Betty is Getting the Boot

ABC announced that the award-winning TV comedy Ugly Betty has been shut down.

The show about a style-challenged woman working at a New York fashion magazine is ending in April, four years after its debut in 2006. This is not a big surprise as the show’s ratings have been dropping significantly since its second season.

Since the decline in ratings, ABC moved Ugly Betty to Fridays last fall where viewership dropped like a rock. The number of viewers went from 8.1 million in the second series to 5.3 million for the third and fourth, a 35 percent drop.

The reason for the announcement now is so the show will end in a fashion that fans will agree with.

As to what they plan to replace the show with is unknown at this point.