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Nothing makes a public service announcement like a star-studded cast. Yet, good acting can mask lack of understanding, turning some into public disservice ads. Just consider this new one featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Felicity Huffman, Jason Bateman, Ed Norton, Chace Crawford and a number of other celebrities:

Felicity Huffman has rejected claims that Desperate Housewives is becoming repetitive.

Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, the 47-year-old actress – Lynette Scavo on the ABC series – claimed that the show has “new energy” in its current sixth season.

“So far it has not repeated,” she said. “The format is similar – you know, you go dun-dun-dun and the mystery. But I don’t think we can make a decision as to whether it’s just ploughing the same old ground again.

“My character, that’s new energy. There are places where I feel like possibly we’re spinning our wheels at a table-read and then when it actually gets down to shooting, the writers have fixed it.”

She added: “But you can’t get away from the fact that it’s the same people, we live on the same street and you’re now with them for six years. So it’s not like a Martian is going to come down!”

Desperate Housewives continues Sundays at 9pm on ABC in the US and Wednesdays at 10pm on Channel 4 in the UK.

‘Desperate Housewives’ actress Felicity Huffman has said that she misses her former co-star Nicollette Sheridan on set.

Speaking to Digital Spy, the actress, who plays Lynette Scavo in the show, said: “Gosh, well, I miss Nicollette – she was cool.”

“She’s just a really wonderful woman and a cool chick and I think what she brought to the show was a certain vinegar, a certain little spice.”

“They’re going to have to find that kind of thing elsewhere in a different form.”

Sheridan’s character Edie left the show last season.

It’s Christmas on Wisteria Lane but it’s not Santa who’s flying in. A plane crash destroys the holiday cheer — and somebody is going to die. ET’s Kevin Frazier is on the set with “Desperate Housewives” stars Eva Longoria Parker and Felicity Huffman to try to sleuth out who does not survive.

“They actually have a plane flying in and they’re going to wreck it,” Felicity tells Kevin. “I mean, it’s not going to be the ‘War of the Worlds,’ but it’ll be devastating nonetheless.”

Felicity adds that her first thought was she hoped she wasn’t under the plane, and Eva points out, “Everybody’s always on pins and needles on the mid-season episode, which this is, and the season finale because there’s always a death.”

So who will it be?

“Somebody is dying — somebody dear to our hearts. Somebody a lot of people have a crush on,” is all that Felicity will say.

“We have a list going in the makeup trailer of all the deaths [on the show] and it’s just pages and pages,” Eva says. “Even the dog. There’s a dog that died.”

The day that ET was on the set, Lynette (Huffman) puts her unborn babies’ lives in jeopardy as she runs to save one of Gaby’s (Parker) daughters, so it is possible that there is more than one casualty of the plane crash?

One person who is going to survive for sure is Gaby, as Eva reveals info on how her character changes after the crash: “Obviously, she reevaluates her friendships, specifically with Lynette and her kids. She’s going to have some fun stuff coming up with her kids. She’s always trying to define motherhood. For her it’s a hard job. I like the way she handles it with comedy, but I think she’s going to take a new approach to it.”

“Desperate Housewives airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on ABC.