“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade. Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane,” he told People. “That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street.
Cherry continued, “I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. 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.'”
Cherry noted that “about 70,000 people” have asked him about a reboot. “The truth of the matter is that I have a couple of ideas to do it,” he said.
“I feel like if I ever got a chance to do that show again, I’d be better at the job. I learned so much,” added Cherry, explaining that the key to a potential reboot would be determining if “there is still stuff that needs to be said.”
“If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it. And at some point, I’ll sit down with someone and go, ‘Okay, let’s talk about if there’s a good enough “why” to do it,'” said Cherry.
Desperate Housewives stars Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Nicollette Sheridan as the women of Wisteria Lane, who begin to uncover dark secrets after their neighbor Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) commits suicide.
Cherry has since created the series Devious Maids and Why Women Kill.
