Ugly Betty Producer Raises The Bar

Ugly Betty executive producer Joel Fields has left the show after eight months. He is moving into a writer-producer role on TNT’s Raising the Bar, Steven Bochco’s legal drama. Both series are produced by ABC Studios. Fields had been hired to help with the show’s transition to a New York-based production. With all stories for the series’ current third season broken and approved by the network, his assignment was considered completed. Meanwhile, Raising The Bar is gearing back up for production on its second season, and Bochco, who previously recruited Fields for ABC’s Commander In Chief and FX’s Over There, invited him to join his new series.