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!

Great news for Pushing Daisies fans, Kristin Chenoweth or fans of music overall:

According to Kristin of E! Online, the woman that portrays Olive Snook isn't done singing on the show. Responding to a reader question asking when we might be treated to another tune, Kristin wrote:

Kristin C. will have her very own "Sound of Music" moment, singing on a hillside, after joining the...wait for it...nunnery! Told, ya: awesome.

Awesome indeed!

Kristin Chenoweth has the best voice on television, hands (or vocal chords) down!

According to Kristin from E! Online, Pushing Daisies fans can look forward to more flashbacks in season two. But not just from Ned.

The reporter says we'll be treated to glimpse of a young Olive Snook:

We're going to meet baby Olive! Pushing Daisies is currently casting for a young Olive Snook, and in flashback scenes in episode three, we'll also meet her negligent parents. Yay!

We'll find out more about Olive in season two of Pushing Daisies.

When asked by E! News if there a moral lesson fans should take from a series on which the lovers don't sleep together, Lee Pace recently replied:

"That wasn't the intention. Some people in America have interpreted it like that, and I don't think it's a bad thing. These are two people who love each other very much and choose to be together even though they're never going to get drunk and sleep together.

It's not that show. I think it's kind of sexy that they can't touch. It's the longest foreplay ever."

Lee Pace, looking adorable as always, answered questions at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

As for whether or not Ned and Chuck will see other people in season two, the actor offered this mini Pushing Daisies spoiler:

"Maybe. One of the big things that happens at the beginning of the second season is that Chuck moves out. So it's not going to be easy anymore for Ned. It's good. They need to see other people."

Here's the Pushing Daisies news fans have been waiting for: the DVD of season one will be available on September 16.

Despite a strike-shortened season, viewers can enjoy a thorough three-disc set of the show. Here are more details on it:

• Price of the set will be $29.98;
• Blue-Ray version of Season One will also be available for $39.98;
• Look for a Bonus Featurette: Pie Time: Time for Pie. An interactive featurette with creators of the show, the set designer and special effects team who all come together to make this show so unique. Special interviews from creator Bryan Fuller and Lee Pace as they discuss their favorite first season scene.

Pushing Daisies creator Simon Fuller has told AfterElton.com that a character on the show is gay. Don't read anymore if you wish to be surprised....

Ready?

"It's the coroner," Fuller said, referring to the character played by Sy Richardson. "We were going to slowly expand his character and kind of reveal that he has a little crush on Emerson."

"I didn't want to just do another, like, pretty gay person," Fuller added. "I thought it would be interesting to have an older character be gay."

We think he's right. Do you?

The cast and crew of Pushing Daisies made an appearance at this year's Paley Festival in Hollywood. Good friend Michael Ausiello of TV Guide has the full report, but here are a few fun tidbits from the panel:

Participants: Bryan Fuller (creator), Lee Pace (Ned), Anna Friel (Chuck), Kristin Chenoweth (Olive), Chi McBride (Emerson), Ellen Greene (Vivian), Peter Ocko (coexecutive producer), Dan Jinks (executive producer), Bruce Cohen (executive producer) and frenemy Kristin Dos Santos (moderator).

Kristin's Choice: Chenoweth chose Daisies over a starring role in Broadway's Young Frankenstein. "You have these decisions that come along in your career and sometimes they're not easy," she said. "But I definitely feel like I made the right one."

Wish List: Fuller wants Carol Burnett on the show.

Strike Fallout: "I think in the long run, [the break] was a really good thing for the show," Fuller admitted. "It gave us a chance to look back at the nine episodes and [figure out] what was working and what was not working. The arc of the first nine was a soft, romantic arc. In the second season, we want to do something a little harder and a little more aggressive in the style of storytelling. We learned a lot of lessons."

Spoiler Alert: Chuck will definitely find out who her real mother is in Season 2. "It's going to be interesting to see how she reacts to that information," said Fuller, "and how the Pie Maker tries to control her trajectory and how that will complicate their relationship. There are going to be some nice surprises."

Kristin of E! Online is reporting that even if the writers' strike is resolved in the next week, it's too late to get Pushing Daisies in production for more episodes this season.

Here's the quote from Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller:

"Lots of talk has been going down this past week," Fuller said. "Essentially, even if the strike is resolved in the next week or two, we wouldn't be back until next season. There was a preliminary conversation that involved a plan to hit the ground running and try to get episodes on the air as soon as possible, but it no longer seems like that's going to happen.

It seems most likely that we will have a very short first season and then come back in the fall for a proper season two."

In the meantime - and there will be plenty of it - visit our forum and talk about the show until it comes back!