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The Next Big HIT?
Topic Started: Jul 10 2007, 05:27 AM (140 Views)
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In a quirky fairy tale of a mystery show called "Pushing Daisies," ABC, the network of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "Ugly Betty," has yet another series that is building strong enthusiasm in advance of the fall television season.

Marked by a candy-colored palette, characters as sweet as freshly baked pie and a story line based on a touching (or in this case, no-touching) unrequited romance, "Pushing Daisies" is a dish that networks always promise but seldom serve: something completely different.

Sitting in his still-unfurnished office on the Warner Brothers lot in L.A., Bryan Fuller, the show's creator, is working on muting expectations, which are coming from advertisers and critics who have seen the pilot. "I love that it's getting this positive buzz," he said, "but I'm taking it all with a grain of salt."

Fuller, 37, has been here before. Four years ago he created another oddball early favorite, a Fox drama called "Wonderfalls." That one got a sudden cold shoulder from its own network - Fuller said he thought it was because of the show's two lesbian characters - and found itself all but abandoned after only four episodes had been filmed.

But "Pushing Daisies" is an unabashed favorite at both its studio, Warner Brothers, and its network. Peter Roth, the president of Warner Brothers Television, said, "If a show of this quality works, it will renew my faith in the taste of the American audience."

Steven McPherson, the president of ABC Entertainment, said: "We have not had many shows generate enthusiasm as intense as this one. We're going to be pushing it in a big way."
Fuller wrote the pilot for "Pushing Daisies" last year during time away from the NBC hit "Heroes," which he had joined as a consulting writer after several unfruitful pilot-writing years. "Daisies" was a reworking of an idea he had first intended to use on the Showtime series "Dead Like Me."

On that show Fuller was toying with adding a character who could touch dead people and bring them back to life - only to expunge them once and for all when he touched them again.

"All these ideas are like Christmas trees," Fuller said. "You start out with a tree: You put some ornaments on, you take some off."

In "Pushing Daisies" ornaments abound. Fuller fashioned a story of Ned, a boy who discovers - no explanation is offered - that if he touches dead creatures, they return to life.

Soon he also discovers his corresponding ability: a second touch and they're goners. Unfortunately he also learns that anytime he allows a resurrected being to survive, someone else falls over dead. That's what happens to the father of Chuck, the little girl Ned has a crush on.

These elaborate rules are explained quickly by a narration, spoken by Jim Dale (a familiar voice of fantasy fiction as the narrator of the Harry Potter audio books). All of this is preamble to what takes place after Ned grows up and has started a business, running a cafe called the Pie Hole. His life-altering talents are recruited by an ex-cop: Ned can touch murder victims, get them to reveal their killers, then dispatch them again, setting up an easy collection of reward money.

The true heart of the series is what happens when Ned learns that Chuck has been murdered. Of course he saves her with a Prince Charming kiss; and of course they fall in love, even though they must never, ever touch again.

The script for "Pushing Daisies" struck nerves all over Hollywood, ultimately spawning a bidding war between ABC and NBC. ABC had some advantages. For one, coincidentally, ABC was looking for material reminiscent of the French film "Amelie," a story about a young woman's fantastic world. McPherson said that he loved that movie and that ABC hoped to find a show that could strike the same chords of "whimsy and spirit and magic."


Yet another positive article for Pushing Daisies.

Source - TwinCities
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Whoo! I really hope they do go all the way in trying to promote it.
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