Music and Musicalization - César Escola, Canaroy Pelay and Diego Fernando Páez Set Design - Liliana Cortés, Enrique Linero, Juan Fernando Peréz Production Assistants - John Sierra and Guillermo Andrés Vega Marcela Posada as Sandra Patiño "La Jirafa" Luces Velásquez as Bertha Muñoz de González Júlio César Herrera as Freddy Stewart Contrerasĭora Cadavid as Inés "Inesita" Peña de Gómez Talú Quintero as Margarita Sáenz De MendozaĪdriana Franco as Julia Solano Galindo de Pinzón Mario Duarte as Nicolas Mora and as Himself Lorna Paz as Patricia Fernández "La Peliteñida" Jorge Enrique Abello as Armando Mendoza Sáenz Mega Channel in Greece is preparing its own version of "Betty la fea" for the autumn of 2006, and Telecinco, in Spain, has another adaptation called Yo soy Bea.Īna María Orozco as Beatriz Aurora "Betty" Pinzón Solano
In 2006 the Dutch TV network Talpa started airing Lotte (which is the Dutch name for Betty), starring Nyncke Beekhuyzen as the main character and Lars Oostveen (as Vico Maesland, the Dutch "Armando Mendoza Sáenz"). The Russian version is called Ne Rоdis' Krasivoy (Not to be born beautiful). There is a Russian version which also draws huge crowds. In early 2004, the German TV network SAT 1 did the same and released it as a new version called Verliebt in Berlin ("Smitten in Berlin"), starring German soap opera star Alexandra Neldel and Swiss actor Mathis Künzler. In 2003, Sony Entertainment Television India bought the script and copyright of the show and adapted it to local contexts to create the immensely popular and ongoing Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi ("There Is No One Like Jassi"). This Colombian show has been so successful, that besides being dubbed and broadcasted in countries such as Brasil,Malaysia, the Philippines, Hungary, Israel, the Czech Republic, and China, it has also been adapted in some other countries. This version is currently airing on Univision in the United States, where it made its debut on April 24, 2006. Mexican company Televisa is producing its own version named La fea más bella("The most beautiful ugly woman").
The series will also air in Canada on CHUM Limited's Citytv and A-Channel stations.
America Ferrera has been picked to play the title character, who is a unattractive but efficient secretary working at a fashion magazine.
Originally, the show was to have a dramatic slant, but it is expected to be reworked as a comedy, which is how ABC is billing the program and the fact that it will air in the Friday night 8PM(E/P) slot.
At first there was also talk that this program could debut in the Summer of 2006 as a daily (five days a week) series according to this article in Broadcasting&Cable, but given the buzz and possitive feedback, ABC will make this version a weekly series instead. The American version has been picked up by ABC under the title Ugly Betty, which just got the green light as a entry for the 2006-2007 TV season, where it will air Friday nights starting in the Fall of 2006. In 2004 actress Salma Hayek, through her production company and a joint venture with Touchstone Television, acquired the licensing rights to Betty La Fea,with plans to turn it into an English-language comedy-drama series for the United States. It also spawned an animated series called Betty Toons. Some scenes from the first episode were filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina and some scenes for the opening sequence were filmed in Miami, Florida. Its success spawned a short and unsuccessful sequel called Ecomoda, filmed in Colombia and produced by RCN and Univisión. The show was popular and was aired to a wide international audience. She constantly faces the scorn of her prettier workmates, but eventually she is promoted to a senior job, becomes involved with her boss, and gets a makeover. The show's main character, Beatriz Pinzón Solano, is an unattractive but intelligent woman working for a fashion design company called Ecomoda. Yo soy Betty, la fea ("I am Betty, the Ugly") was a popular telenovela (soap opera) filmed in Colombia, written by Fernando Gaitan and produced by the Colombian network RCN.