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THE intensely annoying, never-ending, smug voiceover of Pushing Daisies drained all the fun from the latest American import.The tale of pie-maker Ned, whose touch can raise the dead, began promisingly enough, but the narration just went on and on and on … until I was ready to scream every time the pesky voice piped up to state the obvious.

Yes, Ned’s second touch sends the walking dead back to their maker, yes, Ned’s lonely. OK, we get it, please, just shut up for two minutes.

Former Brookside beauty Anna Friel put on her best American accent to play Ned’s childhood sweetheart Chuck. She was his dream girl except for one teeny problem - she was as dead as a Norwegian blue parrot.

Ned’s magical touch restored her to life after she was murdered with a plastic carrier bag on a cruise ship, but they both know a second touch will kill her so it’s definitely a hands-off romance.

ITV’s new Saturday show is quirky and original with lots of eccentric characters and bizarre happenings, but that voiceover needs to be silenced … for good.

Even Desperate Housewives limits its voiceover to a minute at the beginning and end. Pushing Daisies should bring in the same time limit as quickly as possible otherwise the silent button on the remote might be getting a work-out.

EVERYTHING looked so bright, glossy, colourful and idyllic in Pushing Daisies (ITV1, Saturday), I was half-expecting R.E.M to pop up and start singing “Shiny happy people holding hands!”

Only, holding hands isn’t an option for the main characters in this new, American-made, eight-part fantasy adventure starring Lee Pace and Anna Friel, and narrated by veteran actor Jim (what a Carry On) Dale.

Hopefully you were sitting comfortably and had suspended all disbelief because, here goes: pie-maker Ned (Pace) discovered he had the power to bring people back to life with one touch. One more touch? They’re dead again.

This is especially frustrating in relation to his born-again childhood sweetheart Charlotte “Chuck” Charles (Friel, who speaks in an odd mid-Atlantic accent).

They became reunited in an unconventional way. Nearly a couple of decades after sharing their first kiss as kids living next door to each other, Ned, now using his special powers to help a private investigator solve murder cases, brings Chuck back to life . . . but can’t bear to let her rest in peace. Continue…

The makers of ITV1’s new American drama Pushing Daises must be hoping that the show will not be buried without trace come commissioning season, after viewing figures failed to live up to expectations.

The US import, which stars British actor and former Brookside star Anna Friel, attracted about 5.7 million viewers. But the programme lost out to Casualty - the BBC’s long-running medical series was seen by 6.2 million. The heavily marketed Pushing Daisies did appeal to the coveted younger audience, however, with figures suggesting that 31% of viewers were 16- to 34-year-olds, compared to 18% in the same age bracket watching Casualty.

Friel appears in Pushing Daisies as the childhood sweetheart of pie maker Ned, played by Lee Pace, who can bring people back to life by touching them. The series - from Bryan Fuller, the creator of Star Trek Voyager and Heroes - has been a critical and commercial success in the US. Friel and Pace were both nominated for awards at this year’s Golden Globes, and the show was shortlisted for best musical or comedy series. Continue…

ON the day I had written a moan in the Record about the death of Saturday night telly, along comes a drama to knock the stuffing right out of my argument.

Och okay, All-Star Mr & Mrs wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be either.

Pushing Daisies works because it successfully nicks ingredients from some of the best US dramas in recent years - Six Feet Under, Heroes and Desperate Housewives - putting them together to conjure up a visual treat that Hollywood fantasist Tim Burton might be proud to put his name to.

Anna Friel showed there’s more to her than Brookside - eventually - playing the wide-eyed, high cheek boned love interest of Ned (Lee Pace) - a pie maker whose dubious gift of resurrecting the dead will kill her if he ever touches her again. After declaring the death of Saturday night telly, I stand corrected.

Ned the pie maker has brought it back to life with gusto.

SOURCE: DailyRecord

I  remember when the greatest praise you could heap on a programme, particularly an American import, was that it was “dark”. Twin Peaks was dark, American Gothic darker, and - until Dexter came slashing along - Six Feet Under darkest. Even Desperate Housewives, before it turned irremediably silly, was applauded for being a black comedy, narrated from beyond the grave. If, as a programme-maker, you wanted kudos, it would be best you thought David Lynch not Walt Disney.But, what is this? Pushing Daisies, an American fantasy that goes all out to be a sunny delight? Could light be the new dark? Michael Grade, high commander at ITV, thinks so. Noting the success of cheerful shows such as Kingdom and Britain’s Got Talent, he sees house prices falling and viewers demanding escapism. This, presumably, is why he has scheduled Pushing Daisies for ITV1 at prime time on Saturday nights, the first time an American drama has done such heavy hauling for ITV since, I imagine, Columbo. Continue…

Is ANNA Friel, the star of Pushing Daisies, contractually obliged to re-apply her makeup every five minutes? You couldn’t help wondering: this new rom-com isn’t so much shiny as set in lacquer.

It has a good premise: Ned (Lee Pace), a pie-maker who has the power to bring the dead back to life with a single touch, resurrects his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Friel), who’s been murdered on a cruise liner. Problem is, if he touches her again, she’ll die permanently. Along with a private investigator, Emmerson (Chi McBride), they embark on a money-making gig, waking the dead for a minute to find out who killed them, then collecting the reward.

In episode one, the whole back-story was deftly explained in a neat flashback that set the zany comic tone. We saw the nine-year-old Ned bring his mother back to life just after she’d had a cerebral haemorrhage (while holding a pie, hence his later obsession), only for her to drop stone dead later after giving him a goodnight kiss (the second touch, you see). From there, we moved without pause through the resurrection of Chuck and the discovery of the man who murdered her, the smile never faltering, the dialogue always light and jokey. Continue…