Teri Hatcher has a new project in the works – but does it spell the end of Desperate Housewives? The Lifetime network is looking for new shows, although this one sounds a little bit like Gilmore Girls to me.
Looking for a beachhead in original comedy, the network has three shows in the pipeline, including “Burnt Toast,” which is adapted from “Desperate Housewives” star Teri Hatcher’s eponymous book about a forty-something mom and her daughter.
I haven’t read Teri’s book, but it’s an autobiography, and the show will probably be a broad take on it.
Whether or not a new series, featuring Teri in production or star duties, would spell the end of her featuring on Desperate Housewives is up to question. I wouldn’t be sorry to see the end of it.
Besides, I think the show is nearing its natural conclusion. So far the characters have murdered several people, had babies and cancer and affairs, survived a tornado, faked their own deaths, come out as homosexual… I think the turning point for my interest in the show was when Bree hid her daughter away in a nunnery so she could escape the embarrassment of a teen pregnancy, and Bree would raise the child. What is this – Desperate Housewives 1956? So many grandparents raise their grandchildren now that it would have been a modern and challenging storyline.
Note by Celebitchy: The ratings for the first episode of Desperate Housewives in three months after it returned on Sunday following the writer’s strike were at a record low. It received 16 million viewers as compared to an 18.9 million average last season, but was still the most viewed show in its time slot. It doesn’t look like DH is going away anytime soon.
We can only hope. The show is hopelessly trite and uninteresting anymore.
True. It’s become a parody of itself.