Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winninghttp://www.emmys.org/awards/2007pt/nominations_crtv.php?action=search_db#1 American television comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera, Eric Mabius, Rebecca Romijn and Vanessa Williams. The series premiered on September 28, 2006, on ABC in the United States and on Citytv in Canada. It follows the life of the unglamorous but good-natured Betty Suarez (Ferrera), and her incongruous job at the ultra-chic New York City fashion magazine Mode. Betty's status as a "fish out of water" drives much of the plot. The series is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea ("I am Betty, the ugly one"),[LINK: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233127/releaseinfo] "Yo soy Betty, la fea" (1999) also simply known as "Betty la fea" ("Ugly Betty") written by Fernando Gaitán (also author of Café, con aroma de mujer