• The WB's Charmed is to do a parody of Desperate Housewives called "Desperate Housewitches". The episode will feature The Young and the Restless star Michelle Stafford doing a send-up of Bree Van De Kamp.

• A website has placed a number of images online including pictures of Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp) and Nicolette Sheridan (Edie Britt) at the 7-Up Plus commercial promotion, and various castmembers at the Bronson Arroyo album party hosted by James Denton (Mike Delfino).

• Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis) will be attending The National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts' Noche de Gala dinner on September 13. Tickets are available for $1,250.

• Junie Lowry Johnson and Scott Genkinger have received two Artios nominations for their casting work on Desperate Housewives. Thanks to Desperate for Desperate Housewives for this!

• Redsox fan James Denton said he is trying to get his friends' movie made. "I've got a couple buddies of mine who wrote a baseball movie this year, and we're trying to get it produced," he said. "We're talking about trying to do that right now and talking to some friends of mine that I've met this year."

• ABC is continuing with its plan to advertise Desperate Housewives on dry-cleaning bags.

• There is a review online of a recent comedy perforamnce by Bob Newhart (Morty).

• Lexington residents will be receiving a new road in their town called Wisteria Lane.

• Desperate Housewives is mentioned in an analysis of the fall season, where the writer hedges his bets by saying that new comedies will either do well or won't do well.

• Ratings for the season finale of ABC's Brat Camp reached an all time low, earning just a 2.2. Nielsen rating in the 18–49 demographic.

• In an analysis of a bad summer for TV, the writer said there was little interest in repeats of Desperate Housewives and Lost.

• In a Q&A about TV, a TV correspondent said that ABC was the worst offender at running shows late and will continue to do so so that it can sell more advertising.

• TV writer Michael Feldman landed a pilot commitment from 20th Century Fox TV after sending out a spec script to producers in Hollywood. Variety is describing his success as "the Marc Cherry effect", after the success of the Desperate Housewives creator.

• There is a profile online of Kim Martin who has been growing the Women's Entertainment network, which did a live Desperate Housewives special following the season finale.

• More magazine cites Desperate Housewives as an example of how being over fourty is not a bad thing, in an article about the magazine.

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