This Could Get Ugly

News from ABC… with just a few weeks to go before the start of the 2006-07 Fall season, ABC is shuffling its new prime-time line-up. The major move shifts Ugly Betty from the purgatory chasm of Friday night to the tough-but-high-profile world of Thursday nights. Betty will inherit the 8:00pm time slot, bumping new sitcoms Big Day and Notes from the Underbelly to the land of hiatus. Replacing Betty on the Friday schedule will be a second run of the venerable America’s Funniest Home Videos. Obviously ABC is high on Betty, and is hoping that the show can better help to jump-start its new high-profile Thursday night (anchored by the relocated Grey’s Anatomy) better than the two would-have-never-made-it-because-they’re-really-bad comedies would have.

Betty certainly has her work cut out for her… she may have thought that Fridays were bad, but when she gets a look at her Thursday time-slot competition (Survivor, My Name is Earl, Smallville, and Brad Garrett’s new Til Death), she may wish she were back among the world of low HUT levels.

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Where Are They Now?

One quick note from the “dontcha just love tabloid-style news” department… former Flavor of Love semi-finalist Pumkin has moved onto a new relationship… with a spiky-haired woman named Jamie. Flavor FLAAAAAV!

Here’s a photo of the happy couple…

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Lip Chap?

And speaking of Flavor of Love… the season-two premiere of the so-bad-its-good reality series last Sunday finished first in its time slot among all cable shows. In addition, it was the biggest-ever premiere for a VH1 series, and this episode became VH1’s sixth-highest rated telecast ever. Yeah, Boyeeeee!