The pilot adaptation of the Mexican soap from Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has added General Hospital alum Brianna Brown to its cast, The Hollywood Reporter has learned exclusively.

Devious revolves around four maids (Ana Ortiz, Judy Reyes, Roselyn Sanchez and Dania Ramirez) with ambition and dreams of their own while they work for the rich and famous in Beverly Hills.

Brown will play Taylor Slate, the classy and smart second (trophy) wife to Michael Slate, who's insecure as his ex, Marisol, continues to be a factor in his life.

Cherry will write and executive produce alongside Sabrina Wind, Paul Presburger, David Lonner, Larry Shuman, Michael Garcia and John Mass. Paul McGuigan will direct the pilot for the ABC Studios production, which will film in Los Angeles.

Brown played Dr. Lisa Niles on General Hospital, igniting a fan frenzy when her character sparked a Fatal Attraction story line. Beyond the ABC soap, Brown's credits include episodes of Awake, Private Practice and Homeland. She's repped by Pakula/King & Associates and Carrabino Management.

http://www.hollywood...ds-pilot-297105

This sounds good! I hope it gets picked up

Edited June 22, 201213 yr by Toups

I hope it's good and, most importantly, that it stays good. I don't have much faith in Cherry's abilities as a headwriter/showrunner.

Edited March 7, 201213 yr by YRBB

Exactly--didn't Cherry step down as showrunner for DH this year and while I still only half watch it, it's been more watchable than in a long time. I think he a bit like Ryan Murphy in that he seems able to come up with compelling premises and first seasons, and then...

Awful title. Not only is it too derivative of the first, it also sounds more than ever like bad porn. If Cherry makes another show will it be called Anal Action?

Edited March 8, 201213 yr by CarlD2

It is a horrible title. I didn't think of the porn (it doesn't sound any more porn to me than DH did, but... that doesn't say much) but it' WAY too derivative.

Devious Maids sounds so much like one of the Cinemax late night films.

I don't think I've seen any show fall off in quality as quickly as DH did. I don't know how Cherry, Tim Kring, Ryan Murphy do it - I guess they ride hype for five minutes and flush the rest.

I do like Judy Reyes, I wish she were on a show I watched.

I don't think I've seen any show fall off in quality as quickly as DH did. I don't know how Cherry, Tim Kring, Ryan Murphy do it - I guess they ride hype for five minutes and flush the rest.

Im guessing you didnt watch Heroes....

Didn't Heroes start off popular and then have a long, slow death, with many disgusted by what the show became?

Didn't Heroes start off popular and then have a long, slow death, with many disgusted by what the show became?

Heroes started popular and was almost universally reviled in its second season with each one getting progressively worse to the point where most fans were glad to see it cancelled in season 4. It was rather a quick death with it only producing one good season and the rest just downright awful. Its amazing how badly things got after that first years. Now thats a show which had the biggest drop in quality Ive ever seen and it never did quite recover

This is the one show I'm excited about for Pilot season that I hope gets picked up - I just love my Latina leads. I'm going to try not to over-hype it like I did GCB.

SUSAN LUCCI! YES! YOU GO GIRL!

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/susan-lucci-co-star-devious-maidsmarc-cherry-abc-pilot-devious-maids/

YES LA LUCCI! How i miss watching her on my screen! Hope it get's picked up.

I LOVE that she's going to be a rich bitch employer!

I'm sorry, but from which Mexican telenovela is this? It says it's an adaptation but I've never heard of anything like this on Televisa or Telemundo.

AMAZING news. I will watch this show just for Susan Lucci. Let's hope the pilot gets picked up.