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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: [NEWS] "Wisteria Lane" in development ("Desparate Housewives"
 spin-off/sequel)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:46:32 -0700
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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.

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?...)

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
>      ----------------------------------------------------------------
>      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.