Earlier this week it was announced that Kristin Chenoweth will have a recurring role on Fox’s GLEE (from Nip/Tuck’s Ryan Murphy). Glee is a show that I’m dying to see which follows a High School glee club. The last time Murphy went to high school it was the wickedly delicious POPULAR so I have high hopes.
Today it was announced that Chi McBride has signed on to Fox’s new drama HUMAN TARGET. Human Target will star Mark Valley (recently on FRINGE) and Bad News Bears WATCHMEN’s Jackie Earle Haley.
Here are two more reasons Fox’s upcoming musicomedy, Glee, has us overjoyed: Kristin Chenoweth and Victor Garber are joining the cast in what will likely turn out to be recurring roles!
Wicked alum Chenoweth, who showed off her awesome pipes on the late, great Pushing Daisies, will play a part that’s as top secret as it is hilarious. (Sorry, that’s all you’re getting out of me.)
The WBTV-produced “Target” centers on Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), a mysterious freelancer who offers a unique form of security for hire: He assumes the identities of people in danger, becoming the “human target” on behalf of his clients.
McBride will play Chance’s business partner and friend.
Our friends’ over at BuzzSugar got to spend some time on the set of PUSHING DAISIES during the summer press tour. While there they got to chat it up with the cast. They just posted their interview with Emerson Cod himself, Chi McBride.
Here’s a bit of that interview for your reading pleasure.
BuzzSugar: Does Emerson’s function on the show shift at all this year? Chi: He’s on a mission to find his daughter, but he’s going to go about it in a very unconventional way. He’s also a huge fan of pop-up books, and he wants to create a pop-up book that will lead a little girl who reads it to find her father. He feels sure that some little girl is out there wondering, “Where’s my daddy?” And so he writes this book to try to see if he can get her to find him since he can’t find her, so that’s his mission this year. And in the meantime, if he happens to make a couple bucks, well, good! It’s not just about getting stacks and stacks of money. I think that him being a provider, or not being able to be one, probably has a lot to do with why he’s so obsessed with money. He just takes on a completely different tone once you start peeling those layers and finding out what he’s really after.
Do you feel like it’s a problem to have been off the air for so long? Chi: I hope not, I really do. That’s one thing I really wish people would wake up and understand, is that . . . audiences do not like to be played with. Sometimes I think we’re in this business and we take it for granted —”Aw, everybody wants to go to the movies! What are you worried about?” Look, the audience does not like to be fooled around with! When baseball went on strike, it took years and a juiced ball and steroids to get everybody back. . . . Television’s the same way. People take this stuff really seriously. They want to get home, they want to kick their shoes off, they want to watch their television shows. You start messing around with that, especially when you can make reality shows for nothing and get any schmo off the street to open his train wreck of a life, and people are saying “Hey, what’s that?”
The cast of PUSHING DAISIES was on hand for a press conference yesterday at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Check out some great pics of Lee, Anna, Kristin and Chi from the event.
A lot of you emailed us asking for hi-res Pushing Daisies cast photos and here they are. We apologize for giving these out in various posts but we wanted to make sure you got what you wanted!
Here are our individual hi-res cast photos for you to drool over, download and play with.
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.
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…
I hope you’re not Comic Con’d out because there is still a LOT more to share from our trip to San Diego to see Team Daisies. ThePieMaker.com has got an exclusive interview with creator Bryan Fuller as well as highlights from our interviews with Lee Pace & Anna Friel, Kristin Chenoweth and Chi McBride still coming your way.
But for now, check out these vides from TV Guide as they caught up with the cast in the press room at Comic Con (It amazes me how they capture any sound…it was so loud in there). As with most of the news from Comic Con, these videos contain spoilers for S2 so please be aware.
So you’ve seen the pictures and hopefully you’ve had the chance to listen to the full audio of the PUSHING DAISIES panel at Comic Con. But we understand that some of you have to be a little covert and maybe can’t be listening while at work or school, so we wanted to post a mini-recap of the panel itself for your reading pleasure.
We’ve broken in out into two sections, the first being general highlights from the panel and the second section being spoilerish information. If you want to avoid spoilers just stop reading when we tell you to.
Bryan Fuller and the cast are excited about the Comic Con Panel…
As happy as the audience would have been to watch the “Pie-lette” once again, it wasn’t in the original plans for Team Daisies. The panel’s opening video was supposed to be some footage from the PUSHING DAISIES Paley Fest panel, but as the now familiar scenes of the first episode aired Bryan Fuller and Barry Sonnenfeld rushed to the stage to stop the presses (or at least the video). Instead they showed the fantastic Season 2 teaser trailer which threw the already amped-up crowd into a tizzy. But not before Fuller was able to pimp the much anticipated launch date for Season 1 of PUSHING DAISIES on DVD (September 16th on DVD and Blu-Ray. Pre-order your copy here today.)
As the cast was introduced by moderator Barry Sonnenfeld’s acerbic comments, many of them took the stage by running past the front row and slapping hands with the audience. I almost lost an eye due to the Cheno fans behind me but it would have been well worth it. (I could always ask Aunt Viv for a fancy new eye-patch).
Anna Friel tried out her American accent on the crowd for a bit but we all quickly cheered her back into her British speak. (On a side note, Anna looked stunning in with her black dress and bright red lips)
Chi McBride, who was decked out in a colorful tee and jeans quipped that he was dressed for Comic Con while some of his co-stars were red carpet ready. Kristin and Anna both sported fantastic little black dresses for the event all looked all kinds of glam.
Barry Sonnenfeld read aloud a message that Team Daisies sexy mama bear, Ellen Greene, sent to the cast before their bus travels from L.A. to San Diego. She reminded them that the bus can get chilly so bring a sweater, and offered up some fun travel options including games and movies. She’s adorable!
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