(TV Guide Insider) Rex Van De Kamp didn’t stand a chance. Bree’s S&M-loving hubby (played by Steven Culp) went the way of Mary Alice and Mrs. Huber in the season finale of Desperate Housewives � but series creator Marc Cherry says his demise was a long time coming. “Bree is based on my mom. And my dad died, so I told poor Steven, ‘Had my dad lived, you’d still have a job.'” Rex won’t be the last Wisteria Lane resident to bite the dust, Cherry reveals. “Somebody will meet a surprising end at least once a year,” he says. Here, an unbelievably upbeat Culp talks about his departure, his reaction and his plans.
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Desperate Housewives picked up a leading five nominations for the 21st annual Television Critics Association Awards according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Housewives” was nominated for best new program and best comedy program, along with individual achievement in comedy mentions for stars Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross. The TCA Awards will be presented July 23 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., in conjunction with the summer TCA press tour presented by the major broadcast and cable networks.
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The final two episodes of Desperate Housewives proved to be equally as successfully in Ireland and the UK wen they aired this week. In Ireland on RTE 2 they pulled in 420,000 viewers which attracted over half the viewing audience on that station during 9pm-11pm. On Tuesday in the UK on Channel 4 the final two episodes pulled in an impressive 4 million viewers.

The desperate divas of Wisteria Lane have brought their first season to a smashing close. So what’s in store for Year Two of ABC’s hit melodrama from the ‘burbs? A biggie: Will Bree (Marcia Cross) be a grieving widow? Is her husband, Rex (Steven Culp), really dead? If so, will she have to defend herself against accusations by Rex’s doctor that she – in the past a vengeful, cheated-on wife – was responsible for his death?
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It looks like Bree’s psycho stalker will be menacing Wisteria Lane full-time next season. According to Variety, Desperate Housewives lunatic Roger Bart – the psycho pharmacist who killed Marcia Cross’ TV hubby Rex in the season finale – is joining the show as a series regular.
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More than 30 million devotees of Desperate Housewives” tuned in Sunday for the cliffhanger season finale of the white-hot ABC soap.
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Teri Hatcher has a lot in common with her character on ABC’s Desperate Housewives – and the similarities are only growing. Both are divorced and raising a daughter, and Hatcher tells InStyle magazine in its May issue she’s becoming a klutz, too. Read More…
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Most of 17-year-old Cody Kasch’s problems this year have occurred on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, where he’s had to deal with his mother’s suicide, his father’s increased paranoia and his girlfriend breaking up with him. Unfortunately, the young actor’s latest issues are happening in real life and they involve the police. According to the AP, Kasch was arrested and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession late Tuesday (May 17) night. Kasch was reportedly busted by a plainclothes officer after he was allegedly seen smoking marijuana in public. He was ticketed for fifth-degree drug possession and released.
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In celebration of ABC’s Desperate Housewives, cable network WE will air a live post-show special, Live on Wisteria Lane, immediately following the season-finale on Sunday, May 22 at 10 p.m. ET. WE will also feature Access Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes special, Secrets From Wisteria Lane, on Sunday May 15 at 10 p.m. ET, and a day-long movie festival, Before They Were Desperate, with movies starring Teri Hatcher (Dead in the Water), Marcia Cross (Always Say Goodbye), Felicity Huffman (A Slight Case of Murder), and Nicolette Sheridan (Somebody’s Daughter) on Sunday, May 22 beginning at 10 a.m. ET.

James Denton, who plays a plumber with a secret on ABC’s Desperate Housewives, is hiding out with his family. The 42-year-old actor has been forced to leave his new home after a national magazine published a picture of his house, causing strangers to drop by uninvited. “Yeah, we’re going to move,” Denton tells Celebrity Justice.
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Halle Berry, who recently ended her marriage with singer Eric Benet, can identify with the disgruntled women on the ABC comedy Desperate Housewives. In fact, in an interview with Access Hollywood, the Oscar winner says she’d enjoy making a guest appearance on the show.
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British soap star Kacey Ainsworth has been hired for a three-episode guest stint on Desperate Housewives next season. The news was revealed during last night’s British Soap Awards by Shane Richie, Ainsworth’s current co-star on the daily BBC series EastEnders. He said that Ainsworth will be playing an English nanny, meaning she will probably be joining the Scavo household to take care of Lynette’s hyperactive kids.
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Fox has officially created a site and forum for The Pretender. Post to other Pretender fans and check out the awesome First Season DVD site which has desktop Wallpapers!

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The senior at St. Hubert Roman Catholic High School wrote to the producers of Desperate Housewives last fall, after seeing her dream gown on the show. The lacy, rose-colored dress was worn by actress Eva Longoria as she mowed a lawn in the pilot episode.Saunders wrote that she loved the show and that she wanted photos of the dress so she could shop around for a similar dress at a reasonable price.
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Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo) won the best actress award at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday for Transamerica, in which she plays a preoperative transsexual woman on a cross-country road trip. Felicity Huffman’s husband William H. Macy accepted the award on his wife’s behalf in New York City, the award for Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film at the awards ceremony for the 4th annual Tribeca Film Festival this past Saturday, April 30, 2005.
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Coming out May 24th is Ryan Merriman in the movie Spin. You can preorder you copies of the movie… Check out our Shop for more great buys from The Pretender’s great cast.
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Week of April 11-17 (Season-to-date rankings in brackets) 1. (2) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS 2. (1) American Idol (Tuesday), Fox 3. (4) Desperate Housewives, ABC 4. (3) American Idol (Wednesday), Fox 5. (7) CSI: Miami, CBS 6. (5) Survivor: Palau, CBS 7. (9) Grey’s Anatomy, ABC 8. (29) House, Fox 9. (12) Two and a Half Men, NBC 10. (13) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC SOURCE: NIELSEN MEDIA.
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ECAP SPECIALS ON “LOST” AND “DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES” TO STREAM IN THEIR ENTIRETY ON ABC.COM

ABC.com will stream in their entirety recap specials on “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” originally produced for and broadcast on the ABC Television Network, it was announced today.

This will be the first time ABC.com will stream a primetime program in its entirety.

“Desperate Housewives: Sorting Out the Dirty Laundry” began streaming on ABC.com yesterday, April 26, and “Lost: The Journey” will be available on Thursday, April 28, following its ABC network broadcast tonight. The specials will remain live in ABC.com’s video player until May 22 and May 25, the season finales of the respective series.

In addition to the shows streaming in their entirety, ABC.com will also offer streams of each act so viewers can watch the stories of each individual character.

“Placing these two specials literally at the fingertips of internet users is a great ‘first’ for ABC.com, and an exciting way to introduce new viewers to two of the most talked about new series of the year while also feeding the appetite of current fans,” said Bruce Gersh, senior vice president, Business Development, ABC Entertainment Television Group.

With “Lost: The Journey,” ABC invites new and avid “Lost” viewers to take a fresh look at one of this season’s most talked about shows. The special promises to explore the series in a way that will bring new viewers up to date — but which current viewers will also find illuminating.

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Emilie de Ravin as Claire, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Maggie Grace as Shannon, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Malcolm David Kelley as Walt, Daniel Dae Kim as Jin, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie, Terry O’Quinn as Locke, Harold Perrineau as Michael and Ian Somerhalder as Boone. “Lost” airs Wednesdays at 8:00 p.m., ET, on the ABC Television Network.

An all-new hour-long special, “Desperate Housewives: Sorting Out the Dirty Laundry” will bring new viewers up to speed on the biggest moments of the season while giving die-hard fans of the hit series fresh insight into the many mysteries of TV’s most famous street.

The hour recaps the stories-to-date of Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van De Kamp and Gabrielle Solis, and looks back at the central mysteries that have kept viewers guessing: Why did Mary Alice kill herself? Who’s buried in the toy chest that Paul Young dug up from the bottom of his pool? And who is Mike Delfino, and what is his real agenda in moving to Wisteria Lane?

Desperate Housewives” stars Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van De Kamp, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Nicollette Sheridan as Edie Britt, Steven Culp as Rex Van De Kamp, Ricardo Antonio Chavira as Carlos Solis, Mark Moses as Paul Young, Andrea Bowen as Julie Mayer, Jesse Metcalfe as John, Cody Kasch as Zach Young, Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young and James Denton as Mike Delfino. The series, which has garnered both People’s Choice and Golden Globe Awards for best comedy series, airs Sundays at 9:00 p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.
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The ladies on Wisteria Lane are friends on and off the set, Felicity Huffman, one of the lead actresses on the hit television show, Desperate Housewives, said on Sunday. “We’re all friends. We all get along. I love going to work,” said Huffman, who plays Lynette Scavo, on the show. There had been talk of tension among the cast, which reportedly boiled over at a group cover shoot for “Vanity Fair” when Marcia Cross stormed off the set. The incident was chronicled by the magazine’s writer Ned Zeman. “I have to tip my hat off to that writer (Zeman) because it’s a tempest in a teapot,” Huffman told Reuters.
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A swarm of locusts hit CBS on Sunday, but the insect invasion was no match for a clip-show recap episode of ABC’s Desperate Housewives. ABC easily won the night, as usual, with a solid performance from a special Sorting out the Dirty Laundry highlight reel episode of Housewives that lured in 23.7 million viewers and 10.0 rating/23 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary estimates from Nielsen Media Research. ABC also dominated at 8 p.m. hour with a fresh episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (16.7 million, 6.7/17) and at 10 p.m. with fledgling drama Grey’s Anatomy (18.2 million, 8.1/20). CBS had a good night with 8 p.m. drama Cold Case (16.5 million, 3.7/10) building significantly on its 60 Minutes lead-in (12.4 million, 2.5/8).
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Mehcad Brooks is set to join the cast of ABC’s hit dramedy Desperate Housewives as a potential regular. On Touchstone TV’s Desperate Housewives, Brooks will play the son of Alfre Woodard’s character. The two will move into a house on Wisteria Lane. Brooks will make his debut on the show in the final two episodes of the season and will return next season as a recurring with an option to become a regular. Brooks recently wrapped the Walt Disney Co. feature Glory Road for producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The actor, whose credits also include a four-episode arc on Fox’s Boston Public.
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Having you been in Pretender fan fiction withdrawal? Yes, it may be hard with FanFiction.net and other sites putting up stories but don’t you miss all the fan fiction from The Pretender Fan Fiction Archive? Me too. I have great news…

There is a site up and running called “Missing Pieces”. They are currently (I’m helping) tracking down all the authors on the site to get permission to upload all their stories. A daunting task but so far pretty successful despite some trouble with old email address… want to help?

Do you know any of the authors from the old Pretender Fan Fiction Archive or maybe you are one? Email Mknzy

If you have stories to post, head over to the website. There is also a Yahoo Group by the same name.
Missing Pieces Site
Missing Pieces Yahoo Group