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The Reilly report: ABC’s ‘Pushing Daisies’ not a stiff

By Mel • Jul 20th, 2007 • Category: reviews

By Maura Reilly
Over the next few weeks I’ll be talking about many of the pilot episodes for some of upcoming season’s highly anticipated shows. First up: “Pushing Daisies.”
ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” is my favorite pilot so far. Lee Pace (“Wonder Falls”, “Soldier’s Girl”) is Ned who discovers as a boy with tragic results [...]



ABC’s Red Carpet Tour

By Mel • Jul 14th, 2007 • Category: reviews

ABC began their Press Tour yesterday, screening Pushing Daisies in addition to other shows. Here’s the first report, from TV Guide Blogger Jake Lipson:
So I just got back from the ABC Red Carpet Screening Tour I blogged about earlier. There’s a lot I want to say in this blog so it will probably end up [...]



‘Live From TV Land’ Chat Snippet

By Mel • Jul 13th, 2007 • Category: reviews

Michael: What’s the most promising show you’ve heard about so far? And will PBS do any reality TV?

Ellen Gray: If we’re talking promising as in show-I-might-actually-watch-if-it-weren’t-my-job, that would be ABC’s Pushing Daisies, which has a weird Lemony Snicket quality that really appeals to me. But if we’re talking promising as in might-not-be-canceled-in-Week [...]



A Touching Romance, if They Just Don’t Touch

By Mel • Jul 5th, 2007 • Category: bryan fuller, interviews, reviews

By BILL CARTER

LOS ANGELES — In a quirky fairy tale of a mystery show called “Pushing Daisies,” ABC, the network of “Lost,” “Desperate Housewives” and “Ugly Betty,” has yet another series that is building strong enthusiasm in advance of the fall television season.
Marked by a candy-colored palette, characters as sweet as freshly baked [...]



What’s The Buzz?

By Liz • Jun 12th, 2007 • Category: reviews

Here’s what ‘they’ are saying about this fall’s most exciting new show, “Pushing Daisies”:
Kathie Skerry of Give Me My Remote: I was actually surprised by how many Fall shows looked promising at the Upfronts. While “Bionic Woman” and “Chuck” really caught my interest I would say that the show I’m most excited for this Fall [...]