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ITV1’s second instalment of Pushing Daisies - actually the third in the series - was watched by 1m fewer viewers than the opening episode.

ITV decided not to air the second episode of the US drama to make space in its schedules for Euro 2008 football. The move sparked an angry reaction from fans on the Digital Spy forums. The broadcaster had claimed that it was the only instalment that could be dropped “without spoiling the storyline”.

Saturday night’s show was watched by 4.7m, 28% of the viewing audience, at 9.05pm - down from 5.7m the previous week and falling below ITV’s 5.1m (23.4%) slot average.

Earlier on the channel won a huge audience of 10.3m (43.3%) for Britain’s Got Talent. The average for the 8pm slot is 5.8m (26.8%).

The rest of the terrestrial pack were far behind. BBC One’s latest National Lottery vehicle, 1 vs 100, was watched by 4.8m (20.1%) while BBC Two’s world snooker championship coverage drew 1.1m (5%) from 7.30pm.

With Ned’s special gift still unclear to Chuck, she seeks more answers to Ned’s ’special touch’.

Ned avoids answering her questions like “Why it is only one minute?” and “What happens after one minute?” as he fears that she will discover that he inadvertently killed his father when they were children as a result of him bringing his mother back from the dead.

Private Investigator Emerson Cod receives another strange death case at the Schatz Funeral Home where Ned brought Chuck back to life.

This time the are to investigate the death of the Funeral Director, who died as a result of Chuck staying alive for longer than one minute. Continue…

Former THE WEST WING star Kristin Chenoweth is to reveal all about her childhood as an adoptee in a new book. The actress/singer will reportedly pen a memoir for publishers Touchstone.
The Oklahoman plans to write a candid account of her life from her adoption shortly after birth to her celebrated performance on Broadway in “Wicked” and her movie and TV career. The book is scheduled to hit shelves next spring (09).

The critically acclaimed dramedy “Pushing Daisies” may only have made its debut on U.K. television over the weekend, but already it has been benched … for the “Eurovision Song Contest.”ITV, the British terrestrial channel that acquired the broadcast rights to the American series that is broadcast on ABC, has announced that they plan on cutting the series by a week as they don’t believe it has what it takes to compete with the annual BBC event. This comes despite pulling in a 5.7 million viewership figure — not a small number by any stretch of the imagination in terms of British programming — and being the first American show to hold a primetime slot on standard television for a number of years in the country. Continue…

 UK viewers will not see the second episode of US drama import ‘Pushing Daisies’, which debuted on ITV1 on Saturday with 5.7m viewers, until later this year.

The mix-up is due to the channel only having an eight-week window in which to show the nine-part series, which, like many US shows, was itself truncated by the writers’ strike.The series will continue this coming Saturday with the third episode rather than the second, which will be shown “at a later date” according to an ITV spokesman.

He said the situation had developed as a result of the US writers’ strike, which left the series and others such as ‘Bionic Woman’ and ‘ Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ with shorter runs than normal. Those two shows aired only eight and nine episodes respectively.

Schedulers decided to cut the series run down to eight episodes and selected the second episode as the one that could be removed with the smallest disruption to the narrative flow. Continue…

ITV1’s American drama Pushing Daisies - starring British actress Anna Friel - has made its debut with 5.7 million viewers, overnight estimates suggest.

It was a relatively strong showing for a US import but the programme lost out to Casualty in its 2100 BST timeslot.

BBC One’s long-running medical series was seen by 6.2 million people. Continue…

Pushing Daisies is yet another high-class American TV import. Seriously, why does anyone ever bother leaving the house?

With a hyperreal palette worthy of David Lynch and its kooky, Tim Burton-esque set, it’s clear from the opening scene that Pushing Daisies has big ambitions despite being made for the small screen.

Not known for its classy imports, ITV is the surprising home to Bryan ‘Heroes’ Fuller’s stylised American offering. This critically acclaimed new show tells the fantastical story of a pie maker called Ned (Lee Pace) who can bring the deceased back to life. If, however, Ned should touch the second-chancers again, they will return to their inert state forever. This caveat on his gift is highly inconvenient as his first and only love, Chuck (Anna Friel), is among the saved and touching her is something he very much wants to do. Let’s just say, it’s not your average plot, just as the show is not your average Saturday night viewing on ITV. Move over, X-Factor. Continue…

Stuff you should know about Bryan Fuller: He hates Queer as Folk. He has “a huge lesbian agenda”. His beautifully written, eye-popping pilot for ABC’s Pushing Daisies was named one of the 10 best television broadcasts of 2007 by The Washington Post.

And – boys – he’s totally adorable. Like clean puppies and chocolate birthday cake adorable. Noon on your favorite beach in June with a fistful of nostalgia-laden boardwalk cuisine adorable. Freshly cut Christmas tree, decorated in candy canes and red ribbons with a cute miniature train running through a cute miniature town underneath adorable.

And did we mention – he’s crazy talented. Fuller spoke to us for part two of our special investigative report: “Gays in Primetime”, but there just wasn’t enough room for all the wonderfulness that is … Bryan. So here are more tidbits from our interview. Topics include the gay Star Trek script that never got made, the de-gayed gay dad on Dead Like Me, the big gay character-driven show Fuller dreams of doing, and - *EXCLUSIVE* - his big reveal on the identity of Pushing Daisies’ gay character. Continue…

Anna Friel is positively glowing, even though she’s just stepped off a nightmarish 16-hour flight.It’s not her artfully applied make-up that’s causing the effect, however, nor is it the fact she’s basking in the phenomenal success of her new American TV show, Pushing Daisies, which starts here next week.

No, it seems the secret of her glow is purely down to her adopting a full-on, high-maintenance Hollywood lifestyle.

When we ask her to explain what she means, Anna pauses. This is not going to be a short answer.

You can tell because she has opened her eyes very wide. She is standing up, to make her point. Continue…

Pushing Daisies star and Burlington native Field Cate has loved and respected animals for as long as he can remember. That’s why the 10-year-old–who plays Young Ned on the hit ABC series–was all smiles when he was asked to sit down for an exclusive videotaped interview with PETA Kids, which can be seen at PETAKids.com, or by clicking here. Field went straight to the “meat” of the matter–why he refuses to eat it, that is–and talked about why he would never attend a circus that uses animals and why he encourages his friends and fans to perform only virtual dissection in school instead of cutting up real animals.For a limited time, visitors to the PETAKids.com site can register to win a size 10 “Circuses Are No Fun for Animals” T-shirt signed by Field!

“I’m a vegetarian because I think it’s terrible to kill animals for food,” says Field, who began his professional acting career with an appearance on the NBC soap Passions in 2004 and has also appeared on other TV shows, including CBS’ hit drama Without a Trace. “If you eat meat, you’re supporting the killing of animals for food.” And Field is in good company: His 3-year-old brother is also a healthy, happy vegetarian. Continue…