What's Next? Friday Night Lights, Entourage, Desperate Housewives, Bones, and House - Page 2

Consulting producer/writer Jeff Greenstein debunked the idea that his show would be Lostifying after the shocking five year leap ahead in the finale. "We will tell the story forward from that point. There will be no flashbacks after the first episode," he declared, and though he's known as a comedy writer, I don't think he was kidding.

As for the reason behind that decision, he said the show wanted to reset the predicaments of the women, returning them to their desperate housewifely roots. "We wanted to see Lynette with teenage delinquents, and Gabby with children," and they didn't want to wait years to "reset to what the show was about."

Bones

Hart Hanson, creator of the romantic comedy procedural crime drama – say that twice – would say little about the new season other than that the two-hour premiere was being shot in England, and he remains puzzled as to why FOX agreed to the expensive proposition. "It's a huge pain in the ass to write," he indicated, saying the network wanted it to be a cohesive episode but able to be aired as two separate episodes. "So it has to be seamless but with a great big seam in it." About the plot, all he would say was that "someone's going to die, and we find their bones."

As for the fate of Zack (Eric Millegan), Hanson was apologetically unapologetic. He believes in the creative choice to shake up the ensemble, indicated that because they hadn't killed the character, the door was open to revisit Zack "with his poor hands in black gloves or something," but admitted that the strike-shortened season made that arc too compressed. "It should have been seamless. We failed. There are no excuses in television. We should have found a way to make it land more elegantly."

House

House writer/producer David Hoselton, whose festival session was on the process of taking a concept to the final script, refused to say much of anything about season five. Not that I'm bitter. "Every episode is a writer's baby, and at the end of each episode there's some hook or twist or surprise. When I reveal that then they get ticked, because it's like, 'thanks for ruining my show,'" he explained in our interview.

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