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" Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has started developing a new show for ABC. Devious Maids is an adaptation of Mexican series The Disorderly Maids of the Neighbourhood, Deadline reports. The project, which is said to be loosely based on the original show, focuses on four Latina women who work as maids in Beverly Hills. The Mexican programme follows five housekeepers who work in a quiet residential area which is shaken up over a row about a swimming pool being built during a water shortage.  The women get caught up in a mystery when one of the residents disappears, a suitcase of money shows up, and a body is found in the pool. Cherry is best known for his work on Desperate Housewives, which will come to a close when its eighth season ends. He recently developed another pilot for ABC, Hallelujah, but it was not picked up. However, the show is thought to still be on the development slate after Cherry wrote another script. ABC is currently working on a number of new projects, including a comedy starring Mandy Moore, a thriller soap called Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, and a modern day update of Jekyll and Hyde. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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