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 winnerUgly Betty, a breakaway hit for the Walt Disney Co.
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.
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.