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Anna Friel Nervous of Brits’ reaction to her American TV Show

by LiRa

Untitled_1.jpgAt the Paley Festival over the weekend, Anna Friel has admitted to feeling quite a bit nervous about how the British audience will react to her American TV show, Pushing Daisies. The whimsical fantasy story airs in the UK on ITV in April this year.

“I’m so nervous, all the big billboards have started to go up [in the UK] so I’m hoping they like it. It’s very important for me that the Brits like it.”

Known in her country as a former soap star on the dramatic series, Brookside, as well as a party girl early in her career, Anna wishes to transcend that image and be more identified for her recent work.

Anna has made a lot of sacrifices to be able to work on this series. It meant uprooting her whole family from the UK to Los Angeles. But the former Brookside star has no qualms about this foreign place she now calls home.

“I’m really settled here now. I went back [to Britain] for two weeks about three weeks ago for the first time in ages, it was lovely, but it’s really nice to come back,” she said.

Aside from Pushing Daisies, the move to Hollywood has also afforded her to work on a new movie with no less than comedy royalty Will Ferrell in  the adaptation of  Land of The Lost.

Any Brits out there who are reading this blog? Are you anticipating Anna’s new TV series? How excited are you for her? How do you think this one will fare in your television landscape?

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As its teasers say, Pushing Daisies is "nothing like you've seen on television". Besides being visually stimulating and audibly captivating, the story behind this whimsical TV series from ABC, is one that seems to jump out pages of a fairy tale. Created by Bryan Fuller, Pushing Daisies is hailed by critics as a commendable risk that may actually pay off. It has romance, tragedy, comedy, mystery and of course, lest we forget, pies…lots and lots of it.

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