Desperate Housewives (Season 6) |
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ABC promotional poster for the sixth season of Desperate Housewives. From left to right: Bree, Gabrielle, Susan, Katherine, and Lynette.
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 23 |
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Original network | ABC |
Original release | September 27, 2009 | – May 16, 2010
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The sixth season of Desperate Housewives, a television series created by Marc Cherry, began airing on September 27, 2009 and concluded on May 16, 2010. The season consisted of 23 episodes. The deceased Mary Alice Young continues to narrate the events in the lives of her friends and Wisteria Lane residents, Susan Delfino, Lynette Scavo, Bree Hodge, Gabrielle Solis and Katherine Mayfair. Angie Bolen and her family are the focus of this season's mystery.
The sixth season of Desperate Housewives began on RTÉ Two in the Republic of Ireland on Tuesday, January 5, 2010. The sixth season also started airing at 10:00 PM on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on January 27, 2010, as well as on the Seven Network in Australia on February 1, 2010. It started airing at 9:00 PM on February 1, 2010 on OSN's Show Series in the Middle East. It also started airing in India on Star World from February 26, 2010 at 10 pm. In France, Season 6 began airing in the translated version on April 1, 2010 on Canal +.
The series saw lower ratings in the sixth season. In the first 12 episodes, the series attracted very similar viewership to the second half of the fifth season. But after the thirteenth episode of season six, "How About a Friendly Shrink?", the ratings declined heavily because of the competition with the 67th Golden Globe Awards. The series continued to lower numbers, with further competitions like the 2010 Grammy Awards, 2010 Winter Olympics, and the new CBS reality series Undercover Boss, which first aired after the Super Bowl XLIV, pulling impressive ratings. Desperate Housewives lost a lot of steam in the second half of its season, picking up some again in the final three episodes.