Desperate Housewives Creator Marc Cherry Reveals His Timey-Wimey Reboot Idea
A full 20 years after we first visited Wisteria Lane, Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has shared one of his ideas to reboot the iconic primetime sudser.
Starring Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan, ABC’s Housewives debuted in October 2004 to 21.3 million total viewers — as part of The Greatest TV Season Ever.
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Eight seasons later, TVLine readers gave the show’s May 2012 series finale, which drew 11.1 million total viewers, an average grade of “B+.”
Though TVLine back in 2015 included Housewives among TV’s biggest sophomore slumpers ever, there is no denying the fact that any revival or reboot would draw interest.
“The truth of the matter is that I have a couple of ideas to do it,” Cherry tells People.com.
It just wouldn’t be anything close to a revival, he says, but more of a reboot starring, once again, Wisteria Lane.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” Cherry says, “because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. It was such a fun place to write for. And there’s times when I go, ‘You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.'”
Would you be interested to revisit Housewives‘ iconic cul-de-sac, but in a very different time?
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