EXCLUSIVE: One of the most famous streets in television history is ready to welcome new residents. Wisteria Lane, A reimagination of the Hit ABC Mystery Dramedy series Desperate housewiveswas set up for development at ONYX Collective, the Deadline has learned exclusively. It comes from Simpson Street by Kerry Washington and the 20th television where the company is based.
Written by Natalie Chaidez (The on -board agent),, Wisteria Lane is described as a fun, sexy and dark comic soap / mystery in the vein of Desperate housewivesTaking up among a group of five very different friends and sometimes Fremmies who all live on a perfect climbing bag called “Wisteria Lane”. On the surface, all the neighbors Wisteria live the dream: beautiful houses, magnificent families, brilliant SUVs in the aisle. But behind these white hack fences and these smiling insta posts are secrets.
Desperate housewives Cabinet Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and, during the first five seasons, Nicollette Sheridan as five women – mainly friends – living on Wisteria Lane, who begins to discover dark secrets after their neighbor Mary Alice Young killed himself.
Chaidez Executive Product Wisteria Lane Alongside Washington and Pilar Savona via their Simpson street as well as Stacey Sher (In badlands) through his shiny penny. It is not clear if Washington could potentially appear in the series. 20th television, which recently absorbed Desperate housewives The successor of Studio ABC Studios ABC Signature, product.
Desperate housewives The executive creator Marc Cherry was not part of the field but is aware of the project and could be involved in a certain extent, sources said.
(LR) Kerry Washington and Natalie Chaidez
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I hear Wisteria Lane was launched on both Onyx, whose programs broadcast on Hulu and Hulu Originals. Washington and Savone have an existing relationship in the two Disney units. Simpson Street is behind the most successful series of Onyx to date, Reasonable doubtwhich was renewed for a third season, as well as the Onyx Comedy series SafelyWith Washington and Delroy Lindo, which lasted two seasons. At Hulu Clean Small fires everywhereWho with Washington.
Hulu already has two other series of series in the work of 20th TV, Buffy the vampire Slayer and Prison escape, both with pilot orders.
Wisteria LaneThe sale of the sale comes in the heels of Desperate housewives“The 20th anniversary last October, which caused a new wave of nostalgia and restarting.
In November, Cherry admitted that “around 70,000 people” had asked him questions about a restart as a passion for fans for the show and the interest of revisiting it, he stayed 13 years after having finished his eight seasons on ABC. The actors also set up endless surveys, with Longoria saying earlier this month that she “would be the first person” to register for a Desperate housewives restart. There are no current plans for the characters in the original series to appear on Wisteria Lane.
While speculation on potential Desperate housewives Monitoring – renewal, restarting, follows, spin -off or other driving – has been endemic for more than a decade, this marks the first real stabs to widen the franchise.
Keeping the emblematic setting of the original series is logical – while most outdoor locations in the series use an exterior mixture from different places, Wisteria Lane is a real street built on the universal backlot. While the exterior has existed for decades as colonial street, it has been widely modified for Desperate housewives And has since taken up his own life. Hold down practically the same as in the show, there has been a superior tourist attraction and part of the Universal Studios tour and has been used for many shows and advertisements since.
While Wisteria Lane should keep its parameter of the fictitious street, it has not been determined if the potential series will take place in Los Angeles where the original series of the series is.
In November, Cherry spoke of the meaning of Wisteria Lane for the show.
“The character that I lack the most writing is actually Wisteria Lane; it was the most fun play field than anyone in the history of television has ever had,” he said People At the time, noting that it would be interested in revisiting the street and its housewives in a different decade, especially the 1960s, for monitoring its original series.
(LR) Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria, Teri Hatcher and Felicity Huffman on “Desperate Housewives”
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Launch of the same season as Fell Hit ABC Series Lost And Gray’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives It was an instant smash, becoming an obsession with pop culture and presenting a new addictive genre that mixes comedy and drama, mystery and soapy narration. The series also scored with criticism and won seven Emmy Awards throughout her race, notably the main actress in a series of comedy for Huffman.
Later this spring, Simpson Street will start production on the Apple TV + Limited series Imperfect women, With Washington, Elisabeth Moss and Kate Mara. In May, the company will publish in the living room the action-thriller functionality Shadow force For Lionsgate, with Washington alongside Omar Sy. The company is replaced by CAA, Washington Square Arts and the lawyer Gretchen Rush.
Before serving as an executive producer and co-showrunner alongside developer Steve Yockey on season 2 of Max’s The on -board agentwhose mixture of dark comedy and thriller mystery is similar to Desperate housewives‘, Chaidez was executive producer and showrunner on the criminal drama of the USA Network South queen. Its serial credits also include Hunters, that she developed; 12 monkeys; In sight; Terminator: Sarah Connor tells; And Hero. She is revamped by CAA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
In addition to Buffy And Prison escape Restart pilots to Hulu, 20th TV has a Malcolm in the middle Continuation in four games to Disney +, with efforts to obtain a Scrubs Also restart the current soil.
