Withdraw cash federal loan application “I see both sides,” says Marc Cherry, who wrote 180 episodes of ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” in eight seasons and now writes Lifetime’s “Devious Maids,” with a 13-episode season. “If viewers like a show, they want more,” he says. “Networks want more. But for a writer, the pressure can be overwhelming. At the end of ‘Desperate,’ I felt completely wrung out.”