Four added to 'Housewives' cast

Four new cast additions have been announced for the fifth season of Desperate Housewives.

The next run will begin five years after the events of the previous season, meaning the four children of Tom and Lynette Scavo (Doug Savant and Felicity Huffman) have been recast.

Now teenagers, eldest son Parker and twins Porter and Preston will be played by Joshua Moore and Charles and Max Carver.

Kendall Applegate has been cast as Scavo daughter Penny, the youngest in the family aged about eight.