Look, this isn't my first time at the rodeo. I knew going into this last year, that the chances of a quirky fairy tale about death having long-term success were slim-to-none. I've seen the signs; I've known that this day was going to come. That doesn't mean that I couldn't hope that ABC would decide to keep Pushing Daisies; my favorite new show from last season. I've held out hope, and today, that hope was dashed. What's worse, is I can't even focus all of my anger on ABC; some of it is pointed directly at Daisies creator, Bryan Fuller.
I'm trying to be mature and diplomatic about this, but seriously: Bryan Fuller can suck it.
In a time of crisis like this, I don't want to hear about your new (old) job, or how you're super-happy that you "put together 22 really good episodes, and there is a lot to be proud of," and I certainly do not want a damn comic book. I know that after Wonderfalls, 22 episodes seems like a lot, but I do not want your "hey, we had a nice run" brand of practicality. I want you to get pissed.
I want you to call ABC President Steve McPherson a dick and start sending pies to NBC headquarters to try and get them to take you like ABC took Scrubs. I want you to fight for your show, not talk to DC Comics about continuing the story-- unless it's a companion piece to the TV show that will soon be airing on another network.
I want promises; even if they're false. Yes, talking about a Pushing Daisies movie is a good start, but it's a little premature. I only want to hear about a movie after you've exhausted all other avenues. After you've gone to the CW and told them that you can adjust the show so that it takes place four years in the future at an elite East-Coast boarding school.
A movie is great and all, but it's only two hours. I want another 22. Why settle for the silver when you can at least go for the gold? Don't give up so easily. People are still bitter about the cancellations of Arrested Development and Veronica Mars because we spent months hearing stories about those shows living on on another network, even though we knew deep down that it probably wasn't going to happen. Now, we get ridiculously excited when there's even a whiff of a rumor about those shows coming back as a movie. We want to be strung along; it keeps the show alive. Saying that you gave it your best shot does not.
Listen: all I'm asking you to do is act like the Piemaker for a minute. Just try to bring Pushing Daisies back to life, and if something has to die in its place, well... there's a little show called According to Jim that maybe you should go stand next to.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
11-21-2008 @ 12:33AM
Fahad said...
It's not surprising... I made myself stop watching it since I knew they were canceling it.
It's too bad but not there fault either... The fans just didn't respond and come back for the new season.
It was a great show and will be missed just like Studio 60 and Firefly.
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11-21-2008 @ 8:17AM
dsbs said...
No offence or anything, but I wonder how much mentalities like that caused the ratings for this last episode?
11-21-2008 @ 9:05AM
JPN said...
You made yourself stop watching something because it might get canceled? That's pretty strange.
11-21-2008 @ 9:07AM
JPN said...
You made yourself stop watching something because it might get canceled? That's pretty strange.
11-21-2008 @ 12:35AM
Rayvyn said...
Aww...I love this show so much and was looking forward to more episodes. It's quirky, ingenious, and like a twisted fairy tale. I wanted to know more about Emerson's daughter, about Chuck's aunts, about Olive and Pigby, and of course about Chuck and Ned's romance.
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11-21-2008 @ 12:56AM
tv junkie said...
when i watched the show last night, i thought, this show's gonna get ax tomorrow, it is just too unique, dark yet cutesy, weird and whimsical for American TV.
Sure enough ABC finally rip off the Band-Aid...actually, three band-aids (along with other two sophomore shows), all at once, ouch!
it was fun while it lasted, the dvds gonna go right next to wonderfalls and dead like me on my shelf.
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11-21-2008 @ 12:58AM
doug said...
abc is ridiculous. they get there biggest viewership ever for PD, opposite the Obama informercial, and show no faith that the audience would grow. Ausiello over at EW is saying Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone are also cancelled. What possibly do they have on deck? Dancing with B-List Stars? US SuperNannies in the UK? Mistress Swap? More proof that Network Execs < Feces-throwing Monkeys
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11-21-2008 @ 3:29AM
bc said...
Because it didn't grow. All three shows hit new lows this week--even though the nine o'clock lead-ins for 10 o'clock shows grew.
1-25-2009 @ 10:49PM
Mark said...
I so glad that we as american viewers lap up what ABC has gifted uswhen they foolishly took pushing daisies off the air. Now we aregoing to be subject to more caustically redicualous and disgustingshows like wife swap, true beauty, the real housewifes of who cares,and the 39th season of american idol. Thanks ABC and thanks to allthe american viewers. WE do lap up those shows like a dog laps uphis own vomit.
11-21-2008 @ 1:12AM
deubanks795 said...
I'm with ya doug. What is it going to take for them to stop doing this to us every year?
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11-21-2008 @ 1:22AM
mjs said...
I will never watch Heroes again.
(Not that I have been.)
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11-21-2008 @ 1:23AM
mjs said...
Is it to much to ask for one more episode just so they can wrap it up and not leave us hanging?
I heard that it will end on a cliffhanger
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11-21-2008 @ 12:17PM
Vince said...
I love this show. Its so refreshing from the run of mill comedies.
Would love to see it end with Ned hugging Chuck... and not killing her again.
11-21-2008 @ 2:13AM
Melissa said...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
-CRACK-
The sound of my heart breaking.
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11-21-2008 @ 2:19AM
royce said...
Why is anyone suprised? It's not Bryan Fuller or ABC's fault that the ratings we're bad. ABC promoted the crap out of it, especially early on.
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11-21-2008 @ 2:29AM
shawn said...
i honestly thought they were running out of steam. I'm glad it was canceled. I say the same thing about Arrested Development. It was times. Honestly I don't want a movie from either series.
I want the cast of AD to come back and do something else though. I think that might be fun :)
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11-21-2008 @ 2:29AM
kyle said...
it's not really ABC's fault, the show never should have been on ABC in the first place. the whole appeal of daisies is that it is quirky, and quirky shows have no place on major networks. there was never really a chance that a show like this could have attracted more than a basic cable sized audience, it never should have been on a network bigger than basic cable.
it really is too bad americans have such shit taste in tv, i really wish shows like this could exist.
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11-21-2008 @ 4:09AM
southsidebruce said...
too bad, this show was so great - btw, dirty sexy money and eli stone are also done.
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11-21-2008 @ 4:36AM
Lilly said...
I am sorry, but ABC sucks. I think that Shonda Rhimes has a deal with the devil. Grey's Anatomy is crap and Private Practice is a trillion times beyond crap. I tried to watch PP this week because Alexis Denisof was on and I miss myself some Wesley. It was a mistake because trying to watch that crap is . . . so UGH! I just got so mad that crap like that gets picked up and Pushing Daisies Doesn't! Last nights Pushing Daisies was fantastic. UGH! I'm so pissed!
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11-21-2008 @ 4:52AM
KenMo said...
Now the only reason to watch ABC (for me) is Life on Mars. At least until Lost comes on in Jan.
But really, talking about Lost, how am I suppose to stay interested in that show with a hiatus that rivals The Sopranos.
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