Former ABC Chief Stephen McPherson testified Friday that he approved a plan to kill presumably serial seductress "Desperate Housewives" Edie Britt a full four months before Show creator Marc Cherry hit actress Nicollette Sheridan in the head of a highly controversial incident in rehearsal.
McPherson, who left the network in July 2010 amidst news of an internal probe of sexual harassment, said Cherry asked for his blessing upon the death of Sheridan Realtor vampy during a pitch meeting in May 2008.
"Presented information that wanted to kill the character off," said McPherson. "This was the time to let us know in the confidentiality that wanted to put an end to period of Edie."
Wearing a v-neck sweater casual sneakers, McPherson said he remembered telling cherry who wanted to make the death of five season "promotable".
"I gave them my approval," he said. "We were really excited about the possibilities."
Under interrogation, Sheridan's lawyer Mark Baute McPherson asked if it were true that he resigned from ABC "with a notice period of one day."
Cherry's lawyer Adam Levin objected, calling it irrelevant, and the judge agreed.
Baute previously told the Daily News that the circumstances of McPherson's departure from ABC were off limits, when he entered the jury box.
Sheridan, now looking for 6 million dollars with his drums and wrongful termination case against Cherry and ABC, claims that she was fired from the show in February 2009 in retaliation for his complaint that Cherry walloped her "tough", in a fit of frustration on September 24, 2008.
Cherry has previously testified that he "Tapped" the head to give his creative direction, and that the incident played no part in his decision to kill Britt.
Show Senior scribe Jeff Greenstein took the stand after McPherson and said that he believed that the decision was not finalized until early 2009.
"As the fall (2008), there were a lot of discussions about whether this was or was not a good idea," Greenstein said jurors. "I remember that during October, November, December, this was still an issue (Cherry) was not completely at rest with."
Greenstein acknowledged that was a part-time private not for all creative discussions, but said that he had regular high-level meetings with cherry covered arches of the main character of the show.
Earlier Friday, one of the show's executive producer testified that Sheridan was habitually late on set and often forgot her lines but she added that she was "receptive" flowers of inputs and deserved after the altercation on the set.
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