Led by America Ferrera, who won an Emmy for playing the title role, the Ugly Betty cast included several Latinos (Ana Ortiz and Tony Plana), and the show’s long list of guest stars also included well-known Latino actors (including Salma Hayek, Freddy Rodriguez and Adam Rodriguez).

The National Latino Media Council, which each year grades the four major networks on diversity efforts, has singled out the show for its depiction of Latinos and for leading the way for Latino-helmed shows.

Ugly Betty, which was an immediate hit when it began in September 2006 and won numerous honors for its cast and crew, has shown networks that a Latino-led show can be successful with mainstream audiences.

Based on the popular Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty La Fea, the show was developed by Hayek, who is also an executive producer.

Betty Suarez was an educated, hard-working and family-oriented Latina, who was ambitious and career-driven. Such a character never existed before on American TV, said Federico Subervi, a communications professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he’s the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets. “The show has had an impact. It’s diversified the images of Latinos on television. It’s created a new role model for Latinos,” he said.

Other positive depictions of Latinos on the show, he said, included the interaction of the Suarez family, who “solved their problems amicably” and often showed each other love and respect.

As for the show’s lasting impact of increasing the number of Latinos on TV and expanding the type of roles for Latinos, media experts say that that’s up to Latino actors and producers.

“It will depend on pressure from the Salma Hayeks, the Jimmy Smitses, the Latino actors in Hollywood and on pressure from the public to networks to include more Latinos,” Subervi said. “That type of pressure will bring about inclusion.”

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After the show’s series finale airs Wednesday, media experts say there will be a void left on television.

Led by America Ferrera, who won an Emmy for playing the title role, the “Ugly Betty” cast included several Latinos (Ana Ortiz and Tony Plana), and the show’s long list of guest stars also included widely known Latino actors (Freddy Rodriguez and Adam Rodriguez).

The National Latino Media Council, which each year grades the four major networks on diversity efforts, has singled out the show for its depiction of Latinos and for leading the way for Latino-helmed shows.

“Ugly Betty,” which was an immediate hit when it premiered in September 2006 and won numerous honors for its cast and crew, has shown networks that a Latino-led show can be successful with mainstream audiences, according to council reports.

Based on the popular Colombian telenovela “Yo Soy Betty La Fea,” the show was developed by Salma Hayek, who also was co-executive producer.

“I think (she) should be commended for bringing such a show to television,” says Ellen Riojas-Clark, a bilingual education professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. “I’m thrilled there (was) a show featuring a Latina in the business setting.”

Betty Suarez was an educated, hardworking and family-oriented Latina, who was ambitious and career-driven. Such a character never existed before on American television, says Federico Subervi, a communications professor at Texas State University-San Marcos, where he’s the director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets.

“The show has had an impact. It’s diversified the images of Latinos on television. It’s created a new role model for Latinos,” Subervi says of the Betty character.

Other positive depictions of Latinos on the show, he says, included the interaction of the Suarez family, who “solved their problems amicably” and often showed each other love and respect.

As for the show’s lasting impact of increasing the number of Latinos on television and expanding the type of roles for Latinos, media experts say that’s up to Latino actors and producers.

“It will depend on pressure from the Salma Hayeks, the Jimmy Smits, the Latino actors in Hollywood and on pressure from the public to networks to include more Latinos,” Subervi says. “That type of pressure will bring about inclusion.”

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So what does this mean??? Will Adam get a permanent spot now that he is the Father of Hilda’s child?? I hope so because Bobby is the highlight of my day! *sigh*

Check out the next episode of ‘Ugly Betty’ on Wednesday…Yes you heard it right!…Wednesday night starting back in January! WAIT! WHAT!!! JANUARY??? WHY!!! I WANT MORE BOBBY NOW! *pouts*

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As time slots go, “Ugly Betty” fans knew things couldn’t get any worse. Instead, things may be about to get a lot better for the struggling comedy.

ABC is shifting “Ugly Betty” from Friday nights to Wednesdays at 10 p.m., giving the show the time slot vacated by “Eastwick,” which will finish its 13-episode run in January.

That will give “Ugly Betty” a much more compatible and successful lead-in in “Cougar Town,” not that anything would have been much less successful or much less compatible than “Supernanny.”

None of these shifts, though, will happen until January.