Kevin Parry/WireImage.comDirty Sexy Money has been off the air for more than three months now, and according to creator Craig Wright, we won’t see it again till 2010. Oh, he kids! The decadently fun series—and most expensive first-year drama ever made—will return this September, and last night the cast, Wright and executive producer Greg Berlanti reunited at the Paley Festival to answer questions on Peter Krause's ever-changing sideburns (one of the producers monitors them), Natalie Zea's female fan encounters (their husbands are in love with her) and, of course, what’s to come. Read on for all the Dirty scoop...
- Karen Darling George? Don’t hold your breath. Sure, there may be residual feelings on both sides of this equation, but Lisa George “loves the crap out of [her husband],” according to Zoe McLellan. Besides, he just made a promise to expand their family, so a baby may be on the way. “When Nick George says something, he means it,” said Wright. “They will be going forward as a couple for a good long while.” As far as Nick’s feelings for Karen are concerned, Wright quotes Robert Frost: “You have to hold things back for pressure...It would not profit anyone to force that.”
- Carmelita Darling? Don’t laugh. After all, it could be a legally recognized union, seeing as Carmelita is a woman in every sense of the word. Though DSM has not yet addressed this fact, they will find the right story moment to do so in season two. Moreover, Wright said that “Patrick is a character with a personal reality that’s cloaked in darkness...his journey toward openness shall bring him success.”
- Election ’08? With the writers' strike pushing production back, Patrick’s senate bid will not follow the real-life election time line this fall, there’s just too much story to tell. But Billy Baldwin is loving the real-life drama of Eliot Spitzer, as it represents the timeliness of his character.
- Have We Seen The Last of Brian, Jr.? Heck no! He’ll be back, and quite a bit.
- Who Killed Nick's Dad? "Did you ever see a body?” Billy quipped, insinuating that Dutch may not actually be dead. Wright further compounded our confusion by adding, “I know who thinks they did it,” but went on to promise that the mystery will be solved relatively soon. Had it not been for the strike, that storyline would’ve been put to bed by the end of season one.
- Will Nick Have a Secret Serial Killer Past? Former Dexter show runner Daniel Cerone has jumped on board to helm season two, and though he has no plans to insert a murder streak into the series, Wright said Cerone's expertise will change DSM slightly, giving it a new rhythm and relieving it from its own hyperactivity. The audience will get just as much story as we enjoyed before, but will delve deeper into specific issues.
- Is There a Hatch Involved? Wright has the entire mythic structure of the series mapped out, and knows how he’d like to see it ultimately end. In fact, if anyone’s read the “Divine Comedy” from start to finish, they should have a pretty good idea of where his head’s at. (Side note: Wright wrote for Lost before getting DSM off the ground.)
—Reporting by Korbi Ghosh