We have a pair of Pushing Daisies interviews for you today:

Ellen Greene in Playbill: “This is my first series,” Greene says, adding, “I’ve never done one because if you want [the show] to live a long time, you have to love your character. . . . It’s such a wonderful, multi-layered [character], and I fell in love with Vivian. When you want to live with a character a long while, like I lived with Audrey, you want it to be someone that you love. If you love that character, usually, it will come that other people will love it - especially if it has this magical quality. . . . So, for me, as a series, yes I felt it was going to go, but [I also] wanted it to go. What no one knows is the journey that Bryan [Fuller] has in his brain is so wonderfully multi-layered and complex. Even though [the characters] live in this world - like ‘The Land of Little Shop,’ this is the ‘Land of Pushing Daisies,’ with quotes around it - [but] it’s very realistic. There is an obligation of a murder each week, but Bryan is the visionary, and what is so interesting is the characters’ journey and their intertwining.” (read the entire article…)

Molly Shannon in The Plain Dealer: Originally announced for a three-show arc, Shannon’s character proved so much fun, producers asked her about doing six episodes. She only completed the first of those episodes before the strike shut down production on “Pushing Daisies.” (read the entire article - WARNING: minor spoilers)