Parents Television Council blasts organization that honored ABC's Ugly Betty

The Family Friendly Programming Forum (FFPF) was formed nearly a decade ago and consists of a consortium of advertisers charged with developing family friendly television shows. But Melissa Henson of the Parents Television Council (PTC) accuses the FFPF of making a major mistake by awarding this year's honor to the ABC sitcom.

"The concern is parents will accept at face value that it is a family friendly show because it won this recognition, because [Ugly Betty] is a project of the FFPF," worries Henson.

Henson warns that there is more to the program than just a "happy, sweet tale about an ugly girl who is beautiful on the inside." During the first season of Ugly Betty, the PTC recorded 205 instances of sexual content and 154 instances of foul language.

The PTC says that parents should contact advertisers who sponsor Ugly Betty and let them know their concerns. And even though the FFPF helped develop Ugly Betty, Henson says that they should distance themselves from the program and take ABC to task for departing from the program's original design.