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.

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Maduro's stunningly close victory followed an often ugly, mudslinging campaign in which the winner promised to carry on Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution, while challenger Henrique Capriles' main message was that Chavez put this country with the world's largest oil reserves on the road to ruin.

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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.

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Furthermore, the winner of the Primary, Mitt Romney, ran on ugly anti-illegal immigrant rhetoric.

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"We just kept on playing, scored an ugly one and couldn't be more fitting than the guy who scored the winner, " Tortorella said.

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