Marcia Cross
Desperate Housewives wraps its eight-season run on Sunday, May 13 (9/8c on ABC) and what a long, strange trip it's been for the ladies of Wisteria Lane! As we prepare to kiss our favorite harried housewives goodbye, TVGuide.com takes a look back at each of the four protagonists' biggest triumphs, greatest downfalls and all the juicy hookups, makeups and breakups in between.
Check back every day this week for our takes on the other Housewives' wild rides.
Name: Bree Van de Kamp (formerly Hodge)
Known For: Perfect manners, conservative values, cooking skills, firearms skills, alcoholism
Marriages: Rex Van de Kamp (widowed), Orson Hodge (divorced)
Children: Andrew and Danielle (one additional faked pregnancy, to cover for...
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Ed Begley Jr., Chris Vance, Chazz Palminteri
You'll see a couple new faces on Rizzoli & Isles next season — and lots of familiar ones as well. Chazz Palminteri, Ed Begley Jr. and Chris Vance are among the stars returning to the TNT drama for Season 3, TVGuide.com has learned.
Rizzoli & Isles boss on season finale: I wanted to leave them at odds
Palminteri, who plays ...
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Sharon Lawrence
Meet Maura's mom!
NYPD Blue alum Sharon Lawrence will guest-star on Rizzoli & Isles as Maura's biological mother, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
VIDEO: Rizzoli & Isles' Sasha Alexander: The rift can "deepen" Jane and Maura's relationship
Lawrence will appear in two episodes ...
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Kadee Strickland and Kate Walsh
The guest stars and events that the networks have planned for the first week of November sweeps:
Monday, Nov. 1
7:30/6:30c
World Series Game 5: San Francisco Giants at Texas Rangers (Fox)
8/7c
90210 (CW)
Ryan encourages Naomi to press charges against Mr. Cannon, which she should do, if only to help out Silver, who totally took a bullet for her, so to speak.
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It's Halloween in Tree Hill, and Quinn can't distinguish between her nightmares and reality. In her dreams, Clay and psycho Sarah are zombies, and Brooke goes all Lara Croft trying to save her. Although she can wake up from this nightmare, in reality she's still terrified from the shooting.
Brooke answers her front door and immediately gives the woman outside of it an attitude. Unbeknownst to her, it's Julian's mom, Sylvia (guest star Sharon Lawrence). The three of them go out for lunch and although Sylvia thinks Brooke is a bit high maintenance, she says that she's there to pay for their wedding in full...
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Brooke Elliott, Paula Abdul
In the Season 1 finale of Drop Dead Diva, Jane (Brooke Elliott) was finally beginning to get a grip on her new life and new body. But the arrival of Jane's secret husband Ethan (Devon Gummersall) threw her into quite a tailspin. To make matters worse, Jane's on the cusp of being disbarred for breaching client-attorney confidentiality.
VIDEO: Catching up with Jane
So where do things pick up for the attorney at the start of Season 2 (premiering Sunday at 9/8c on Lifetime)? A love triangle, of course! "There's lots going on for Jane in the love world," Elliott says.
And let us not forget the return of Paula Abdul. Wearing her bedazzled judge's robe, Abdul appears in Jane's dream sequence and the two break it down in a food court.
Elliott also tells us about the bevy of guest stars fans can expect to make an appearance this season, including ...
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Sara Fletcher
Kristin Kreuk has been un-Hitched.
The Smallville star, who recently appeared on Chuck, was set to headline Josh Schwartz's romantic comedy pilot Hitched on CBS, but was replaced at the last minute by...
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Sharon Lawrence
Sharon Lawrence has joined Josh Schwartz's CBS sitcom pilot Hitched, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The ensemble comedy revolves around newlyweds Rachel (Kristin Kreuk) and Brett (Jack Carpenter), who must deal with their family and friends. Lawrence, 48, will play ...
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Sharon Lawrence has Izzie in a tizzy.
This week on ABC's Grey's Anatomy (Thursday, 9 pm/ET), as if cancer-stricken Izzie didn't have enough to contend with, her mother, Robbie, makes tracks from the trailer park to Seattle Grace — and unannounced, at that. NYPD Blue alumna Sharon Lawrence shared a look at her, um, "colorful" guest-starring turn.
TVGuide.com: I want to start off by saying that I for one did not buy you as someone old enough to be Katherine Heigl's mother.
Sharon Lawrence: [Laughs] Well, think about it the way I did when they offered me the role. Like Izzie, she got knocked up when she was 16! Like mother, like daughter — there's absolute legitimacy in that.
TVGuide.com: Plus, Robbie doesn't fancy herself as being old enough either.
Lawrence: Well, no, she's an eternal child down deep ... and right there on the surface too!
TVGuide.com: Is Izzie happy to get this surprise visit from her mom?
Lawrence: No, she has no idea that ...
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Katherine Heigl, Sharon Lawrence
On the heels of Tyne Daly paying Seattle a visit as Derek's mother, Grey's Anatomy fans are about to meet another main character's mom.
Sharon Lawrence, who is best known for her run on NYPD Blue and who most recently played parent to Privileged's JoAnna Garcia, has been tapped to guest-star as ...
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