Ugly Betty Available on iTunes UK, Not Everyone Is Happy

Ugly Betty fans in the UK can now get their favorite (er, favourite) show on iTunes, but they’ll pay more than their American counterparts. Watching TV Online reports:

After years of speculation, Apple launched its UK television download service, a project that allows customers to buy a handful of American television series through the company’s massively popular iTunes Store. The Guardian reports.

But some experts said the service – whose offerings, for £1.89 a show, include the fictional series Lost, plus Ugly Betty, and Desperate Housewives – was much more expensive than in the US. The same purchases from the American iTunes Store, where television shows have been available for almost two years, cost just 99p ($1.99) an episode.

Apparently, much of the reaction has followed this storyline:

Hurray, I can get Ugly Betty on iTunes! I can take it with me on my iPod and watch it in the pub!

Feh…

Most of the reaction I’ve seen has been somewhere along the lines of the blogger at From Here to Geneva:

I know what you’re thinking. It’s Britain! Everything is more expensive here. Well, you’re right, but it doesn’t have to be. There is absolutely no justification for this outrageous price hike. And I’m not the only one who thinks this.

As it is, my friends who are Ugly Betty fans in the UK would be better off getting the Complete First Season DVD. But, I’m an American. I’m curious to know what other British Ugly Betty fans think.