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Richard Gilliland, a prolific actor who nearly 50-year career included Designing Women, Thirtysomething and series-regular roles on Just Our Luck, Operation Petticoat and Heartland, has died. He was 71. His family said he died March 18 in Los Angeles after an unspecified brief illness. Born on January 23, 1950, in…

Felicity Huffman is not just out of prison, she’s back in the ABC family. Deadline reported that the Emmy-winning Desperate Housewives star is returning in a single-camera comedy that landed a big pilot production commitment at the network. The story brought to mind other big-name actors who’ve done time but had…

UPDATE with additional guests The casts of Young Sheldon, Desperate Housewives, Jessie and Barry will reunite for this week’s livestream episodes of Stars in the House, the series hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley to raise donations for The Actors Fund’s COVID-19 efforts. Among the stars taking part are, among…

Ricardo Chavira, who co-starred with Felicity Huffman on Desperate Housewives, is fuming about the 14-day prison sentence the actress received for her role in the college admissions scandal. Chavira, who played Carlos Solis for eight seasons on the ABC drama, suggested race was a factor in the short sentence the…

Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry praises his former star Felicity Huffman as patient, polite and, in an instance involving an older guest star who was having difficulty remembering lines, demonstrating “a master class on human compassion.” Cherry’s letter of support written to the courtroom decider of…

In an effort to support Felicity Huffman amid the college admissions scandal, Eva Longoria has revealed some of the behind-the-scenes drama at Desperate Housewives. Longoria was one of 27 people, including Huffman’s husband William H. Macy, to write letters vouching for the actress as she awaits sentencing for her…

Felicity Huffman has portrayed overwhelmed mom Lynette Scavo on Desperate Housewives, the bigoted mother of a young war veteran who was brutally killed in a home invasion robbery in American Crime, and an astute headmaster Leslie Graham dealing with troubling allegations concerning the school’s basketball team in Ameri…

Actress Nicollette Sheridan opened up today about her years-long legal battle against Desperate Housewives and various executives affiliated with the show, saying she regretted not speaking up sooner. Appearing on the CBS show The Talk, Sheridan – who now is a part of the Dynasty series on the CW – talked about her…

Nearly five years after her first Desperate Housewives trial collapsed due to a hung jury, Nicollette Sheridan has suffered another loss as a judge tossed out her latest case. "The Court finds that the Defendant has presented substantial undisputed evidence of the creative decision to kill off Sheridan’s character…

It's going to start over five years after her last Desperate Housewives trial ended in a mistrial but Nicollette Sheridan will be back in court on June 5, 2017, a L.A. Superior Court judge decided today. Given new legal life by the 2nd District Court of Appeal last October, the actress can pursue her claim of…

There are so many twists, stops, near deaths, turns and rebirths to this case that someone has to make a MOW of it eventually. Whether or not Nicollette Sheridan will star in the production of her Desperate Housewives firing case is another matter. But what is certain today is that the actress has been given another…

Nearly two years after her first Desperate Housewives trial ended with a deadlocked jury, Nicollette Sheridan is finally getting another legal life. LA Superior Court Judge Michael Stern has overturned his earlier ruling and granted the actress a new trial in her case against ABC/Touchstone TV for being suddenly let…