Pushing Daisies

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Dead Like Me creator Bryan Fuller will write the pilot for Pushing Daisies which sounds like the opposite of Dead Like Me:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/heroes/former_heroes_scribe_is_pushin-2634.aspx
"Executive Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, who produced the feature films American Beauty and Big Fish, have drafted Heroes lead writer Bryan Fuller to pen their ABC commissioned pilot "Pushing Daisies".

"Daisies" is described as a supernatural police procedural featuring a lead character who is able to resurrect the dead. Fuller is uniquely qualified for this job, having tackled the antithesis in his work on "Dead Like Me"."

 

[Syf]

This sounds very very interesting. I look forward to it. This is a new series to air when?

 

[Theta Sigma]

This is a new series to air when?

Don't know yet.

 

[Syf]

Well keep up the good work on keeping us informed.

 

[Theta Sigma]

Thank you.

ABC has formally given Pushing Daisies the greenlight:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=39445&type=0
"ABC Pushes Daisies

ABC has given the green light to Pushing Daisies, a one-hour pilot from Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller and Oscar-winning producers Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks, according to The Hollywood Reporter."

 

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Kristin Chenoweth picking Daisies
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-pilotcasting-kristinchenoweth-charlessdutton,0,2455349.story
"Kristin Chenoweth is going from merely inspiring a character on television to actually playing one again.

The Tony Award winner and former "West Wing" actress has joined the cast of ABC's pilot "Pushing Daisies," the showbiz trade papers report.....

In "Pushing Daisies," Chenoweth ("RV," "Wicked" on Broadway) will play a love interest for Lee Pace's character, a guy whose touch can bring the dead back to life."

 

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Bryan Fuller has revealed details of the show which has the leading character being a pie maker:
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=1&id=40631&type=0

"Fuller Talks Pushing Daisies

Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC's supernatural comedy/drama pilot Pushing Daisies, revealed to SCI FI Wire details about the show, which is currently filming. "It's about a pie maker who can touch dead things and bring them back to life," Fuller (Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls) said in an interview at Wizard World in Los Angeles on March 17. "He touches dead fruit, and he puts them in his pies, and he has the best pies in all the land. ... The rules of the show is: He touches a dead person once, and they come back to life, and then if he touches them a second time, they go back to being dead, and he can never bring them back. And he touches a dead girl, falls in love with her and can't ever touch her again. So it's a romantic comedy."

Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) is directing the pilot, which is narrated by Jim Dale, the narrator of the Harry Potter audio books, Fuller said. "He narrates it like it's very much a fairy tale," he added. "And it's a lot of fun. We're halfway through filming right now."

Fuller, who is currently a writer for NBC's Heroes, acknowledged that the show fits his obsession with death. "When I was a kid, my happiest memories were going to funerals, because that's when I got to see, like, the extended family and the cousins," Fuller said. "And I could actually talk about movies and television and things that I was obsessed about. The things that my immediate family didn't want to hear. So they were always very happy occasions. ... And also I think the whole death thing—talking about or examining death—is a really good way to examine life."

The show will star Lee Pace, who also starred in Fuller's short-lived Wonderfalls. Like that show, Pushing Daisies is "very quirky and weird," Fuller said. "It's a very heightened reality." The hourlong show will also star Anna Friel, Kristin Chenoweth, Chi McBride, Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Green. ABC will make a decision on whether to pick up Pushing Daisies in April or May."

 

[Theta Sigma]

Pushing Daisies began its broadcast in the US at the beginning of this month and the impression that I have got is that the show has been well received and the series has just gotten a full season order:
Exclusive: Full Season Blossoms for Pushing Daisies - Ausiello Report | TVGuide.com

 

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Trailer:
YouTube - Pushing Daisies - Extended Preview

 

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To Australian viewers:
Got the first episode from a free DVD that came with yesterday's Sydney Sun Herald ahead of its formal debut on 9.

So far seen the first five minutes and will finish it before it comes on 9 and I will give my opinion of it then.

 

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To Australian viewers:
According to TV WEEK, 9 will begin showing the series sometime after next month.

 

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To Australian viewers:
We may have to wait until Summer to see Pushing Daisies:
TV Tonight: Pushing Daisies pushed to summer

 

[Theta Sigma]

To Australian viewers:
TV Tonight has reported that Pushing Daisies is one of the shows that Nine has sold to FOX8.

In 2009 Pushing Daisies will make its Australian TV debut on FOX8.

 

[Theta Sigma]

To Australian viewers:
TV Tonight has reported that Pushing Daisies is one of the shows that Nine has sold to FOX8.

In 2009 Pushing Daisies will make its Australian TV debut on FOX8.

Pushing Daisies will be on W instead as I saw a promo of it some weeks ago.

 

[Theta Sigma]

Pushing Daisies finally has an Australian start date.

It will begin on Tuesday April 7 7:30pm on W.

http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2009/03/airdate-pushing-daisies.html

 

[Theta Sigma]

Dummy:
Season 1, Episode 2.
Love Olive's singing.
Funny of the line "skeletons in the closet" as it was almost literally true.
Also funny is Emerson's line of dead people don't talk...usually.
Not surprised on who the villain was.

 

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Pigeon:
Season 1, Episode 4.
A pigeon having an artificial wing, something that I did not think I would ever see.
Olive had a good opportunity to make a move against Chuck but chose not to for the sake of Chuck's aunt and that is quite noble of her to pass on that opportunity

 

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Girth:
Season 1, Episode 5.
Very good mystery which involves the ghost of a jockey that Olive accidentally killed.

 

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Smell of Success:
Season 1, Episode 7.
This episode is literally about smell.
Figured out that the person thought to be the murderer was not him at all.
Funny line of filthy murderer.

 

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Bitter Sweets:
Season 1, Episode 8.
Quite a fun episode as a new sweets shop threatens to close down The Pie Hole.
Molly Shannon makes for a fun guest star.

 

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Bzzzzzzzzz!:
Season 2, Episode 1.
Very good season opener involving bees in a murder.
Funny seeing Olive being like Julie Andrews in Sound of Music.

 

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Circus Circus:
Season 2, Episode 2.
Funny when Emerson called Olive, Employee of the Mouth.
Very good casting with Diana Scarwid as she had played Lee Pace's on-screen mother in Wonderfalls.
Very funny when Diana's character asked sarcastically to ask a dead clown where her daughter is only for it to be taken seriously.

 

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Bad Habits:
Season 2, Episode 3.
Very fun murder mystery that took place in a convent.
Very apt the title.
What a surprise on who the murderer turned out to be.

 

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Comfort Food:
Season 2, Episode 8.
A Pushing Daisies-Wonderfalls crossover as Beth Grant reprises her role as Marianne Marie Beetle from the Wonderfalls episode Muffin Buffalo.
My favourite part of the episode was when Olive sang Eternal Flame.

 

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The Legend of Merle McQuoddy:
Season 2, Episode 9.
Didn't like the storyline with Chuck's father.
The storyline about the murder of the lighthouse keeper's wife was a little better.

 

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The Norwegians:
Season 2, Episode 10.
Ned, Chuck and Emerson meet their formidable match in the Norweigians of the title and they are quite fun.
Somehow should not be surprised on who that mysterious figure turned out to be.