Lynette and Tom will definitely be back together before Desperate Housewives’ series finale, right?

— Jessica
ADAM: Well, Felicity Huffman isn’t optimistic. “I would like to see them get back together,” Huffman confesses. “But as we’ve been shooting… I’m starting to feel like, maybe they’re not going to get back together again. I’m really sad.” Get in line behind Jessica, Felicity.

TVGuide

Renowned TV badass Miguel Ferrer is taking his special brand of intensity to Wisteria Lane.

The Crossing Jordan vet (who’s currently starring in the Lifetime procedural The Protector) is joining the final season of Desperate Housewives in the recurring role of Andre Zeller, a renowned and temperamental contemporary artist who is teaching a course at the local college.
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Mr. Zeller is very demanding of his students, one of whom is part-time illustrator Susan (Teri Hatcher). “He clashes with Susan when she goes back to art school,” reveals a Housewives insider of Ferrer’s character.

I smell some fresh competition for Mike Delfino.

Ferrer joins a Season 8 guest cast that also includes the Friends‘ Jessica Hecht (as a love interest for Tom) and V‘s Charles Mesure (as Renee’s new man).

Housewives‘ eighth (and final) season launches on Sept. 25.

TVLine

The newly announced final season of ABC’s Desperate Housewives will include several family reunions on The Lane.

Felicity Huffman has already told The Hollywood Reporter that things will look rocky when we meet up with Lynette on the new season, but an ABC spokesperson confirms that Sarah Paulson reprises her role as Lynette’s loser sister, Lydia, for one episode. And she has apparently had a reversal of fortune.

“Lynette always helped put the pieces back in Lydia’s disastrous personal life, but she is now engaged and shows up with her new fiancé,” executive producer Bob Daily tells TVGuide.com.

“We’ll hear her say, ‘Oh Lynette, I’m so sorry. What can I do to help?’ The seeds of sibling rivalry are planted as the roles are reversed,” Daily elaborates.

Paulson first appeared on Desperate Housewives’ Season 4 in 2007. Viewers may remember her from the first and only season of ABC’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and later on the network’s short-lived series, Cupid. She has also appeared as the younger version of Meredith’s mom, Ellis Grey, on Grey’s Anatomy.

Daily also says fans can expect some of the children to return for the final season, including Susan’s (Teri Hatcher) daughter, Julie (Andrea Bowen), Bree’s (Marcia Cross) daughter, Danielle (Joy Lauren), and an older Kayla, Tom’s (Doug Savant) illegitimate daughter previously played by Rachel Fox.

HollywoodReporter

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a sad day for the smart and sassy suburban women on Wisteria Lane and the worldwide audience of approximately 120 million who watch them. We’ve just learned that ABC will announce on Sunday to the Television Critics Association that this 2011-2012 season will be the last for long-running Desperate Housewives.

Key castmembers are starting to be told, and we hear that Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Eva Longoria are shocked and saddened since the ABC Studios series created by Marc Cherry was expected to continue until 2013 after the longtime showrunner said that he wanted the show to go for 9 seasons.

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When last seen on Desperate Housewives, Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) was in the midst of another horrible night, though this was really worse than most. She and estranged husband Tom (Doug Savant) were putting on a happy front at a neighborhood dinner party that culminated with the Wisteria Lane ladies hiding a dead body in a trunk.

Felicity tells me that the September 25 season premiere will look a lot like the memorable 9 to 5 sequence when Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton comically conspired to hide a corpse, as Lynette, Susan (Teri Hatcher), Bree (Marcia Cross) and Gaby (Eva Longoria) come together to cover up Carlos’ murder of Gaby’s sexually abusive stepfather.

“The whole first episode is about them being accomplices in this murder and actually burying this body,” previews Felicity. “We had night shoots until three o’clock in the morning out at the Disney ranch with the fog moving in. It was heavy, horrifying and disturbing carrying this fake dead body wrapped up in a table cloth.”

While Felicity says the new season’s mystery “adds a deep, dark element and shifts the ground upon which the women walk,” it also provides Teri and Eva with some prime comedic bits. “And Eva by far got the dirtiest.”

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Times are very different for “Desperate Housewives” this season as it approaches Sunday’s (May 15) two-hour Season 7 finale with no official word on whether it’s returning next season.

Reports in April stated that the last holdouts among the “Housewives” stars to sign on for next season were close to finalizing their deal, which would be followed soon after by an official announcement from ABC. Yet, that announcement has yet to come.

“Desperate” husband, James Denton, had previously said the negotiations had become more complicated than expected and that the men hadn’t even been approached pending the women’s negotiations. That seems to have changed.

“Yes, we’ve been approached,” Doug Savant, who plays Tom Scavo, tells Zap2it. “Here’s the thing. I feel very confident. There’s no official announcement. We’re not officially picked up. Upfronts are coming up, so we should know something by the middle of the month.”

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