There wasn’t time for every actor to name a favourite scene, but Hatcher got in a mention of the time her scatterbrained Susan got locked out of her house, naked. “It’s really hard to beat the ‘naked in the bushes’ scene. … There was a new wardrobe girl on-set. Her name was Susan. It’s six in the morning. She says, ‘Can we please take some gaffer’s tape and cover your nipples and your crotch?’
“And we walk to the set, and I was in a robe, and it was going to be six hours of shooting this from every angle. So I just took off my robe in front of the 60 crew and said, ‘Everyone, take a good look.’ And then we just moved on. It was so bonding.”
Cherry said he will make a Hitchcock-style cameo appearance in the final episode. But he dismissed the idea of a Desperate Housewives movie, citing the Sex and the City movies as a reason for not doing it. That’s wise. Desperate Housewives arrived just as Sex and the City stopped airing. “After eight years, boy, I think we’re done,” Cherry concluded.
True, but well done to him and all involved.
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Truth and Hype from the TV Critics Tour
Truth
Cable is where the action is. “I think House of Lies is incredibly timely,” says David Nevins, head of Showtime. “It’s about everything that’s messed up with American capitalism.” The show, a corrosive satire of management companies, which airs Mondays on TMN, last week achieved astonishing ratings for a hardnosed cable series – which suggests cable viewers are willing to question capitalism. Later the same day, producer John Wells said the major broadcast networks would now be too timid to buy some of his previous hits: “It took us a long time to sell West Wing at the time, and I think it would be completely impossible to sell it now to network television. I would never be able to sell ER, actually, which was hard to sell to a network at the time.”
Hype
Old ideas die hard. The CW is the little network that relies on shows aimed at young women – Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, Hart of Dixie and others. It also seems to hold firm to the idea that young women will always fall for a bad boy. Or a “badass guy,” as they call such figures. On Thursday, there was a panel called Badass Boys of the CW. Wilson Bethel, who takes his shirt off very often on Hart of Dixie, was asked about a previous report which said he writes poetry. He was outraged: “I only write poetry when I'm riding my motorcycle smoking weed, chasing rattlesnakes.” He was kidding, but only a little.
