Re: [NEWS] "Wisteria Lane" in development ("Desparate Housewives" spin-off/sequel)

On 2025-04-30 02:46:32 +0000, Ian J. Ball said:

On 4/29/25 7:01 PM, Your Name wrote:

 Not a "reboot", but a new show with new characters set in the same place. Potentially it could be a semi-sequel if any of the original characters sign-up to appear.

 Well, let's muse about that for a second...:
 Teri Hatcher is still around, is available, and might actually be game for it. But she was very unpopular on the set of the original series (the others considered her a "mean girl"). Because this is from different people than the original series, Hatcher might still get the "ask".
 Eva Longoria may very well consider herself "too big" for this show now.

The Deadline article did say:
    "The cast have been fielding endless inquiries too, with
     Longoria saying earlier this month that she "would be the
     first person" to sign up for a Desperate Housewives reboot."
So that's one who is already willing to return (no doubt depening on the storylines and the money she will be paid).
but, it did also say:
    "There are no current plans for characters from the original
     series to appear on Wisteria Lane."

Felicity Huffman would probably be up for it, but she's still got the whole "university bribery scandal/jail time" to live down, so she might not even get asked.
 AFAICT, Marcia Cross has retired from the biz. (Didn't someone around here say that she survived cancer?...)

Stage II colon cancer. She did apparently complete treatment which was successful, but like rechecks are done at intervals to make sure it hasn't come back, and that can go on for a few years.

I have no idea what is going on with Nicollette Sheridan these days - she's certainly not getting hired anywhere that I can see.
 They had other people in later seasons, like Alfre Woodard - I could definitely see her popping up from a show that is headlined by Kerry Washington.
 

    'Desperate Housewives' Offshoot 'Wisteria Lane' In Works At Onyx
    From Kerry Washington & Natalie Chaidez
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    One of the most famous streets in TV history is ready to welcome
    new residents. Wisteria Lane, a reimagining of the hit ABC mystery
    dramedy series Desperate Housewives, has been set up for
    development at Onyx Collective, Deadline has learned exclusively.
    It comes from Kerry Washington's Simpson Street and
    20th Television where the company is based.
     Written by Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant), Wisteria Lane
    is described as a fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery in the
    vein of Desperate Housewives, set among a group of five very
    different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a
    picture-perfect cul de sac called "Wisteria Lane." On the surface,
    all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream: beautiful homes,
    gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway. But behind those
    white-picket fences and smiling Insta posts are SECRETS.
     Desperate Housewives starred Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Felicity
    Huffman, Marcia Cross and, for the first five seasons, Nicollette
    Sheridan as five women - mostly friends - living on Wisteria Lane,
    who begin uncovering dark secrets after their neighbor Mary Alice
    Young kills herself.