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Ugly never looked better

By: Brad Oswald

14/10/2006 1:42 AM | Comments: 0

Finally, after a week of pretty crappy prime-time revelations (see previous post), some good news about a great show -- ABC announced earlier today that Ugly Betty, based on the performance of its first few episodes, has been given a full-season pickup. What that means is an order for what Hollywood types call "the back nine," meaning the traditional number of episodes ordered for most new shows -- 13 -- has been topped up to a full-season compliment of 22 installments.That's a nice endorsement for a bright, funny show that deserves it, and maybe -- just maybe -- a tiny bit of encouragement and consolation for TV-watchers who've been burned twice in this very young season by networks that begged for viewership and then yanked two of their most promising new dramas out of the lineup after only three weeks.Betty? Ugly? Hardly.

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