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Actress Anna Friel has admitted feeling “nervous” about what the UK will make of her hit US show Pushing Daisies when it airs next month.

Speaking before a screening of the programme at Hollywood’s Paley Television Festival, she said: “I’m so nervous, all the big billboards have started to go up [in the UK] so I’m hoping they like it. It’s very important for me that the Brits like it.”

The show has meant Anna and her family have moved to LA, and the former Brookside star is loving it.

“I’m really settled here now. I went back [to Britain] for two weeks about three weeks ago for the first time in ages, it was lovely, but it’s really nice to come back,” she said.

Anna’s co-star Lee Pace explained the show’s premise: “I play Ned who can touch the dead back to life. If the dead live for longer than a minute then something else will die and if I touch something for a second time they die again forever. But in the first episode I bring to life my childhood sweetheart (played by Anna) and high comedy ensues.”

Ned’s gift means the pair can never touch each other or Anna’s character Chuck will die forever. And Lee revealed there are several re-takes when he accidentally touches Anna during filming.

“She’ll drop dead and we’ll all laugh and have to do another take but I really like that there’s that standing in between us, rather than us falling into bed together.”

Pushing Daisies airs on ITV in April.

Weren’t able to trek out to Hollywood for this year’s Paley Fest? No worries, I’ve got you covered. For the next eight days, I’ll be bringing you all the highlights from the annual festival via (almost-)daily dispatches here in the Ausiello Report. Our camera crew will also be joining me on select days (Buffy! Friday Night Lights! Gossip Girl!), so keep close tabs on the TVGuide.com video player this week for red carpet interviews with the likes of Spike, Coach Taylor, S, B, N and D.

Officially speaking, Paley ‘08 kicked off Friday evening at the Cinerama Dome with what I’m sure was a very educational Elvis retrospective. But as far as this TV junkie is concerned, the tubeapalooza really got started Saturday night with the Pushing Daisies panel. Herewith are the highlights:

Participants: Bryan Fuller (creator), Lee Pace (Ned), Anna Friel (Chuck), Kristin Chenoweth (Olive), Chi McBride (Emerson), Ellen Greene (Vivian), Peter Ocko (coexecutive producer), Dan Jinks (executive producer), Bruce Cohen (executive producer)and Frenemy Kristin Dos Santos (moderator).

MIA: Swoosie Kurtz couldn’t attend because she was with her ailing mother.
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If the writers’ strike hadn’t happened, would “Pushing Daisies” have been cancelled?

Who knows, but when a new show is over budget, behind schedule and has okay ratings, that’s never a good thing.

So when ABC made a post-strike announcement to bring back “Daisies” in the fall—instead of for a handful of new episodes this spring, like established series “Desperate Housewives” and “Ugly Betty” —creator Bryan Fuller saw it as sort of a blessing.

Fuller tells Variety that the extra time gave him a chance to completely rethink the direction of the show, which was in danger of careening off course, and plan the production more carefully.

One reason the quirky series was off track? Fuller needed more post-production time than originally anticipated (to put all those death-defying special effects and the show’s trademark color palette in place).

“Daisies” isn’t the only newbie to benefit creatively from the hiatus. Freshman shows like “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Private Practice” and “Chuck” are also being held over until fall.

But there’s always a catch, isn’t there? Show runners may be getting more time to pump up the volume, but that means there’s not much room for error next season.

As Josh Schwartz—creator of NBC’s “Chuck” and “Gossip Girl” on the CW—told Variety

“No sophomore slumps allowed.”

So here’s a question: Would you have wanted more “Daisies” right now, instead of waiting almost a year for new, hopefully super-improved episodes?

He may play Amy Adams’ dreamy inamorata in the comedy of errors “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day,” in theaters March 7, but Lee Pace is a little worried about swooning moviegoers accusing him of false advertising. “I really do look a lot different in person,” the 28-year-old actor insists, via cell phone from his house in Los Angeles’ Runyon Canyon.

In the end, it’s a moot point: Pace’s brown, puppy-dog eyes serve him well on-screen in “Pettigrew” as Michael, a penniless pure-of-heart piano player who attempts to woo the misguided Delysia Lafosse (played by Adams).

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Creator Bryan Fuller announced this fact Monday to Unscripted’s Susan Young.

Fans of Pushing Daisies and the show’s kooky cast of characters will be disappointed to hear this news. Pushing Daisies will not return until the fall, according to Susan Young’s “Unscripted.”

Young spoke to Daisies creator Bryan Fuller via e-mail, where he confirmed what many experts in Hollywood had reported in recent days, his show will begin production in the fall.

The reasoning, already taking into account how hard it is to produce a one-hour-drama like Pushing Daisies, is that Fuller didn’t think it was wise to put his show up against reality TV monster American Idol. ABC agreed with this, and Fuller also said in his e-mail exchange with Young that airing a few episodes at the end of the season wouldn’t do his show much good.

The Pie Maker can bring the dead back to life with a touch of his hand. But when he touches them once more, they’re dead forever. What if he wakes his childhood sweetheart from the dead? Welcome to the fantastic world of ‘Pushing Daisies’

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  Young Ned is nine years, 27 weeks, six days and three minutes old when he quite tragically discovers he has a special gift.

   Having witnessed his dog being run over by a truck, Ned touches Digby’s dead body one last time only to find out that his Golden Retriever is brought back to life. Soon after, his mother dies of an aneurysm while holding a freshly baked pie in her hands.

  Testing his new-found gift, Ned brings his mother back to life by the mere touch of his hand. We find out the cost of this gift exactly 60 seconds later when their neighbor drops dead while watering their garden. For every life Ned brings back from the dead, there’s another to be given in return – in close proximity.

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While some of her co-workers on ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” fantasy series now work at places such as Home Depot, Katherine T. Lingenfelter is holding her own.

“That’s why I have a roommate and a small apartment,” says the former Saginaw resident, one of the more 10,000 members of the Writers Guild of America who are in their 13th week of a strike against Hollywood studios.

“But I am getting close to draining the funds I have.”

Lingenfelter says a big meeting planned for Saturday night at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles may bring relief.

That is when, she says, union leaders will discuss with their members a preliminary deal hammered out between them and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers over the issues of sharing profits from Internet sales and downloads as well as DVDs. Continue…

So rumor has it that the WGA has made great progress in the latest negotiations, enough that some folks are saying the writers’ strike might end very soon.

And while some TV shows will probably go back into production to churn out a few more episodes before the season’s official close in May, “Pushing Daisies” apparently won’t be one of them.

                                         

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As production designer for the quirky ABC comedy, “Pushing Daisies,” former Flint resident Michael Wylie recently faced a formidable challenge — how to build a vat large enough to fit a person and fill it with taffy.

One of the episodes called for a character to drown in such a vat.

“We built it out of a big plastic container and painted it to look like copper,” said Wylie, who lives in Hollywood. “The taffy was (made from) this inert, cellulose material that was dyed pink.

Ned revived Chuck but he can never touch her again or she’ll die permanently.”There’s something like that in every script,” said Wylie, who’s responsible for show’s visual aspects.

Though the series didn’t win, it was recently nominated for a Golden Globe award, along with lead actors Lee Pace and Anna Friel. Continue…

Last week I spoke with “Pushing Daisies’” creator and showrunner Bryan Fuller about the creation of the show about a man with the gift for bringing dead people back to life, but sometimes with extreme consequences, both on a comical and emotional level.This week, we finish up talking about “Daisies” and move on to the new season of “Heroes,” which has undergone a sudden critical and audience slamming. Fuller served as a co-executive producer on the first season that gave us Sylar and Tim Sale’s artwork on network television before leaving to create “Pushing Daisies.”

Finally, and most importantly, Fuller gives us his personal viewpoint on the ongoing WGA (that’s Writer’s Guild of America) strike, now in its thirteenth week. Scripted television has grinded to a complete halt, film production has slowed and there is no end in sight. It’s costing hundreds of people working in Hollywood their jobs, and Fuller has found himself walking that picket line along with all his brothers-and-sisters-in-writing.

Please note that this interview took place before the DGA struck a deal with the AMPTP and before the WGA and the AMPTP returned to negotiations. Continue…