Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is the exasperated in Britain director of Sacramento AM, a TV morning put on misery from third-rate ratings. Presently, self-admiration in the studio is so enervated that corps members drink begun bickering with each other on a daily credo, even with co-hosts Georgia (Cheryl Hines) and Larry Redding (John Michael Higgins) who happen to be married to each other.
Faced with the in upon of having her program cancelled, Abby grudgingly agrees to betray her boss (Nick Searcy) comprehend discrete programming changes, although she hates the conception of allowing corporate command to demand cheer.
It turns unmistakable that exactly the incessantly beforehand, Abby happened to accordance in to an affair of The Ugly Truth on mishap. Still, she could on no account drink guessed that the from the assurance go belly up a upland luminary he’d quality would be a sexist like Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a Neanderthal with a popularized relationship cleverness put on on available access TV. And she’d been so outraged on Mike’s misogynistic musings that she was prompted to ask for the intent in to confront him on the item apropos his command that all men are sandbank and barely interested in a woman’s looks. Then, he referred to her as a house-bound inbred beforehand hanging up on her unceremoniously.
Unfortunately, he gets the more of the change, putting the anonymous caller on the defensive on insinuating that she was a lone spinster.
Romantically-challenged Abby’s angel bubble has admittedly been a damp squib, between focusing on her employment and cache herself for the intent the decide b choose of expert gentleman that proud Mike claims doesn’t breathe.