Hollywood bible Variety predicts Desperate Housewives and ABC will receive continued success on Sundays.

In an article taking a look at the Sunday schedules, Variety said that Desperate Housewives will continue to dominate its timeslot. Fox will be running Family Guy and American Dad against the show, while CBS is going for a number of telemovies including Time Bomb. NBC will be sending Law & Order: Criminal Intent to battle (which now has The West Wing as its lead in), while the (which with its female-geared audience will probably be most hurt from Desperate Housewives) will be airing Blue Collar TV.

Variety also took a look at ratings performances from last season. The only network to beat ABC's Sunday ratings was CBS with its Thursday schedule, which is when it airs the only fictional show to beat Housewives in the ratings—the mammoth CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. In the coveted 18–49 demographic, Desperate Housewives was third for the season, only behind two editions of American Idol.

Meanwhile, trends profiling company Trendum has predicted that ABC's new show Invasion will do well, reported Mediaweek. Ranking it fifth in a measurement of online buzz about new shows, the company profiles conversations on websites across the internet and uses the amount of "buzz" to profile which shows are receiving attention and could do well. It is says that NBC's Apprentice: Martha Stewart is receiving most attention.

Scanning about 1.2m messages a week, last year it predicted that Lost and Desperate Housewives would do well and both shows went on to be ABC's biggest new hits. But talk isn't everything. While it ranked Lost second, it ranked Joey first and that show did not prove to be a massive hit like Friends

The original Variety article can be found here, and Mediaweek's article on Trendrum can be found here.

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