There’s one person who would need a lot of convincing to reboot Desperate Housewives and that’s the show’s creator Marc Cherry, according to actress Eva Longoria.
Longoria, a main cast member through all eight seasons of Desperate Housewives, revealed her thoughts on a potential reboot when she stopped by the Bravo Clubhouse for Monday night’s (April 28) episode of Watch What Happens Live. While Longoria has said she’d be the “first person to sign up for” a Desperate Housewives revival, she didn’t think everyone would be as eager to return to Wisteria Lane.
“[Cherry] feels like we’ve exhausted the characters,” she told host Andy Cohen. “Unlike Sex and the City — it was only like six episodes, eight episodes a year — we did 24 episodes a year for a decade.”
“I can’t sleep with any more people on the street,” she joked, referring to her iconic character. “I have slept with every single person on the street, as did Nicollette Sheridan.”
Cherry told People in November 2024 that he’s had “a couple of ideas” for a potential Desperate Housewives reboot, though they likely wouldn’t include the original cast.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” he told the outlet. “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,” he continued. “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.’”
Cherry, however, wants to make sure “there is still stuff that needs to be said” before committing to a reboot.
“If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it,” he explained. “And at some point, I’ll sit down with someone and go, ‘Okay, let’s talk about if there’s a good enough ‘why’ to do it.’”
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