The eight-season run of Desperate Housewives ended in 2012 after it premiered on ABC in 2004 and featured the likes of Eva Longoria and Teri Hatcher.
Actor Eva Longoria has once again teased over the prospect of a Desperate Housewives revival. There’s long been speculation over a potential reboot of the acclaimed ABC show, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.
The comedy-drama, which launched in 2004, ran for eight seasons before it concluded in 2012. The show, which was created by Marc Cherry, now 63, centred on the residents of the fictional street Wisteria Lane, with it particularly focusing on the lives of four women and their families. They included Gabrielle Solis – played by Eva, now 50. She was among the main characters on Desperate Housewives alongside Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) and Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher).
Eva has previously teased that she would be “the first to sign up” if a reboot was announced. She made similar comments last year and once again discussed the prospect of a revival on Watch What Happens Live! on Monday night.
Asked who would take “the most convincing,” Eva named creator Marc. Presenter Andy Cohen, 56, asked on the late-night Bravo talk show: “Really? Why he feels like it’s complete?” Eva said: “He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters.”
She went on to make a comparison between the show and Sex and the City, which has returned for two films and a sequel series since it’s original run ended in 2004. Sex and the City had shorter seasons and almost half the number of episodes overall compared to Desperate Housewives.
Eva compared those differences to Sex and the City, which ran only six or eight episodes per year. We produced ten episodes a year for ten.
Teasing over her character Gaby, she said: “So I can’t sleep with any more people on that street. Like I have slept with every single person on the street.” She also appeared to suggest that character Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) did too.
Sandra Bernhard, 69, a fellow guest, posed the question, “Did you sleep with women in the show?” Eva responded: “No, I didn’t… wait! Did I”? Then Sandra made a joke about how “we can do a quick y’know half… half a season.” Eva continued in the discussion, “We gotta persuade Marc Cherry, that’s who you have to persuade.”
Andy questioned her about Desperate Housewives’ question in another segment: “Do you still receive healthy residual checks?” Eva said, “I do well, I do well,” before laughing.
Marc has himself previously spoken about the prospect of bringing Desperate Housewives back in some form. He told People magazine last year that he has a “couple of ideas”. It was however suggested by the outlet at the time that it would likely be without the original cast of the show.
Marc said, “I would probably want to do the idea of a reboot sometime in the future.” He claimed that Wisteria Lane itself is the character he most longs for.
Because they “owned the entire street,” he claimed it was the “most fun playground.” There are times when I go, “you know what,” according to Marc. I’m curious if I could write “Wisteria Lane” in the style of 1966.
Marc argued that show rebooters should have a “really good artistic reason.” He continued, “At some point, I’ll sit down with someone and say, okay, let’s talk about whether there’s a good reason to do it.”
Source: Mirror
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