‘Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry wants to reboot the series to show Wisteria Lane in the ’60s.
“I probably would have liked to do this idea in an earlier decade,” Cherry said to PEOPLE in an interview published Wednesday. “Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. It was the most fun playground in the history of television, because we ran the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand.”
From 2004 to 2012, viewers followed the main characters Susan (Teri Hatcher), Gabrielle (Eva Longoria), Bree (Marcia Cross) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman) as they dramatically fell in and out of love, raise their children, and experience plenty of drama on what was originally a set in the backdrop of Universal Studios.
“When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography,” Cherry said. “It was such a fun place to write for. And there’s times when I go, ‘You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in, like, 1966.'”
In June, Eva Longoria expressed she missed the show. “I’ve told him a hundred times,” she told ET about Cherry. “I was like, ‘Let’s do it again. I miss Wisteria Lane. I miss the girls. I miss Gaby Solis. I miss being her.'”
Set on a street called Wisteria Lane in the fictional town of Fairview, in the fictional Eagle State, ‘Desperate Housewives’ aired for eight seasons on ABC from 2004 to 2012, totaling 180 episodes. The story spans fifteen years of the women’s lives over the course of the eight seasons, which ran from 2004-2008 and then 2013-2018 (the story includes a five-year time jump, as well as flashbacks and flash-forwards that span from the 1980s to the 2020s).
