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From Spoilerfix:

08/24 - ABC says that the second-season premiere of the hit series, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 25, will pick up pretty much where May's finale left off, with plumber Mike Delfino (James Denton) coming home to find Zach Young (Cody Kasch) holding a gun to Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher). What happens, of course, is a secret; the network is saying only that he "has to find a way to rescue them both." The premiere will also continue a few other storylines set up in the first-season finale. Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) will interview for a job at an ad agency after she and her husband, Tom (Doug Savant), agreed to flip roles and he's staying home with their four kids. Her prospective boss ("Wild Card's" Joely Fisher, who will have a recurring part), however, is skeptical about hiring a mother. Shirley Knight ("Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood") will also guest-star in the episode as Rex Van De Camp's (the departed Steven Culp) mother, who comes to town for her son's funeral and promptly sets about driving his widow, Bree (Marcia Cross), nuts. Alfre Woodard ("Beauty Shop," "Miss Evers' Boys") and Mehcad Brooks also join the cast as a mother and son who have just moved onto Wisteria Lane. Source: Zap2it (http://tv.zap2it.com/)

Preview at the end of the encore of the finale tonight:

Announcer: It's been a cruel summer... waiting to see how this would end
Zach shoots at someone(presumably Mike)

Announcer: But the agony is over

Tom on the floor crying(kids must have hurt him, LOL)

Lynette: Geez, are you crying?

Announcer: 2 weeks from tonight... a juicy new summer begins

Bree at Rex's funeral: Do not close that coffin!

Gabrielle to Carlos: I said I was sorry, what more do you want?

Carlos: A paternity test

Announcer: Desperate Housewives Season Premiere... Two weeks from tonight 9/8 Central... only on ABC.

Thanks Brent :) Only 8 more days to go :woohoo:

Next, on 'Desperate Housewives' ...

Hit show's new season begins Sunday

Thursday, September 22, 2005; Posted: 12:19 p.m. EDT (16:19 GMT)

NEW YORK (AP) -- With the return of "Desperate Housewives," scads of pressing questions will be answered. Or at least addressed. Or something. Please!

Ever since the hit ABC series wrapped its first season, fans have been marking time, itching to learn what lies ahead for Bree (Marcia Cross) whose husband Rex up and died on the finale.

Will the grieving widow have to defend herself against accusations by Rex's doctor that she -- at one point a vengeful, cheated-on wife -- is somehow responsible for his death? And what about George, Bree's creepy suitor? Can there be any doubt that this Bree-obsessed pharmacist tampered with Rex's medicine? When will the murderous scheme come to light?

But that's not all the show left hanging four long months ago.

Mike -- the hunky plumber who dates Susan (Teri Hatcher) -- was last seen walking into an ambush by unhinged teenager Zach, who was holding Susan at gunpoint while holed up in Mike's house. How will Mike save the day?

Oh, and by the way, how is Zach gonna take the news that he's really Mike's son?

These and other matters will be dealt with (hope, hope!) in the season premiere airing 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, as "Desperate Housewives" resumes the narrative juggling act that made this mystery/melodrama/boudoir comedy last year's most popular new show.

It joins no fewer than a dozen new dramas that take a similarly serial approach to their storytelling -- and whose arrival on the schedule "Desperate Housewives" surely helped inspire.

Cycle of serials

By now you already know that Lynette (just-crowned Emmy winner Felicity Huffman) is going back to work and letting her hubby play Mr. Mom. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) is expecting a child -- maybe her husband's, maybe not -- as her husband heads to jail. Susan's ex will get it on with Edie (Nicollette Sheridan). And Betty (new cast member Alfre Woodard) settles in with Some Sort of Secret only her teenage son shares.

In short, complications run wild on Wisteria Lane, where each answer seems to breed only yet another question.

Same for ABC's "Lost," which returned Wednesday with precious morsels of new info about that confounded hole as well as other issues challenging the island castaways -- but left the audience panting for next week's handout.

Such are the unrequited appetites of viewers in this age of continuing story lines.

You recall how it began. In a major change from the self-contained episodes of most weekly dramas, prime-time borrowed the serial model of daytime soap operas a quarter-century ago for "Dallas," whose "Who Shot J.R.?" cliffhanger spurred a guessing game that consumed the whole nation.

Then, in 1980, the police drama "Hill Street Blues" took the complex structure of the soap opera world and married it with narratives of equal complexity. This kind of multithreaded drama caught on big, and only grew bigger as shows like "St. Elsewhere" and "thirtysomething" paved the way for today's "The West Wing," "24," "Alias" and "The Sopranos."

On Fox's new "Reunion" this season, six high school friends will age 20 years -- one year per week -- while a murder mystery enfolds them. And the same network's "Prison Break" will take viewers step by exhaustive step as a man lands himself in jail to bust out his brother, who is due to be executed in just 30 days.

On ABC's "Invasion," alien body snatchers descend upon a small Florida town (will they take over the world?). On CBS' "Threshold," aliens try to rejigger the DNA of the human race for their own peculiar purpose (will they take over the world?). On NBC's "Surface," strange sea creatures bob up all over the place (will they take over the world?).

'Positive brainwashing'

You know the drill for the audience: that oh-so-gradual accretion of facts, those buried references to dislodge, the grand revelations booby-trapped with red herrings. There's always more to learn and you resolve, over time, to master it. Who can resist the potential payoff? After all, you build equity from your investment watching "Lost" in a way that close-ended hours of "Law & Order" or "CSI" could never provide.

Besides, serial TV might even boost your brain power.

Television is "demanding more cognitive engagement with each passing year," Steven Johnson writes in his recent book, "Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter."

"Think of it," he proposes, "as a kind of positive brainwashing -- the popular media steadily, but almost imperceptibly, making our minds sharper, as we soak in entertainment usually dismissed as so much lowbrow fluff."

But as you soak, you sometimes stew. That's the mixed blessing of serial TV. Fans of shows like "Lost" know all too well how there's an escalating burden, along with the reward, involved with keeping up. Hurley's lottery numbers! That toy plane of Kate's! How much minutiae can any viewer process?

And what about the ladies of Wisteria Lane, romancing and seducing, then withholding from the audience? Must every fact be so hard-won by the viewer? Must these "Desperate Housewives" be such a tease?

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CNN.com-Thursday, September 22, 2005

Just two more days!! YAY! With this hurricane coming, this cheers me up. I am actually from Houston and so it is my home that is at risk. I am in Austin tho at school so it is weird being away now.

My how opinions change so quickly. One commercial break later and I suddenly realize why this show is so great once again. I really like Alfre Woodard's new character.... more than everyone on the show besides Bree in fact.

Wow, you sure don't waste time forming opinions.

But I agree, I'm gonna dig seeing Alfre as a regular on this show.

I'm surprised Bree didn't ask for the basket back.

Who's the chick giving the blonde lady the interview? Damn! :happyface

I think this episode is about to be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Commercial Breaks During a One Hour Telecast.

I hate these stupid commericals. :mad:

Otherwise I love it. It started with Rex's mother freak out as she arrived... :lol: and I absolutely loved Bree's "I will have security guards with sticks to beat you"

:rofl:

That was a better cliffhanger than the one in the finale. :eek: What is living up there??

I heard The Munsters old house is close to the set of Desperate Housewives. What if Herman popper out, and shouted, "Hi Teri! HAW HAW HAW HAW" :lol:

I think Bree lives in it.

My, she fixed up the place quite well.

Going by Betty's remark to her son about him pretending his dad was dead when he consoled Bree's daughter, I figure that's who they have locked up.


Or is that too obvious?

Awesome premiere! Maybe Zach is being kept by Betty? Long shot, but still...

I wasn't that impressed with this episode but I know that it'll get jucier and jucier as each episode comes.

wtf at the person in Betty's basement...

I pitied Bree when she went to change Rex's tie. It's sad that Bree was more concerned on perfection then to just stop and ponder that Rex is gone.

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one who noticed all of the commercials...maybe that lent to the so-so vibe I got from this episode.


I hope we get more of Edie & Felicia this season! They're both hysterical and they're not used to their full potential on the show.

I wish I had recorded it. I couldn't tell if the hand was black or white, male or female. If anybody has recorded it, could you verify??


The hand looked kind of beefy to me. I don't think it was Zach. I recorded it, so I'll look at it again.

Didn't Betty's son mentioning that he's made the same plate for "years", or something along the line?

Good point. I usually watch DH twice per week, so I'll probably catch more details later this week when I rewatch. I wonder who it is?? He/she is certainly "white," I think, lol.

....fat chick.


:lol:

Definitely Black. While it wasn't necessarily "beefy" I think it was more a masculine looking hand than feminine.

I see Pavan and I give differing answers, but I believe the hand was black.

I wish I had recorded it. I couldn't tell if the hand was black or white, male or female. If anybody has recorded it, could you verify??

It looked white. I'll check again. I just transcribed the preview for next week...

If it's white, I think that kills the theory about it being the father, but stranger things have happened.

If it's black... it's very light. I lean towards white still.

Didn't Betty's son mentioning that he's made the same plate for "years", or something along the line?


He says "I make up this tray every night." It almost sounds like he says "I make up his tray every night."

I still say the hand is black.

Who's the chick giving the blonde lady the interview? Damn! :happyface

Joely Fisher, she was the best friend on Ellen

The hand was definitely white, not black. I taped it -- watched it twice to make sure. :)

It looks like a white male. There appeared to be quite a bit of hair on the arm...

It looked like a white male to me too.

My favorite line from the whole night came from Andrew, talking about Phyllis Van de Kamp...

"Okay, so Grandma might be a bitch, but she's FAMILY so that makes her OUR bitch!"

17.2/25 in Fast Nationals... :D

WOW this was a great episode, it did start out slow, but man it got better :) Yeah it was a white hand from the person in the basement. I thought the same thing as Pav for a minute there, that maybe it was Zach, but that's too far fetched since they made it sound like this has been going on for years.

Awesome ratings, as Brent mentioned. 28.17 million viewers and a 12.2/26 among adults 18-49

Awesome ratings :D

Fast Facts for Sunday, September 25, 2005 (Based on Fast Affiliate Ratings)

ABC Wins the First Sunday of the Season in Viewers and Young Adults, Delivering its Strongest Season Opening Sunday Numbers in 10 Years

ABC Airs the Top 3 TV Shows on Sunday in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" Takes a Commanding Lead at 8pm, Beating its Nearest Competitor by 55% in the Key Adult 18-49 Sales Demo

Up by 6.6 Million Viewers and by 36% in Adults 18-49 from its Year-ago Debut, "Desperate Housewives" Becomes ABC's Top Fall Season Premiere in 9 Years

With Strong Gains from its March Series Debut, ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" Dominates the 10 O'clock Hour in Viewers, Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54

Sunday Primetime (7:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC delivered a dominant first-place finish on the opening Sunday of the season, defeating second-place CBS by 4.4 million viewers (18.4 million vs. 14.0 million) and by 95% in Adults 18-49 (7.8/19 vs. 4.0/10). Making ABC's winning advantages on the night even more impressive was the fact that CBS had a high-rated NFL football overrun well into the first hour of prime. ABC also ranked No. 1 on the night among Adults 25-54 (8.8/19) and Adults 18-34 (6.7/19), capturing nearly 1/5 of the available television audience in both demographics.

* ABC aired the Top 3 TV shows on Sunday in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, with "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

* ABC was up by 6.0 million viewers and by 50% in Adults 18-49 over its performance on the first Sunday last season (12.4 million and 5.2/14 on 9/26/04). In viewers and across the adult demos, ABC marked strongest season opening Sunday night in 10 years - since 1995.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - 9/25" (7:00-8:00 p.m.)
A special 7 o'clock installment of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" placed a solid second to CBS' football overrun in the hour in Total Viewers (9.4 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.5/10).

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
In its regular time period premiere, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" moved ABC into the No. 1 position in the key Adult 18-49 sales demographic, beating second-place Fox by 55% (6.8/16 vs. 4.4/11). The broad appealing ABC unscripted show also took first-place in its time period among Adults 25-54 (7.6/16), Adults 18-34 (5.7/16) and Kids 2-11 (3.4/12).

"Desperate Housewives" (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
The second season premiere of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" drew and average audience of 28.2 million viewers and a 12.1 rating, 26 share in Adults 18-49. "Desperate Housewives" more than doubled the audience of its closest competitor (28.2 million vs. 11.5 million - CBS) and topped its combined network competition in the time slot (CBS, NBC, Fox and WB) by 8% among Adults 18-49 (12.1/26 vs. 11.2/24). The show drew its second-largest audience ever, trailing only its first season finale (5/22/05).

* In Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, "Desperate Housewives" stands as ABC's strongest fall season premiere in 9 years - since the season openers of "Home Improvement" of "Spin City" on 9/17/96, respectively.

* "Desperate Housewives" was up over its year-ago series debut by 6.6 million viewers and by 36% in Adults 18-49 (21.6 million and 8.9/21 on 10/3/04).

* In Adults 18-49, "Housewives" ranks as the top-rated scripted season opener on any network in 3 years - since "ER" in September 2002.

"Grey's Anatomy" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
The second season premiere of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" delivered a convincing first-place finish in the 10 o'clock hour. "Grey's Anatomy" bested second-place NBC by 6.3 million viewers (19.5 million vs. 13.2 million), while beating its combined NBC and CBS competition in the hour by 48% in Adults 18-49 (8.6/21 vs. 5.8/14) and by 29% in Adults 25-54 (9.8/22 vs. 7.6/17)

* Versus its series debut last March, "Grey's Anatomy" grew by 3.3 million viewers and by 19% in Adults 18-49 (16.2 million & 7.2/18 on 3/27/05). The drama was up 24% among Adults 25-54 (9.8/22 vs. 7.9/19) from its mid-season premiere.

Source: Nielsen Media Research (Fast Affiliate Ratings) 9/25/05.

The more I look at that hand in the basement, the more I think it could be a light-skinned black male.

The more I look at that hand in the basement, the more I think it could be a light-skinned black male.


Finally, a waverer. Thank you. I can take you off my "I told you so" list when the person is finally revealed.

Finally, a waverer. Thank you. I can take you off my "I told you so" list when the person is finally revealed.

The lighting is REALLY poor, so it's extremely hard to tell. Do you know something I don't? :p

OK, I guess it's possible that it's a light-skinned black person. The lighting is bad, that's true (it is supposed to be a basement, after all :D ).
When I first saw the hand it stuck me as a white person. I watched it one more time to make sure, and the hand still looked white to me. Now that I look at it again, I'm not so sure.

The mystery continues... LOL

OK, I guess it's possible that it's a light-skinned black person. The lighting is bad, that's true (it is supposed to be a basement, after all :D ).
When I first saw the hand it stuck me as a white person. I watched it one more time to make sure, and the hand still looked white to me. Now that I look at it again, I'm not so sure.

The mystery continues... LOL

That's me too. I've looked at it about 25 times and each time I think a little bit more that it could be a light black. Remember... this person is supposedly locked up, meaning no tan and quite a pale skin, so I'm very divided right now. I still lean towards white, but it would not surprise me at all if the person was black.

I got a kick of the receptionist who Gabby saw at the clinic. The hair on the gal. A mixed color of red and black. Do people get hired looking like that. She looked scruffy. I take it that Gabby took the other woman's paper to proved it was Carlos' baby. Wouldn't there be more identification saying it was the other womans child. I was a bit vague on that.

I got a kick of the receptionist who Gabby saw at the clinic. The hair on the gal. A mixed color of red and black. Do people get hired looking like that. She looked scruffy. I take it that Gabby took the other woman's paper to proved it was Carlos' baby. Wouldn't there be more identification saying it was the other womans child. I was a bit vague on that.

No... she took it home and apparently "photoshopped" it. :lol: How I am uncertain about. :p It's not certain that the baby is Carlos'. I suspect we won't find out til Sweeps. I don't even know if the writers know yet. I've seen no spoilers about it.

I still don't think Gabrielle will actually have the kid. I say she aborts it and tells everyone she miscarried.

I guess Rex is really dead; I know there was some speculation as to that he may be faking his death. Does this mean we will get a new narator this year?

I pretty much knew Tom wouldn't last. I guess they'll be hiring another nanny.

I guess the big mystery this year is what is in the Applewhite's basement. It looked at the end that they were serving someone an execution style last meal.

A question came to mind when I saw that Susan's ex might be coming back, does Susan have a job? It seems odd that she would not be working since I don't think Carl is the kind that believes in paying alimony.

It looked at the end that they were serving someone an execution style last meal.

Yeah, I guess it did -- but I think the gun was meant for protection.




A question came to mind when I saw that Susan's ex might be coming back, does Susan have a job? It seems odd that she would not be working since I don't think Carl is the kind that believes in paying alimony.

I believe Susan's job is writing children's books (which she does at home). They explained it in the pilot.

At first I believed the gun was to kill "it" but after it was over I believe it was for protection. The way the scene in the living room went down it was obvious this wasn't the 1st time they had done this. I'm VERY curious to see what happens Sunday when Susan gets suspicious and starts hearing noises. The "nice" neighbors aren't so nice afterall. :lol: