ABC is presenting at the TCA Press Tour over the next couple of days. They put the Pushing Daisies panel on first. Here’s the first live-blogging report, from Ausiello at TV Guide:

PUSHING DAISIES PANEL
11:02 am: The Pushing Daisies trailer is playing on Jumbotron. I’m getting chills.

11:03 am: ABC describes Daisies as a “forensic fairytale.”

11:05 am: Scoop! Series creator Bryan Fuller says Daisies was originally conceived as a spinoff of Dead Like Me.

11:06 am: Director Barry Sonnenfeld will direct “3 of the first 13″ episodes. In related news, I love this show so much I’m almost willing to forgive him for Men in Black 2. I said almost.

11:08 am: Fuller says ABC strongly encouraged him to inject Daisies with a procedural element, hence the crime-solving aspect of the show.

11:11 am: Fuller jokes that the twisty love story at the heart of Daisies — leads Lee Pace and Anna Friel can’t touch each other — is an allegory for “mutual masturbation.” I’m not touching that one. Get it?

11:20 am: The consensus back here in the peanut gallery: Co-star Kristin Chewnoweth’s new Carol Brady pineapple cut is a definite hair don’t.

11:23 am: Fuller finds death “fascinating. There’s something very magical and mystical about death.”

11:26 am: Fun fact: Daisies is shooting on the old Wonder Woman soundstage.

11:35 am: Considering the cast is chockablock with Broadway thesps, a musical episode of Daisies is inevitable, Fuller predicts.

11:37 am: On his ex-Dead Like Me star Mandy Patinkin up and leaving Criminal Minds, Fuller says, “I can’t fault him for doing something that we all think about from time to time.”

11:43 am: Gaggle stampede!