[SciFiWire] Fuller Talks Pushing Daisies

[Cassie Hughes]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/abc_logo_tn.jpg Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC's supernatural comedy/drama pilot Pushing Daisies, revealed to SCI FI Wire details about the show, which is currently filming.

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[goldenboy]

I think after Drive, this is the show I'm most psyched about...sounds very promising.

[N4H]

This is the first I've heard about this, but yeah, I can hardly wait.

They stress Bryan Fuller's connection to Heroes, but it sounds more like his Dead Like Me, and Wonderfalls.

Love this...

The rules of the show is: He touches a dead person once, and they come back to life, and then if he touches them a second time, they go back to being dead, and he can never bring them back. And he touches a dead girl, falls in love with her and can't ever touch her again. So it's a romantic comedy."

Brilliant!

Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) is directing the pilot, which is narrated by Jim Dale, the narrator of the Harry Potter audio books, Fuller said. "He narrates it like it's very much a fairy tale," he added. "And it's a lot of fun.

Love Jim Dale.

The show will star Lee Pace, who also starred in Fuller's short-lived Wonderfalls.

I had to look that up. I was hoping it was the bartender, but no, it's Jaye's brother Aaron. He's not bad either though.

Like that show, Pushing Daisies is "very quirky and weird," Fuller said. "It's a very heightened reality."

Thank God it isn't Fox. If it was we'd be talking about a maximum of 13 very tapeable episodes, but ABC has been taking chances lately, so maybe there's a chance of a decent run here.

[goldenboy]

I can't think of a better broadcast Net for this than the current ABC. Stands a good shot, I think.

FOX would wash their hands of it after 3-4 eps probably...

[prydain]

This is the pilot I'm most excited about. It sounds fantastic. I've been following it for months, ever since it was first announced. I hope, though, that it's also really dark along with the quirkiness, like Dead Like Me. And this show does sound more suited for ABC than FOX, but I truly, truly hope FOX finds some luck with a really good scifi/supernatural series. Soon.

And I do think the guy who played the bartender would be better than Lee Pace. Eh. Oh well, he was cool too.