'Housewives' pair pick up promotion

June 18, 2007 Murphy and Pardee have been serving as co-executive producers and writers on the series, a production of ABC Studios. The pair also co-created the CBS pilots "Family Business" in 2001 and an untitled family comedy in 2002, both of which were written with Cherry, and were co-executive producers on CBS' "Some of My Best Friends," on which Cherry was an executive producer/writer. Murphy and Pardee also have served as co-executive producers on ABC's "Bob Patterson," also from ABC Studios (then Touchstone Television), and were supervising producers on CBS' "Cybill" and NBC's "The Jeff Foxworthy Show."

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