Two months ago, Hulu, the video content provider, announced a deal with ABC to post that network’s content on its website.  That deal is now starting to come to fruition.
Episodes of Grey’s Anatomy  are now available on the site – five episodes from season five.
“Over the next two weeks, more ABC shows will launch on Hulu as part of our ongoing Hulu Days of Summer promotion, including current hits like I Survived a Japanese Game Show and The Superstars, as well as popular shows like Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty and Scrubs,” a Hulu spokesman said.
Also to be available soon …read more

Before we get back to Ugly Betty analyzin’ and speculatin’, I have to compliment ABC on their wonderful promos for next season’s renewed shows, especially this one:

They ran this one during Ugly Betty episode 3.24, The Fall Issue, and it just made me smile.  To see many of the characters from the various ABC shows “living in one house” is wonderful.
This one, of course, heavily features Becki Newton as Amanda.  First, Ty Pennington annoys her with his megaphone.  Then, at the end, she opens the bathroom door to see Sloane from Grey’s Anatomy, looks him over, and says in disgust, …read more

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There has been a lot of talk the last few days of ABC being on some kind of anti-gay crusade with moves at its shows and that Ugly Betty is part of it. I don’t know enough about the former, but I can tell you that the latter is ridiculous in the extreme.
Some background: on Grey’s Anatomy, lesbian couple Callie Torres and Erica Hahn were broken up, with Hahn leaving the show. Full disclosure: I don’t not watch Grey’s (I know many of you do). I’ll leave it to others to determine if …read more

ABC president Stephen McPherson unveiled the 2008-2009 fall schedule for the network, and there aren’t a whole lot of changes.
“We’re returning our dominant core group of shows from last fall,” said McPherson. “The few openings we had we’ve filled with the kind of quality programming viewers have come to expect from ABC, and we have a very strong bench. As always, our focus is on delivering the best stories and most memorable characters on TV every day of the week, every week of the year.”
Luckily, ABC was smart enough to keep Ugly Betty in its most prime …read more