ABC has informed the "Ugly Betty" cast and crew that this current season will be its last.

Now in its fourth season, the show is well past its prime (I was never a fan, personally). Plus, the ratings have been awful this season, so the cancellation shouldn't be a big surprise.

And with this much notice, the writers will at least be able to give Betty and her Mode colleagues some closure.

"Better Off Ted" is consistently one of the funniest sitcoms on television, yet it struggles in the ratings and gets little love from ABC (who is blowing through the current episodes like they're being chased with a weaponized pumpkin).

Could a clip featuring some truly vulgar outtakes generate more interest in the show and save them? Well, let's find out.

Our colleagues at the Charlotte Observer have a fascinating story on liquor companies wining and dining members of the Mecklenburg ABC Board. The state's alcohol cops say board members broke the law when they allowed liquor company Diageo to pick up the tab at a $9,334 holiday dinner at Del Frisco's in Charlotte, where guests sipped Dom Perignon. 

ABC chairman Park Helms told investigators that Del Frisco's is "the finest
restaurant in town." He said he only eats there when somebody else pays.

If you're interested in controversy in ABC board across the state, check out the Wilmington Star-News' ongoing investigation of how the locally controlled ABC boards pay their staff.  The administrator in Wilmington earned a salary of $280,000 last year. His son earned $140,000 as assistant administrator. 

One of the dates being considered for President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address (February 2) is the scheduled premiere date for the final season of ABC's hit show, "Lost."

That screaming sound you hear is Warm TV's Lost-obsessed blogger Luci Chavez.

A brilliant UCLA professor, and some counterparts at USC, have signed on to explain some of the weightier ideas foisted upon us by ABC blockbluster Lost.

The show's creators corraled professors from both Pac-10 schools to teach online courses —  exams and everything! — on tje philosophy, physics and hieroglyphics behind the show. Check out the particulars in this L.A. Times story.

I was gonna sign up but you have to own Blu-Ray discs of Season 5 and students will get hints about HOW IT WILL ALL END. More at Lost University.

And why would anyone want to know before it does end? I like being strung out on Lost. It's a socially acceptable addiction. Now WAITING EIGHT MONTHS to know for sure that Juliet died — sniff, sniff ... Tito, get me a tissue — during the S5 finale in May, isn't as cool.

Lost premieres Feb. 2. Recap at 8 p.m. Two-hour episode at 9.

(P.S. The snap of Sayid has nothing to do with anything except I miss watching him work it out against guys 5X his size. And he's carrying a gun and bleeding from the head.)

Poor Happy Warm TV fans, relying on me for your Lost news. Only two weeks late on this one. Big news: The first episode of the final season of Lost will premiere Feb. 2 on ABC!

One hour recap at 8 p.m.; two-hour premiere at 9 p.m. WARNING: That is a TUESDAY. Yes, the show is moving to Tuesdays, to prop up ABC's new sci-fi series V. Or vice versa. I'm not sure which.

Here's a fanvid/unofficial trailer for season 6. Way more satisfying. Way more effective getting my pulse racing to anticipate that final push.

Now, 62 days and counting ...

If you're in the mood for a little musical entertainment tonight as you wallow in your carb-induced stupor, ABC has two big concert shows for you.

"Beyoncé...I Am Yours" (9pm) is a show from the Las Vegas portion of this summer's tour, and features unseen footage from the singer's life. The Vegas show was different from the rest of the tour, with Beyoncé saying she wanted to make that experience even more special for fans. 

"Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City" is McCartney's July 2009 concert from Shea Stadium in Queens. The Beatles originally played Shea Stadium in 1965 and McCartney returned there for a hugely popular encore this summer (Shea is now Citi Field). The full concert is available on dvd and cd, and this show is an edited version. 10pm.  

Here's another version of the Lost poster for the final season on ABC.

Check out Josh Holloway rocking the eyeliner. (Maybe not. I might be a tad vengeful after everyone gave Nestor Carbonell the business for being Cuban last year.)

And is that? Could it be? Well, hello Ian Somerhalder. Last time I saw you, Boone, you were dead.

And check out Sayid (Naveen Andrews). My man!

I like seeing all the old faces from S1 and S2 in this poster. (I avoid spoilers at all costs so if I sound uninformed on this end, I am. I NEED to be surprised. It's my raison d'etre.) If it means Lindelof/Abrams have stopped poking my perpetual Lost wound and stopped introducing new characters, I can sleep soundly tonight.

Funny. The new Lost poster kinda looks like the others. Thanks, ABC.

This totally reminds me of how the ACC retooled its own logo when it went from 9 to 12 schools five years ago. All they did was add more dots on a bigger map. Snazzy.

A quarter to the first HWTV-head who can ID everyone in the photo.

I was egregiously tardy getting to this for the HWTV crowd but ABC finally came through with a teaser for the final season of Lost.

I forgot all about it for days and days until last night when I was Googling Foxy. (Matthew Fox, a.k.a. Jack Shephard, a.k.a Why Do People Call Me Foxy? That's My Dad's Nickname.)

No premiere date yet. But in this totally inadequate, completely unacceptable trailer for Lost's victory lap, we do see Dr. Cry Now Smile Later getting in a line about "destiny" while bleeding, sort of, from the head.

Ahhh, yes. Color me happy ... for now.