Umutsuz Ev Kadınları

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları, is a Turkish comedy drama TV series, based on the American comedy drama TV series Desperate Housewives.[1]

Umutsuz Ev Kadınları
Starring	Songül Öden Bennu Yıldırımlar Ceyda Düvenci Deniz Uğur Özge Özder Evrim Solmaz
Theme music composer	Ayşe Önder Ümit Önder
Country of origin	Turkey
Original language(s)	Turkish
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	154
Production
Production location(s)	Istanbul, Turkey
Running time	90 min. (1-54) 45 min. (55-80) 60/70 min. (81-154)
Production company(s)	Med Yapım
Release
Original network	Kanal D (2011-2013) FOX (2013-2014)
Original release	October 2, 2011 (2011-10-02) – June 19, 2014 (2014-06-19)

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired (Turkey)
			Season premiere	Season finale
	1	37	October 2, 2011	June 17, 2012
	2	43	October 11, 2012	June 16, 2013
	3	74	September 7, 2013	June 19, 2014

International broadcasts

Country	Network	Premiere date	Original Name
Turkey	Kanal D (1-2) FOX (2-3)	October 2, 2011	Umutsuz Ev Kadınları
Northern Cyprus
Arab World	MBC	January 13, 2012	نساء حائرات
North Macedonia	Kanal 5	April 28, 2012	Очајни домаќинки
Bulgaria	NTV	June 4, 2012	Другите отчаяни съпруги
Albania	TV Klan	30 November, 2014	Shtëpiake të dëshpëruara
Serbia	Prva Srpska TV	January 20, 2014	Domaćice sa Bosfora
Montenegro	Prva TV	February, 2014
Greece	Star Channel	July 14, 2014	Γυναίκες σε απόγνωση

Differences from the Original Series

• Andrew isn't gay.
• Katherine is not a lesbian and doesn't leave the street with Robin.
• Susan doesn't move out from Wisteria Lane in the 6th season.
• Eddie doesn't kill his mother or move in with Lynette.
• Julie doesn't become pregnant.
• Edie doesn't have a son.
• Mike isn't a plumber, he is an electric engineer.
• Bree never becomes an alcoholic.
• Orson doesn't hit Chuck with a car.
• Yasemin's house doesn't have a gas explosion in the 1st season, its windows are smashed.
• No plane falls onto the street.
• Bree's house doesn't get damaged from a tornado, it is damaged by a gas explosion. Sylvia blew up the kitchen to kill herself.
• Karen McCluskey's house doesn't get demolished by a tornado.
• Gabrielle is acted by two actresses, firstly (1-80) Evrim Solmaz, then (80-154) Deniz Uğur.
• There is not as much sexual content as in the original series.
• Karl doesn't die, but he doesn't appear after the 2nd season. In the rest of the seasons Karl is changed with Julie's uncle Ejder.
• Bree and Karl don't get together.
• Susan doesn't do cleaning in front of a webcam in lingerie.
• Edie doesn't die, Özge Özder continued to act as Renee Perry from 124th episode until final.
• Karl doesn't buy a house for Susan after hers burnt down, he rents one.
• Susan doesn't stay in a caravan after her house burnt down.
• Susan doesn't write a children's novels, she is a tailor.
• Susan and Karl don't have sex in the 2nd season. Karl comes to Susan's house drunk and vomits so she has to take him into her house.
• Victor Lang doesn't die in the tornado, he's shot by Wayne.
• Carlos doesn't become blind from getting hit in the head with a flying object, he becomes blind from being shot in the head by Victor.
• Beth doesn't commit suicide with a gunshot, she cuts herself in Susan's bathroom.
• 4362 Wisteria Lane, Edie and Renee's house, is replaced with three houses. In the 1st episode it was a first-floor, single-story apartment flat. After a fire it's replaced with another apartment flat in the street. In the 3rd season it's replaced with a blue, two-story house.
• Mary Alice's house doesn't include a pool. The pool is replaced with a tree.
• There isn't a character for Ida Greenberg.
• Alejandro isn't Gabrielle's stepfather, he's her ex-husband who beat her during their marriage.
• Susan doesn't get locked out naked, she was in her bathrobe.
• Susan doesn't have a relationship with anyone when Mike is in a coma.

References

1. "Desperate Housewives'ın yerli versiyonu Umutsuz Ev Kadınları başlıyor". demirkulak.com. 10 September 2011. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2013.