Best selling television drama
- Who
- Desperate Housewives
- Where
- Not Applicable
- When
- 19 December 2005
When Desperate Housewives (ABC, USA) debuted in China on 19 December 2005, it established itself as the world's most licensed TV drama. The agreement to air the show on the state-run TV channel CCTV8 brought the number of territories in which the show is licensed to 203. The series ranked as No.1 in 2005 in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Italy, Singapore, South Africa and Germany, and was the most watched new drama in Australia's history.