Teri Hatcher and her Desperate Housewives co-stars have posed up - and been retouched - for yet more promotional shots ahead of the upcoming series return.

Their first red hot photo shoot, which featured all five stars strutting out of a blaze of flames, has this time been replaced by a more smouldering look.

Teri Hatcher in the latest promotional shoot for her hit show

Hatcher, doing her best to channel her a domestic goddess, is pictured in a thigh-baring hot pink dressing gown, while Marcia Cross, Nicollette Sheridan, Eva Longoria and Felicity Huffman opted for figure hugging frocks.

Felicity Huffman wigs out while Nicollette Sheridan asks who's the fairest of them all

The creator Marc Cherry says there are a number of surprises in store when the show returns for its fourth season.

He told the Orlando Sentinel: "There will be an appearance by Miss Sheridan in our first episode, and it will be amazing."

Sheridan's character Edie Brit appeared to kill herself in the cliff-hanger final episode of season three.