Charles McDougall is a British Emmy Award and BAFTA-winning director. McDougall has directed for popular television series which include the pilot episode of ABC's Desperate Housewives . McDougall has also directed episodes of Queer as Folk on Channel 4 and Sex and the City on HBO. McDougall directed the first two episodes of the US TV Series The Tudors. He won an Emmy for Best Directing for a Comedy Series for his work on Desperate Housewives.