Playbill.com has a great piece with PUSHING DAISIES series creator Bryan Fuller.  He talks about writing the part of Ned for Lee Pace, casting issues, how EVERWOOD met Coeur d’ Coeur and more.

Fuller’s past creations include “Dead Like Me” (2003) and “Wonderfalls” (2004). Originally, the new series “was going to be a spin-off of ‘Dead Like Me.’ Then I left, halfway through the first season, to do ‘Wonderfalls,’ which only lasted four episodes.” However, that series starred the “Daisies” male lead, Lee Pace, for whom Fuller wrote the part of Ned. “His agents declined, but his manager went around them, and told [Pace] that he should really read the [pilot] script.”

Adam Brody (”The O.C.”) was next offered the part of Ned. “He was not looking to do another series immediately,” relates Fuller, “and he was very gracious. Then Lee’s manager got involved — thank God!”

Jim Dale is also featured on Playbill.com, given his extensive stage work, this is a great read as well.

“My experience is why they hired me. They wanted somebody who was an actor-narrator, which is different than an ordinary narrator. He puts himself into the narration; he knows a little more about the story than you do. The audience doesn’t know what’s going to happen, but the narrator certainly does. He explains it as it goes along, prepares you for surprises, gets you ready for a laugh.”

Pleased with the series, Dale praises “the dialogue and color, the set design and computerized imagery — which are fantastic! The people are brilliant! Lee Pace is a young Cary Grant. I didn’t realize that Anna Friel, the leading lady, was British until I heard her being interviewed.

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