Marc Cherry
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Marc Cherry (born 1962) is an American writer and producer.
He began his career at Designing Women as Dixie Carter's personal assistant. In 1990 he became a writer and producer for the longrunning hit sitcom, The Golden Girls.
Afterwards he created a short-lived sitcom also centering around four strong, diverse women, The Five Mrs. Buchanans (1994)) and other series such as The Crew (1995) and Some of My Best Friends (2001). In 2004, after tirelessly shopping around another show about the fractured lives of four women, Cherry got his big break when ABC decided to pick it up (HBO, FOX, CBS and NBC all passed on the show). The series, Desperate Housewives, was an immediate ratings smash and generated enormous national (and subsequently, international) debate. Cherry received several lucrative offers from various parties, but chose to sign a long-term deal with Touchstone, since their network had shown faith in Desperate Housewives when no one else would.
Cherry was described by Newsweek as a "somewhat conservative, gay Republican."[link] When Jerry Falwell was asked how he felt about that, he said "the fact that he’s a gay Republican means he should join the Democratic Party."[link]
Cherry has been getting slammed by TV critics who say the second season of Desperate Housewives is not as creative or as good as the first. Cherry insists that he is still heavily involved in the show but he also busy creating other new shows for Touchstone. Despite this criticism, Desperate Housewives is consistently rated as the #2 program in the United States (sometimes coming in at #1), and its average viewership is higher than it was in the show's first season. Cherry has stated that he will be more involved next season than previously.
Cherry appeared as himself in an episode of Arrested Development, which was created by fellow Golden Girls writer Mitchell Hurwitz.
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