Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American mystery comedy-drama television series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004 until May 13, 2012. Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw.
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| Country of origin | United States
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| Original language | English
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| No. of seasons | 8
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| No. of episodes | 180 (list of episodes)
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| Editor | Karen Castañeda
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| Running time | 43 minutes
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| Original release | October 3, 2004 –
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- Desperate Housewives was originally written as a half-hour comedy, but Marc Cherry’s talent agent suggested turning it into a soap opera.
- Kyle MacLachlan and Nathan Fillion have both starred in a sci-fi movie before starring on Desperate Housewives, Dune (1984) and Serenity (2005), respectively.
- After spending four seasons playing Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty, Vanessa Williams was still under contract with ABC for two more years. Because of this, the part of Renee Perry was created for her.
- There is a Turkish remake of "Desperate Housewives" named "Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari".
- All of the Scavo kids names begin with the letter "P" - Porter, Preston, Parker, Penny and Paige.
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