We all know sex sells. But the producers of Desperate Housewives and Nip/Tuck apparently think same-sex sex will sell even more. Both shows are bringing homosexual relationships into main plot points this season.

Don't worry, Nip/Tuck hasn't leaked any info about seeing Rosie O'Donnell engaged in any steamy sex romps with an on-camera girlfriend (though I'm sure Donald Trump would looove that). No, word has it that Ellen Degeneres's real-life lover Portia de Rossi gets Julia McNamara (Joely Richardson) to switch teams. Steamy sex romps ensue. Cue the male audience right about... now.

Over on Wisteria Lane, the first gay couple is moving on in. Tuc Watkins, from One Life to Live, and Kevin Rahm, of Judging Amy, have been cast as new kids on the block Bob and Lee. According to TV Guide, Lee is the bitchy half of the couple. The DH gay twist might work, but I bet ratings would be even higher if Bree (Marcia Cross) turned lesbian on us.

What do you think about these plot twists? Will they deliver the ratings the networks are hoping for? Or is the idea just too played out at this point? Anything you want to say to the producers of these shows?

This just in: Nip/Tuck star Joely Richardson has quit the hit drama to return to England take care of her ailing teenage daughter.

That's Not A Wrap: TV Guide is reporting the Aaron Sorkin drama Studio 60 on The Sunset Strip got a full season pick-up. So much for all the speculation it was about to get cancelled.

American Idol News: One of last season’s finalists has been given the green light for her own TV show. According to Variety , Kellie Pickler will play a “naive small-town Southern girl who discovers that her biological father is the state's well-respected governor. His presidential dreams are put in jeopardy, but the two form a father-daughter relationship that winds up helping his standing in the polls.” The script is being written by my friends and former That 70’s Show colleagues Chris and Bryan. They rule.

Calling all you Nip/Tuck fans. If you’re insanely obsessed with the show like I know many of you are, now’s your chance to win a walk-on role and maybe get a tummy tuck from the boys in Miami Beach. I wouldn't mind Christian or Sean caressing my belly any day of the week. Yum!

The show’s producers are auctioning off a walk-on role on E-bay which includes flight and hotel accommodations and travel to and from the set, fancy. Who knows where this role could lead, after Rosie O’Donnell appeared on the show, she got her own nip/tuck spin off, maybe that will happen to you. Bid on Nip/Tuck walk on role here.

Sucks to be Star Jones even more than usual because everything is coming up Rosie. First Rosie O'Donnell comes out of her self-imposed hiatus to be on The View which I'm loving her on, then she appears on Nip/Tuck to rave reviews, now she's getting her own spin-off based on her Nip/Tuck character, Dawn Budge. Star could learn a thing or two about a career in entertainment from Rosie O!

Rosie has now confirmed on her website that she has agreed to be in the spin off playing the same character, Dawn, "an embittered lottery winner to pays Julian McMahon’s character $100,000 to service her."

My only concern is watching a show with a lottery winner. Remember when Roseanne's family won the lottery on Roseanne, that was when I stopped watching the show. But I totally trust the Nip/Tuck crew and I have faith they will do a kick-ass job with our beloved Rosie.

Ryan Murphy, creator, producer and writer of the awesome Nip/Tuck was recently interviewed about the future of the FX hit drama. Sounds like his show could be getting a face-lift because Ryan might be too busy with a number of upcoming TV and film projects to have time to scrub in for future plastic surgery. He’s currently working with Nicole Kidman who is a huge fan of Nip/Tuck and even asked to be cast in the show.

"Nicole I'm doing this movie with and she said, 'Will you please write me something on Nip/Tuck? I've never missed an episode.' I said, 'Are you kidding?' and then I thought I'm going to bring back that Virginia Wolff appliance if it kills me."

I understand Rosie O'Donnell wanting to go under the knife, but Nicole Kidman? If she is cast as a woman who's unhappy with her looks, there is no hope for me at all.

This week on Nip/Tuck, money takes center stage when blackmail, bribery and prostitution darken sunny Miami Beach, causing families and lives to unravel. Even guest star Rosie O'Donnell gets in on the action -- and the heartbreak. The only ones seemingly immune to the perilous call of the greenback: the Scientologists, who, believe it or not, may be the only ones of the bunch who have their heads on straight.

This week on Nip/Tuck, temptation reigns. The show opens with Christian denying himself a luscious-looking piece… of chocolate cake, and Sean admitting to him that he wants to see Monica -- the naughty nanny he and Julia thankfully didn't hire. Christian, a master of contradictions, comments that some men can't handle temptation (meaning Sean) and others can (meaning him). Of course, it's less than an hour before that statement bites him in the butt.

This week on Nip/Tuck Christian, true to character, embraces his vanity -- and a firm fanny -- while Sean gives in to his dark side. Liz, meanwhile, gets in trouble for revealing the new boss's secret.

With the amount of time these docs have spent with shrinks (see Brooke Shields, Sean's midlife-crisis therapist from way back, the two staff psychologists from last season -- the squeamish Dr. Pendleton and Grace "Doctors Can't Keep Their Hands Off Me" Santiago), you'd think they'd know projection isn't the best way to deal with your problems. Alas, this week Christian and Sean both try to save themselves by "saving" someone else -- with disastrous results.

According to TMZ.com, Alannis Morrisette has been cast as a gay love interest for Dr. Liz Cruz on this season’s Nip/Tuck. She joins an illustrious list of guest cast for the show's fourth season including: Peter Dinklage, Melissa Gilbert (Aw, Half Pint), Larry Hagman, Rosie O'Donnell and Brooke Shields. Out of that list I’m most psyched to see Alanis, although, Little House on the Prairie’s Melissa Gilbert is a close second.

Who are you most psyched to see get sliced and diced this year?

It's the sex episode. Oh, wait, for Christian that's every episode, isn't it? In the season-four premiere, Sean and Julia get into the act -- or try to at any rate.

The episode opens with Sean and Christian's 5,000th surgery. To celebrate, Sean goes home to Julia, and a comical sex scene ensues in which Sean and Julia contort to try to fit Julia's six-month pregnant belly into lovemaking. Cut to Christian, who, as usual, takes "having a family" in a slightly different light than his old friends, as he deftly maneuvers with, around and inside a mom and daughter in an attempt to, ahem, penetrate the loneliness he's felt since Kimber left.

Two former megastars -- Brooke Shields and Larry Hagman (J.R.!) -- make appearances. Brooke plays Christian's shrink, who, aside from ending up on top of her desk instead of behind it (surprise, surprise), does offer some interesting insights, including that Christian may have no room in his heart for the love of a good woman, because he's in love with a good man: Sean. This leads Christian to treat Sean like he has body lice, as well as skip out on surgery to have an interior decorator "butch up" his place. One of the changes? The introduction of a very large phallic sculpture (which makes one wonder if the decorator was a woman scorned -- or in cahoots with Christian's therapist… No self-respecting woman would go near that thing).

Larry Hagman plays a wealthy businessman with a gorgeous young wife. While the "kiwi-size" testicular implants he requests add some humor to the episode, his wife and money have bigger parts (no pun intended). The wife (played by Sanaa Lathan), whom Christian is -- naturally -- immediately taken by, resists the doctor's oh-so-unsubtle advances, telling him, "You don't choose who you love, Dr. Troy; it chooses you." Cue thoughts about Sean. She does make Christian a proposition, though: to buy the practice. The money is great and Christian's primed to accept, but Sean, calling the practice their "child," is vehemently opposed to the sale…

…Until he gets home and discovers while he's moaning to Julia about Christian wanting to make joint decisions solo, she's done exactly the same thing in her and Sean's relationship: She knew there might be something wrong with their baby but didn't tell him. Now that it's too late to consider abortion, the diagnosis has been confirmed. Their unborn baby boy has ectrodactyly, a congenital abnormality in which the fingers or toes are malformed.

Julia says she plans to raise their son with or without Sean's help and vows to sell her shares in De La Mer, the spa she co-owns with Gina. Sean, distraught, goes to Christian's, where he breaks down and offers to sacrifice their baby, the practice, to care for his and Julia's unborn child.

Coming attractions for the season:

• The new owners bring more than a dose of drama


• Rosie O'Donnell guests


• My favorite non-regular, Escobar, returns?

But the big question is, where is Kimber?

This is Diana, iVillage's resident Nip/Tuck fanatic, signing off until next week...