Desperate Housewives is an American TV-serie, which was created by March Cherry. Desperate Housewives tells about four women, who might look perfect but they all have their own problems and lives. These five ladies lives in imaginary Fairviews suburb.

The main characters are Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp), Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis). They all have their own personalities: Susan is a litle quick-tempered, Lynette is the trusted one, Bree is always perfect and Gabrielle is the most superficial. I don’t have any favourite, I like them all but Eva Longoria is the beautiest in my eyes. I think they all are very good actors, and the Desperate Housewives has wone one Golden Globe and one Emmy.

The creator of Desperate Housewives, March Cherry, had got the idea to make this serie from one shocking news. Andrea Yates, Texan mother, had killed her five child, and Cherry asked her own mother what kind of mother would do that. His mother told him, that she understands Yates, because she had also been so desperate when her man was away and she had to raise her children alone. This made Cherry think thay maybe also other women, who look doing fine, can be inside very depressed ans desperate.

There are eight production seasons. The first period was shown on ABC in 2004 and in year 2005 serie came to Finlands TV. One season includes 23 periods. The serie is very popular all over the world – also Oprah and Dr. Phil watches it. Description group spends normally 15 days for shooting one period. Every period has own theme which is demonstrated in the begining of the period. When there was a rumour that Eva Longoria will leave the show, Longoria said that they all (the main characters) have 10 years contract.