In this past issue of USA Weekend magazine, E!’s Kristin Dos Santos reached out to a few TV bloggers to get their take on the most anticipated shows returning to TV this Fall. And guess which returning show was the most buzzworthy? Yup, PUSHING DAISIES. Seems these awesome, brilliant, fantastic bloggers* know what they’re talking about.

So clearly PUSHING DAISIES has the bzzzzzzzzz, but it also needs the viewers. Remind friends and families to watch the S2 premiere of PUSHING DAISIES on Wednesday, October 1st at 8pm on ABC. Watch your S1 DVDs and then lend them out to others whom haven’t yet watched the show. I did just that recently and as a result we have a new Pushing Daisies fan who will be tuning in on the 1st. See - it’s that easy

*Ok, maybe I embellished a little. But as one of the bloggers interviewed for the article, I thought it would be ok to toot my own horn as I did show Pushing Daisies the love. Ha. –Kath

Fall TV: Who’s got buzz?
E!’s TV expert gets top bloggers to reveal which shows fans are talking about most.
By Kristin Dos Santos

COULD IT BE “30 Rock?” Maybe “Prison Break”? To find out which shows will have the biggest online buzz this fall, we went straight to the source — the elusive “blogosphere.” We assembled our first-ever panel of TV bloggers, who weighed in on their returning TV favorites.

TV bloggers — who write on the Internet about their favorite shows and stars — are fast becoming known as some of the industry’s most valuable tastemakers. They are passionate TV fans (and in many cases, knowledgeable insiders) who write specifically for other TV fans, and their ability to stir up word-of-mouth hype can be surprisingly powerful.

Our panelists — Kathie Skerry of “Give Me My Remote,” Kimra McPherson of “BuzzSugar” and Jace (who goes by a single pen name to protect his anonymity) of the award-winning “Televisionary” — submitted their picks for the top five series they will be buzzing about this fall. Those picks were used to generate the short list on this page.

Surprisingly, our panelists were nearly unanimous in their pick for fall’s most buzzworthy show: ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,” the whimsical dramedy that aired for only nine episodes before the writers’ strike cut its first season short last winter.

McPherson calls “Daisies” a “candy-colored confection disguised as a TV show.” (Doesn’t that make you want to take a nibble?) And Skerry compares watching “Pushing Daisies” to “getting lost in the best kind of book” and goes so far as to say the series has “quickly climbed to the top of my list of favorite shows of all time.”

Of all time? We know what you’re thinking. Not “The Sopranos?” Or “The West Wing?” Or “Law & Order?” But keep in mind, while seasoned TV critics tend to lend coverage and praise to well-established series with veteran casts, awards and accolades, bloggers can’t help but buzz about the shows that make them feel something (and feel it strongly).

[Continue reading the rest of the article at USA Weekend]

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