Desperate Housewives Season 8

The eighth and final season of [[Desperate Housewives]], a television series created by [[Marc Cherry]], began broadcasting in the [[United States]] on September 25, 2011 and concluded on May 13, 2012. The season was promoted as "Kiss Them Goodbye." The series finale, was the most watched series finale of the 2011-2012 Television Season beating Fox's House, which also premiered 2004.Desperate Housewives was renewed for an eighth season by [[ABC]] on May 17, 2011. The deceased character [[Mary Alice Young]] continues to narrate the events in the lives of her friends and [[Wisteria Lane]] residents, [[Susan Delfino]], [[Lynette Scavo]], [[Bree Van de Kamp]] and [[Gabrielle Solis]]. This season's mystery sees the housewives deal with covering up the murder of Gabrielle's stepfather, [[Alejandro Perez]], from the [[previous season]]'s [[finale]].The final season began airing in the [[Middle East]] on October 3, 2011 on [[OSN First]] and in [[Latin America]] on October 6, 2011. It began airing in the [[United Kingdom]] on Sunday January 8, 2012 on E4 and Tuesday, January 10, 2012 in Channel 4, and also began airing in [[Ireland]] on [[RTÉ Two]] on Tuesday, January 3, 2012; in [[Greece]] on [[FOXlife]] on Monday, January 16, 2012; in [[Austria]] on Monday, January 2, 2012 on ORF; in [[Germany]] on Wednesday, January 4, 2012; in [[Australia]] on Thursday, February 2, 2012 and in [[France]] on Thursday, April 12, 2012.The first day of shooting for the series finale occurred on April 16, 2012. and the final day of shooting was on April 26, 2012.