BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - This much you know, if you watched Desperate Housewives through to the bitter(sweet) end last season: When the ensemble soap opera about housewives' desperate lives in the fictional neighbourhood of Wisteria Lane returns this fall, the story will vault five years into the future.
Marc Cherry, Desperate Housewives's creator and its head writer since its debut in October, 2004, says he got the idea one night while watching Lost. Unlike Lost, though, Desperate Housewives won't flash back and forth in time. The weeping, the hair-pulling, the smashed dishes will be firmly anchored in the future.
Coming up with idea was one thing. Telling the cast was another entirely.
Initially, Cherry said he wanted to vault the story ahead seven years, so the children in the show could be teenagers, and their mothers would now have to deal with teenagers' issues.
"I was thinking about seven years," Cherry said, surrounded by his cast at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association. "But then my writing staff was, like, 'Well, do you want to go in there and tell those women they're going to be seven years older?' And I went, 'Yeah, five is good.'"
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