Makers of ABC's "Desperate Housewives" recently revealed their intentions of ending the series after seven seasons.

Sitting alongside the show's six leading stars, Dana Delany, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria Parker and Nicollette Sheridan, and producer Bob Daily, "Desperate Housewives" creator and executive producer Marc Cherry said during a meeting at the Television Critics Association press tour that the ladies of Wisteria Lane have only three more years to solve their problems.

"The thing that made the first year so easy is the women's lives were very simple and their problems were very small," Cherry said, explaining the creative decision he claims to have borrowed from ABC's "Lost." "But as the years go on with a serialized show, the soap begins to build up."

"I love working with these gals, but the idea of letting anyone else take the show from me kind of makes me sad and sick to my stomach," Cherry said.

"We're going to get out while people still like us." he added.

With fans' curiosity increasing after last season's time jump in the final episode, Cherry also revealed some spoilers from the fifth season, including news that this season’s mystery will be rooted squarely on the shoulders of new cast addition Neil McDonough, who’s supposed to be a romantic interest for neighborhood harlot Edie Brit (Nicolette Sheridan).

"He’s bringing a mystery with him," Cherry teased, "and he wants revenge on his mother." McDonough’s character’s romantic involvement with Brit means that even though she was kicked off the street at the end of last season, the rabble-rouser is coming back. "Edie will come back to Wisteria Lane in a very surprising way," Cherry said. "We’re not telling you any more than that." Sheridan, however, piped up: Her return "will be hot."