It’s certainly been a down week for PUSHING DAISIES fans, but tonight is a night to celebrate the show with a brand new episode. Enjoy! And on this Thanksgiving eve, we are thankful that we got to experience PUSHING DAISIES, even if it were for a short amount of time.
Episode Title: Robbing Hood
Airdate: November 26, 2008
Episode Summary: Ned, Chuck and Emerson investigate the case of a dead millionaire (Shelley Berman) who may have been murdered by a latter-day Robin Hood (Danny Comden) . . . or his much-younger money grubbing widow (Jennifer Elise Cox). Meanwhile, Lily fumes as the suspicious Dwight Dixon (Stephen Root) begins romancing clueless Vivian
As we cozy up to the holiday season, what better way to celebrate than with the musical stylings of Kristin Chenoweth. Kristin recently released her third album, “A Lovely Way to Spend Christimas” just in time to get us raise our holiday spirits. On the album, Chenoweth covers a wide range of Christmas songs from “Christmas Island,” popularized by The Andrew’s Sisters to Kristin’s personal favorite “Come On Ring Those Bells.”
In addition to well-known Christmas classics such as “Silver Bells” and “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” Chenoweth reinterprets Louis Armstrong’s modern standard “What A Wonderful World” and children’s favorite “Sing,” (originally written for Sesame Street’s loveable Big Bird) into Christmas songs.
On choosing to record a Christmas album Chenoweth says “From the minute I signed with Sony Classical eight years ago, I wanted to record a Christmas album. I grew up listening to Barbra Streisand’s Christmas album, and that was such an inspiration to me. Christmas is my favorite holiday and I am blessed and excited to be able to do my own Christmas album.”
The Pie Maker has been given five copies of “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas” to share with some lucky readers. Enter to win and make Kristin part of your holiday celebrations.
To Enter:
Share with us your favorite holiday tune and tell us why it’s so special to you.
“A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas” is available in stores and online now, so stop what you’re doing and go support the music of Olive Snook. It’s a must have for PUSHING DAISIES fans!!
It’s the news we were prepared for but not quite ready to here. ABC won’t be ordering any additional episodes of PUSHING DAISIES past the 13 already ordered (and shot) this season. I guess we should note that the show hasn’t been canceled, meaning there is still a chance that the show could come back for more episodes next season. But I think it’s going to take Ned’s magical powers to make that happen.
Bryan Fuller told Kristin Dos Santos that ABC President Steve McPherson called and said, “We did everything we could.”
James Hibbard of THR.com also spoke to series creator Bryan Fuller who told him, “I can’t help but feel immense pride when it comes to ‘Pushing Daisies.’ I’m grateful TO everyone and FOR everyone who brought the show to life and for the very loyal audience that embraced us. If we are indeed dead on ABC, we now have to convince DC Comics to let us tell the rest of the season’s story lines out in comic book form and convince Warner Bros. features to let ‘Pushing Daisies’ live again as a movie.”
From your lips Mr. Fuller….
As PUSHING DAISIES still has (hopefully) more episodes to air this season we aren’t ready to be sad. PUSHING DAISIES has always been a show that has celebrated life and we here at ThePieMaker.com will continue to celebrate the life of this amazing show and will continue to do so well after the 13th episode has aired. We hope you celebrate with us!
I think we should all keep on calling, writing and reaching out to ABC to let them know just how important PUSHING DAISIES is not only to the fans but to the landscape of television. Whether or not this show spoke to you it’s important to support its unique voice. Television has become so cookie-cutter that the networks can’t be afraid of taking a chance on shows like PUSHING DAISIES in the future.
UPDATE: Nothing too new but I just received personal word from a writer on the show that things are done. ABC is refusing to say canceled, but yeah, things are over.
I in turn passed along word that fans will want to hear more from the PUSHING DAISIES after the 13th episode, right?
Episode Summary: Ned reluctantly agrees to help “The Great Herrmann” (guest star Fred Willard), a famed magician whose animal assistants are being mysteriously killed off. The magician has been a surrogate dad to Ned’s half-brothers Maurice and Ralston (Alex Miller, Graham Miller) ever since their father walked out on them. Meanwhile, Dwight Dixon (guest star Stephen Root) insinuates himself into the Aunts’ lives, but Lily is instantly suspicious of his motives,
It was bittersweet to be on the Warner Bros lot last Thursday and Friday knowing that PUSHING DAISIES was wrapping its 13th episode. I met up with a few of the PUSHING DAISIES writers briefly last Tuesday night in L.A. and they talked of the current state of uncertainty surrounding the show, but being on the lot knowing they were filming the last ordered episode was just too much. I was seriously bummed.
As much as I wanted to stop by the set and send my best wishes to Bryan Fuller, I also didn’t want to be there on what I can only imagine was an emotional day for the cast and crew. Here’s to hoping we all have a reason to smile soon!!
What I can tell you is that I snagged a few pics of some of the behind-the-scenes stuff I encountered while I was roaming around the back lot of Warner Bros. I spent Friday afternoon on the set of CHUCK which films directly next door to DAISIES, and don’t think for one second I didn’t think of sneaking on to the set.
As random as they are, here are a few Daisies candids.
While the future of PUSHING DAISIES looks bleak, the show has not yet been canceled. The fight is not yet over. It’s beyond important for you to tune in tonight. It’s even more important that you get a few newbies to check in too. With all 13 episodes filmed and no more ordered it’s pretty easy for ABC to pull the official plug. The only way they are not going to do that is if they see an uptick in viewers. It’s that simple.
As we’ve asked you to do all season, PLEASE take some time out of your day to encourage others to tune in tonight at 8pm on ABC for an all new episode of PUSHING DAISIES.
So what else can we, the fans, do to show our support and convince the powers that be at ABC to keep Daisies on the air?
TUNE IN: Tonight, watch the show. Live. In your house. Look for the glowing box that receives pictures via bunny ears, a satellite or a coaxial cable coming out of the wall. (Everything else on TV at that time? Obama, Obama and then more Obama. So there’s no downside for you—you won’t miss any other show—and the upside is that the show’s prospects might perk up!) For that matter, email five of your friends right now and tell them to watch, especially if you happen to know anyone who has one of those magical Nielsen boxes.
TURN ON: Go to ABC.com and play old episodes. If you have some spare change, download a few from iTunes. If Daisies brings in enough digital dime, that revenue might offset the on-air losses.
REACH OUT:Contact ABC online or use the quaint ol’ post office to send a letter explaining, in your own passionate but polite words, why and how Daisies is the birdhouse in your soul. The address for ABC is 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-4551.
PUSH THOSE DAISIES: There are 23,000 species in the daisy family of flowers, including marigolds, coneflowers, sunflowers, chamomile, chrysanthemums, dahlias and zinnias. Send a bunch of your faves to ABC, or better yet, send flower seeds. They’re light and therefore cheap to ship. Seeds last for years and won’t go bad or go to waste, and they could be planted to grow into something beautiful in the spring. Don’t forget to include a note explaining that this is for the love of Daisies!
SPREAD THE WORD: Go to Facebook, MySpace and any other social media site to spread the word of Daisies. Here’s a few banners you can use. Do what you can. Now is the time.
Are you one of the lucky PUSHING DAISIES fans going to the ‘Inside the Writers Room’ panel at the Paley Center tonight? If so, I am beyond jealous. I’m here in L.A., actually. Flew in from Boston last night. I wasn’t supposed to arrive until later in the week but I changed my flight to arrive early specifically to attend the PUSHING DAISIES panel. But as it turned out I couldn’t get my hands on a ticket - I asked all around and there just weren’t any to be found. Devastated about not being able to attend, I made another (binding) commitment for tonight. And you know what happened? In the last 24 hours I was offered a ticket from three different people. Ugh. Can you believe it? Had I not made my other plans for tonight I could have been at the PUSHING DAISIES panel.
Such is life.
Enough of my whining. If you are going to be at tonight’s panel, please share your experience with ThePieMaker.com. And please share our best with all the panelists. To say I wish I was there is a bit of an understatement.
PUSHING DAISIES has two new awards to add to its already crowded mantle. Two members of the DAISIES team were honored with an HPA Award for their work behind-the-scenes. Congrats to Joe Hathaway and Stuart Bass on their achievement
Outstanding Color Grading ‐ Television
“Pushing Daisies ‐ The Fun in Funerals”
Joe Hathaway // LaserPacific Media Corporation
Outstanding Editing‐ Television
“Pushing Daisies ‐ Pie‐Lette”
Stuart Bass, A.C.E
Although PUSHING DAISIES isn’t on tonight, we still have Ned, Chuck, Emerson, Olive and Co. on the brain. Thanks to EW’s Michael Ausiello there are some new spoilers to hold us over until November 19th. Think about Ned’s powers and Mermaid rivals… you’re intrigued aren’t you?
