Desperate Housewives is a popular Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. The show takes place on Wisteria Lane in the fictional suburban town of Fairview (license plates in the show are from a fictitious "Eagle State," and E.S. is shown on written addresses). The show is about the lives of four women (seen though the eyes of their dead neighbor), only two of whom are actually housewives as of January 2006. It follows their domestic struggles while several mysteries unfold in the background. Desperate Housewives combines many styles such as: drama, comedy, mystery, thriller, farce, camp, soap opera and satire.
Cherry initially had pitched the series to HBO, CBS, NBC, Fox, Showtime, and Lifetime. ABC was the only network to accept Cherry's offer. The series rocketed to the top of the ratings from the premiere episode. Immediately after, the term "desperate housewives" became a cultural phenomenon. This warranted "real" desperate housewives features in magazines and TV shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Dr. Phil Show. The show has been credited with reviving ABC's ratings. Later on, Lost and Grey's Anatomy helped further this revival.
Desperate Housewives stars Golden Globe award winning actress Teri Hatcher, Golden Globe award and Emmy award winning actress Felicity Huffman, TV veterans Marcia Cross and Nicollette Sheridan, and rising star Eva Longoria. On the second pilot episode, Brenda Strong is the current narrator of the series.
The show was a big success of the 2004-2005 television season, and gained much critical acclaim. Its pilot episode which aired in October 2004, gained a stunning 21.3 million viewers making it the best new drama for the year, the highest rated show of the week, and also the best performance by a pilot for ABC, since Spin City in 1996.
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The cheapest place to buy them are as follows...
Season 1 for £17.99 at Play.com
Season 2 for £24.98 at Amazon.co.uk
Seaspn 3 for £32.89 at DVD.co.uk
Season 1 & Season 2 boxset for £56.95 at Foxy.co.uk
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5th November 2007
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