“Desperate Housewives” followers aren’t fascinated with returning to Wisteria Lane.
Information broke Tuesday that Kerry Washington is making a reboot to the favored comedy-drama collection at Onyx Collective (owned by Disney) with “The Flight Attendant” showrunner Natalie Chaidez.
The pair are govt producing the collection alongside Pilar Savone and Stacey Sher. Chaidez can even write the venture.
The present is presently titled “Wisteria Lane,” after the road from the ABC collection that starred Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross.
In line with Selection, the official logline says the present 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.”
Followers of the unique collection shortly blasted the reboot information on social media.
“Whyyyyyy stop ruining the classics and come up with something original,” one fan wrote on X (previously Twitter).
“No. Bring back the originals,” one other individual wrote.
“Oh hell no enough of these remakes my lord and it never hit like the OGs,” a 3rd account wrote.
“Unless marc cherry is behind this, i don’t want it,” another person stated, referring to the unique present’s creator.
“If nobody’s cheating with the gardener in episode 1 i’m not watching,” one other tweet examine Longoria’s Season 1 storyline with Jesse Metcalfe.
Extra critics in contrast the “Desperate Housewives” reboot to Max’s critically panned “Sex and the City” sequel collection “And Just Like That.”
“Legit not the original cast with the same premise as the Sex And The City reboot I don’t particularly care tbh,” one fan wrote.
One other tweeted, “the same thing that happened to sex and the city is about to happen to desperate housewives.”
The night time earlier than the reboot was introduced, Longoria, 50, appeared on “Watch What Happens Live” and was requested who wants the “most convincing” to convey the present again.
“Marc Cherry, our creator. He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters,” stated the actress, who performed Gabrielle Solis within the collection.
“Unlike ‘Sex and the City,’ [which] was only like six episodes, eight episodes a year, we did 24 episodes a year for a decade,” Longoria defined, joking, “I can’t sleep with any more people on that street. I have slept with every person on the street.”
Cherry, 63, created the unique collection that ran for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012 on ABC.
The present additionally starred Brenda Sturdy, Nicollette Sheridan, Dana Delaney, James Denton, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Doug Savant and the late Kathryn Joosten.
Cherry, who additionally created the exhibits “Devious Maids” and “Why Women Kill,” pitched his concept for a prequel collection to “Desperate Housewives” final 12 months.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” he informed Folks. “Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand.”
Cherry added: “There’s times when I go, ‘You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.’”
