Desperate Housewives offshoot Wisteria Lane is ‘in works’
A Desperate Housewives reboot is coming, ladies (ABC)
A Desperate Housewives reboot is coming, ladies (ABC)
Sharpen your knives and your tongues, ladies, because a reboot of legendary TV drama Desperate Housewives named Wisteria Lane is in development at Onyx Collective, it has been confirmed.
Get ready for the dramatic monologues, fake smiles and c*nty bobs, because we’re heading back to Wisteria Lane, girls.
First aired in 2004 to 2012, the original Desperate Housewives series saw a cast including Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria live out the wild lives of suburban spouses behind closed doors, picking up a clean 38 Emmy noms over its run.
The show became a cult classic (not least because if there’s one thing the gays love, it’s powerful women), and rumours of a reboot began floating around in 2024, when original star Jesse Metcalfe admitted that it had been ‘discussed‘.
And it seems those discussions went well, because an off shoot currently titled Wisteria Lane (named after the street the original desperate housewives lived) was confirmed to be in development by Deadline (29 April).
According to the official synopsis of the Desperate Housewives reboot (via Variety), Wisteria Lane is “set around a group of 5 very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called ‘Wisteria Lane.’ On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream. Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets.”
While called a ‘reboot’ by some publications, other have called it an ‘offshoot’.
According to reports, Wisteria Lane has Natalie Chaidez (The Flight Attendant, Heroes) attached as writer and executive producer, and Pilar Savone also as an EP via Simpson Street (Kerry Washington’s production company). Stacey Sher will EP for Shiny Penny.
Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry also revealed in 2024 that he had a “couple ideas” for a reboot.
The series was originally produced by ABC Studios, but Wisteria Lane is in the works at Onyx Collective – a content brand owned and operated by Disney Entertainment, which primarily consists of projects from creators of colour and other underrepresented groups.
As long as Wisteria Lane features just as many tornados, gay awakenings, supermarket shootouts and sex scandals, we’re sat.
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