Kerry Washington making ‘Desperate Housewives’ reboot ‘Wisteria Lane’

There’s no place like home — especially if your address is on Wisteria Lane.

A reboot of the popular ABC series Desperate Housewives is currently in development at the Disney-owned content brand Onyx Collective, Entertainment Weekly has learned. Scandal star Kerry Washington is on board to executive-produce the project, which is currently titled Wisteria Lane, after the fictional street on which the original series was set.

The Flight Attendant co-showrunner Natalie Chaidez is set to write and executive-produce.

The logline for the new series from 20th Television describes it as a “fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery, in the vein of Desperate Housewives, set around a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul-de-sac called ‘Wisteria Lane.'”

There’s no word yet on who would play the “very different friends” following in the footsteps of original stars Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, and Felicity Huffman, and Nicollette Sheridan.

The logline goes on to conjure up a series that sounds strikingly similar to its predecessor, though perhaps with some timely updates: “On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream. Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are secrets.”

Desperate Housewives aired 180 episodes across its eight-season run, from 2004 to 2012. The splashy suburban melodrama earned 38 Emmy nominations and won seven, including a Best Actress trophy for Huffman and two Guest Actress trophies for Kathryn Joosten.

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In the years since the series went off the air, virtually all of its stars have gone on to acclaimed work on other series, including Huffman with American Crime, Cross with Quantico, and Longoria on Telenovela. But the former residents of Wisteria Lane have not been shy about their own desires for a reboot.

In 2023, Longoria said she’d be “the first to sign up for a reboot,” though series creator Marc Cherry might need some convincing. “He feels like there’s no Why now? For the sake of a reboot, he wouldn’t do it,” she explained.

But Cherry himself stated the year after that he would be open to a reboot, though he could take or leave the original cast. “I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” he said, “because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had.”

Jesse Metcalfe, who starred as hunky gardner John Rowland on five seasons of Desperate Housewives, told TMZ in January that “a little buzz” around the series meant a reboot “could happen.” And Cross, while not signaling her explicit endorsement of a reboot, reprised her role as Bree Van de Kamp that same month in a promotional video for a French TV festival.