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Last August you might have read Howard French's New York Times article on Chinese subtitle teams, which explains who these seemingly anonymous people, who offer Chinese viewers timely, subtitled versions of popular TV shows such as "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," and "Lost." The NYT article got a lot of attention from Chinese netizens as well as the media, for example in this recent Chinese article delves further into this subject and works as a good follow-up to French's article.

This unhealthy obsession with movies is going to stop soon ... but first, we just have to tell you what we just heard.

Supposedly the hit show managed a meager rating of 0.5 during its run on Chinese television late last month. Other shows had averaged ratings of 3.0 to 4.0 in the same spot. Some blamed the failure on the time slot, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. every night of the week. (Three episode blocks were shown until the entire first season aired.) Some blamed the editing Chinese censors did to the content. Others blamed the Chinese dubbing. But China Daily's Raymond Zhou said the reasons for Desperate's demise were cultural:

Desperate Housewives is coming to Chinese television -- for real, this time. We first brought you this news back in July when Shanghaiist was just a young pup. Then, in August, we gave you an update that said the hit TV show would hit Chinese airwaves in September ... and, yeah, that didn't happen. But, now, with only slight hesitation, we can say that Desperate Housewives, dubbed in Mandarin, will make its CCTV-8 debut on Monday. Guess they needed those extra three months to edit out all the naughty bits.

It's official: the women of Wisteria Lane are coming to China -- and with them the explicit exploits, controversial storylines and salacious gossip that has made Desperate Housewives such a runaway success worldwide. The show will premiere in September on CCTV-8, in the nightly segment "Everyday Jiayi" with two episodes screening per day.

Both local and international media are reporting that American television and pop-culture sensation Desperate Housewives might be headed for Chinese television, with episodes dubbed in Mandarin airing by the end of the year. All 23 first-season episodes would air on CCTV-8's "Overseas Theater" timeslot, two episodes a day, according to the Shanghai Daily.