Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City Creators in Catty Feud
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Would Carrie Bradshaw and the gang get along with the women of Wisteria Lane? TV fans will never know -- but the men who helped bring Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives don't exactly see eye to eye.
At the TCA in Pasadena, Calif. this week, Desperate Housewives' creator Marc Cherry made an obvious dig at the film Sex and the City 2 when asked if his ABC hit, currently in its final season, would ever become a feature film.
"I'm never sending these gals to Dubai. That's all I'm saying," Cherry sniffed of a major plot point from the big-screen sequel starring Sarah Jessica Parker. Further slamming the beloved HBO series, he added: "Sex and the City only did, I think, a total of something like 69 episodes. So I always thought that the advantage for them was that they had they hadn't really plumbed the depths of those characters."
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Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King responded to the dig on Wednesday. "I don't think [Cherry has] ever made a feature film, so I don't know if he knows what that entails, but the reality is my second movie made almost half a billion dollars. It's fine. The reality is I've moved on from that. I'm doing a new show," he said of smash hit 2 Broke Girls. "It's the number one comedy."
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"It doesn't matter," he quipped of the so-called feud. "Here's what happens: You create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then. . . people's reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it's a compliment."
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8I was a huge fan of the SATC tv series but Cherry is right...SATC 2 SUCKED big time!!!!! It only made so much money b/c the first one was really good so people saw the sequel.
I was a huge fan of the SATC tv series but Cherry is right...SATC 2 SUCKED big time!!!!! It only made so much money b/c the first one was really good so people saw the sequel.
I'm probably the minority here but I think Desperate Housewives is miles better than Sex And The City (I have a penchant for most ABC shows). I found Sex And The City unwatchable because it is essentially mediocre looking middle aged women moaning about their sex lives and obsessing about fashion. Completely unrelateable to a male audience. Desperate Housewives had action, murder, lies, conspiracies, suicides, lead starlets with actual sex appeal, explosions, car accidents, psychopathic ex's with grudges, switched babies, affairs, a 5 year time jump, hostage situations, tornadoes, arson, plane crashes, riots and mystery. Sex And The City had Prada and Gucci and missionary and fellatio but not a whole lot else. In movie terms, DH is a drama. SATC is a rom-com. I'd rather watch the former thanks...
I agree, Sex in the City is my favorite out of the two. I love the plot and the search for a perfect romance.
Sorry, but Desperate Housewives is by far the more superficial show, particularly the writing, but that is part of its appeal...Sex in the City had deeper character development, continuity, and much better stories. I enjoyed Sex in the City 2. Maybe some people did not like Dubai--but I did. I love Desperate Housewives (I LOVE TERI HATCHER), but many times, the writers forget a plot point from previous seasons, and the character then does something that is completely the antithesis to what was already established, WAY out of context with any logic. That said, they do need to bring Desperate Housewives to the big screen, but Marc--of course you CAN'T bring them to Dubai, the story revolves around Wisteria Lane! Sex in the City, on the other hand, has always been cosmopolitan.
How about a crossover movie? Desperate in the City! It will be just like when the Jetsons met the Flintstones.
no 1 show? What joke. that show 2 broke girls is stupid annoying and BORING.and not a fan of either sex are or desperate.so there.wake up Pat it's not a #1 anything.
I LOVE Desperate Housewives but I really hate Marc Cherry. Lol. I never watched Sex and the City but Marc Cherry over the years seems to have many problems. He does need help.