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Marc Cherry is returning to broadcast TV. The Desperate Housewives creator has struck a direct talent deal with Fox and has set up his first project at the network – psychic-fueled spy drama Jenny Is A Weapon. The project has landed a script commitment from the network and is being eyed for a potential…

Marc Cherry’s anthology series Why Women Kill will not get a third installment. The Paramount+ drama was renewed for a third season in December and was firming up its lead cast with big-name actors in negotiations to star when the decision was made with production slated to start soon, sources said. “Paramount+ has…

Paramount+ will continue to probe Why Women Kill. The ViacomCBS streaming service has handed a Season 3 renewal to the hit anthology series from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS Studios. "Why Women Kill explores the intricate lives of its female characters with a style…

Desperate Housewives and Why Women Kill creator Marc Cherry has signed with A3 Artists Agency. This marks the highest-profile showrunner signing for A3, which last month brought in four former Paradigm agents to reestablish a literary division, led by Andy Patman and Adam Kanter, Co-Heads of Television Content and…

On today’s Crew Call podcast we speak with Marc Cherry who after a long-running streak with ABC’s Desperate Housewives and Lifetime’s Devious Maids returns to the underbelly of Americana bourgeoisie in CBS All Access’ Why Women Kill. Working with a streamer is bliss for Cherry, free from the fences erected by a…

Just ahead of Thursday’s season one finale of Why Women Kill, CBS All Access has ordered a second season of the original anthology series, from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. Starring Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, the first season…

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…

Marc Cherry's Why Women Kill is heading to France after CBS Studios International closed its second major deal in the country in less than a week. The CBS All Access drama, which marks the return to television of the Desperate Housewives creator and exec producer, will launch on French commercial broadcaster M6. The…

CBS All Access hasn’t cleared a second season yet for Marc Cherry’s upcoming Why Women Kill series,  but its creator is pondering the series as an anthology like Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story. The 10-episode series follows three different women in three different decades — a housewife in the '60s (Ginnifer…

If you’re hoping for a Desperate Housewives revival — even if it doesn’t include all the original cast members — don’t count on it. We asked series creator Marc Cherry today at TCA whether he’d even consider one, and he said: “I did 180 episodes of Desperate Housewives, unlike a Sex and the City, which was on cable…

Seated at the dinner table, the tie-sporting man compliments his wife’s meatloaf and says, “Penny for your thoughts.” Instead he gets a hundred bucks worth: “I was wondering when you’ll die. You could be hit by a bus or have a stroke or gets stabbed in the chest.” During that exchange we see a clip of her catching his…

This summer we’ll find out exactly Why Women Kill. CBS All Access has set Thursday, August 15, for the premiere of Marc Cherry’s darkly comedic drama starring Lucy Liu, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. Check out some Season 1 photos above and below. The series details the lives of three women living in…