'Housewives' questions have answers

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 3 (UPI) -- The fourth-season finale of "Desperate Housewives" may have left some U.S. fans puzzled but producers say the new season will answer a lot of questions.

Executive producers Bob Daily and Sabrina Wind told the Boston Herald they're hoping viewers approach the Sept. 28 season premiere with an open mind about the much-hyped flash forward that brought the show's fourth season to a close.

"The jump will seem odd in the first episode, but at the end of the episode, people will be on board with it," Daily told the newspaper.

"The jump doesn't change the characters as who you know them to be, even if they are in different circumstances," Wind said. "It will be still the same great 'Desperate Housewives' stories."

The fifth-season storyline will put Susan (Teri Hatcher) through the biggest "psychological" change," Daily said.

"She's gone from the woman who wants the fairy-tale romance to the woman who has given up on fairy-tale romances," he said, "and is now in a relationship with a guy who wants more of a relationship than she's looking to get."

"There are tragic circumstances that bring Susan to where she is," Wind told the Herald.