Global InformationDesperate Housewives season 6 information
| Desperate Housewives | |
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| Season 6 | |
 ABC promotional poster for the sixth season of Desperate Housewives. From left to right: Bree, Gabrielle, Susan, Katherine, and Lynette. | |
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| 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.[1] The season consists 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.[2][3] It started airing at 9:00 pm on February 1, 2010, on OSN's Show Series in the Middle East.[4] It also started airing in India on Star World from February 26, 2010, at 10 pm.[5] 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; however, the ratings declined heavily after the thirteenth episode, "How About a Friendly Shrink?", due to 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 much steam in the second half of its season, picking up some again in the final three episodes.
Nonetheless, the show got a spot in the twenty most watched series in the 2009–2010 television season, at number twenty, averaging 12.82 million viewers (tenth, in scripted shows).[6] When adding DVR figures, the show ranked at thirteenth place (seventh, among scripted shows) with 14.13 million viewers.[7][8] The sixth season ranked fourteenth in the important, advertiser-coveted 18–49 age group, with a 4.2 rating, sixth highest with scripted shows. After including DVR playback (Live+7 days), the season average number increased to a 5.0 rating, placing eighth, in terms of scripted shows.[9][10]
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- ^ Gorman, Bill (June 18, 2010). "Final 2009-10 Broadcast Primetime Show Live+7 DVR Ratings". TV By the Numbers. Archived from the original on October 15, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.