Gorgeous actresses in lingerie mowing their lawns, doing their gardening, hanging their washing in what appeared to be a peaceful, Pleasantville-esque neighbourhood, until a newspaper revealed that a mysterious suicide had occurred. And a spicy new television series called Desperate Housewives is all anyone is talking about. Some chick called Rihanna has just burst onto the music scene with “Pon de Replay”. Tom Cruise is jumping for joy on Oprah‘s couch. Brad and Jennifer have just called it quits. Let’s cast our minds back: The year is 2005. The fact that it became the hottest show on TV, won multiple awards, ran for eight years, and earned more revenue than God, still boggles my mind,” she concluded.Īs longtime followers of the show will know, this is just the latest in a string of allegations that the show has endured since it landed on our screens and changed television forever. Lin was subsequently dropped from Desperate Housewives midway through Season One. The quality that had attracted me to the pilot - the dark humour - was lost in the slapdash, assembly-line approach to what was supposed to be a creative process,” she wrote. “With this wildly inefficient system, it’s a miracle that any episodes of Desperate Housewives ever got made. Lin claimed she was among several writers who were given “busy work of writing the marginally funny material” ‘cos Cherry and his “loyal team” of two other writers took over most of the scripts.Īfter another writer was assigned to a script, Lin alleged that Cherry insisted the staff needed to “gang bang” the draft without informing the OG writer. Marc turned to me and said, ‘Patty, you should write a show like that.’ I love Margaret Cho, but please don’t lump us together just because we’re both Asian women in show business,” she wrote. “One day at lunch, the topic of Margaret Cho came up, and someone mentioned All-American Girl, Cho’s short-lived sitcom about a Korean American family. Lin worked on the first season and alleged that she experienced “overt racism” from Cherry. Usually we’d only see the cast at table reads, where we’d sit quietly in the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher,” Lin wrote. “The writers weren’t barred from the set, but we weren’t exactly welcome. Patty Lin, one of the writers of the show, revealed in her new book End Credits: How I Broke Up With Hollywood that the writers were instructed to avoid eye contact with Hatcher when they visited set. The show was absolutely rife with behind-the-scenes drama and more and more stories keep surfacing, the latest involving lead queen Teri Hatcher, who played ditzy artist Susan, and the show’s creator Marc Cherry.
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