Report: Desperate Housewives set for final season
US media are reporting that ABC will confirm the eighth and final season for the ladies of Wisteria Lane.
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US media are reporting that Desperate Housewives is about to embark on its eighth and final season.
Both The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline report that ABC is expected to make a formal announcement at the Television Critics Association summer press tour on Sunday.
The series was expected to continue until 2013. In April the show’s four stars negotiated new contracts with an option for Season 9.
But this season’s premiere will be the first without Marc Cherry at the helm. He is expected to be a consultant on Season 8 while focusing on the development of other projects. Hallelujah didn’t receive a pick-up in May, but there has been talks of retooling the show for the next pilot season.
The reason for the conclusion is a mix of rising cast salaries and other production costs while ratings have declined.
The seventh season averaged fewer than 12 million viewers, down from the nearly 24 million who tuned in for Season 1. In Australia it has also subsided, with its season finale averaging 608,000 viewers.
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the last season was the worst one yet. bring it to an end please.
What a shame!!! I think Desperate Housewives is probably the best comedy/drama on television. It’s a wonderful ensemble cast with great scripting. I hope the last season goes out with a bang!!!
This show is so cringeworthy it makes Winners and Losers look good by comparison.
Supernatural is still rating well in the US, I highly doubt it will get canceled any time soon.
Plus, its on the CW, the network that just renewed OTH for a ninth season and gave Smallville ten years.
Hugh Laurie’s contract for House finishes after season 8 and since his family lives in the UK, I greatly doubt he’d sign on for more, plus the show is getting more expensive to make anyway.
all the big 2005 shows are falling. Lost and medium are gone and house, supernatural, and desperate housewives look like they are on the way out too. Greys will probably be the only one left in 12 months time.
I hope all the house wives shoot themselves in the head like Mary Alice did in the first episode…sort of tie it all together.
im thinking this is what will happen to House next season too….unfortunetly 🙁
what year is it in the show now ?? 2015 ?
This show has gone on long enough…a bit like Smallville.
Even though it’s still worth a laugh from time to time I didn’t watch much of the last season. With slipping ratings maybe it’s out stayed it’s welcome?
Well considering how Season 7 ended, I think if Season 8 focuses on the four housewives and their relationship with each other, it would be a great farewell for the series!
They must be doing something right behind the scenes for almost the entire original cast of fine actors to stick around for 8 years. Nicolette has been the only main exit, and even the minor characters that have left still regularly return. I think the 2nd last episode of season 7 with Paul going to prison for Marthas Murder and the death of Felicia Tillman would have been a good series finale. Since Cherry originally said he wanted 7 seasons, perhaps that was his series finale?
Not many shows get the chance to write their own ending, fingers crossed they don’t blow it.
I still enjoy the show but really, it should have ended after the 5th season
Tatings declining?
Better than ratings declining, heheh.
After squirming through the ridiculous storylines that was last season, this is absolutely no surprise.
To be fair to the actors who know it’s just light entertainment, it really is the abysmal, cringing storylines they have to work with that lets them down.
Edie made that show.
Typo “while tatings have declined”