ABC Promises Better Season for 'Desperate Housewives'

Stephen McPherson, ABC Entertainment President denied that the series that was such a big hit at the Emmys last year has suffered 'a creative collapse' and dished out at the new voting rules adopted by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

During the 2006 Television Critics Association press tour, McPherson said that the academy is responsible for the 'major oversight' of 'Lost' and 'Desperate Housewives', that were not included at all in the list of nominations, and for the latter's subsequent decrease in popularity.

'To have that kind of oversight is just remarkable. There's a problem', the ABC President said, right before claiming that the academy should revise the modified rules and take note that the changes adopted were not good at all.

But maybe the Emmy nominations, made public a while ago, were not the only responsible for the 'creative collapse' of the once amazing show. And McPherson is somehow aware of that, too. He also announced that Mac Cherry is back full time on the project, taking over Tom Spezialy, the man who took the second season towards a more soap-opera-ish direction.

So, fans and admirers of the beautiful women living on Wisteria Lane might actually get the chance to relive those moments that made the first season of 'Desperate Housewives' such a big hit. McPherson said that all the scripts are going only through Cherry's typewriter now and that the show will soon return to a more wickedly humorous sensibility.

The show will return on ABC on September 24.