Oct 9, 2009 by Mushy

Marc Cherry to Create a New Show for ABC

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Marc Cherry is developing a new series for ABC. The creator of Desperate Housewives will be writing the script for this new project. Alexandra Cunningham, a Housewives veteran, is also writing the script.

Some initially thought that this new show would be a spinoff of Desperate Housewives. It has now been made clear that this new endeavor will be a stand-alone show.

That said, this new project will have the tone of Desperate Housewives. Cherry will also be an executive producer on this show.

He has also made it clear that no matter what happens with his new show, he will be "involved" with Desperate Housewives until it goes off the air.


Sources: The Hollywood Reporter

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  1. OmnipotentBeing

    He's not a creator in the true sense of the word, only in the Hollywood covert sense of the word. He writes what executives tell him to write.

    2 years agoby @omnipotentbeingFlag

  2. OmnipotentBeing

    He has no copyright according to copyright.gov and is Desperate Housewives is being sued for plagiarism per a Google search of today. So, any spin-off is likely to be involved in a lawsuit too. They likely retracted the revelation that it's a spin-off because Cherry told the press that his agents gave him the idea for the murder mystery. The murder mystery is a large part of the tone. He's claimed he thinks executives ideas are stupid, yet once again he's taken ideas from executives to make a career for himself. Strange that he has no copyright for the show that made a name for him, he was unknown before Desperate Housewives. He's also relying on another co-writer like he did originally when Charles Pratt helped him co-write the that sold to ABC. THR reported that Pratt was a co-writer. Cherry can't write alone it seems and he's had a long career of fist fighting with co-writers because he's felt out of his element and felt a need to control the work while asking, "Can't we just be funny" while locked inside small writing rooms working with writers he recognized as professional and more experienced. He has always been out of his element it seems because he's trained as an actor, not as a writer. He wanted to be like the portly Stubby Kaye, Cherry said. He had great expectations. Then the idea for comedy came right out of his TV and landed in his wannabe- Stubby Kaye lap. He watched the trial about a mother killing her five children and the jokes poured forth from his fertile Stubby Kaye-esque mind. Riches followed, and now a spin-off follows that.

    He'll be sued for the spin-off. Guaranteed.

    2 years agoby @omnipotentbeingFlag

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