In another sign of China's opening up, the sexy US soap opera "Desperate Housewives" soon will air on conservative but increasingly open Chinese television, state media reported, noting the smash-hit soap has "an almost cult-like following in America and Britain". The show, featuring sexually frustrated wives, will premier in September on state-run China Central Television's CCTV-8 the only US series to air in China this year and could reach 180 million households in China.