Best wishes for a wonderful year to Anna Friel who celebrates her birthday today.  May this year bring nothing but happiness and joy.

- From your friends at ThePieMaker.com

Anna Friel has personally designed a pair of smokin’ hot RODO shoes in support of Clothes Off Our Back, an organization that hosts charity auctions with the proceeds going to benefit children’s charities.

These one of a kind black shoes (size 37 Euro) feature squared open toes, ankle strap with closed heel, (and you guessed it) gold daisies. Both the shoebox and the shoes include Anna’s signature.

To bid on Anna’s shoes click here to visit ClothesOffOurBack.org

*Updated: Pushing Daisies received 12 Emmy Nominations!

Alright kids, the Pushing Daisies pre-Emmy buzz machine keeps spitting out news. Stay here for all of the latest and greatest on our Pushing Daisies Emmy Watch!

• New! Kristin Chenoweth makes it onto the shortlist for the Best Comedy Actress category for her work in “Girth“. Congrats Cheno!
• New! Although the top ten finalists in for Best Comedy Actor have not been officially released, it’s being reported that Lee Pace has made it on the list.
• Anna Friel makes it onto the shortlist for the Best Comedy Actress category for her work in “Bitter Sweets“. It’s not official until July 17th so keep your fingers crossed. Congrats Anna!
• Last week we announced that Pushing Daisies is up for Best Comedy.

Still no word on the Best Comedy Actor or Supporting Actor races yet so we’re still holding out hope that Cheno, Chi McBride and obviously our boy Lee Pace will pull out some noms as well.

*Don’t forget that Kristin Chenoweth will be joining Neil Patrick Harris on July 17th 8:40 am/ET to announce the official nominees for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Anna Friel is the focus of a new article and interview from Variety. The Hollywood news staple is spotlighting all the leading ladies who are in contention for an Emmy nomination this year. We hope that Anna’s name will be announced when the nominations are announced in July.Here’s an excerpt from the article…

“I watched a lot of her mannerisms and the way she looks at things,” Friel says. “Every single thing to her is new and fresh, and (she’s) not judgmental. But how could I do that and not make Chuck ditsy?”

To figure it out, Friel played nearly every scene three different ways. By the time production started on the second episode, she had found the right tone. Also, she continued working with a voice coach to help her mask her British accent and maneuver through the show’s smart, often rapid-fire dialogue rarely seen since “Gilmore Girls” — efforts that earned the actress a Golden Globe nomination.

(click here to read the full article)

Favorite scene: “When she’s by the grave (with Ned) and says, ‘Please wake my dad up. I just want to see him for a minute.’ And he says, ‘I can’t.’ There were quite a lot of choices about how to play it because she has to be forgiving of him and also understand why he made that decision.”

What you like most about your character: “She’s the strongest, sweetest person that I’ve ever come across, which is a complete contradiction. How can you be incredibly sweet but you’re also as strong as a rock? I like that contradiction.”

TV guilty pleasure: “I’ve bought ‘The Sopranos’ DVD sets and I’ll watch five (episodes) at a time.

Pushing Daisies just got a little sexier! Star Anna Friel and her Daisies character Charlotte “Chuck” Charles have been named the sexiest female on television. According to the Hallmark Channel (UK), 1,600 people were polled and 20% were in favor of our girl!

According to the Hallmark Channel (who also announced that Doctor Who’s David Tennant is the sexiest male):

“Our ongoing research into what makes great gripping drama has revealed that a sexy male or female lead can make a real difference to the success of a new series.

“If you were creating the ideal on-screen TV couple it would arguably be David and Anna, but you wouldn’t want to see them doing anything that distracts from the plot!”

Congratulations Anna from all of us here at ThePieMaker.com
*Thanks to annafriel.org and lee-pace.org for the photo

In case you are in the need of an Anna Friel fix (and who isn’t), please enjoy a sampling of these lovely photos from Easy Living Magazine.

Many more photos from this shoot can be found at Anna-Friel.org

STUNNING Brit actress Anna Friel has Hollywood under her spell.
From SARA NATHAN
TV Editor - The Sun (Reprinted from The Sun)

She is starring in hit US TV comedy Pushing Daisies and is captivating audiences as she did when she was introduced as Beth Jordache on Channel 4 soap Brookside in 1993.

But it took a fair amount of bravery to cross the pond again after failing there on her first trip since leaving Brookie.

Anna had a brilliant turn as a stripper in Broadway play Closer in 1998, later Natalie Portman played her role in the big-screen version. But Anna then slunk home after the harsh realities of Hollywood sank in.
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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!

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.