Yet unlike many long-running dramas, its producers can't be accused of jumping the shark – because the pilot episode opened suspended in mid-air over the shark, and never landed. Desperate Housewives has been losing viewers faster than Bree Van de Kamp mislays husbands, and ABC has announced the upcoming series eight will be the Housewives' last hurrah. After seven series, the 'for sale' signs are finally going up on Wisteria Lane.
