Now You Know (Desperate Housewives) Now You Know (Desperate Housewives) "Now You Know" is the fourth season premiere episode of the American comedy-drama series, "Desperate Housewives", and the 71st episode overall. The episode premiered on American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 30, 2007. It was written by series creator Marc Cherry and directed by Larry Shaw. In the episode, Susan (Teri Hatcher) learns that she is expecting a child while Bree (Marcia Cross) continues to fake her own pregnancy. Gabrielle (Eva Longoria) begins an affair with her ex-husband, Carlos (Ricardo Antonio Chavira) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) tries to conceal her cancer from her friends and
Pilot (Desperate Housewives) series "Wisteria Lane" or "The Secret Lives of Housewives", but Cherry insisted on keeping the original title. He later commented, "I put 'desperate' [into the title] to try to indicate, however subtly ... I'm going to have some fun with the imagery, to take it to some interesting places. Most critics got the joke. Some people see the word 'housewives' and it pushes a button in them and they seem to lose all reason." The project was officially announced on October 23, 2003 as a cross between "American Beauty" and "Knots Landing". While "Desperate Housewives", along with fellow new series