This just in… Pushing Daisies has won yet another award. This time the pie ho’s have been graced with Best Series at the 21st Annual Reims International TV Festival in France. Daisies also won the public jury’s TeleObs.com prize for best series.

As sad as I am that there will be no new PUSHING DAISIES episodes until the Fall (or July for those of us lucky enough to go to Comic Con), I take comfort in knowing that I can check out The Pie Hole gang anytime I want at ABC.com. Currently four full episodes (”Dummy”, “Corpsicle”, “Bitter Sweets, “Smell of Success”) are your free to watch anytime you want.

Pretty soon we are going to be launching a little contest aimed at finding out how YOU think we can get new viewers watching PUSHING DAISIES come the Fall, but until then make sure you tell everyone you know about the show and encourage them to go to ABC.com to experience the magic that is PUSHING DAISIES.

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When we created ThePieMaker.com we wanted to not only help promote our favorite show but help bring awareness to various causes and charities in hopes of getting readers to give back in the name of Pushing Daisies fandom!

Since 2002, ThePieMaker.com’s own Dan has been riding his bike (a lot) to raise money for HIV/AIDS awareness, education, and prevention. He’s raised over $15,000 for various AIDS organizations and peddled over 1,100 miles to help bring an end to this devastating pandemic.

This September he’ll once again get on that 4″ bike seat and ride up to 10 hours a day from Gettysburg to New York City as part of Braking The Cycle 2008.

All of the proceeds go to Braking The Cycle’s beneficiary The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in New York City which has been working since 1983 to educate and prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

ThePieMaker.com wants to help Dan raise $4,000 by the end of the summer and we need your help!

If you can only donate $1 to the ride, that’s amazing - every dollar counts! If you’re capable of giving more ($10, $25, $50 and up) that’s just as incredible. Each and every donation is appreciated and goes toward saving lives and preventing the further spread of HIV/AIDS.
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According to Michael Ausiello, Lawrence Trilling - producer on favorites such as “Invasion”, “Alias”, and “Felicity” will be joining the Pie Holers behind the scenes for season two. Mr. Trilling directed “Smell of Success” so he’s quote familiar with the magic that is Daisies. Just wanted to welcome Lawrence to the PUSHING DAISIES family - consider yourself lucky.

Happy Birthday to Pushing Daisies star Lee Pace from ThePieMaker.com and all of our readers!

I hope you didn’t think our coverage of the PUSHING DAISIES panel at this year’s Paley Festival was over! It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to really celebrate the show, so we wanted to make sure we shared as much as we could for those of you who weren’t able to attend.

To that end, we decided to do our second Pushing Daisies Piecast Podcast - this one devoted to our Paley experience. Among other things we discuss some of what we learned during the panel, some thoughts on Season 2, and our experience with the cast on that great night.

Listen Online: PieCast #2: Paley Festival

This podcast has been posted as a special edition of the Ducky Does TV & Give Me My Remote TV Podcast. We’re also available on iTunes.

If you missed our first PUSHING DAISIES Piecast Podcast, click here to listen.

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The divine divas from E!, Kristen Dos Santos and Korbi Ghosh, hit the Pushing Daisies Paley Festival Red Carpet and got the poop, the scoop, the skinny, the haps, the dilly-o and the 411. Chi McBride also reveals that the writing staff is on crack. Mild Spoilers coming your way!

Head on over to Watch With Kristin to see the whole post and a picture from the panel that has both Kath and I visible in the bottom left. Dorks!

EXCLUSIVE PUSHING DAISIES GIVEAWAY

ThePieMaker.com has another giveaway courtesy of the crew from Pushing Daisies! From a credenza in the office of Bryan Fuller comes the official JEWS FOR CHEESES shirt seen on Young Charlotte Charles in Episode 1.07 “Smell of Success”.

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If you’ve been following our coverage of the Pushing Daisies Paley Festival panel then you know we’re planning on doing another Piecast Podcast to chat about how incredible the evening was but we couldn’t help get some information up after all the emails we’ve received.

The Piecast will hopefully be ready for Monday night as we’ve decided to hold out until after our visit to the Writers Room in the afternoon in case Bryan Fuller and Co. give us any scoop we can spill to all the fans. Fingers crossed gang!

As we’re really trying to save our thoughts until the Piecast, we decided it would be a good chance to have some of our loyal ThePieMaker.com readers in attendance share their thoughts with you all!

First up is Patricia from San Diego (who oddly enough happens to be the Sister of my friend Jenny, strange but true) who attended the panel with her husband Michael. Patricia’s got a ton of quotes from the panel as well as some fun tidbits that the cast and crew shared. Some of our burning questions are answered as well. Ever wonder if Ned is a Vegetarian or if Ned & Chuck could ever possibly have a baby? Well, read on…

Second will be reader Erika with a quick take on what it was like to be a fan and aspiring TV Writer in attendance of her favorite show.

Take it away ladies…
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The deluge continues… Here is a very brief video from the beginning of the Pushing Daisies Paley Fest Panel discussion. Hopefully the Paley Center will be releasing a DVD of the panel for sale in the very near future. We will of course keep you updated if that is the case.