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Eva Longoria really is headed back to TV.

The erstwhile Desperate Housewife already is hard at on a guesting arc on Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s sophomore season, and now comes word that not one but two networks are vying for her favor.

NBC and her old home, ABC, reportedly are courting La Longoria. And they are courting her hard.

The Peacock – which already has helped the actress launch her UnbeliEVAble Entertainment producing shingle – wants her for Telenovela, a new show about a soap star balancing the drama she experiences on and especially off camera that will get an automatic 13-episode commitment if she agrees to star in it, not just produce it.

For its part, ABC is offering her a similar deal, for an untitled comedy from the brain trust behind the oh-so-funny, yet short-lived Trophy Wife. Except in order to get her producer’s credit, Longoria first has to sign on the dotted line as the star of the show, which would revolve around a successful home renovator who can’t help but keep solving problems even after she is done for the day at work, much to the chagrin of her bf, family, and friends.

The latter project sounds more friendly to physical comedy, which is something at which the actress is aces, IMHO.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see what she ends up picking.

Photo: GettyImages.co.uk.

Update: Well, it looks like NBC may have an edge.

Longoria is already set to co-executive produce Zachary Levi’s (TV’s Chuck) return to the Peacock. The project is called Tuned and centers on a driven New Yorker (that would be played by Levi) who starts experiencing all these musical hallucinations that eventually put him on a more fulfilling path in life.

Sounds kinda Eli Stone-ish to me.