I heard the producers are waiting for Teri Hatcher to sign for Series 8, the rest of the cast have signed.

I heard the producers are waiting for Teri Hatcher to sign for Series 8, the rest of the cast have signed.

 

I read she was one of the first to sign a long time ago :o

Yes, I heard she was the only one who had signed, and they were waiting on the others.

Yes, I heard she was the only one who had signed, and they were waiting on the others.

 

Yep I read this too, I posted the article somewhere. Can't find it now. Found another one though,

 

http://www.atvtoday.co.uk/index.php?option...ia&Itemid=3

 

Oh and eva Longoria was quoted saying,

 

“We’ll definitely be back, I can promise you that,” the actress said of “Desperate Housewives.” “We’ll be here for year 8 and hopefully 9.”

 

http://www.accesshollywood.com/eva-longori...9_article_46201

 

I love how she says the season finale is going to be amazing, then says they don't even have a script yet :lol:

Well, she'll be able to tell from the episodes leading up to the finale. It better not disappoint if they're keeping it top secret.

 

Eva must've signed on, if she's certain they'll be back?

Well, she'll be able to tell from the episodes leading up to the finale. It better not disappoint if they're keeping it top secret.

 

Eva must've signed on, if she's certain they'll be back?

 

Im sure I read somewhere else the finale is going to be 2 hours long! Must be something major happening.

 

Eva was one of the 3 still pending to sign, If she is coming back that must mean they are all on board :)

The episode itself isn't two hours, it'll be two separate episodes. DH has 23 episodes, B&S has 22, so DH will be having a double bill finale iirc.

 

From the next promo,

could the finale be focusing on Carlos/Andrew?

. Or will that stuff be over before the finale :unsure:

Edited April 10, 201114 yr by Jaack Sykes

The episode itself isn't two hours, it'll be two separate episodes. DH has 23 episodes, B&S has 22, so DH will be having a double bill finale iirc.

From the next promo,

could the finale be focusing on Carlos/Andrew?

. Or will that stuff be over before the finale :unsure:

 

Yes true, I still think something big will happen to keep people watching for 2 hours.

 

That could be a possibility! Nothing much has happened yet this season to do with that storyline and I'm sure it will be explosive.

Edited April 10, 201114 yr by Jam.

So, Gabbie baking that cake was potentially THE funniest thing I have ever seen on DH!

The funniest episode of the season definitely. Not only Gabbie, but Lynette :rofl:

Haven't seen the recent episode but i caught up on the two episodes before at the weekend and i fell completely back in love with the show. I really haven't enjoyed Desperate this season at all. With the recent event involving Beth, it's perhaps pushed the storyline to greater things.

This series really has been TREADING WATER. It needs some rejuvenation. Kill off a housewife and get a proper new one in their place and not another actress playing a diluted version of a character from a canceled show...

Edited May 2, 201114 yr by ♡jake

I take it that's a comment regarding Renee. I see what you mean. Renee is no different to Wilhelimina. But i do like Renee and it's like having Edie back, who i adored and was gutted when she left. I think that's the reason they brought her in anyway. Every show needs a bitch.

Edited May 2, 201114 yr by David John

The problem with Renee is that she is BOTH a weaker version of Wilhelimina and Edie ending with a character that satisfies no-one and nothing. She's had little obvious direction or evolution as the season has progressed. It's not a problem unique to her, it goes for the cast as a whole. All seem to muddle their way through disjointed storylines playing up to typecast aspects of their personality.

 

Lynette has trudged through a quagmire of issues played out in the past (supporting her working husband) and dealt with plot devices thrown in with little follow-up and eventual meaning (the past affair of Tom and Renee). Susan's kidney storyline is both incomprehendable and emotionless when it's played out with little sincerity and her idiosyncratic "ditzy" personality. Bree has been wondering around with a toyboy then dealing with the fall out of her Son's past actions. It's all so disjointed and feels like the writer's are throwing everything but the kitchen sink in to come up with plot lines. Likewise Gabby has stagnated all season long.

 

The one saving grace has been the excellent Felicia/Paul/Beth storyline which has played out excellently. They benefit from superb characterisation and casting of seasons long gone though I believe. So many simple alterations could have been made to give this series a bit of edge, actually followed up the Renee/Tom past dalliance with a full blown affair. See Susan truly go to the edge of death with her kidney problems. Just something more than the suburban mediocrity that this show is supposed to parody and be the very antithesis of.

Nail on head and exactly why I can't bear to watch anymore. It used to excel at all of the things it struggles with today - well-plotted story arcs, good characterisation, direction for the various women/families. Nowadays it's just the same formula used over and over on an almost weekly basis. They basically realised that the formula they had was a winner and became very complacent. Even the disaster episodes have become so formulaic that they aren't remotely shocking now... the first couple (supermarket, tornado) were not just amongst the best episodes of DH but of anything on TV at that time.

 

Sadly I think the show has had its day. It'll limp on to an eighth series for definite, probably a ninth and then it'll end with a fizzle rather than a bang. But we got four and a half great series out of it, and when it was great it was absolutely unbeatable, so I can't really complain. These things happen.

The supermarket episode is probably one of the best episodes of any programme EVER. Seriously, I remember being in so much shock and awe by it.

 

I haven't watched much of the last season or so. When Edie died was when I stopped watching it properly :(.

It's such a shame because the makings of EDGINESS are actually there but seem to be blown out to maintain the women's self-parodying personalities. It's almost as if they are scared of killing someone off because they don't believe the programme could work without ALL the original housewives. The time-lapse forward acted as short BANG but has essentially spoilt the series for good.

The show has got stuck in a rut, I still watch avidly because it's amusing enough but a shadow of its former self. It's more irritating because everything is still there, it's just like they're too stupid to put the pieces together properly and end up giving up.

They had a great chance to kill Lynette off when she had cancer and she's been a continual bore ever since. I swear after 7 series she's only ever had storylines about her relationship with Tom and work issues (besides the cancer) and I really don't know what they are doing with her. Also am I evil that I wanted all her family to die when the house collapsed on them after the tornado? THAT would have been interesting but instead they pussied out.

 

I disgaree about Lynette. She's not only the best actress on the show but the backbone. Lynette has had the top centered storylines throughout the show.

 

The time line for the show was suppose to reinvent the show a bit but it didn't. They never even acknowledge what year they are suppose to be in. It was an excuse really allow Lynette and Susan's young children to grow up a bit, split Susan and Mike up which of course would predictably got them back together as well as have Bree go into cooking as a career. However she gave that business up to her step son whom blackmailed her. A storyline they since haven't revisited.