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Kristin Chenoweth is not “a pie person.”
“I love chocolate cake. I never met a cookie I didn’t like,” explained the tiny actress, who’s only being asked about dessert because she’s on the set of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” perched on a chair just outside a giant pie.

That would be The Pie Hole, the restaurant where Chenoweth’s character, Olive Snook, works as a waitress and nurses a secret yen for Ned (Lee Pace), a pie maker who’s not so secretly in love with a girl named Chuck (Anna Friel).

All three will be back Wednesday at 8 p.m., when “Daisies,” having survived the writers strike, returns with its first original episode in nearly 10 months. But in the meantime, Chenoweth, who claims to be a “terrible cook,” has one pie recipe to share.

“If I have to say (a favorite) pie, then I’m going to say a pie that I make, called the Butterfinger Pie,” she told a small group of reporters in July, a couple of days before her 40th birthday.

“And it’s Cool Whip, and it’s smashed Butterfinger candy bars, and you put the Butterfinger candy bars in the Cool Whip and you mix it up, and (put it in) a graham-cracker crust and freeze it. The important thing is to freeze it. I took it out too early once 
 and they thought it was French onion dip!” she complained. Continue…

Kristin Chenoweth of “Pushing Daisies” is nominated for the best supporting actress in a comedy series category for this year’s Emmy Awards that will be announced Sunday. She plays the Pie Hole waitress Olive Snook who once worked as a jockey.

That story line was not too big a stretch. The singer/actress stands a mere 4-feet-11-inches tall. Playing the role of a character with a secret jockey life might be the perfect pick. But Chenoweth almost passed on the role for the quirky ABC series about a man who brings the dead back to life.

“I was going to do ‘Young Frankenstein’ on Broadway. [Series creator] Bryan Fuller came backstage while I was doing ‘The Apple Tree.’ He said ‘I know that Olive is not prevalent yet.’ But when he told me what was going to happen with the character I decided it sounded like it was a perfect fit for me,” Chenoweth says during an interview in July.

The cliffhanger from season one had Olive being told a big secret. Chenoweth explains for the first three episodes of season two, Olive will be in “a very funny place so she won’t be able to tell the secret.” Continue…

Also winning Emmys during the technical awards portion of the show were “Tin Man” on SciFi Channel for makeup in a miniseries or movie, “Pushing Daisies” on ABC for picture editing on a comedy series as well as music composition for a series, “Lost” on ABC for sound mixing for a comedy or drama series, and “Smallville” on The CW for sound editing for a series.

For “Tin Man,” the makeup team consisted of Lisa Love and Rebecca Lee. For “Pushing Daisies,” Stuart Bass took the editing award while Jim Dooley was the composer.

“Pushing Daisies: The Complete First Season” Grade A: This is one of the most original television series to come along in years. Lee Pace plays Ned, a man with the ability to bring the dead back to life with a touch. Anna Friel plays Chuck, the love of Ned’s life. The show becomes the ultimate story of unrequited love once Ned brought Chuck back to life. The pair can never touch again.

Stunning cinematography and a perfect supporting cast make this a must own DVD set.

I have added some new season 2 promos!

 

SOURCE:BUDDYTV.COM

While fans are eagerly waiting for the second season of the Emmy-nominated series Pushing Daisies, ABC is gearing up to treat fans for a pie experience like never before. ABC is going to deliver the interactive experience of Ned’s bakery, the Pie Hole, to ten major markets across the United States.  Viewers and guests who get to catch the tour bus will be treated to free pie and the homey goodness of the friendly restaurant staff, while basking in the show’s sunny set.  The Pie Hole will also be decorated with balloons, posters and daisy decals on the floor.

More fun ensues when Pushing Daisies footage will be displayed on plasma TVs on the site, while the waitresses on daisy-decorated bicycles go around to lead the crowd to gather at the restaurant site prior to the event.  Guests will also be treated to limited edition Pushing Daisies magnets, pie-cutters and spatulas.

This is the perfect treat for both fans and guests alike, as they will be fully immersed in a once in a lifetime experience in the fantastic world of Pushing Daisies.  Additionally, a Pushing Daisies microsite will chart the mobile Pie Hole’s journeys and enable enthusiasts to send Pushing Daisies themed messages through PushingDaisiesTour.com. Continue…

Kristin Chenoweth, Tony award winning actress and star of the ABC sitcom “Pushing Daisies,” has a new starring role: singing about crystal meth in a video spoof on funnyordie.com

Chenoweth plays an “interventionist” who sings about her desire to help a meth addict and his family:

“You’re quite close to death, because you’re addicted to meth,” she sings, “But we can’t go wrong if we ’splain it in a song.”

The hilarious video is peppered with animated sparkles and colorful fireworks.

When Chenoweth sings, “It’s OK to be gay, some guys are just born that way,” a cartoon rainbow appears between her hands.

Chenoweth’s meth intervention song might not get as much play as the funnyordie.com classic “The Landlord,”  but it’s certainly catchy 
 and laugh-out-loud funny.

VIEW IT HERE. 

Ned the piemaker can bring the dead back to life with a touch of his finger, but for ABC’s Pushing Daisies, the resurrection is more complicated.

The drama, a unique mix of romance, comedy, fantasy and crime-solving, produced just nine episodes last fall, not always smoothly. Then it abruptly shut down last November — along with much of Hollywood — for the three-month writers’ strike.

When that cloud was lifted, ABC decided to shelve the series until this fall. It returns Oct. 1, nearly 10 months after it left off.

Four other first-year shows face a similar holding pattern: ABC’s other Wednesday dramas, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money, and NBC’s Life and Chuck. (Only Life has the misfortune of also switching time slots, to the network Siberia of Friday.)

Aside from giving second chances to the five series, most of which faced ratings, creative or production problems, the strike’s effect on the new fall season is deep in other ways. There are just 14 new scripted series on the five networks, less than half the usual count. And delays in pilot production will mean a bigger crop of newcomers in midseason.

The freshman five face a dual challenge: Can they hold on to last year’s fans, whose loyalty has been mostly untested? And will they lure more viewers who didn’t give them a chance the last time around, thanks to network marketing campaigns that treat them as new series?

Daisies co-star Chi McBride says he’s “concerned” about the potential disruptive effect of a still-gestating series being off the air for so long. He points to the effect of the long break on some top shows. Continue…

“Pushing Daisies’” Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Emmy nominee Lee Pace says he and the rest of the show’s team “were really surprised” by the show’s 12 nominations. Due to the writers’ strike, “We only did nine episodes.”  He wants to make it clear that in spite of those dozen nods, nobody’s resting on their laurels.

“One great thing about the strike for us was that it gave us time to pay attention to what was working on the show and what didn’t work,” he says, speaking of the imaginative series about a pie maker named Ned who has the ability to bring dead people back to life.

“He can’t get comfortable. It’s always fun to have Ned out of control, out of his comfort zone. When he has a lot of problems, it’s fun to play,” says the actor, whose work days often run from 6 a.m. ’til 10 p.m. Referring to Anna Friel’s character, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, Ned’s beloved — who he brought back to life and must never touch again or she’ll perish permanently, he goes on, “Ned has to be a gentleman and a good guy, who’ll fight for Chuck’s life to be as good as it can be.” Continue…

Strolling into the Pie Hole restaurant set of “Pushing Daisies,” with its fluffy crust roof, hanging cherry lamps and sweetly cheery atmosphere, brings an instant smile to one’s face. Surreal and wonderfully weird, there’s nothing else like it on television. For that reason, you hope it will be part of the prime-time landscape for years to come.

That would be fine with Lee Pace and Anna Friel, who are having a blast playing look-but-don’t-touch lovers Ned and Chuck. Inside the Pie Hole on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, they’re holding court with a small cluster of reporters and the subject, naturally, turns to their characters’ chaste relationship.

“I think we strike a chord with people because we’re not just sex, sex, sex “…,” Friel says. “I can remember watching ‘Moonlighting’ as a girl and thinking ‘Just please get together. Kiss. Kiss.’ It was fun and lighthearted. That’s what we have on this show: True, beautiful, simple love.”

Now the trick is to get more people to fall in love with them. “Pushing Daisies” was among the handful of shows that did not return last season after the writers strike concluded. Instead, the freshman series went into a deep freeze after only nine episodes, the last of which aired way back on Dec. 12. Continue…