Launched today, Gran Turismo 5 Prologue’s Gran Turismo TV video-on-demand service includes content such as Japanese motorsport highlights, specialist content created exclusively for the game and other car-tailored content.

However, GTTV also includes other on-demand-programming such as Top Gear and Desperate Housewives.

“We’re very happy to announce the inclusion of television programmes such as Desperate Housewives inside the world of Gran Turismo,” said Polyphony Digital’s spokesman Yatsuo Fukada. “We feel that while content such as hands-on roadtests and coverage of motorsports all over the word is all well and good, it takes a program such as Desperate Housewives to truly capture the essence of driving a high-powered performance car.”

“The struggle for romance, power and success between Susan, Lynette, Gabrielle and company truly captures exactly what it means to fall in love with a car and to drive to a podium finish.”

Gran Turismo fans have eagerly snapped up the brand new update and the episodes of Desperate Housewives, which retail in the Gran Turismo TV store for 69p in the UK and 99 cents in the United States. PlayStation blogs across the internet have been littered with comment upon comment praising the inclusion of the comedy-drama: “this sort of reinvention is exactly the sort of thing Gran Turismo needed!” remarked one blogger, known only as SdrawkcabOcoe.

Fukada promised more premium content for Gran Turismo TV in the near future, including a tour of the Desperate Housewives set in Los Angeles to accompany the tour of the Ferrari factory in Italy already available for download.

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