Pushing Daisies

Infobox Television
show_name = Pushing Daisies


caption = Second "Pushing Daisies" intertitle
genre = Dramedy Fantasy
creator = Bryan Fuller
developer =
presenter =
starring = Lee Pace
Anna Friel
Chi McBride
Field Cate
Ellen Greene
Swoosie Kurtz
Kristin Chenoweth

voices =
narrated = Jim Dale
composer = Jim Dooley
opentheme =
endtheme =
country = flag|USA
language = English
num_seasons = 2
num_episodes = 11
list_episodes = List of Pushing Daisies episodes
producer = Production Companies: [ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925266/companycredits Production Companies] ]
Jinks/Cohen Company.
Living Dead Guy Productions.
Warner Bros. Television.
executive_producer = Bruce Cohen
Bryan Fuller
Dan Jinks
Barry Sonnenfeld
Brooke Kennedy (ep. 2-7)
Peter Ocko (ep. 8-present)
location = United States
camera =
runtime = approx. 42 min.
network = ABC
picture_format = 480i (SDTV),
720p (HDTV) ABC HD
audio_format =
first run =
first_aired = October 3, 2007
last_aired = present
preceded_by =
followed_by =
related =
website = http://abc.go.com/primetime/pushingdaisies/index
imdb_id = 0925266
tv_com_id = 68663

"Pushing Daisies" is an American television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller. Fuller also serves as the show's executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy (episodes 2-7), Peter Ocko (episodes 8-present) and Barry Sonnenfeld.

Described as a "forensic fairy tale", "Pushing Daisies" is about a pie-maker who has the power to bring the dead back to life. [ [http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-review-pushingdaisies,0,953387.story Pushing Daisies reviewed] ] The show premiered in the United States on October 3, 2007, on ABC.

Due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine of a full 22-episode season. [ [http://thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=7478 ABC Picks More 'Daisies,' Scripts Added to 'Carpoolers', 'Moonlight'] from [http://www.thefutoncritic.com TheFutonCritic.com] ] On February 11, 2008 ABC picked up "Pushing Daisies" for the 2008-09 television season, [ [http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003709560 ABC Announces Scripted Show Renewals ] ] and the second season premiered on October 1, 2008.

On July 17, 2008, "Pushing Daisies" was nominated for twelve Emmy awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Lee Pace), Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Kristin Chenoweth), and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series (Bryan Fuller), and was awarded three: it won for Outstanding Direction of a Comedy Series (Barry Sonnenfeld), as well as for Outstanding Original Score, and Outstanding Editing of a Comedy Series.

Plot

"Pushing Daisies" centers on the life of Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are a couple of conditions to this somewhat unwanted talent, however. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently.

In the pilot episode, Ned discovers his gift as a child by resurrecting his Golden Retriever, Digby, after the dog is hit by a truck. He later brings back his mother when she dies of an aneurysm. However, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, as the "price" of keeping his mother alive. Even worse, Ned's mother then falls dead permanently when she gives him his good-night kiss (which is how he learns the effect of the second touch). Ned and Chuck are separated; her agoraphobic aunts Vivian and Lily move in to take the role of her parents, while he is shipped off to a lonely boarding school by his father.

Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie-maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole," which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal: Ned will bring murder victims back to life, inquire about the circumstances of their untimely death, then touch them once more, all before his set limit of sixty seconds is up. Emerson will then solve the case and they will split the reward money.

The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, whom Ned hasn't seen since childhood, has been murdered on a cruise. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can't bring himself to touch her a second time. Against his better judgment, Ned allows her to live and the larcenous funeral home director falls dead in her place. Ned and Chuck fall in love again and he brings her home to live with him under the unique circumstances of their never being able to touch each other. Chuck is extraordinarily grateful upon receiving a second chance at life, and as such she starts to appreciate life as a truly precious resource and Ned, witnessing his vivacious beauty's happiness, begins to break out of his lonely shell.

Cast

DVD and Blu-ray Release

Season 1 was released simultaneously on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Region 2 on June 23, 2008 [ [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0012PUU1G Pushing Daisies - Complete Season 1] , "Amazon.co.uk". Retrieved on April 26, 2008.] and Region 1 on September 16, 2008 [ [http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Pushing-Daisies-Season-1/9678 TV Shows on DVD] ] [http://news.tvonmedia.com/tvom_news_by_show/Pushing-Daisies-Complete-1st-Season.shtml ABC Series to Come to DVD & Blu-Ray] TVOnMedia.com - Jeff Hodges (05/24/2008)] The sole bonus feature announced is "Pie Time - Time for Pie: Delicious Interactive Featurette with Flavorful, Fresh-Baked Pie Slices As Your Entrée and Cast/Creative Team Members Dishing Forkfuls of Series Secrets".

ee also

Severus of Naples, a 4th century bishop of Naples who supposedly brought a man back to life for a moment in order to solve a fraud case.

References

External links

*Wikia has a wiki on this subject: [http://pushingdaisies.wikia.com/wiki/Pushing_Daisies Pushing Daisies]
* [http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/player?aff=&partner=&channel=27721 Full Episodes online] from ABC (US only)