ABC'S SURPRISE HIT SHOW,  'HOUSEWIVES' GAINS VIEWERS WITH BLEND OF SOAP, SEX, HUMOR
ABC's ''Desperate Housewives'' comes back tonight after a week off, with a momentum not seen on network television for a decade.Two weeks ago, the audience for the new drama-comedy hit nearly 25 million viewers, second only to CBS's ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' in the weekly Nielsen ratings. Fifteen million of them were young adults, making...

Housewives: to CNN in a week,  How a buzz built up over the question of a Desperate Housewife's sexual preference
It has been the hot watercooler topic for just over a week: is Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Camp) the real-life gay cast member of the hit show Desperate Housewives? After much speculation by even traditional news outlets, Cross's publicist finally issued a release to Entertainment Tonight stating the rumours are "completely untrue," and then, in an appearance Wednesday on The View, Cross again denied she is a lesbian, adding "it's very...

`Housewives': It's pro-feminist satire. No, it's a tired cliche.
One of the more provocative and eagerly awaited shows of the new TV season is the ABC drama-satire "Desperate Housewives" (8 p.m. Sunday, WLS-Ch. 7). It is something of a petri dish of contemporary gender issues. With that in mind, we let two of our critics, one male, one female, discuss the show in e-mail debate in lieu of a standard review. Their comments follow. Sid Smith: Combining the caustic, anti-suburban sensibilities of "American...

World's Housewives Unite And Find a Bond of Love,  First-ever conference finds sisterhood over common concerns
'GIRLS, girls! Please take your seats. We've got business to conduct!" shouted Lita de Lazzari, president of the Argentine League of Housewives. With no native costumes, conflicts, or soapboxes, last week's First World Congress of Housewives bore little resemblance to September's United Nations conference on women in Beijing.But for the 600 attendees, there was enough exchange of ideas, advice, and, dare it be said, sisterhood, to...

Separate Wives As season 2 progresses, Henry Goldblatt hopes these Housewives divided will pull themselves together again
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES Sundays, 9 p.m. (ABC) There's something horribly awry on Wisteria Lane—and it has nothing to do with the guy in Alfre Woodard's basement. Since the show returned for its second season in September, the four titular wives have spent a total of 135 seconds together on screen. (For real.) During that same time, Housewives has morphed into four series. Call it the Separate Housewives anthology: Bree, a seriocomic drama about a rigid...

When Housewives (and others) Are Desperate
The main theme of the year’s biggest TV hit - Desperate Housewives - is that despite their beautiful clothes, perfect bodies, and high-end lifestyles, the women who live on Wisteria Lane are miserable. They struggle to find happiness by achieving a set of impossible social standards for women. And they invariably fail because they are looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places – in wealth, in power, in beauty, and in other people.

Why is "Desperate Housewives" so Popular?
Women are more emancipated, have more freedom, and more resources than anytime in the past. Sexual emancipation is now no longer gender related.

Love the Desperate Housewives? Have Their Color Palette Samples Mailed to Your Door For Free!
When you watch the show, are you mesmerized by the decorating? Color plays an important role in creating the theme and personality of every room! Following is a list of colors used in each home on the Desperate Housewives set. Beware, you may never watch the program in the same way again!

Why Desperate Housewives + Sex in the City= Edutainment TV Today
How many years of dating, being dumped, sleeping around, and generally degrading yourself does it take to get a clue?

Bridging the Gap: The Top 5 Fitness Secrets for Housewives and Athletes
Do you think it is possible that an Olympic level athlete and an everyday person can use exactly the same training protocol? The answer may surprise you!

Femme nets can't figure out women; Lifetime loses viewers, passes on `Desperate Housewives'; WE, Oxygen barely rate
Byline: matthew flamm As hit show Desperate Housewives bails ABC out of its ratings slump, the network has many organizations to thank, not least ...

Pool man confessions: lonely housewives and delinquent pool techs might be hidden threats to your service business
Billy Carpenter will never forget the summer of 2001. It was a scorcher in Los Angeles, where bronzed beauties seem to grow on palm trees. Coconut oil ...

Teri Hatcher: America's new domestic goddess; The breakout star of ABC's hit TV drama Desperate Housewives is primed to become our next sexy sweetheart.
Did you see the magic bars I baked for everybody? Teri Hatcher asks on the set of today's cover shoot, pointing to a plateful of gooey chocolate-chip-and-coconut ...

Housewives: The Wolf Pack
Everyone knows that the TV industry is one big recycling center--full of reruns, knockoffs and an endlessly revolving cast of actors--but Dick Wolf takes ...

Hit Dramas Spark Syndie Talk; Barely Out of the Gate, Expectations High for 'CSI: NY,' 'Housewives,' 'Lost'
Byline: Jon Lafayette The success of "CSI: NY,'' "Desperate Housewives'' and "Lost'' in prime time already has TV executives rubbing their hands ...