When we first heard the series premiere of Pushing Daisies would be called “Pie-lette,” we knew it would be a funny, intelligent, entertaining show.

Now that we’ve actually seen it? Wow. Let’s just say the hype did not disappoint.

From the bright colors to the fast-paced dialogue to the sweet, budding, unique romance between Ned and Chuck, the show was a winner.

In case you missed it, or just wish to refresh your memory, check out our detailed recap right now, chock full of Pushing Daisies photos, quotes and more.

Don’t forget about our Pushing Daisies forum. Interact with fellow fans right now. Enjoy!

The best reviewed show of the fall season premieres tonight.

Talk about the first-ever episode of Pushing Daisies, entitled “Pie-lette,” right now with fellow fans and readers.

Just visit our Pushing Daisies forum and get started! It’s free, easy and fun to post a comment… or six dozen. And we have a feeling there’s gonna be A LOT to say after watching this great show tonight.

We’ll post a detailed episode guide following the series premiere, complete with Pushing Daisies quotes, pictures and more. Enjoy!

On the verge of becoming a household name due to the success of Pushing Daisies, Lee Pace reflected on the show with TeenTelevision.com.

Here are excerpts from that interview:

TeenTelevision: If you really had this power, who would you touch to bring back?
Lee: Wow. My grandmother because I loved her very much.

TeenTelevision: What about the show really intrigues you?
Lee: I’m really excited about the procedural [detective] elements to the show. It wasn’t the thing that initially attracted me to it. I thought the love story would be really fun. But, with the minds that work on this show, I think that procedural element is going to be really awesome. The episodes that I’ve read so far, every one takes you into this really cool, kind of bizarre, splashy world.

They are all totally different, all exciting. There’s a neat adventure to it. The first episode is about Ned getting excited about the adventure, getting out of The Pie Hole [where he works], excited about breaking free and starting to live his life.

TeenTelevision: You were born in Texas and lived as a child in the Middle East so how did you get into acting?
Lee: I got to a point where it was the only thing I knew how to do and I was in high school [in Texas] and I auditioned for Julliard and got in. I did a couple of monologues and had a meeting with them. I don’t know how they picked me. They said, ‘you now have to go back to high school and get your diploma’ so I did.

You don’t need to twist our arm, USA Today. We’ll be tuned in to ABC tonight at 8 for sure.

But the newspaper - unimpressed with the lot of new shows - just published an article imploring everyone to watch Pushing Daisies. Here are excerpts from it:

If ever a season needed a push, this is it.

Few of the new offerings have stirred up much excitement, and with good reason — most are unexciting. Happily, that’s about to change. Tonight, a fall too short on joy gets an enchanting lift: Pushing Daisies.

Created by Bryan Fuller and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Pushing Daisies blends mystery, comedy and candy-colored visual delights into a fantasy exploration of modern isolation — a fairy tale for our times. The premise may seem unwieldy:

A man brings the dead back to life with his first touch and returns them to death with his second. But tonight’s wildly inventive pilot swiftly lays the groundwork, laced with just enough dark humor to stop the whimsy from turning cloying or precious.

The man with the magic is Ned (Lee Pace), a gentle loner whose power has left him wary of human contact. He runs a pie shop with the help of a devoted waitress (Kristin Chenoweth, pictured), while solving mysteries with his private investigator partner (Chi McBride).

Any cop would envy Ned’s method: He reanimates the victims, asks about the crime, and then sends them off to their reward.

Click here to read the full article.

Give Pushing Daisies Creator Bryan Fuller points for honesty: he admits that the upcoming ABC show used a certain French movie for inspiration:

“I can definitely cop to ripping off Amelie,” Fuller told The New York Daily News.

But there is a difference between the foreign film and Pushing Daisies, one ABC pretty much instructed Fuller to follow; he had to figure out how to translate such dense subject matter into an easily digestible one-hour TV format.

“There definitely was not necessarily an edict, but a strong suggestion [from the network] that if the show were procedural, then it would definitely be much more digestible to audiences, and they would have a framework to allow all the more special and different things to go down easier.”

Therefore, the show has been built around the concept of romance and intrigue. Each week viewers can expect an open-and-shut case regarding the various dead folks Lee Pace (who plays the life-giving-and-taking Ned) encounters via his restorative touch.

The series itself will stretch out the personal relationship between Ned and his untouchable love, Charlotte (Chuck) Charles, played by Anna Friel.

“It’s not so much about celibacy as much as it is about intimacy,” Fuller said of Ned and Chuck’s unconsummated love. “Sometimes, physicality gets in the way of true intimacy.”