Pushing Daisies

Following last week’s post that Swoosie Kurtz was going to be on the new Bonnie Hunt Show, I found a video of her appearance on YouTube. She talks about the insanity of being a Virgo. Bonnie Hunts happens to be one and I happen to be one, I so know what she is talking about when she mentioned lists! She also speaks fondly about her mom, who is in her nineties and who Swoosie regards as her soul mate. Swoosie is an only child. They also showed a picture of her dad, who was a pilot.

She briefly talks about Pushing Daisies and her character. They gave away DVDs of Pushing Daisies Season 1 to the audience.

Apprently, they also showed a clip of Pushing Daisies Season 2 with Swoosie’s character Lily talking to Olive and revealing the intimacies of her relationship to Chuck’s father.

Members of Pushing Daisies’ creative team, as well as series creator Bryan Fuller, will be part of Pushing Daisies panel at the Paley Center Fall Season Special Screening. It will be held on November 11th 7 PM at the Los Angeles location.

Tickets are available for $25. But this may be discounted to $15 if you are a registered member of the Paley Center.

Previously, the center hosted a very special season premiere at both the LA and New York offices of Pushing Daisies Season 2. It took place last Sept 10 and 12th respectively, with a panel also attending the LA event.

More details to this event may are available and may be found at the official Paley Center site.

Lee Pace was present at the 60th Creative Emmy Awards the other night, where Pushing Daisies walked away with two Emmy Trophies.

Kicking off the Emmy Awards ceremonies, which will culminate next Sunday (Spet 21st) was the Creative Emmy Awards held the other day in Los Angeles. The program will be aired in E!, the night before the Primetime Emmy’s

Pushing Daisies won a total of two trophies for:

• Single- or Multi-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series: “Pushing Daisies: Pie-Lette,” ABC.
• Music Composition for a Series (Original Dramatic Score): “Pushing Daisies: Pigeon,” ABC.

Congratulations to the show and the people who deserved this recognition! The photos below are of Stuart Bass (Editing) and Jim Dooley (Music).

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Returning for its second season on October 1st, Pushing Daisies’ promo ads now running on television contain the latest song from the band, Seabird. The song is entitled “Rescue” from the band’s debut album Til We See The Shore. The lyrics to the song, matches the show quite perfectly, in fact — “I’m pushing up daisies, I wish they were roses. I feel like I’m drowning but nobody knows it… I feel like I’m dying, just want you to notice.”

The band consists of the following members — brothers Aaron (vocals/keys) and Ryan (guitar) Morgan, as well as Chris Kubik (bass), and Aaron Hunt (drums); they are based in Cincinnati. The band is currently on tour. You can check their schedules here.

Here is Seabird’s Music Video of Rescue:

Bryan Fuller had a lengthy interview with Blast Magazine and he reveals a few spoiler alert as well as a clearer picture of where Pushing Daisies is going for the second season…

• BLAST: Can you give us a preview of what we might be seeing in the second season?
• BF: Well all the cliff-hangers that we had; we had the cliff-hanger with Swoosie Kurtz’s character Lily, that plays a big factor in the first three episodes. Really, beyond that, it really is just a big game changer that affects all of the characters; we understand why that secret was kept and why Lily made the choices that she did to not be honest with Chuck about their relationship and we see what happens when Olive, who has been keeping all these secrets from everybody, how her breakdown sends her off to a nunnery to keep those secrets and what happens when she comes back and lets Chuck know and where does that take Chuck, what’s Chuck’s reaction. She’s in a difficult situation because she can’t just go to Lily. Here are these two people like mother and daughter who both think the other one is dead, and it puts them in a really odd situation that we’re going to have a lot of fun with that drama of that particular situation. We also are introducing a character in episode five named Dwight Dixon played by Stephen Root, and he will have a shared history with Chuck’s father and Ned’s father and will stir up a lot of hullaballoo for Ned and he becomes a catalyst to really bring the aunts into the story of the Pie Hole in a way that we really hadn’t seen last year because it was one of those things we were forced to do because of Chuck’s situation and people not knowing she was alive again was to keep the aunts separate. In our first episode, we have the aunts marching through the front door of the Pie Hole and what happens to our characters when that world starts to encroach on theirs and how do they react. It really is about trying to put the characters in really fun situations where they’re forced to keep the secrets that they’ve been trying to keep keeping but may not be able to for long because the walls between worlds are crumbling down.
  
• BLAST: So is it safe to safe to say that Chuck’s secret becomes more tenuous? That it might be harder to keep, which we were kind of seeing at the end of last season?
• BF: Yes, definitely. We’re definitely steering towards as much drama as we can mine from that idea as possible. Last year we had an episode “The Fun in Funeral” where Chuck discovers that a watch that was buried with her was stolen by the funeral director, and she gets it back. That watch basically plays a pivotal role around the middle of the season, and we understand that there is significant weight on that watch and that people want it for various reasons.

You can follow more of that interview here.

There are more from this gallery.

Warning: I’m keeping the guides right after the cut, in case some of this blog’s visitors don’t want to be spoiled of the story…

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Did you hear Bonnie Hunt has a new daytime talk show?

On September 9th, she will have Swoosie Kurtz as one of her guests.

Check this local listing to know when the show is on in your area.

Or learn about her show here.

Thanks to Karin for this tip.

Jennifer Elise Cox is apparently scheduled to be on the show’s 7th episode, Robbing Hood.

Jennifer Elise Cox’s currently was recently in the TV comedy 10 Items or Less but she is more familiar to viewers as Jan Brady in the Brady Bunch movie.

Pretty exciting news from Korbi of Zap2it:

Pushing Daisies premieres on October 1st. And I’ve got a major spoiler: You know Chuck’s dad? The father whom her boyfriend, Ned, accidentally killed back in the day? He’s rising from the dead! That’s right. I don’t know if Ned resurrects him in order to make things right with the love of his life, but I do know he returns to the living for at least three episodes this season. He’ll be the same age as he was when he kicked the bucket (not much older than Chuck is now) and I’m hearing the reunion with his daughter is a happy one.

Chuck is at least getting some closure, a happy reunion. One of the things that really broke my heart in last season’s finale was Chuck realizing she cannot see her dad one last time. Ned wouldn’t allow it because it’s going to hurt Chuck all over again.

I cannot wait for this episode to air.

Young Olive Snook will appear in the third episode of Pushing Daisies’ Season 2. The episode is called Bad Habits. You can follow the synopsis and developments for this episode here.

Young Olive is going to be played by Samantha Bailey.

This little lady was born in 2001 in California and has appeared on another TV series, NCIS.

Source: IMDb

The official website to the Pushing Daisies Tour is now up and functioning. You can follow the tour bus’  routes on its virtual map as well as read up the Daisy Diary written by the tour organizers.

Also, if you check this site, there is a first hand account with photos of what went on at the first tour stop in Downtown Disney.

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Kristin Chenoweth is just one of the stars participating in a three network (ABC, NBC and CBS) charity event, Stand Up to Cancer. The said event will be held on September 5. Check the promo video: