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The onset of Summer also means the return of my Five Questions series, in which I take a look back at the most recent seasons of some favorite TV shows and pose some hypothetical questions about their future. Today’s questions are for Pushing Daisies, which will start its second season in the Fall.

Hey, remember this show? Pushing Daisies was one of the most precious and beloved shows of the Fall. Unfortunately, Fall was also the last time we saw it. Will the series be able to get its buzz back?

Where will the show pick up? We ended on a pretty big cliffhanger, with Lily revealing (in a drug-addled stupor) that she’s Chuck’s mother. Will we start back up right there and then, in the aunts’ house, with all the shock of Lily’s declaration still fresh in everyone’s mind? Or will some time pass — with or without explanation? The show will have to hook viewers fast (see question No. 1), and so I’m quite curious to see where the first episode back will take us.
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Will there be any new characters — or will any of the guest stars return? Paul Reubens was an absolute delight as Oscar, the slightly off-center olfactory expert, but will his schedule still allow him to be on the show now that it’s so many months later? I’m guessing that, since Molly Shannon is heading to NBC’s Kath and Kim full-time, taffy emporium owner Dilly Balsam won’t be showing her face anymore. I love all the regular cast members, of course, but Pushing Daisies is the kind of show that really knows how to work a guest star, too. I hope we’ll see some great, new quirky folks come Fall. Continue…

To celebrate the release of hit TV series Pushing Daisies, we sit down with Anna Friel and talk accents, daisies and babies.

You must be very excited about the success Pushing Daisies is having both in the US and here:

Anna Friel: I’m really proud of it! We have such a great time making it. I’m loving it.

How do you account for the show’s success?

AF: It’s nice for people to go home at the end of the day and see something uplifting, and yet it is still for the intelligent mind because there’s the procedural to work out.

How would describe your character Chuck?:

AF: Apart from being very funny, she holds on to every wonderful childlike quality there is, particularly now she has a second chance at life. She embraces every single thing in life and appreciates every beautiful sky and sunset and smile. She’s incredibly loving and an old romantic, but she’s also very intelligent because she reads, like, 100 books a day and speaks I don’t know how many languages and plays instruments. That said, she’s lived quite a sheltered life with two mad, eccentric aunts so she’s a mixture of everything. You can never not be surprised by Chuck.

How easy is the American accent for you?:

AF: I stay with the accent all day long when I’m filming. It makes thing much easier. To an English ear my American accent might sound perfect, but on the set I have my dialect coach and I get 10 or 12 notes a day about my pronunciation. Using the accent even between scenes is a discipline, it makes me concentrate that much harder at work – when I’m American I know I’m at work.

Do you have any similarities with Chuck?:

AF: My daughter has. I base quite a lot of it on Gracie. She’s two and a half now and she has that excitement and that glee. I’d like to think I’m similar to Chuck, too, although she’s a lot more positive than me and doesn’t worry. She isn’t as anxious as I am but her spirit has rubbed off on me – I play her 17 hours a day so it can’t help rub off. Continue…

Think of those first nine episodes of “Pushing Daisies” as a “teaser season.” That’s how showrunner Bryan Fuller describes the abbreviated launch of his primetime fairy tale about an average guy blessed/cursed by his ability to bring the dead back to life.In some ways, Fuller says, being interrupted by the writers strike was a good thing: “The break in the first season really allowed me to get out of the weeds of the show and look at where we were going with the stories. We were just going to continue telling a lot of these episodic tales, and we weren’t able to weave in as much of the serialized storyline as I wanted to in the first season.”

So whereas those first nine mini-mysteries were designed to attract new viewers, reiterating the show’s eccentric premise in every episode, season two will allow for an “epic arc” as well as plenty of shorter multi-episode intrigues.

“Learning from my days on ‘Heroes,’ I’m planning to add some cliffhangers, which we’ll get into starting with episode five. That’s when a new character comes into the world and really shakes things up, somebody who has a link to the shared histories of both Chuck and Ned,” Fuller says. Continue…

Bringing the dead back to life is not an unfamiliar conceit for a drama, but new US series Pushing Daisies offers a refreshingly unique - and often surreal - twist. Part romance, part comedy and part mystery, the show revolves around humble pie-maker Ned (Lee Pace), a man blessed with the ability to revive the dead with a single touch. Among those he gives the finger to is childhood sweetheart Chuck (Anna Friel), cruelly bumped off before her time. Lee and Anna tell us why it’s a premise packed with potential.

What’s the show all about?
Lee Pace: “Well I play Ned, who touches dead things and brings them back to life, but if they live for more than a minute, something else will die. And if I touch them a second time, they die again forever. In the first episode I bring Chuck, my childhood sweetheart, back to life and a comedy ensues.”
Anna Friel: “It’s quite essentially a comedy with drama. It’s incredibly romantic and a show where anything could happen. It’s visually stunning and its production values are so high. Each episode costs $3.2 million and we have 11 days to shoot it. The biggest challenge after making such a big pilot is how to keep it up every week. I think we’ve proved everybody wrong, not wanting to sound big-headed.” Continue…