‘Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie & Becki Newton Launch Rewatch Podcast, Recall There “Was No Plan For Marc & Amanda” Before Their Chemistry
deadline.comNearly 15 years after Ugly Betty went off the air, Michael Urie and Becki Newton are giving the show the podcast treatment… again.
The pair recently reminded Deadline they were early adopters of the rewatch trend, recapping the ABC sitcom with a “pioneering podcast” during its original four-season run from 2006 to 2010, before launching their new Still Ugly podcast later this month. “We talked about every single episode,” recalled Urie. “So, this was inevitable.
And then as we’ve gone to the cast to ask them to come be on it, we’re like, ‘We are, as you might imagine, doing another podcast.’ It just feels like riding a bike being together again.” Developed by Silvio Horta as a U.S.
adaptation of the Colombian telenovela, Ugly Betty followed the awkward titular writer Betty Suarez (America Ferrera) as she takes a job as the assistant to Daniel Meade (Eric Mabius), editor-in-chief of the snobbish Mode fashion magazine.
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