James Denton relished his "big send-off" from 'Desperate Housewives'.
James Denton starred on the show between 2004 and 2012
The 61-year-old actor played Mike Delfino on the hit TV drama between 2004 and 2012, and James didn't have any qualms when Mike was killed in a drive-by shooting during season eight of the show.
He told PEOPLE: "I love that people are really sweet. Almost everyone I talk to comments on the fact that they cried when Delfino got shot, but it was set up brilliantly by the writer Matt Berry and Marc Cherry."
James acknowledges 'Desperate Housewives' had a reputation for being "salacious".
But the actor also suggested that the perception is actually misguided.
He said: "The guys joked the entire run, 'Who was gonna get killed,' you know, because for all of the talk about 'Housewives' being so salacious, there wasn't that much sex - but there was a lot of murder."
'Desperate Housewives' also starred the likes of Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman and Eva Longoria, and Eva previously admitted that the show changed her life entirely.
The brunette beauty - who played Gabrielle Solis on the show - said on 'Today with Hoda and Jenna': "It was a decade of my life and it was the No. 1 show in the world.
"I just remember the first time I went to London, I had never been to London before and there was a big crowd of people outside the hotel, and I was like, ‘Gosh, who’s here? Is Bono here? Somebody important must be here!’ And the driver was like, ‘… You…’ And I was like, ‘No, somebody like, big. Like a big deal!'
"And he didn’t understand that I didn’t understand. The global reach of that show, at the time where there was no streaming."
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