Are the lights going out on Wisteria Lane at the end of next season, the show’s eighth on the air? Whispers in the bushes indicate that it might be if the ratings don’t improve and insiders say there could be a decision on the fate of the show soon.
Desperate Housewives is still a force of nature on Sunday nights but the show has lost half of its audience since season one, due in no small part of the ridiculous antics of season seven. Housewives has some stiff competition this fall with The Good Wife and Sunday Night Football so they will need to bring out the big guns to capture a decent audience this far into the game. Utilizing the treasure that is Vanessa Williams would be a good start plus Tom and Lynette’s separation should be fodder for some good story lines next year. And with Dallas roaring back into our living rooms next year maybe Housewives will find a new audience yearning for melodrama and scandal. I always did see Housewives sort of as the Knots Landing of this generation.
I’ve been a big fan of Housewives since day one despite but I won’t cry into my chrysanthemums if Marc Cherry and Bob Daily decide to send Bree, Susan, Lynette, Gabby and Renee packing in 2012. They’ve had a good run. The producers are noncommittal on the issue at the moment saying simply that they will “wait and see how it goes” and that ratings will be a big factor. But if ABC can’t come up with something worthy of that coveted Sunday night spot then low ratings or not I think the ladies of Wisteria Lane will be back in 2013.
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Season 8 should be the last. The show has had a great run and the ratings are very bad. I want the show to go out with a bang and if they drag it out over two season ratings will drop and the storylines will become to drawn out. Season 8 should be the last and the writers will have enough time to write a proper ending.
I agree they should set out to end it well instead of seeing how many years they can squeeze out of it.
Desperate Housewives, along with Grey’s Anatomy, are ABC’s strongest hourlong scripted series.
it also dropped from #4 to #26 for primetime show average viewers in general. I’d rather see it end on a high note than digging its own grave and getting cancelled.
No, the show can easily survive two more seasons. Though the ratings have dipped, the show still performs very well for an aging drama. I think that with improved writing, darker storylines and a real season-long mystery, the show may stableize and could work well for ABC over the next several seasons.