DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES - Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young. It's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated POV. Her husband's acting suspicious, the neighbors are talking, and her girlfriends are wondering why one of their own would do something so rash- and so messy. From her unique vantage point, Mary Alice sees more now than she ever did alive and she's planning to share all the delicious secrets that hide behind every neighbor's closed door in this seemingly perfect American suburb. The writer of "Melrose Place" and "General Hospital" (Executive Producer Charles Pratt Jr.) has helped create a primetime soap with a truly contemporary take on happily ever after. (ABC/RON TOM) SHAWN PYFROM, STEVEN CULP, JOY LAUREN