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PEOPLE confirmed on April 29 that an offshoot of Desperate Housewives is in the works at Onyx Collective
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The spinoff of the 2000s hit is being produced by 20th Television and Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street Productions
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The show is set to be called Wisteria Lane, named after the iconic cul de sac street where the original series took place
Calling all Desperate Housewives fans!
Over 20 years after the hit drama first premiered, PEOPLE confirmed on April 29 that an offshoot is in the works. Titled Wisteria Lane after the iconic suburban street the beloved Desperate Housewives cast lived on, the new series is being produced by Kerry Washington’s Simpson Street Productions and 20th Television under Onyx Collective.
“A fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery, in the vein of Desperate Housewives, set around a group of 5 very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called ‘Wisteria Lane,’” the official logline reads. “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.”
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TUC WATKINS, KEVIN RAHM, JAMES DENTON, EVA LONGORIA, VANESSA WILLIAMS, KATHRYN JOOSTEN, JASON GEORGE, ORSON BEAN, MARCIA CROSS, JONATHAN CAKE
Natalie Chaidez is writing the series and serving as an executive producer alongside Washington, Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher.
Desperate Housewives ran from 2004 until 2012, coming to an end after eight seasons on ABC. It starred Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, James Denton, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Nicollette Sheridan (who left after five seasons) and Jesse Metcalfe and followed their dysfunctional lives. It is narrated by their neighbor, Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), who watches down on the fictional town after committing suicide in the first episode.
It is unclear if any original cast members will return for the spinoff. Deadline was first to report the news.
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Teri Hatcher as Susan Mayer, Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo, Marcia Cross as Bree Van De Kamp, Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis, Brenda Strong as Mary Alice Young
This comes just one day after Longoria, who previously said she’d be “the first to sign up” for a revival, revealed who would take the “most convincing” to return.
“Marc Cherry, our creator,” the actress, who played Gabrielle Solis, revealed on the April 28 episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. “He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters.”
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Longoria, on the other hand, only has one caveat to a possible return. “I can’t sleep with any more people on that street,” she joked. “I have slept with every person on the street, as did Nicollette Sheridan.”
During a 2023 appearance on WWHL, the Land of the Women star admitted, “I miss Gabby,” and theorized where she thought her character would be a decade after the series wrapped.
“Gabby would be an influencer, for sure. She’d be an Instagrammer,” she teased.
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Eva Longoria
Cherry, while hesitant, told PEOPLE in November 2024 that he isn’t entirely opposed to the idea of a reboot.
“The truth of the matter is that I have a couple of ideas to do it,” he shared, noting it was unlikely it would include the original cast.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” he said at the time. “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.'”
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