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It Takes Two (Desperate Housewives Episode)
The third season of the American dramedy-mystery television series ''Desperate Housewives'' commenced airing on ABC in the United States on September 24, 2006, and concluded on May 20, 2007. The season continues the story of the Wisteria Lane residents, describing their lives in the suburban neighborhood, while dealing with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge. Broadcast in the Sunday night timeslot at 9:00 ET, the season aired twenty-three regular episodes. In addition, two clip shows were produced for the season, in order to put the previous events of the show in perspective. " The Juciest Bites" aired before the seventeenth episode, detailing the events of the first three seasons, in order to introduce the new story arcs in the end of the season. " Secrets and Lies" was narrated by Brenda Strong and was the last clip show to be produced for the series, airing before the inception of the fourth season. The season received critical acclaim, most critics noting an improveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teri Hatcher
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an American actress best known for her portrayals of Lois Lane on the television series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'' (1993–1997); Paris Carver in the ''James Bond'' film ''Tomorrow Never Dies'' (1997); and Susan Mayer on the television series ''Desperate Housewives'' (2004–2012), for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy and three Screen Actors Guild Awards (one as lead female actor, two as part of Best Ensemble), and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Early life Hatcher was born on December 8, 1964, in Palo Alto, California, the only child of Esther (née Beshur), a computer programmer who worked for Lockheed Martin, and Owen Walker Hatcher, Jr., a nuclear physicist and electrical engineer. Her father is of English, Welsh, Irish and Choctaw descent, while her mother is of Syrian, Czech and Irish ancestry. Hatc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dress Big
The third season of the American dramedy-mystery television series ''Desperate Housewives'' commenced airing on ABC in the United States on September 24, 2006, and concluded on May 20, 2007. The season continues the story of the Wisteria Lane residents, describing their lives in the suburban neighborhood, while dealing with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge. Broadcast in the Sunday night timeslot at 9:00 ET, the season aired twenty-three regular episodes. In addition, two clip shows were produced for the season, in order to put the previous events of the show in perspective. " The Juciest Bites" aired before the seventeenth episode, detailing the events of the first three seasons, in order to introduce the new story arcs in the end of the season. " Secrets and Lies" was narrated by Brenda Strong and was the last clip show to be produced for the series, airing before the inception of the fourth season. The season received critical acclaim, most critics noting an improveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pardee
John Pardee is an American screenwriter and television producer, and was an executive producer for ''Desperate Housewives''. During the 1990s, Pardee wrote episodes of several television series, including the cartoon '' Doug''; the short-lived sitcoms '' Charlie Hoover'', '' Thunder Alley'', and '' The Crew''; and Cybill Shepherd's sitcom ''Cybill''. On ''The Crew'' and ''Cybill'' he also served as producer. When ''Desperate Housewives'' began in 2004, Pardee was one of the staff writers, and for the second year he was promoted to co-executive producer. Starting with the first episode of season four, he is now executive producer. Pardee mostly works with Joey Murphy. The two wrote the script to the upcoming remake of ''Mad Monster Party''. He is close friends with Christian McLaughlin and Valerie Ahern Valerie Ahern is an American television screenwriter and producer. She has written episodes for a number of television series since 1995 including ''The Young and the Restless' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. While in his twenties, Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. In 1978, Bush unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball before he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the nation. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Murphy (screenwriter)
Kevin Murphy is an American screenwriter, television producer, lyricist and composer. He wrote the book and lyrics of the musical ''Reefer Madness'', as well as its television adaptation. For television, he has worked as a writer and producer for many series, most notably ''Desperate Housewives''. He also wrote the stage musical '' Heathers: The Musical''. Television Murphy's television career began as a writer for the family sitcom ''Big Brother Jake''. He went on to write for the animated series ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'', '' Sabrina: The Animated Series'' and ''Phantom Investigators''; the science fiction-themed family programs '' Weird Science'', '' Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show'' and ''So Weird''; the action series ''Martial Law''; the romantic comedy-dramas '' Jack & Jill'' and '' Ed''; and the family dramas '' Get Real'' and ''The O'Keefes''. From its premiere in 2004 to 2007, he worked as head writer and co-executive producer for the hit comedy-drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Spezialy
Tom Spezialy is an American television producer, director and screen writer. In 2007, began serving as executive producer of ''Reaper''. Career Spezialy began his career in 1989 writing for the CBS television series '' Doctor Doctor''. He has also written and produced for ''Parker Lewis Can't Lose'', '' Weird Science'', ''The District'', ''That Was Then'', '' Jack & Jill'', '' Ed'', and ''Dead Like Me''. He has directed a few numbers of television series such as ''Reaper'' and '' Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show''. During the 2004–2005 television season, Spezialy became known as executive producer and writer for ''Desperate Housewives'', one of the season's best received premieres. Following the criticized second season of the show, "creative differences" arose between Spezialy and the series creator, Marc Cherry, and in May 2006 Spezialy announced that he was leaving the crew of ''Desperate Housewives''. As of spring 2011, Spezialy created and served as an executive produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Edelstein
Michael Edelstein (born February 20, 1968) began his career in episodic television working CBS Entertainment. There he worked on a number of series on the network’s primetime schedule such as CSI. He then went on to work for NBC Universal Together with Marc Cherry and Tom Spezialy, Edelstein was one of the original executive producers for Desperate Housewives. The show won two Golden Globes for best comedy series and other nominations. Edelstein has been executive producer for the thriller series Threat Matrix, and sitcom Hope & Faith ''Hope & Faith'' is an American television sitcom, starring Faith Ford and Kelly Ripa as Hope Shanowski and Faith Fairfield. Hope is a homemaker and mother of three and Faith is her sister, a soap opera star whose character is killed off, leadi ..., as well as telefilms ''Haunting Sarah'', and ''Him and Us''. Edelstein worked on the 2009 space drama, ''Defying Gravity,'' During his 7 years at NBC he worked with in-house production labels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images, Infographic, informational graphics, and inclusion of popular culture stories, among other distinct features. With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022, a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019, and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million, ''USA Today'' is ranked as the first by circulation on the list of newspapers in the United States. It has been shown to maintain a generally center-left audience, in regards to political persuasion. ''US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., doing business as Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, is the home entertainment distribution arm of The Walt Disney Company. The division handles the distribution of Disney's films, television series, and other audiovisual content across several home media formats, such as Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray discs, DVDs, and digital media, under various brand labels around the world. The division was legally incorporated as Buena Vista Home Video in March 1988. It was renamed to its current legal name in 1997. The division adopted the current Walt Disney Studios-branding in its public name in 2007, but retained the Buena Vista-branding within its legal corporate name. History Background Before Disney began releasing home video titles itself, it licensed some titles to MCA's DiscoVision label for their newly developed disc format, later called LaserDisc. Disney's agreement with MCA ended in December 1981. In 1980, Disney established its own ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Listen To The Rain On The Roof
"Listen to the Rain on the Roof" is the Desperate Housewives (season 3), third season premiere episode of the American comedy-drama series ''Desperate Housewives'', and the 48th episode overall. The episode premiered on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) on September 24, 2006. It was written by series creator Marc Cherry and series writer Jeff Greenstein, and was directed by Larry Shaw (director), Larry Shaw. The episode takes place six months after the events in the Desperate Housewives (season 2), second season. In the episode, Bree Van de Kamp, Bree (Marcia Cross) becomes engaged to Orson Hodge (Kyle MacLachlan), who is accused of murdering his missing wife by his former neighbor, Acquaintances of Bree Van de Kamp#Carolyn Bigsby, Carolyn Bigsby (Laurie Metcalf). Meanwhile, Gabrielle Solis, Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) deals with the ramifications of her impending divorce and Lynette Scavo, Lynette (Felicity Huffman) copes with her husband's illegitimate daughter and the girl's mot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bang (Desperate Housewives)
The third season of the American dramedy-mystery television series ''Desperate Housewives'' commenced airing on ABC in the United States on September 24, 2006, and concluded on May 20, 2007. The season continues the story of the Wisteria Lane residents, describing their lives in the suburban neighborhood, while dealing with the arrival of the mysterious Orson Hodge. Broadcast in the Sunday night timeslot at 9:00 ET, the season aired twenty-three regular episodes. In addition, two clip shows were produced for the season, in order to put the previous events of the show in perspective. " The Juciest Bites" aired before the seventeenth episode, detailing the events of the first three seasons, in order to introduce the new story arcs in the end of the season. " Secrets and Lies" was narrated by Brenda Strong and was the last clip show to be produced for the series, airing before the inception of the fourth season. The season received critical acclaim, most critics noting an improveme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
