Ms. Eisen first found the "Ugly Betty" chairs, as she calls them, on a secondhand furniture website.
It is worth remembering also that it was the Colombians who broke with the mould of telenovelas by producing the enormously successful Betty the Ugly, where the main character, as the name suggests, wasn't the prettiest girl in town.
Thus far he's only proved a knack for picking already-established formats, a la The Office and Ugly Betty.
More recently, the networks have employed a similar strategy for scripted series, importing The Office and Ugly Betty to critical and commercial success.
Consider Microsoft 's MSN, which struck a flashy deal with producer Ben Silverman of Reveille, the company behind The Office and Ugly Betty, last year.
Consider Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) MSN, which struck a flashy deal with producer Ben Silverman of Reveille, the company behind The Office and Ugly Betty, last year.
Among them: Emmy winner The Office on General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC , a remake of a British sitcom by the same name, and Golden Globe winner Ugly Betty, a breakaway hit for the Walt Disney Co.
Among those ideas: Emmy-winner The Office and ABC's Ugly Betty, both of which were adapted from foreign formats, along with Showtime's The Tudors and NBC's The Biggest Loser.
To call the adaptation of scripted formats a new tactic is to ignore TV relics like 1970s' All in the Family and Three's Company--both of which hailed from Britain--and more recent hits The Office (from Britain) and Ugly Betty (from Columbia).
Urie, perhaps best known for a role on "Ugly Betty, " plays all the other parts, too the stern house manager, Streisand's mate James Brolin, Alex's boyfriend (an "under-employed screenwriter and habitual TCM watcher") and, of course, Streisand herself.
In 1998 the government privatized broadcasting, and he started RCN TV, the prominent Colombia television station that produced the hit telenovela "Betty La Fea" (Ugly Betty).
Mark Gregory, chief executive of Bowring Marsh, a unit of insurance broker Marsh, says clients particularly admire the skill of Lloyd's underwriters at dealing with unusual and complex risks (try Ugly Betty's smile).
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