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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…

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…

CBS All Access has given a straight-to-series order to Why Women Kill, a darkly comedic drama from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios. Created by Cherry, Why Women Kill details the lives of three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a…

Imagine Television has signed a premium script deal with Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. Under the pact, indie Imagine TV will develop and produce Cherry’s next TV series. The deal was competitive as Cherry met with a number of studios before opting to go with the Brian Grazer- and Ron Howard-founded…

With drama Deception and comedy Splitting Up Together just landing the last two spots at ABC, here is a look at what ABC pilots are still alive. Not very many. As I reported exclusively, ABC sibling Freeform is close to picking up the Black-ish spinoff pilot starring Yara Shahidi to series. While the Marc Cherry…

Roslyn Ruff is set for a series-regular role opposite Reba McEntire in ABC's Marc Cherry drama pilot, from ABC Studios. The untitled project stars McEntire as Ruby Adair, the sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, who finds her red-state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern descent is sent…

Saamer Usmani has landed the male lead opposite Reba McEntire in ABC's Marc Cherry drama pilot, from ABC Studios. Also cast as a series regular in the pilot is veteran actor W. Earl Brown (Deadwood). Written by Cherry and directed by Michael Offer, the untitled project stars McEntire as Ruby Adair, the sheriff of…

Former Haven star Emily Rose has booked a series regular role opposite Reba McEntire in ABC's Marc Cherry drama pilot, from ABC Studios. The untitled project stars McEntire as Ruby Adair, the sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood, KY, who finds her red state outlook challenged when a young FBI agent of Middle Eastern…

Kimberly Hébert Gregory (Vice Principals) has booked a series-regular role on ABC pilot Unit Zero, an action dramedy starring Toni Collette from the Black-ish duo of exec producer Kenya Barris and supervising producer Lindsey Shockley. Written by Shockley, Unit Zero follows Jackie Fink (Collette), a brilliant but…