'Desperate Housewives' producer Annie Weisman signs two-year Apple TV+ deal

By Oliver Haslam
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What you need to know

  • Annie Weisman is best known for writing and producing "Desperate Housewives".
  • She's already working on "Physical" for Apple TV+.
  • Deadline reports she now has a 2-year deal in the bag.

Annie Weisman, best known for writing and producing "Desperate Housewives," has signed a new two-year overall deal with Apple TV+ according to reports.

While already working on "Physical" for Apple TV+, Deadline reports that Weisman has now signed an overall deal that will see her develop projects exclusively for Apple TV+. She was previously signed to Universal TV under a similar deal. She also has a run of other successful shows to her name, too.

Weisman hit her stride as a writer-producer on seasons 7 and 8 of ABC's Desperate Housewives. She also served as co-executive producer on Hulu's The Path. Her other TV series credits include Suburgatory and About a Boy. As a playwright, her work includes Be Aggressive, Hold Please and Surf Report.

Apple TV+ continues to pull the best and the brightest talent as it works to increase its collection of first-party exclusive TV shows and movies for the six-month-old streaming service.

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Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.