing Daniel Meade, also lacks fashion experience. However, both are intent on performing well at their jobs, even at the expense of those trying to stop them, most prominently Mode's creative director, Wilhelmina Slater.
The series includes a serialized plot involving Daniel's predecessor Fey Sommers, who was supposedly killed in a fiery hit-and-run accident. Fey's name was actually used as the backdrop for a plot to take over the company, thanks to a hospital patient swathed in facial bandages who was actually Daniel's post-operative transsexual brother Alex/Alexis Meade. Alexis was first seen in The Pilot Episode, though she was only known as "The Masked Woman" until the episode "In or Out." Alex staged his death in order to undergo surgery to change his gender and become Alexis, then frame their father, Bradford Meade, as the person who murdered Fey. In "Brothers", however, Claire Meade, the family matriarch, confessed to Betty that she was Fey's actual murderer. Because Claire was drunk when she made the admission just as many doubts of who Fey's murderer really is still remain.
Another recurring storyline involves Betty's father, Ignacio Suarez, who admitted to coming to the United States as an illegal immigrant which could put his family in a legal bind. He revealed his reason for immigrating was to avoid being arrested in Mexico for murdering a banker in self-defense after falling in love with the banker's abused wife, who happens to be Betty and her sister Hilda Suarez's now deceased mother.
It mostly remains true to the original Betty La Fea. It is similar to another ABC dramedy series, Desperate Housewives, in that it combines elements of drama, comedy, mystery, farce, camp, soap opera and satire, though in a lighter way. The show is filmed like a traditional network drama (with motion picture film), rather than the videotape production of the original telenovela.
*source from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugly_Betty
CLICK HERE - Trailer of Ugly Betty