July 2008 News Archive

Anna Friel and Lee Pace recently spoke to Sci-Fi Wire about the upcoming season of Pushing Daisies.

Here are some highlights from the interview:

On the season premiere: "The very first scene of the very first episode is in our beekeeper outfits," Frield said. "She gets her first-ever job at a honey factory, where she's a honey-bee girl."

On a future episode that focuses on nuns: "The nuns are really funny," Pace said. "Mo Collins plays the dead nun in the nunnery episode. She plays this trash-talking nun, and she's funny, funny, funny. In that episode, we're having a good time with the gumshoe-solving-crimes [genre].

Chi [McBride] was doing this real serious, kind of noir, kind of William Shatner [style of] acting. So I did a take where I was kind of making fun of him doing that. That's when he cracked up. I don't know if they'll use it in the episode, but I hope they do."

On episode four and frescorts: "Frescorts are friends for hire, which actually exists," Pace said. "David Arquette is our guest star in that episode. He's someone in need of a frescort. He knew the dead frescort, and he and Ned become really friendly because we're both misfits."

Remember: Pushing Daisies returns on October 1. We can't wait!

Our friend at Entertainment Weekly, Michael Ausiello, has released a couple of exciting Pushing Daisies spoilers.

• Taylor Townsend herself (pictured, from The OC), Autumn Reeser, will guest star in the season premiere. She'll play a Southern Belle named Kentucky Fritz that has a deadly run-in with some killer bees.
  

"She's the number one girl at Betty's Bees, who may or may not have been up to some mischief when she was stung to death by a swarm of bees," said Daisies creator Bryan Fuller.

• Pushing Daisies is casting the role of Emerson's no-nonsense, chain-smoking mom. Get this: she's gonna be Caucasian!

Pushing Daisies actress Anna Friel will star alongside Will Ferrell in next summer's family movie, Land of the Lost.

Here's an early look at Friel in the film:

This sounds like ideal casting to us:

David Arquette - who simply looks quirky - will appear as Randy Mann in the Pushing Daisies episode titled "Freshcorts."

The character is described as a socially inept man who possesses a "secret, special talent" that connects him to Ned. Might Randy's gift be a variation on the pie maker's ability to resurrect the dead?

Pushing Daisies, sadly, did not earn a nomination for the 2008 Emmy Awards. But two of its stars garnered well-deserved nods in the categories of Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series.

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series

• Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
• Tony Shaloub - Monk
• Lee Pace - Pushing Daisies
• Steve Carell - The Office
• Charlie Sheen - Two And A Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series

• Jean Smart - Samantha Who?
  
• Holland Taylor- Two And A Half Men
• Kristin Chenoweth - Pushing Daisies
• Vanessa Williams - Ugly Betty
  
• Amy Poehler - Saturday Night Live

Great news for Pushing Daisies fans:

• The show will remain the same;
• Its premiere date has been announced!

When asked recently if his network would change anything about ther series, Steve McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment, replied:

"We are not changing the tone of Pushing Daisies."

McPherson also confirned that the show begins its second season Octover 1, the same night that Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money return for their sophomore seasons. Get your DVR ready!

Ned and Emerson are ready to make us laugh again on October 1.

While we don't have the premiere date yet for seasn two of Pushing Daisies, we do have information on the opening episode itself:

Title: “Bzzzzzzz!”

Synopsis: Olive is still in love with Ned and feeling the burden of unrequited passion as well as all of the secrets she’s carrying for other people.
Meanwhile, Emerson, indulging his own passion, has begun making pop-up books. He’s created a series of books about “Lil’ Gumshoe”, a young girl detective. Emerson has time to do this because he’s able to solve his cases so quickly, what with Ned being able to wake the dead and ask them how they died.

Emerson, Olive and Chuck are all back for season two.

Our mystery this week involves the death of Kentucky Fitz, the leading sales rep and number-one Bee Girl of Betty’s Bees, a beauty empire built on honey and honey-based lotions and potions. Dusty Fitz, husband of the deceased, wants her death investigated.

The company says it was a work-related mishap; Dusty doesn’t believe them. Complicating matters even more, it appears Kentucky Fitz was having an affair. Or was she?

What's coming up on season two of Pushing Daisies?

Kristin of E! Online promises a pair of promising premises.

• One episode will center around Burt's Bees-esque company; Chuck goes there to work after the founder names her essay "Why I Love Bees" the winner of a contest.
• The season premiere is all about a circus.

Sounds awesome to us!