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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…

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…

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…

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).

Bringing the dead back to life is not an unfamiliar conceit for a drama, but new US series Pushing Daisies offers a refreshingly unique - and often surreal - twist. Part romance, part comedy and part mystery, the show revolves around humble pie-maker Ned (Lee Pace), a man blessed with the ability to revive the dead with a single touch. Among those he gives the finger to is childhood sweetheart Chuck (Anna Friel), cruelly bumped off before her time. Lee and Anna tell us why it’s a premise packed with potential.

What’s the show all about?
Lee Pace: “Well I play Ned, who touches dead things and brings them back to life, but if they live for more than a minute, something else will die. And if I touch them a second time, they die again forever. In the first episode I bring Chuck, my childhood sweetheart, back to life and a comedy ensues.”
Anna Friel: “It’s quite essentially a comedy with drama. It’s incredibly romantic and a show where anything could happen. It’s visually stunning and its production values are so high. Each episode costs $3.2 million and we have 11 days to shoot it. The biggest challenge after making such a big pilot is how to keep it up every week. I think we’ve proved everybody wrong, not wanting to sound big-headed.” 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

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…

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 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…