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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TaranofPrydain" data-source="post: 332858" data-attributes="member: 51150"><p>Fox always was famous for killing off shows on Friday, but Pasadena's brief existence and quick disappearance also had another ripple effect concerning the later Desperate Housewives. Dana Delany, who would eventually join Housewives as Katharine, was repeatedly courted over and over to play Bree, and she turned it down three times, saying it was too close to her role on Pasadena. Marcia Cross (who was just originally going to try out for the role of deceased narrator Mary Alice) ended up getting a whole second wind to her career all because of a quickly cancelled Fox show.</p></blockquote><p></p>