Post by hodaharb on Apr 21, 2008 16:21:34 GMT -5
[glow=669966,2,300]Pushing Daisies[/glow]
Pushing Daisies is a Golden Globe-nominated American television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller (creator of Dead Like Me and co-creator of Wonderfalls) who also serves as executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy (episodes 2-7), Peter Ocko (episodes 8-present) and Barry Sonnenfeld. The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and others.
The show premiered in the United States on October 3, 2007 on ABC and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central.
Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine episodes of its order of a full 22-episode season. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up Pushing Daisies for the 2008-09 television season.
Plot
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are a couple of conditions to the somewhat unwanted talent, however. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, in a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived thing a second time, it falls dead again - permanently. No amount of his prodding will ever bring it back again.
In the pilot episode, Ned discovers his gift as a child by resurrecting his Golden Retriever, Digby, after the dog is hit by a truck. He later brings back his mother when she dies of an aneurysm. However, by leaving her alive, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles. Even worse, Ned's mother then falls dead permanently when she gives him his good-night kiss. Ned and Chuck are separated; her agoraphobic aunts Vivian and Lily move in to take the role of her parents, while he is shipped off to a lonely boarding school.
Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole," which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal; Ned will bring murder victims back to life, inquire about the circumstances of their untimely death, then touch them once more, all before his set limit of sixty seconds is up. Emerson will then solve the case and they will split the reward money.
The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, who Ned hasn't seen since childhood, has been murdered on a cruise. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can't bear to touch her a second time. Against his better judgment, Ned allows her to live and the larcenous funeral home director falls dead in her place. Ned and Chuck fall in love again and he brings her home to live with him under the unique circumstances of never being able to touch each other. Chuck is extraordinarily grateful upon receiving a second chance at life, and as such she starts to appreciate life as a truly precious resource and Ned, witnessing his vivacious beauty's happiness, begins to break out of his lonely shell.
The series continues as Ned, Chuck, Emerson, and Olive solve murder cases, negotiate relationships, and explore what it means to be fully alive. Their stories combine mystery, magic, dark humor, giddy romanticism, animals, technicolor landscapes, musical numbers, and, of course, pies.
Cast
Lee Pace ................... Ned, owner and head pie maker at the Pie Hole
Anna Friel .................. Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Ned's childhood sweetheart
Chi McBride ................ Emerson Cod, Ned's business partner
Jim Dale ..................... Narrator
Ellen Greene .............. Vivian Charles, Chuck's aunt
Swoosie Kurtz ............ Lily Charles, Chuck's aunt (a new relationship with Chuck is revealed at the end of the episode, "corpsicle")
Kristin Chenoweth ...... Olive Snook, a waitress at the Pie Hole
Pushing Daisies is a Golden Globe-nominated American television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller (creator of Dead Like Me and co-creator of Wonderfalls) who also serves as executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy (episodes 2-7), Peter Ocko (episodes 8-present) and Barry Sonnenfeld. The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television and others.
The show premiered in the United States on October 3, 2007 on ABC and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central.
Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine episodes of its order of a full 22-episode season. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up Pushing Daisies for the 2008-09 television season.
Plot
Pushing Daisies centers on the life of Ned, a pie maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. There are a couple of conditions to the somewhat unwanted talent, however. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar "life value" in the vicinity drops dead, in a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived thing a second time, it falls dead again - permanently. No amount of his prodding will ever bring it back again.
In the pilot episode, Ned discovers his gift as a child by resurrecting his Golden Retriever, Digby, after the dog is hit by a truck. He later brings back his mother when she dies of an aneurysm. However, by leaving her alive, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte "Chuck" Charles. Even worse, Ned's mother then falls dead permanently when she gives him his good-night kiss. Ned and Chuck are separated; her agoraphobic aunts Vivian and Lily move in to take the role of her parents, while he is shipped off to a lonely boarding school.
Inheriting his mother's baking talents, Ned becomes a pie maker who owns a restaurant called "The Pie Hole," which he runs with the help of waitress Olive Snook. The restaurant is failing financially when private investigator Emerson Cod accidentally discovers Ned's gift and offers him a proposal; Ned will bring murder victims back to life, inquire about the circumstances of their untimely death, then touch them once more, all before his set limit of sixty seconds is up. Emerson will then solve the case and they will split the reward money.
The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, who Ned hasn't seen since childhood, has been murdered on a cruise. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can't bear to touch her a second time. Against his better judgment, Ned allows her to live and the larcenous funeral home director falls dead in her place. Ned and Chuck fall in love again and he brings her home to live with him under the unique circumstances of never being able to touch each other. Chuck is extraordinarily grateful upon receiving a second chance at life, and as such she starts to appreciate life as a truly precious resource and Ned, witnessing his vivacious beauty's happiness, begins to break out of his lonely shell.
The series continues as Ned, Chuck, Emerson, and Olive solve murder cases, negotiate relationships, and explore what it means to be fully alive. Their stories combine mystery, magic, dark humor, giddy romanticism, animals, technicolor landscapes, musical numbers, and, of course, pies.
Cast
Lee Pace ................... Ned, owner and head pie maker at the Pie Hole
Anna Friel .................. Charlotte "Chuck" Charles, Ned's childhood sweetheart
Chi McBride ................ Emerson Cod, Ned's business partner
Jim Dale ..................... Narrator
Ellen Greene .............. Vivian Charles, Chuck's aunt
Swoosie Kurtz ............ Lily Charles, Chuck's aunt (a new relationship with Chuck is revealed at the end of the episode, "corpsicle")
Kristin Chenoweth ...... Olive Snook, a waitress at the Pie Hole