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Posted Oct 1st 2008 11:59PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
(S02E01) What's the buzz? The buzz is bees and bees were the main topic on tonight's season opener. Frankly, I really don't like bees, so I found the sight of the dead body -- Kentucky Fitz -- covered in pus-filled bee bites rather repulsive. However, you got to hand it to
Pushing Daisies for production values.
Everything about the show remains top-notch. The look, the feel, the essence remains as precious as the Emmy-award winning pie-lette (for direction). In fact, that's the only problem with
PD; it is precious. For some people that's too much. For me, this is TV that's just too good to care about the delicate balance between surreality and satire, fable and a far-out acid trip.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Bzzzzzzz! (season premiere)
Posted Sep 30th 2008 6:00AM by Maggie Furlong
Filed under: Interviews, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
Chi McBride made a name for himself playing incredibly serious, commanding, dramatic roles, which is probably why people love him so much as Emerson Cod, the cynic with perfect comedic timing on ABC's
Pushing Daisies.
When
Pushing Daisies returns for its second season (premiering Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 8PM EST), we'll find Emerson, Ned, Chuck and Olive solving murders in a particularly buzz-worthy cosmetics company, a killer circus, a magician's castle and a nunnery, just to name a few.
Chi talked to us about Emerson's softer side, his mission in life and how to become his best friend ever ... and it only requires a few million friends.
Continue reading Quick Chat with Chi McBride
Posted Aug 2nd 2008 9:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Interviews, TCA Press Tour, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free
One of my favorite parts of the summer press tour was the last day, mainly because a busload of critics got to go to the Warner Bros. lot and tour sets from
ER, Chuck, and
Pushing Daisies (we also saw the
Dollhouse set on the Fox lot later that day).
On the Pie Hole set of
Daisies, for instance, all the stars and producers were available for interviews. Kristin Chenoweth held court right outside the pie-shaped diner's entrance, sporting a splint on her right hand from a recent bat bite (I kid you not... wonder what scene they were shooting at the time). But I was there to ask her about how she felt about being the model for Harriet Hayes on
Studio 60 two years ago. And she was very candid about the situation,especially in light of the fact that her former (and current?) boyfriend,
S60 creator Aaron Sorkin, never was.
First, though, a question about Jeff Probst; Chenoweth dropped the tidbit that the two of them dated when she announced his Emmy nomination the week before. Audio is after the jump.
Continue reading Kristin Chenoweth on Studio 60, Jeff Probst, and her Daisies song request - AUDIO
Posted Jul 29th 2008 8:01AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Interviews, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
Joss Whedon fans, take note ... you may have competition from the fans of ABC's Pushing Daises. That's the way it seemed at their Comic-Con panel on Saturday afternoon. They were so loud and applauded so frequently that it made an audience of Whedon fans seem like a group of cloistered monks taking a vow of silence.
But, that really isn't surprising since the show (whose first season comes out on standard DVD and Blu-Ray on September 16th) has such a wealth of talent both on and off screen. The audience at the Pushing Daises panel had an opportunity to see all that talent in one place as the entire cast joined creator Bryan Fuller and executive producer Barry Sonnenfeld in answering questions about season two. The tantalizing morsels appear after the jump.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies Panel - Comic-Con Report
Posted Nov 14th 2007 10:23PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Episode Reviews, Pushing Daisies
(S01E06) Up until now, we've only seen Emerson as a gruff P.I. whose role was to throw a sprinkle of cynicism on the decidedly sprightly environment around the Pie Hole. But you knew that eventually we were going to either find out more about his past or see him get involved with one of the people he was investigating. Tonight we got the latter. And his dalliance did a nice job of throwing some needed darkness into what was an overly-sweet episode.
Continue reading Pushing Daisies: Bitches
Posted Sep 9th 2007 6:27PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, NYTVF, Pushing Daisies
Last Wednesday, Kim Masters of Slate.com
wrote an interesting article about Pushing Daisies, one of the most highly-anticipated new fall shows. In the article, Masters reports that not only is the first post-pilot episode of
Daisies over-budget, but the director of both the pilot and the first episode, Barry Sonnenfeld, has been punished for it; his "role as director was curtailed," as Masters put it.
When I was at the premiere for
Daisies at the
New York Television Festival last night, my main purpose on the event's red carpet (pictures of and text about the event will be posted on Tuesday) was to ask Sonnenfeld to reply to that article. Luckily, the director of
Get Shorty, Men In Black, and
The Addams Family wasn't reluctant to respond. "You know, the writer of the piece hasn't written a lot about Hollywood, I think," said Sonnenfeld. "Almost every show after the pilot is over-budget, whether it's
Bionic Woman, Chuck, last year's
Ugly Betty... I suspect they're all over-budget." More after the jump.
Continue reading Sonnenfeld responds to story about Pushing Daisies budget overruns
Posted Jul 28th 2007 1:11PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Pushing Daisies
This morning marked the Comic-Con premiere of ABC pilot
Pushing Daisies. Created by Bryan Fuller and directed by Barry Sonnenfeld,
Pushing Daisies is the story of Ned, who has some complicated powers. He can bring people back from the dead by touching them, but only for one minute. He touches them again, and they go back to being dead. If he doesn't, they get to live, but a completely random person will die in their place. The set-up is a little convoluted, but once you see it, it makes sense.
Continue reading Comic-Con: Pushing Daisies panel report
Posted Jul 9th 2007 4:04PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD
A little over two months ago,
I told you that a made-for-DVD movie was in the works for Showtime's
Dead Like Me.
Ellen Muth, star of the series, announced on her
MySpace page that she's been informed the series could make a come back on TV if the movie sells well.
In her post, Muth mentions a
new concept being featured in the movie and that fans should give it a chance. Does that mean reapers will not get Post Its anymore?
Continue reading Dead Like Me movie and series news
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