A Desperate Housewives spinoff is in the works, just in time for the Sept. 27 sixth season premiere of the award-winning ABC dramedy.

The network has inked a deal to produce a series of eight Desperate-themed commercials — which will “unfold as a weekly soap opera” — for mobile phone provider Sprint, Entertainment Weekly has learned. Some of the series’ minor characters may feature as “background extras,” says series Marc Cherry, who will write the spinoff ads.

According to co-executive producer Sabrina Wind, the ads will be shot by Desperate Housewives crewmembers on the Desperate Housewives set and be penned by Desperate Housewives writers.

“It’s very Desperate Housewives,” adds exec producer Sabrina Wind. “It was shot on our set, with our crew, and written by our writers.”

The 35-sec spots promise to feature plenty of “wicked dark humor, murder and adultery and betrayal.”