Desperate Housewives creator hits back

The same TV critics that Bree of Desperate Housewives would have happily welcomed to a dinner party last year would now probably get one of those icy glares she reserves for her misbehaving son.

Viewers are still lapping up new episodes of the Sunday soap, but the first rumblings of a critical backlash have set in. That forced show creator Marc Cherry to insist he’s just as involved in the show’s preparations as he’s always been.