Joey Murphy is screenwriter and television producer, currently working as executive producer for Desperate Housewives.Murphy has written episodes of the cartoon, Doug, The Crew, and Cybill Shepherd's sitcom, Cybill, the last two for which he also served as producer. He also collaborated with Marc Cherry on the sitcom, The Golden Girls. When Desperate Housewives began in 2004, Murphy was one of the staff writers, and for the second year, he was promoted to co-executive producer.