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Desperate teasers
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nashville native James Denton, best known as Mike the plumber on “Desperate Housewives,” is last seen stuck in jail for a murder he may or may not have committed. (Thanks to a handy case of amnesia, Mike can’t remember the situation after getting hit by a car by Bree’s sketchy current husband Orson.)
Denton told the AJC that his storyline will be wrapped up quicker than expected because of Marcia Cross’s pregnancy. Cross, whose pregnancy has not been written into the show, was placed on bedrest for the final three months, earlier than the show had anticipated.
“I’m not in jail very long,” he said. “They had to wrap up the mystery fast.”
And he admitted the whole amnesia was a bit silly:. “In a comedy, they couldn’t dedicate the time to it. He got well a little bit too fast for my taste.”
Earlier, Marc Cherry, creator of “Desperate Housewives,” fed the TV critics some amusing anecdotes.
For instance, his favorite censorship questionw as early on when Eva Longeria had cheated on her husband with the high-school-age gardener. She was holding a cigarette. The censor told him, “Does she have to smoke?” “And I went, ‘So you’re good with the statutory rape thing?’ “
He noted that the has to spend seemingly $100,000 an episode taking nipples out of the show because “Standards & Practices” (the censorship department) is fearful of the Federal Communications Commission post Janet Jackson. A couple of actresses, he said, don’t like to wear bras so that creates a problem. “Then I’l turn on ‘Friends,’ ” he said, “and it’s a nipple-fest!”
Cherry, who was literally living his parent’s basement before “Desperate” became a hit, also said he placed the criticism of his show’s second season into perspective: “People not liking the second season of your hit show, piece of cake. Borrowing $50,000 from your mother, not so easy.”
He also noted that with Bree gone for several episodes, Nicollette Sheridan’s character’s “going to be promoted and be front and center for the remainder of the season. She’s going to have a fascinating romance with someone who already lives on the street and we’re going to be meeting her son that was mentioned in the pilot.”
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