Desperate Housewives became a super hit. The viewer ratings were pouring in. Viewers outside the United States liked it even more. It was nominated for many awards. The awards it won included 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards, 6 Primetime Emmy Awards and 2 golden Globe Awards. Media was very much interested in the winning of the lead actresses of Desperate Housewives in leading role awards.
Felicity Thatcher won the Primetime Emmy Award while Teri hatcher won Golden Globe. Hatcher also won Screen guild. Wendy Mericle eventually didn’t receive any award. She was not at the steering wheel that time. But it gave her a lot of experience for working in a hit television series. There are many television series that are released every year. And there are more that are produced and don’t even see light of the day. So in every aspect it’s always better to be a part of something that was received by the viewers as good. After all our only focus is the audience. If the audience is happy from work then we are happy , said the happy Wendy Mericle.
Deperate House wives won the best tv series award in the category of musical or comedy in golden globe awards. Kathryn Joosten won the other primetime emmy award for her guest role. Charles McDougall won for his direction of the pilot. You can say everyone won award from desperate hosewives. It was a super hit drama. A drama like no one has ever seen. It was dubbed in several languages and released around the world and it gain acclaim there too. In Argentina it was released as Amas de Casa Desesperadas in the year 2006. It was also released in Colombia and Ecuador under the same title in 2007. Umutsuz Ev Kadınları is the Turkish version of desperate housewives and is airing since 20011. According to Nielsen Company Desperate Housewives had 723,000 viewers in 2008.
It was pirated by many people and become the 7th most pirated series. Wendy Mericle herself watched the show on television.