If you missed out on the incredible panel, don’t worry your pretty little heads. Here is the entire PUSHING DAISIES Comic-Con 2008 Panel audio for your enjoyment.  Listen as Barry Sonnenfeld guides Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Bryan Fuller, Dan Jinks, Kristin Chenoweth, Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz through fan questions and the glorious and imaginative world of Pushing Daisies.

If you’re already a loyal TV Talk Podcast subscriber, this panel will automatically download to your iTunes (or may be sitting there waiting for you now)!

Kath and I wish we could have had more information posted earlier but we had a bunch of other panels and press rooms today that inhibited us from running to our laptops and posting about Pushing Daisies, but damnit here goes nothing…

Listen Online: PieCast #3: Pushing Daisies Comic-Con Panel 2008

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One of the best panels I attended yesterday was the EW Showrunners panel featuring Josh Schwartz (CHUCK, GOSSIP GIRL), Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof (LOST),  Josh Friedman (TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES) and our favorite Bryan Fuller of PUSHING DAISIES. What a thrill for a TV lovers to have all these great minds on one panel.

Bryan was fantastic on the panel and had some wonderful insights to share on the show, and a few minor spoilers for the upcoming season (that’s your official warning)!

Friend of ThePieMaker.com, Patrica Buckley took the time to pull together the highlights of the panel.

Entertainment Weekly’s The Visionaries: Showrunners
Meeting the People with the Answers
By Patricia Morris Buckley

Only at ComicCon — where attendees understand the value of the people behind-the-scenes who create and sustain TV shows — would a panel of showrunners fill to the brim a large hall of eager, hyper appreciative fans. So it’s no surprise that the crowd that showed up to applaud and ask probing questions of five of the best-known showrunners in Hollywood treated the panel like movie actors and rock stars.

After all, these are the people who really know: What happened to the island and why is Locke in a coffin? Why Olive is moving to a nunnery? Will Serena and Dan ever get together?

But pre-season spoilers weren’t the only draw of this panel — not by a longshot. These five men are not afraid to speak their minds about their shows, the networks that broadcast them and each other’s creative efforts. They may not be performers, but they had the audience laughing so hard tat several audience members almost fell out of their homemade superhero costumes.

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I just left the showrunner’s panel at which PUSHING DAISIES creator Bryan Fuller was a panelist.  He had a few interesting notes about the new season, including Pigby!! Once I get a break I’ll be sure to write up a recap.  But for now I’m heading off for a little one-on-one time with Bryan.  I promise to try and get some scoop just for readers of ThePieMaker.com!

Big huge congratulations to Bryan Fuller, Lee Pace, Kristin Chenoweth, Barry Sonnenfeld and the rest of the cast, crew and writing staff at Pushing Daisies for their amazing 12 Emmy nods!

I just watched the adorable Cheno and the amazing Neil Patrick Harris announce the 60th Annual Emmy nominations and almost passed out when the Daisies love kept coming and coming!

Here are the categories that Pushing Daisies will be fighting for come Emmy night:

• Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series - Lee Pace

• Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series - Kristin Chenoweth

• Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series - Bryan Fuller (”Pie-lette”)

• Outstanding Directing For a Comedy Series - Barry Sonnenfeld

• Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-camera Series

• Outstanding Casting For a Comedy Series

• Outstanding Costumes For a Series

• Outstanding Makeup For A Single-camera Series (non-prosthetic)

• Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup For A Series, Miniseries, Movie Or A Special

• Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (original Dramatic Score)

• Outstanding Picture Editing For A Comedy Series (single Or Multi-camera)

• Outstanding Hairstyling For A Single-camera Series

The Hollywood Reporter (THR.com) posted a new video in their Emmy Watch series and this one features Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller!

Dan here with a juicy little tidbit I’ve sat on for quite some time… It’s a secret that I wasn’t able to spill for fear of Bryan Fuller bitch-slapping me into Coeur d’Coeurs and luckily I didn’t have to, someone else did!

There has long been a rumor that one of the characters in the Pushing Daisies world is gay. Way back in the early days of the show, series creator Bryan Fuller told me that it was NOT one of the main characters but that one day he/she would be revealed.

I finally got that answer I was looking for and I vowed not to tell a soul…

Well, the good folks that I work for over at AfterElton.com have gone public with Bryan’s answer and I didn’t even write the article or give them the scoop!

Want to know who’s got a crush on our favorite knitter Emerson or possibly even our beloved Pie Maker? Head on over to AfterElton.com to find out! While you’re there, check out the video they posted from our red carpet coverage of the NYTVF Premiere of Pushing Daisies.

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.

We’ve already posted a bunch of the official Paley Center images from last night’s Pushing Daisies Paley Festival Panel but here are the one’s that Kath and I took during the session as well as during the fan signing.

For full disclosure, our microtrack was confiscated and our cameras bitch-slapped out of our hands by Security (we were in the front row so apparently it was distracting) even though they made no announcement but whatevs…

*Share your thoughts on your favorite pictures in the comments section because you never know who’s reading!