Today is the ABC TCA Summer Press Tour Day and Marc Cherry confirmed that this will be the last season of Desperate Housewives. He told us the decision to say goodbye to Wisteria Lane has been a year in the making. When he first met the new head of ABC a year ago for lunch, he then started discussing the end of the show and said he wanted to end it on a high note. Whether that meant season 8 or season 9 he wasn’t sure. Together the two of them came to decision to end it now and not letting it limp off of TV like so many other shows.
When asked about the reaction from the cast, he told us he had just started talking to the cast about it on Friday and he has only spoken to half of them about the show ending this season. So in other words most of them finding out via the press and not him even though he has known about it.
Even though he has not spoken to everyone, he did share with us what he told Eva Longoria when he was asked if there will be a spinoff to the show. He told her he wants to put her in a van and have her solve mysteries. Paul Lee, ABC’s Entertainment President said he was sold on the idea.
Although he is sold on the idea, Cherry says he doesn’t want to repeat himself and that there will be no spinoff to the show. You know like on his first show The Golden Girls that became Golden Palace.
Now back to the final season of the show. Cherry says the show will go back to its roots with Mary Alice. But ABC described something different in a press release that went out this morning. They said “For Season Eight, Carlos’s murder of Gaby’s evil stepfather and the cover up by Susan, Gaby, Bree and Lynette has far reaching effects. Feelings of guilt begin to overcome everyone in different ways. Susan starts to withdraw from her friends and family, and Gaby works to reach out to Carlos while his guilt weighs heavily upon him. As Lynette and Tom are grappling with their disintegrating marriage and impending separation, Lynette is having trouble making the right choices ever since she participated in the cover-up. And Bree must be especially careful around her new love, Detective Chuck Vance. Meanwhile a new sexy neighbor moves to town, Ben Faulkner, and he’s Renee’s first order of business.”
Are you looking forward to the end of Desperate Housewives?
UPDATE: Eva Longoria Tweeted about the show coming to end and said, “It’s confirmed! We are filming our last season of Desperate Housewives! I am so grateful for what the show has given me! We always knew we wanted to end on top and I thank ABC for giving us our victory lap! And a special thanks to Marc Cherry who forever changed my life! #DesperateHousewives”
UPDATE 2: Here is the final season preview that they showed at the ABC TCA Summer Press Tour Day. A lot of good memories in nearly two minutes of clips!
