Pushing Daisies

[sonnik]

The visual stylings on this show are great... it's a dark comedy with seemingly Douglas Adams-esque qualities.

I like it... anyone else try it out?

[grondramb]

The visual stylings on this show are great... it's a dark comedy with seemingly Douglas Adams-esque qualities.

I like it... anyone else try it out?

No but after a recommendation like that, I'll check it out.

Looks like ABC has two full episodes online (I did have to install a plugin) and it looks like it has 18 minutes less commercials this way. Thanks

http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=FEP

[grondramb]

Oh, in case anyone is interested, these are the full episode shows available from ABC
The Bachelor
Big Shots
Brothers and Sisters
Carpoolers
Cavemen
Dancing with the Stars
Desperate Housewives
Dirty Sexy Money
Extreme Makeover Home Edition
Fashionista Diaries
Grey's Anatomy
Lost
Men In Trees
GH Night Shift
October Road
Private Practice
Pushing Daisies
Ugly Betty
Voicemail

NBC is the only other network I've checked and they have about halftheir shows online, The Office, My Name is Earl and 30 Rock are the three I remember.

[Agatha]

You can catch up by watching them online. It's actually nice, in case you missed part of the season, and want to jump in.

[scoblitz]

Loved the first episodes. Stylistically it can be stunning, and it sure is quirky, but now I am finding it sort of annoying. I lost interest while watching last night's ep.

SB

[InigoMontoya]

The visual stylings on this show are great... it's a dark comedy with seemingly Douglas Adams-esque qualities.


Nah.... Unlike anything Douglas Adams ever did, pushing Daisies is actually funny. :)

[Spire]

The visual stylings on this show are great... it's a dark comedy with seemingly Douglas Adams-esque qualities.


Nah.... Unlike anything Douglas Adams ever did, pushing Daisies is actually funny. :)
Wha...?

It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

[mbklein]

Chi McBride is hilariously understated. And Anna Friel is really nice to look at. And talented, of course. But really nice to look at. :p

[Michael]

My only problem with the show is with Kristin Chenoweth (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155693/). She played Glenda in Wicked and Naco has the soundtrack, so everytime she says a line, I hear "Popular"... :D

I love this show and Chi's delivery is perfect. I see this show winning many awards.

[trainman]

It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

Okay, I'll be your setup man.

What did your mother tell you?

[pseudonym]

It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.

Okay, I'll be your setup man.

What did your mother tell you?
Not to listen to people who don't think that Douglas Adams was funny?

[Spire]

It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
What did your mother tell you?
I don't know; I didn't listen.

[trainman]

It's at times like this that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.
What did your mother tell you?
I don't know; I didn't listen.

Bwah-ha-ha! Oh, my. (Wiping tear away from corner of eye)

[Spire]

What did your mother tell you?
I don't know; I didn't listen.

Bwah-ha-ha! Oh, my. (Wiping tear away from corner of eye)
Sigh.

This must be Thursday. I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

[aindik]

My only problem with the show is with Kristin Chenoweth (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155693/). She played Glenda in Wicked and Naco has the soundtrack, so everytime she says a line, I hear "Popular"... :D

The musical number in the middle of the second episode, "Hopelessly Devoted to You," was a little much for me. And I liked Kristen Chenoweth on the West Wing.

For people watching the show in HD, does anyone else's center channel speaker buzz during the narration? Mine sounds like the levels are off (like the narration is clipping, I guess). I would think it's my speaker going bad, but I only notice it during the narration on this show.

[Otto]

For people watching the show in HD, does anyone else's center channel speaker buzz during the narration? Mine sounds like the levels are off (like the narration is clipping, I guess). I would think it's my speaker going bad, but I only notice it during the narration on this show.

I watched a couple episodes last night and didn't notice anything, but then I think I'm not getting full 5.1 surround through the TivoHD for some reason. Don't know why yet.

[Philosofy]

They had a great funny line during the swordfight, when the guy with the old sword bragged about he was the runner up in the fencing competition, and Ned says "Well, I wanted to be a Jedi."

[scoblitz]

If my TiVo wasn't broken, I think I'd be losing the SP on this one

SB

[Michael]

I love this show and I know that it won't last because "middle America" won't get it. It isn't mainstream enough. It easily deserves every award it should get this year.

[Otto]

I love this show and I know that it won't last because "middle America" won't get it. It isn't mainstream enough. It easily deserves every award it should get this year.

I wouldn't go that far. I watch it, but it's not all that great. There's better shows on television.

[Michael]

I love this show and I know that it won't last because "middle America" won't get it. It isn't mainstream enough. It easily deserves every award it should get this year.

I wouldn't go that far. I watch it, but it's not all that great. There's better shows on television.

I am looking at it from a purely artistic sense. The imagery and the script of the narrator is amazing.

[Marc]

I am looking at it from a purely artistic sense. The imagery and the script of the narrator is amazing.
And that's exactly what turned me off from the show. I loved the premise, but I got tired of all the cutesy scenes and the incessant babbling of the narrator.

[JETarpon]

I am looking at it from a purely artistic sense. The imagery and the script of the narrator is amazing.
And that's exactly what turned me off from the show. I loved the premise, but I got tired of all the cutesy scenes and the incessant babbling of the narrator.

Which may be why middle america will "get it." The narrator practically beats you over the head with it. over and over again.

[Otto]

All but canceled:
http://www.thrfeed.com/2008/11/abc-no-pickups.html


ABC has decided against picking up "Pushing Daisies," "Dirty Sexy Money" and "Eli Stone" for full-season orders.

Producers of the shows are being told that ABC has elected not to order additional hours beyond the original 13-episode commitments.

Actively avoiding the c-word, the network left the door open for ordering more episodes at a future date, though that is considered improbable. The trio are still on the schedule for next week. Going into the holidays, their ratings are unlikely to dramatically improve enough to reverse the decision.
...
Bryan Fuller, creator of the critically acclaimed "Daisies," said he hasn't yet been directly informed of ABC's verdict, but has been been playing phone tag with the network's entertainment president.

"I assumed that's what [the call] was about," he wrote. "I can't help but feel immense pride when it comes to 'Pushing Daisies.' I'm grateful TO everyone and FOR everyone who brought the show to life and for the very loyal audience that embraced us. If we are indeed dead on ABC, we now have to convince DC Comics to let us tell the rest of the season's story lines out in comic book form and convince Warner Bros. features to let 'Pushing Daisies' live again as a movie."

[mercurial]

Damn.. I love that show though I confess I haven't watched this season yet. I've been so busy with other things and half the time I watch TV in the evening these days I'm working at the same time so I wanted to save them for a time I was less distracted and could burn them of fin a marathon... :(

BURN IN HELL, ABC!!!!!

[jgerry]

I started out loving this show, but my enthusiasm has waned significantly. Episodes sit unwatched for a week or more on the Tivo now. It is a very interesting and unique show, and for that reason, I hate to see it go.

[mbklein]

I liked the show a lot in the beginning, but I've found this season to be a bit of a disappointment. It seems rushed.

[luckydriver]

I never watched it until my gf said she liked it. The cartoon thing is just weird. And i never liked the blonde west wing girl in that show either so i'm sure that has something to do with it.

Gf will be mad this is canceled. Better not do it over dinner lol

[dansee]

I liked the show a lot in the beginning, but I've found this season to be a bit of a disappointment. It seems rushed.
Same here. I'm still watching, and it has some great moments, but I'm much less enthusiastic about it this season, than I was last year.

Maybe it's just a Bryan Fuller curse: He has great and engaging ideas, but they're hard to sustain. I remember feeling the same way when the wheels came off "Dead Like Me" in the second season...

[mercurial]

I liked the show a lot in the beginning, but I've found this season to be a bit of a disappointment. It seems rushed.
Same here. I'm still watching, and it has some great moments, but I'm much less enthusiastic about it this season, than I was last year.

Maybe it's just a Bryan Fuller curse: He has great and engaging ideas, but they're hard to sustain. I remember feeling the same way when the wheels came off "Dead Like Me" in the second season...

WHAT!? Dead Like Me had some slow spots but it was really getting interesting with the bits that were getting revealed by the end of the second season. No wheels coming off that bus, man!

[mbklein]

1 year, 1 month, 19 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes and 6 seconds ago, a promising new Television Show about a Pie Maker appeared to great critical acclaim. It was a Good Show, and it might have done well if not for one...terrible...fact. For at the same time the Pie Maker was making his successful debut, the Writers Guild was embroiled in a heated confrontation with the various networks and production companies that produced their works. And that is how it came to be that 1 month, 2 days, and 14 hours after The Show premiered that the Guild begain a strike that would eventually darken living rooms throughout the land.

Eventually -- (which is to say, 3 months and 7 days after it began) -- the work stoppage ended. But try as he might, the Pie Maker's creator could never quite regain the spark that had made his fledgling series so compelling. And so, just like that, it died.

;)

[Agatha]

I liked the show a lot in the beginning, but I've found this season to be a bit of a disappointment. It seems rushed.
Same here. I'm still watching, and it has some great moments, but I'm much less enthusiastic about it this season, than I was last year.

Maybe it's just a Bryan Fuller curse: He has great and engaging ideas, but they're hard to sustain. I remember feeling the same way when the wheels came off "Dead Like Me" in the second season...
I agree completely. DLM changed that second season. It's like he was trying to make it gritty. The language of the characters suddenly became much harsher - lots more cursing. It was distracting and ruined it for me.

[sonnik]

I have a hunch that this will be one of those shows where they just tend to order like seven or eight episodes a season. ABC will probably like to have something like this ready to go as other crap fails.

By the way, I've also noticed that another reason I enjoy this show - as the women on the show (besides Anna Friel) - tend to wear outfits that... "accentuate" them nicely.

Here's hoping that we'll soon see "Emerson Cod, P.I."

[Gromit]

I liked this show initially, but it wore thin after a few episodes. My wife still liked it but we cancelled the season pass (or whatever comcast calls their crappy DVR feature) because we never could hear the dialogue. There's too much damn background music!

I noticed this when we watched season 1 on DirecTV, with surround sound. But it was tolerable. Watching on a Comcast DVR through a 52" TV's speakers = "What did he say? Can you rewind?"

Does anyone else have this problem?

[Otto]

Does anyone else have this problem?
No, the volume of the spoken words is much higher than the background music. And the music is necessary for the overall feel of the show. It's quite essential to its style, actually.

I'd say that you have your surround sound setup wrong or something. Might be worth looking into calibrating the output. I did on mine, it works great, but you do feel as if the rear speakers are set too quiet at first (similar to how you feel the settings are "too dark" when you first calibrate your TV set). It's just an illusion, after you get used to it, everything sounds clearer and sharper.

[Gromit]

Does anyone else have this problem?
No, the volume of the spoken words is much higher than the background music. And the music is necessary for the overall feel of the show. It's quite essential to its style, actually.

I'd say that you have your surround sound setup wrong or something. Might be worth looking into calibrating the output. I did on mine, it works great, but you do feel as if the rear speakers are set too quiet at first (similar to how you feel the settings are "too dark" when you first calibrate your TV set). It's just an illusion, after you get used to it, everything sounds clearer and sharper.

I've only had this problem with this show and it's been with 2 different setups: DirecTV with surround sound and Comcast using the internal speakers on the TV.

I did google it a few weeks ago and found a couple of similar complaints. Oh well.

[zevida]

I don't think I have every noticed the music in this show, and I certainly haven't had problems with it interfering with the dialog.

I think I like the show better this season than last, though I don't know why. I will be sad to see it go, I enjoyed the quirk, charm and witty writing.

[Gromit]

I read in Entertainment Weekly that there will not be a 'closure' episode of Pushing Daisies. But the writer (IIRC) plans to answer everything in a comic book. That sucks.

Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone will shoot a final episode that answers all questions.

[busyba]

Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone will shoot a final episode that answers all questions.

That's going to be one hell of a crossover. :p

[Gromit]

Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone will shoot a final episode that answers all questions.

That's going to be one hell of a crossover. :p

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