On the heels of yesterday's news that Dana Delany may soon become a Desperate Housewife, is news that Nathan Fillion is also in talks to join the show. The Hollywood Reporter says that Fillion would play Delany's much younger husband. They'd be the new couple on the block at Wisteria Lane and would, no doubt, have some sort of mysterious past and secrets that they're hiding from the neighbors.Rounding up the Fillion/Delany family is Lyndsy Fonseca, who may play the couple's daughter. Fonseca is currently the unnamed "daughter" that we occasionally see at the beginning of How I Met Your Mother.
It'll be interesting to see whether Fillion's addition to the show brings some Browncoats over to ABC on Sunday nights (probably not this Browncoat). Fillion had a lot of support from his fans when Drive launched this spring, but it was swiftly canceled by Fox.
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7-03-2007 @ 1:15PM
David said...
Oh good! That means the show will be canceled soon! :)
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7-03-2007 @ 1:39PM
Nate said...
lol, thats exactly what I was thinking. He and Andy Richter are cursed.
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7-03-2007 @ 2:03PM
Babs said...
no nooooo noooooooooo .........I refuse to believe that he is the next ted mc Ginley!
Luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurne Nathan Fillion!
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7-03-2007 @ 2:43PM
Ashley Boyd said...
Nathan Fillion is awesome, would love to see him join the cast.
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7-03-2007 @ 2:54PM
Tess Capra said...
Interesting pairing -- that's a 15-year age difference, although I don't think it will look like it.
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7-03-2007 @ 3:47PM
Eric said...
Does anyone remember Pasadena? Weren't those two on that show where Fillion plays a priest and Delaney's character seduces him ...or something like that.
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7-03-2007 @ 3:50PM
Kyle said...
I'd actually start watching Desperate Housewives if he joined the cast. I enjoy pretty much everything he's in, even if I don't like it for anything else. People have told me to start watching Desperate Housewives, because it's a good show, so his joining the cast might gain another viewer. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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7-03-2007 @ 4:36PM
Mel said...
I've never seen an episode of Desperate Housewives, and I seldom watch non-sci-fi dramas. (Or is it a comedy? I know awards shows often count it as a comedy, but what do the fans consider it as?) But if Nathan Fillion joins, I may just tune in. He's awesome.
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7-03-2007 @ 5:27PM
Karen said...
I haven't watched an episode of DH since the end of the first season, but if Fillion joined up I'd be all over it like white on rice.
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7-03-2007 @ 6:37PM
ProgGrrl said...
I also gave up on DH early in season 2 - but I'll come back if Nathan signs on. I've been waiting to see who would snap him up once DRIVE got Foxed.
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7-03-2007 @ 7:12PM
Sean said...
Well, they would get me. My mother watches it and has said a couple of times that I would like it, but I never did. However, if Fillion makes it on, I may have to put some DH on my Netflix queue.
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7-03-2007 @ 7:13PM
Sean said...
" ...but I never did."
I meant to say "... but I never did watch it."
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7-03-2007 @ 8:20PM
Keli said...
Eric is right. Dana Delaney's character had an affair with Fillion's character, a priest, on the short lived show Pasadena. Maybe he IS the next Ted McGinley? (although Married with Children ran for several years after he joined the cast, so I'm not even sure Ted McGinley is as bad luck as Nathan Fillion).
Either way, I'll watch anything with him in it, so I guess I'll be tuning back into DH this fall if he joins.
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7-03-2007 @ 11:18PM
lorilei13 said...
Yay.
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8-05-2007 @ 4:16PM
Carol Ann said...
I also totally like Nathan, especially in Firefly. Loved that show. Will give Desperate Housewives a look see if he joins the cast.
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