'Desparate Housewives' is facing final season

“The only harder thing than creating a hit show is knowing when to end it,” said Marc Cherry as he looked ahead to the final year of “Desperate Housewives.” As ABC made official that the hit series would end after its upcoming eighth season, its creator, Cherry, joined ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee to insist the decision had been made jointly.

“I’m very aware that some shows overstay their welcome and I didn’t want that to happen with ‘Desperate Housewives,'” Cherry told reporters during a Sunday session of the Television Critics Association conference. “We wanted to go out in the classiest way possible.”