Pushing Daisies News

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Our thanks to Blast Magazine for this recent interview of Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller.

Let's highlight a few things he had to say about season two of our favorite show...

You guys got cut really short last year. How did that change the story progression?
You know, there’s a lot of stuff that we’re doing this year that we were going to do in the first season, but I think what really helped us is the fact that this is the second season and there were some stories the network was really nervous about like “I don’t know if that’s a first season story or if you should save that for second season.”

It really actually helped us to come back with the second season so we could do some of the stories they were nervous about letting us do in the first season, since we had such a short first season, we got to do right away in the second season. It also really helped us kind of get perspective on the show.

When the shut down happened, when it was like “Pencils down” from the Writer’s Guild, we were almost at the end of our scripts anyways, so we were scrambling to get another script ready, and then the shut down happened, so we didn’t have to worry about that. So a lot of those ideas we kind of got back-burnered but the specific episodes; we redid like one or two of them and there are still quite a few that we want to do from last year that were going to be part of the first season.

The good thing is that we were just able to get perspective. So we took a step back from the show and being on break and working the terrors of production gave us a chance to just stop and say “Okay, what’s the story that we want to tell?”, “Where are these characters going?” It just gave us the necessary breathing room to chart out a second season which I am really proud of and very excited by.

I think the writer’s strike allowed us to not get trapped in the sophomore slump of shows and you feel kind of a lag in the creativity because you see it literally go right from one to the other, and in this case it really allowed us to recharge our batteries, consider what was working on the show and maybe what was not working as well and just have a much more invigorated approach to the second season.

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With season two of Pushing Daisies a little more than a month away, ABC has released a series of new promotional shots of the cast and characters.

Here's a look. Click on each photo below for an enlarged version...

As all fans should know by now, Pushing Daisies returns for season two on October 1.

Here's a poster, celebrating that exciting fact:

Excited for season two of Pushing Daisies? It airs on October 1.

Take a look at the promo for the premiere right now...

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.

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.

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! 

TV Guide recently asked readers to name their favorite television couples. Not surprisingly, Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel) made the cut: