"Desperate Housewives" Prequel Is Batted Around by Creator

“Desperate Housewives” creator Marc Cherry is open to returning to Wisteria Lane and exploring a different era.

In a recent interview with People magazine, Cherry pitched his idea for a prequel to the hit ABC series starring Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria.

“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” Cherry said. “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.'”

Cherry, who also created the series “Devious Maids” and “Why Women Kill,” estimated that “about 70,000 people” have asked him about a “Desperate Housewives” reboot. 

“The truth of the matter is that I have a couple of ideas to do it,” he added.

However, the “Desperate Housewives” creator would only pursue a reboot if “there is still stuff that needs to be said.” “If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it,” he noted. “And at some point, I’ll sit down with someone and go, ‘OK, let’s talk about if there’s a good enough “why” to do it.'”

“Desperate Housewives” follows four women — Susan Mayer (Hatcher), Lynette Scavo (Huffman), Bree Van de Kamp (Cross) and Gabrielle Solis (Longoria) — who uncover dark secrets in their seemingly idyllic suburban neighborhood after their friend and neighbor, Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong), dies by suicide. 

The dramedy series, which ran from 2004 to 2012 on ABC, won seven Primetime Emmys and three Golden Globes.