• The Museum of Television & Radio is to release a series of DVD of events it has hosted, according to a press release at Business Wire. A Desperate Housewives DVD features Marc Cherry, Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp), James Denton (Mike Delfino) and other castmembers.

• A press release at Yahoo! is touting a new Desperate Housewives fragrance. "We've seen a tremendous response to Desperate Housewives products made available to date, so extending the franchise into the world of fragrance makes perfect sense," said Bruce Gersh, senior vice president, business development, ABC Entertainment and Touchstone Television. "Given [perfume producer] Coty's outstanding track record in the fragrance market, the Desperate Housewives scent is guaranteed to be a hit with women everywhere, connecting them in a very personal way to this popular series," said Gersh. Coty for their part modestly said no other company is up to the job. "Only Coty, and our passionate team of experts, could capture the essence and attitude of the most distinctive, daring show on television today," said Bernd Beetz, CEO of Coty, Inc.

• Unions are angry with ABC, alleging that it is short-changing actors, writers and directors reported newKerela.com. The Screen Actors Guild, the Writers Guild of America West and the Directors Guild of America issued statements condemning the network's policy of paying its members the same residuals for episode sales on iTunes as it does for DVD sales.

• Desperate Housewives will return to India on March 5, according to Indiantelevision.com, and will air after Oprah Primetime and Rendezvous With Simi Garewal.

• SpoilerFix.com posted episode titles for episodes seventeen through to nineteen. They are "Could I Leave You?", "Everybody Says Don't" and "Don't Look at Me".

• MediaPost Publications has an article on the Dove webisodes which star Felicity Huffman. Dove is sponsoring a new AOL microsite, "Chief Everything Officers". It "is built around the concept that women today (and men) are faced with the need to constantly multitask, which requires resourcefulness to match any corporate CEO."

• JesseMetcalfe.net posted pictures of Jesse Metcalfe (John Rowland) at LA Confidential's Academy Awards Party and at the Desperate and Dateless Ball.

• The Official James Denton site posted pictures of the actor attending the 56th Annual ACE Eddie Awards and at a reading for Out At Short which was held to raise awareness for Cure Autism Now.

• Marcia Cross Fan recently celebrated one year on the 'net.

• Lesley Ann Warren (Sophie Mayer) has joined the cast of USA Network pilot In Plain Sight. According to a press release from the network at PR Newsire.

• The Brenda Strong Homepage linked all the Oscar nominess to Brenda Strong (Mary Alice Young) through six degrees of separation. As it seems to cover just films, the obvious first degree of separation—Felicity Huffman—actually ranks as two degrees of separation away from Strong connected by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

• Felicity Huffman will reportedly wear a $2m diamond necklace the Oscars, according to Platinum Today.

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