The Paley Center will once again cast it’s television focus on Bryan Fuller and Pushing Daisies.  As part of the newly announced Fall 2008 series, The Public Programs at the Paley Center, you have a chance to be a part of a panel discussion with Fuller and the Daisies writing staff.

Pushing Daisies - Inside The Writers Room
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
7:00 pm PT
Paley Center Los Angeles

In Person: Bryan Fuller and additional members of the creative team

A droll satire on human foibles, a whodunit, and a gentle love story rolled into one, Pushing Daisies was certainly the most offbeat new offering of the 2007–2008 television season, not to mention one of the medium’s most deftly written series. Creator Bryan Fuller and members of his writing team will gather to discuss what it takes to pull off this most whimsical and original of programs.

Individual tickets on sale to Paley Center Members Sept. 10; on sale to General Public Sept. 12

To ask questions of Fuller and the writing staff, head over to the Paley Center website. If you’re attending, please leave us a comment so the fans can meet up and represent!

*For New York City fans, you can check out a sneak peek at Pushing Daisies Season 2 at the Paley Center New York on September 12th as part of their ABC Fall Preview night.  Click here for details.

Ms. Chenoweth, how I love thee.  In the latest installment from FunnyorDie.com, PUSHING DAISIES star Kristin Chenoweth take on the serious issue of drug abusive in a way that only she can.  She may look and sound sweet & innocent, but…You’re quite close to death, because you’re addicted to meth.

WARNING!  The content is NSFW and not for younger or sensitive sensibilities.

I have to go watch again…too funny!

Looking for the best tasting pie this side of Coeur d’Coeurs? Well look no further than The Pie Hole. But if your summer travels didn’t include a stop at the famous Pie-ery,  no worries because the pie just might be coming to you…if you’re lucky.

Later today ABC is expected to unveil details of cross-country promotional tour designed to give current and potential PUSHING DAISIES fans a hands-on experience. An Airstream trailer resembling The Pie Hole will be hitting the open road and allowing visitors to sample free pie, interact with an upbeat restaurant staff (sadly not Ned, Chuck or Olive), check out props from the series and watch footage from the show on plasma TV sets.

The Pie Hole staff will hand out “Daisies”-branded trinkets, including spatulas, pie cutters and magnets. (Hopefully we can get our hands on some of these to give away). Waitresses riding on daisy bicycles will direct audiences to the site of the faux Pie Hole as part of what ABC is calling “The Touch of Wonder Tour. ”

ABC will let viewers keep track of the Pie Hole’s journeys via a newly-launched website, PushingDaisiesTour.com. And of course if The Pie Hole comes to your city, we hope that you will share you experience with ThePieMaker.com

The Touch of Wonder Tour 2008…

If you are lucky enough to live in one of these cites and plan on attending, drop us a line at info(at)thepiemaker(dot)com.

*Check out our Pushing Daisies Tour Diaries - Downtown Disney pics and recap have been posted!

Emerson Cod is a complicated man what with all his knitting, crime solving, eye rolling and snarking and these Pushing Daisies Season 2 promo photos of Chi McBride speak volumes.

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PUSHING DAISIES Season 2 kicks off October 1st but we’re going to jump to October 8th because we’ve got your first look at episode 2.02 entitled “Circus Circus” featuring stars Lee Pace, Anna Friel and Chi McBride.  Squee…

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Here are two wicked adorable “Pie In The Sky” promo pics from Pushing Daisies Season 2.

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Pushing Daisies Season 2 is just around the corner and finally some promo pics are starting to be released.  Here are our favorite photos of stars Lee Pace and Anna Friel.

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Photo Credit: ABC

Pushing Daisies star Kristin Chenoweth is working on not one but two music projects that please ThePieMaker.com!

Earlier this week it was announced that she will record covers of fey faves “For The Gays”.  Possibly inspired by her involvement with the Point Foundation (the nation’s largest scholarship-granting organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students) for which she’s being honored on September 13th.   She’s looking to cover such songs as “The Man That Got Away”, “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, “Going to the Chapel”, and “Papa, Can You Hear Me?”  Not my cup of tea, but the other gays will go-go-a-ga-ga.

Today it was announced that she’s working on a Christmas album as well!  Girl is quite busy what with going to the nunnery, crushing on our boy Ned, chilling with the Aunts and now she’s got to fit in time to record another album.

Entitled “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas,” it’s going to rock our socks stockings because we love us some Christmas!

According to Playbill.com:

Current “Pushing Daisies” Emmy nominee Kristin Chenoweth’s third solo recording will feature a wide range of Christmas songs, including “Silver Bells,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and “Come On Ring Those Bells.”

Entitled “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas,” the single CD is due in stores Oct. 14 on the Sony BMG Masterworks label.

About the new disc, which was recorded at Capitol Recording Studio’s legendary Studios A & B, Chenoweth said in a statement, “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 complete track listing for “A Lovely Way to Spend Christmas” follows:
“I’ll Be Home For Christmas”
“Christmas Island”
“The Christmas Waltz”
“Do You Hear What I Hear?”
“Marshmallow Ride”/”Sleigh Ride”
“Sing”
“Silver Bells”
“Come On Ring Those Bells”
“What Child Is This?”
“Home On Christmas Day”
“Born On Christmas Day”
“Sleep Well Little Children”/”What A Wonderful World”

Ausiello just announced that the amazingly brilliant funny man Fred Willard will be guest starring in a November sweeps episode of Pushing Daisies.  Joining Willard is Reno 911!’s Kerri Kenney!  Sounds like comedic gold to me.

Look up “comedy dream team” on Wikipedia and I’m fairly certain you’ll find a two-shot of Fred Willard and Reno 911!’s Kerri Kenney. At the very least you’ll find the pair in a November episode of Pushing Daisies that revolves around the murder of a famous illusionist named the Great Hermann (Willard). Kenney plays his lovely assistant, Alexandria.

When we talked to Bryan Fuller at Comic-Con he told us about a character that had a past linked to both Ned’s Father and Chuck’s Father but did not spill the actor. We just had to wait a couple days until someone else scooped us! 

Ausiello got it out of Fuller and the character will be played by News Radio and Office Space alum Stephen Root. Root is slated for a 4 episode arc in Season 2.