'Desperate Housewives' wrongful termination trial reveals death spoiler

Anger didn't factor into the decision to kill off Nicollette Sheridan's role on Desperate Housewives, the series creator testified Thursday.
Marc Cherry concluded his testimony in the actress' wrongful termination case by denying claims by Sheridan's attorneys that he tried to influence the statements of other employees on the show to fit his version of the dispute.
Cherry and other witnesses have said approval to kill off Sheridan's character Edie Britt was given in May 2008, four months before the actress accused Cherry of striking her hard in the head during a discussion of a scene.
Cherry testified that he was simply trying to convey some direction to the actress on how to use physical humor.
Sheridan, 48, told jurors last week she was stunned and humiliated by the blow, which she described as a wallop, and that Cherry appeared nervous when he informed her in February 2009 that her character was going to die.
Actor James Denton, who rehearsed and shot with Sheridan the day of her dispute with Cherry, told the jury he didn't learn of Britt's death until he received a script detailing it the following year.
'I can't say I was shocked, only because people get killed so often,' he testified.
Jurors have been presented plenty of evidence about the many deaths of Desperate Housewives. .