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Pushing Daisies is cancelled. It has been a great show, but its stamina got to an end. This one is officially cancelled, there´s not much hope for the show… we saw a lot of other Cancelled Shows and Series…
Pushing Daisies is an American television comedy-drama created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC for two seasons. Touted as a “forensic fairy tale”, Pushing Daisies centers around a pie-maker with the ability to bring the dead back to life with minor stipulations.The final three episodes will air Saturdays at 10:00 PM Eastern/9:00 PM Central on ABC starting Saturday, May 30, 2009.
What is Pushing Daisies About? – 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 some conditions to this somewhat unusual talent. Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar “life value” in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently.
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, in doing this, he accidentally causes the death of the father of his childhood sweetheart, Charlotte “Chuck” Charles, as the “price” of keeping his mother alive. Even worse, Ned’s mother falls dead permanently when she gives him a good-night kiss (which is how he learns the effect of the second touch).
In their childhood, Ned and Chuck become separated after Chuck’s agoraphobic aunts, Vivian and Lily, move in to take the role of her parents, while Ned is shipped off by his father 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 (Kristin Chenoweth). 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 for solving the unanswered questions surrounding the death.
The scheme succeeds until they learn that Chuck, whom Ned hasn’t seen since childhood, was murdered while on a cruise ship. When her body is shipped back home, Ned revives her, but can’t bring himself to allow her to stay dead by touching 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 their 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. Chuck joins Ned and Emerson in investigating deaths for reward money, starting with tracking down her own killer. Despite Emerson’s disapproval of “dead girl,” he often allows Chuck to assist when necessary. Other storylines include Emerson’s search for his missing daughter, after she was taken away by her mother, a conwoman. During the series he works on a pop-up book called “Little Gumshoe” in hopes that it will be published and that his daughter will read the book and find her way back to him. Olive Snook pines away for Ned. Chuck’s aunts slowly learn to accept the death of their only niece, and becomes friends with Olive, who brings them pie laced with homeopathic mood enhancers baked by Chuck to uplift their spirits.
By the end of the series, Emerson’s daughter returns to him, Chuck is able to reveal that she is alive to Lily and Vivian, and Olive has fallen in love and opens her own restaurant (dedicated to Macaroni and Cheese.)
So… are you upset that Pushing Daisies is cancelled?
It’s really unfortunate that this show was cancelled. For once there is something different on television besides the usual sex, plastic surgery, and/or crime shows. This was a fresh, and unique comedy, I am really disappointed.
This was my favorite show 🙁
I hate that this show has been cancelled. It was a show that our family could watch together. The characters are sweet but quirky. I just adored Kristen Chenoweth’s character. Too bad that networks feel the need to cancel a more wholesome choice of programming. This show will be sadly missed. 🙁
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Welcome to the future of America, where the only thing interesting is who you slept with, who did your nose job, and how much money you have? Pushing Daisies was so different from so many of your average shows. You know ABC has 3 shows about doctors now… are they really that interesting? It was so refreshing to have a show that wasn’t about the same old stuff. I guess too many people are already to brainwashed to care. Why work to create something original when you can slap some scrubs on someone or stick some people in the jungle call it prime time?
Everybody´s upset about it, right?
I am very sad that reality television has taken over I loved pushing daisies sham on you abc that was the only show I watched on your network
I am so upset about this! I had never even heard of the show until someone recomended it to me a couple months ago. I got all the dvds and watched both two seasons in a couple weeks! It’s by far my favorite show of all time and had the ability to make me think and feel happy, something no other show does. I wish it would’ve been advertised more becuase I surely would have watched it. The only stuff I see is trash like desperate housewives.
I also am VERY disapointed in the cancellation of the show, I started watching the 1st season with my wife and we absolutely loved it!!! I can’t wait to buy the 2nd season and can’t believe any network won’t pick up this wonderful series..I think the word to mouth on that series might bring it back it’s too good to disapear.
This is bulls**t. Pushing Daisies was a very cute program. It just was’nt vulgar enough. It did’nt have Doald Trump Or omorosa Or Howie Mandel or any Kardashians, so it can’t be worth leaving on t.v. I will skip watching ABC t.v. from now on too. I hope more people will do the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i’m trying to figure out how an awesome show like this gets cancelled while mtv can air a show about some loser who has yet to move out of his parents house, and the whole show is about how this stupid girls try to ‘sex’ him out of his parents house and fling him into adulthood…..the world of tv makes no sense…i will also stop watching abc until they can start listening to what i (and apparently a lot of other people) want to watch
I will miss this show so much! It was so good. Every night before it came on tv I would get extremely excited and eager to see it and then absolutely hate it when the commercials came on. I haven’t done that since I was a kid getting up early to watch saturday morning cartoons!
I have only just found out about this show.. somehow missed it completely. This is an absolute genius of a show that is so much better than the majority of the rubbish out there.
It’s a shame that maybe this show is too clever for its own good. Too succeed you have to treat your audience like idiots and they will lap it up. This offered something new, and I am glad I have now found it.
i absolutly love this show! i found it while flipping thru netflix and now im in love! did abc leave an actual reason on why they canncelled it because i agree with most everyone when i say its so much beeter then that reality crap. i don’t care who slept with who or who shot who, i just want to know why my show was cancelled!!!!!
I just got Netflix and was introduced to Pushing Daisies. I absolutely love it. Please Mr. Fuller create more episodes of Pushing Daises. I was so dissapointed to find out that there were only two seasons, which is a complete bummer. I don’t watch regular television anymore as most of the channels are filled with reality shows. Please bring back Pushing Daisies, even if ABC no longer want to air this show, I am sure there are other networks that can pick it up right?
I loved this show! ABC is stupid for cancelling it, because it was the only show on there that I watched!
It is sand when they take a good show off the air because 10 million people don’t watch it. What about all the people that love this show. I also agree with an earlier post that “finally there is something different on” and they get rid of it.
LOVED LOVED LOVED this show… going to have to buy season 1 and 2 on DVD….
This is one show that will be sadly missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!