Desperate Housewives: Just a successful soap or a cultural phenomenon?

Desperate Housewives is an american serie (created by Marc Cherry) which won the Emmy Award in 2004. This serie began in October 2004 on the American television ABC. It sets in Wisteria Lane and deals with the everyday life of five women: Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp), Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis) and Nicollette Sheridan (Edie Britt). It combines drama, comedy and soap opera. Desperate Housewives got directly to the top of series and it soon became a cultural phenomenon. Not only an american one, but also an international one! The first season ended in May 2005.

The first season has aroused much interest and has broken all viewing with 23.7 million viewers. (average total viewers per episode)
This ratings success gave rise to the second season which began in September 2005 and ended in May 2006. The average viewers per episode was almost as big as for the first season: 22.2 million viewers.
In general, series like Desperate Housewives are real flop after one or two seasons, but unlike other soaps, Desperate Housewives doesn’t stop increasing the ratings.
Of course, the salaries of the five actresses also increased! (± 250 000 dollars for one episode, but depends on the actress)

More than a successful soap opera, desperate Housewives is a real cultural phenomenon! Everybody is watching the serie, housewives would like to be as Gabrielle, or Susan,... Beside the three seasons, Marc Cherry developped a mass of various products: DVD, books, calendars, clothes, CD with the original soundtrack, ... Moreover, Buena Vista Games created the game Desperate Housewives. This game suggests you to play the role of a young woman arriving at Wisteria Lane,... The script was made by Scott Sanford Tobis who wrote the serie Desperate Housewives.

So, if you have time and you don’t know what to do, try this new game and enjoy it ;-)