Desperate Housewives: Cast & Creators Live at the Paley Center

The Desperate Housewives creator, cast, and crew dish about the show’s origin, story lines, and surprises. This William S. Paley Television Festival evening honors Desperate Housewives, the darkly comedic soap opera about the denizens of Wisteria Lane. Barbara Dixon (director, The Paley Center for Media, Los Angeles) welcomes the audience and introduces Carrie Fisher, who moderates the following panelists: series creator/executive producer Marc Cherry; executive producers Michael Edelstein and Tom Spezialy; producer/director Larry Shaw; and cast members Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp), Felicity Huffman (Lynette Scavo), Eva Longoria (Gabrielle Solis), Nicollette Sheridan (Edie Britt), Brenda Strong (Mary Alice Young), James Denton (Mike Delfino), Steven Culp (Rex Van De Camp), Mark Moses (Paul Young), and Doug Savant (Tom Scavo). During this dynamic panel discussion, Cherry talks about the origin of the show and how he sold it to ABC, Longoria details how working on The Young and the Restless prepared her for the show, and Sheridan talks about how she likes to portray a “naughty” character. Panelists also talk about how the show is able to continually surprise, balancing so many story lines into a forty-two-minute show, how one portrays a deceased character, and dealing with ABC. Contains Explicit Language.