Desperate Housewives To Introduce Dramatic Time Leap?
Desperate Housewives returned to the usual ABC Sunday night lineup over the weekend starting exactly where they had left off three months ago. The same action was stirred up and it made for a great episode. However, there are rumors that the writers have mixed things up and will be introducing a serious time leap. Whether or not this is a good or bad thing has yet to be determined.
During an interview with Chicago-based radio station WTMX this past week, James Denton responded to the rumors of Nicollette Sheridan possibly exiting DH. He offered a clue into creator Marc Cherry’s larger plans, saying, “Other than the four main women, nobody is really too secure. I don’t know if you’ve [heard] there’s supposedly a big time jump at the end of this season, either forward or backward a number of years. So we’ll lose some castmembers. That’s what we’ve been told, so none of us are feeling too smug. We’re just waiting to see how it shakes out.”
Denton went on to say that he’s heard some of the ideas the writers are kicking around, and they’re all really great. He hopes to be one of the castmembers that survives the leap: “If they go backward [in time], you know, Delfino wasn’t even there yet. If they go forward, by then Susan’s baby will be 6 or 7 years old and all that stuff, so it’s going to be tricky. But I think it’ll enable the writers to do some really creative things and sort of reset the show.”
As for the rumors Nicollette might go, Denton said he wasn’t in the loop on that, though the end of the season storyline does frame things up for an Edie Britt farewell. “I don’t know,” James said. “Maybe Nicollette’s renegotiation is coming up and they’re leaving the door open just in case it doesn’t go as planned!”