Desperate Housewives – which starred the likes of Eva Longoria and Teri Hatcher – last aired in 2012, when its eight season run came to an end after launching on ABC in 2004
Actor Eva Longoria has once again teased over the prospect of a Desperate Housewives revival. There’s long been speculation over a potential reboot of the acclaimed ABC show, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last year.
The comedy-drama, which launched in 2004, ran for eight seasons before it concluded in 2012. The show, which was created by Marc Cherry, now 63, centred on the residents of the fictional street Wisteria Lane, with it particularly focusing on the lives of four women and their families. They included Gabrielle Solis – played by Eva, now 50. She was among the main characters on Desperate Housewives alongside Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross), Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) and Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher).
Eva has previously teased that she would be “the first to sign up” if a reboot was announced. She made similar comments last year and once again discussed the prospect of a revival on Watch What Happens Live! on Monday night.
Asked who would take “the most convincing,” Eva named creator Marc. Presenter Andy Cohen, 56, asked on the late-night Bravo talk show: “Really? Why he feels like it’s complete?” Eva said: “He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters.”
She went on to make a comparison between the show and Sex and the City, which has returned for two films and a sequel series since it’s original run ended in 2004. Sex and the City had shorter seasons and almost half the number of episodes overall compared to Desperate Housewives.
Speaking about those differences, Eva said: “It’s unlike Sex and the City [which] was only like six episodes, eight episodes, a year. We did 24 episodes a year for ten … a decade.”
Teasing over her character Gaby, she said: “So I can’t sleep with any more people on that street. Like I have slept with every single person on the street.” She also appeared to suggest that character Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) did too.
Fellow guest Sandra Bernhard, 69, questioned: “Did you sleep with women in the show?” Eva responded: “No, I didn’t … wait! Did I?” Sandra then teased: “We can do a quick y’know half … half a season.” Eva added in the discussion: “We gotta convince Marc Cherry, that’s who you have to convince.”
Elsewhere in the segment, Andy asked her: “Do you still get healthy residual checks from Desperate Housewives?” Before laughing, Eva responded to him: “I do well.”
Marc has himself previously spoken about the prospect of bringing Desperate Housewives back in some form. He told People magazine last year that he has a “couple of ideas”. It was however suggested by the outlet at the time that it would likely be without the original cast of the show.
Speaking about a reboot, Marc said: “I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade.” He said that the character he misses writing the most is Wisteria Lane itself.
He said it was the “most fun playground” because they “owned the whole street”. Marc said: “There’s times when I go ‘you know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like 1966’.”
Marc suggested that creators should have a “really good artistic reason” for rebooting a show. He added: “At some point, I’ll sit down with someone and go ‘okay, let’s talk about if there’s a good enough ‘why’ to do it’.”
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