Desperate to keep Paradise afloat, Secondo asks Pascal for a loan.

Desperate to keep Enos safe from possible harm, Fry instead brings about his death by leaving him in a house located in the middle of a nuclear weapon testing range.

Desperate to keep the assault going, the German High Command ordered that a renewed attack begin on 1 January 1945.

Desperate to keep the final secrets of the weapon from the enemy, Spade coated a playing card with his newest creation, a combination of acid and poison, and flung it into O ' Toole's throat.

Desperate to keep his job, Sagamore realizes that Kabir is responsible for Epifania's erratic behavior and goes to see the doctor.

Desperate to keep Trulli behind, Webber braked very late for the corner, and locked his front-right brake.

Desperate to keep the baby, Susan attempts to fight Chloe for custody, but is forced to reconsider when the judge warns her that she would lose.

Desperate to hold on to Hart, Dinah finally revealed the lengths she had gone to keep him – taking Vanessa's pills, which almost killed her, and starting the fire that scarred her.

Desperate to protect his daughter, Phillip urged her to keep quiet while he took care of everything.

* On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Nick posted another demo the band had written before their breakup called " Desperate " and also a blog entitled " Hey guys, Nick here " inside the blog it said:

Desperate for some cash, Reggie agrees but is cheated out of the money by Chaffinch, who takes the money and runs off to New York.

Desperate for a solution to her problem Carla agrees to participate in a complicated study carried out by parapsychologists at a local university.

Desperate for another chance at Olympic glory, Doug agrees to work as Kate's partner, even though he has a macho contempt for figure skating.

Nicole Parker portrayed Susan in a Desperate Housewives parody on an episode of MADtv.

* Toby, a fictional cat on the ABC prime time drama Desperate Housewives, is a British Shorthair.

* The last few minutes of the Season 4 finale and Season 5 of Desperate Housewives is set in this year.

* Katherine Mayfair is a character in the television show " Desperate Housewives "

Desperate to make her believe him that he will return, at the last minute, Elliot invites Paula to go with him while he is filming the picture and suggests Lucy stay with a friend until they return.

The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Millais is played by Samuel Barnett.

The first, The Love School, was broadcast in 1975 ; the second is the 2009 BBC television drama serial Desperate Romantics by Peter Bowker.

Although much of the latter's material is derived from Franny Moyle's factual book Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites, the series occasionally departs from established facts in favour of dramatic licence and is prefaced by the disclaimer: " In the mid-19th century, a group of young men challenged the art establishment of the day.

The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Hunt is played by Rafe Spall.

According to a quote on the agency's website, Patrick's goal " is to help girls ( and guys ) in the business to be treated with respect, and realize their true potential ...." She also owns a production company called " Teravision ," which along with Vivid Video released its first feature, " Desperate ," starring Patrick and Seinfeld.

It has been featured as a plot device in numerous TV shows, including The Secret Life of the American Teenager, Skins, Hall Pass, Grounded for Life, (" Henry's Working for the Drug Squad "), Arrested Development (" Afternoon Delight "), Taxi, Laverne & Shirley, Barney Miller, Frasier, Family Guy, American Dad !, How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Glee, Gilmore Girls, The Young And The Restless, Weeds, The L Word, Degrassi: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, I Love Keith Allen, 90210, Swingtown, The Big Bang Theory and Frasier (" High Holidays "), as well as in movies such as Love and Other Disasters, EuroTrip, Next Friday, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Never Been Kissed, Adventureland, Grandma's Boy, Can't Hardly Wait, Life as We Know It, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Empire Records.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

RÚV – which by the terms of its charter is obliged to " promote the Icelandic language, Icelandic history, and Iceland's cultural heritage " and " honour basic democratic rules, human rights, and the freedom of speech and opinion " – carries a substantial amount of arts, media, and current affairs programming, in addition to which it also supplies general entertainment in the form of feature films and such internationally popular television drama series as Lost and Desperate Housewives.

These include Self-Portrait with Black Dog ( c. 1842 – 1844, accepted for exhibition at the 1844 Paris Salon ), the theatrical Self-Portrait which is also known as Desperate Man ( c. 1843 – 45 ), Lovers in the Countryside ( 1844, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon ), The Sculptor ( 1845 ), The Wounded Man ( 1844 – 1854, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ), The Cellist, Self-Portrait ( 1847, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, shown at the 1848 Salon ), and The Man with a Pipe ( c. 1848 – 1849, Musée d ' Orsay, Paris ).

Robbie is drawn by Desperate Dan artist Ken H. Harrison, and his clean drawing style immediately cemented the strips ' popularity.

She is perhaps most widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, and has also had series television roles as Carolyn Bigsby on Desperate Housewives and Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory.

* On the television show Desperate Housewives, the suburb of Fairview, where Wisteria Lane and the residents of Desperate Housewives can be found, is a gated community.

Desperate to find a way to get back into the local party's good graces quickly, Alan takes the advice of Norman, now ready for his final sex-change operation and going by the name of " Norma ," to cozy up to the owner of an American fast food chain, Lamb Burger Guzzler, which is planning to open 200 stores throughout Britain and will be locating its factory in either Haltemprice or Wales.

Disney's former non-Disney branded television division Touchstone Television Productions, LLC ( formerly known as Touchstone Pictures and Television an alternate version of Walt Disney Pictures and Television and later Touchstone Television ) is known for being the production company of the series The Golden Girls, Blossom, Boy Meets World ( all three began before Disney's ABC acquisition ), My Wife and Kids, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Scrubs.

Desperate for money, Dirk resorts to prostitution, but he is assaulted and robbed by a gang of thugs.

In 2009, he was cast in the recurring role of Roy Bender, a steak salesman, who is Karen McCluskey's love interest on the ABC series Desperate Housewives.

Desperate for money to pay them off, Alwa cheats at cards, but is caught at it.

Despite not having quite as many appearances as other DC Thomson characters such as Dennis the Menace or Desperate Dan, Beryl is still considered one of the classic characters which define the popularity of British comics.

Produced, directed, written, photographed and edited by Araki ( for his own Desperate Pictures Company ), this very small-scale Big Chill derivation involved a group of recent college graduates brooding over their futures during one woozy, boozy evening.

However, they were not on the cover for very long and Desperate Dan had been restored to the cover by the end of 2000.

Having successfully promoted and sold records by punk, very early Indie Pop and early post punk bands such as Buzzcocks, The Smiths and Desperate Bicycles, Travis began to manage acts and distribute bands such as Scritti Politti and began the label, which was informed by left-wing politics and structured as a co-operative.

This sounds like the Desperate Bicycles, and is a very simple, but effective protest song about a subject that should be dear to your hearts.

Music video director Darren Lynn Bousman had just completed a script for his first film The Desperate, and was trying to sell it to studios but was getting reactions that the script was very similar to Saw.