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"dummy" ratings; daisies wilts
Daisies' ratings wilted slightly in episode two, taking in 10.7 million
viewers.
The former Brookside babe scored a huge hit in the US with her series Pushing Daisies, in which she plays the reanimated sweetheart of a man who brings the dead back to life.
However, while the show’s gone down a storm in America, prompting ITV1 to snap it up, the British broadcaster has seen their ratings slump from 5.7 million viewers to less than three million.
As a result, the axe is hanging over the series, and not even the lovely Ned could bring it back from the grave.
An ITV insider told The Sun: “It’d be a shame if ITV boss Peter Fincham axed it because, despite the ratings, it is quality telly.”
Too right it is - and maybe if the channel had thought about it properly, instead of chopping out episodes to accommodate football, it might do better.
Give it a chance Mr Fincham, go on, you know you want to.
Warner has announced their latest TV-on-high-def release, bringing the comedy hit ‘Pushing Daisies’ to Blu-ray this September.
A critical and audience hit for ABC last Fall, the Barry Sonnenfeld-produced series will see its freshman year hit Blu-ray on September 16, when Warner debuts ‘Pushing Daises: Season One‘ day-and-date with the standard DVD.
As Warner has yet to issue the press announcement for ‘Pushing Daisies,’ there are no tech specs or supplement details available as of yet. Stay tuned.
Suggested retail price for the Blu-ray has been set at $39.98.
You’ll find preliminary specs for ‘Pushing Daisies: Season One’ linked from our Blu-ray Release Schedule, where it’s indexed under September 16.
Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Pushing Daisies Season 1 on 16th September 2008 priced at $29.98 SRP. From creator Bryan Fuller (Dead Like Me), this romantic comedy shows us the fairy tale like world of gifted pie-maker Ned (Lee Pace), a man who can bring dead people back to life through the power of his touch. The same touch he must use to ‘kill’ them after no more than a minute or another person will die. With the help of Emerson (Chi McBride), a local PI, Ned uses his ability to solve murder cases and cash in on any rewards. But things get complicated when Ned’s childhood sweetie Chuck (Anna Friel) is the victim of a murder and Ned just can’t help but wake her up for good – the only hitch is they can never touch each other.
Episodes are spread across three-discs presented in anamorphic widescreen with English DD5.1 and Portuguese DD2.0 audio. English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean and Thai subtitles are also provided.
Extras include:
Pie Time – Time for Pie: Interactive featurette where the entire cast/creative members reveal series secrets
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…
