Pushing Daisies

That is, David E. Kelley has picked her to star in his upcoming series, Legally Mad.

The new show is described as a quirky legal drama about a woman who begins working at her father’s law firm . Kelley is making this show for NBC, in partnership with Warner Bros TV.

Kristin’s character is named Skippy Pylon, who is described as a cheery lady often mistaken for a teenage girl. Skippy every so often has flashes of psychosis. When Kelley was writing this series, he had Kristin in mind for the role. Kelley says, “I’ve wanted to work with her for a long time and can’t wait to reveal her as someone who’s completely mad.”

If things go well with this upcoming series and with David E. Kelley’s penchant for having musical numbers in his shows, the idea of Kristin singing in this legal drama, might not be farfetched, right?

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The fact that this show hasn’t been renewed for the season doesn’t change the fact that it is still one of the better shows on air. This latest recognition just proves it. The awards and honors are never-ending!

Pushing Daisies has once again been nominated for three award categories at the Satellite Awards, which will culminate on December 14th.

Television Series, Comedy or Musical

• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• 30 Rock
• Pushing Daisies
• State of the Union

Actor in a Series, Comedy or Musical

• Lee Pace - Pushing Daisies
• Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock
• David Duchovny - Californication
• Danny DeVito - It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Justin Kirk - Weeds
• Jonny Lee Miller - Eli Stone

Actress in a Supporting Role

• Laura Dern - Recount
• Sarah Polley - John Adams
• Kristin Chenoweth - Pushing Daisies
• Dianne Wiest - In Treatment
• Chandra Wilson - Grey’s Anatomy
• Fionnula Flanagan - Brotherhood

This is the second time the show has been honored by this particular award giving body. If you should recall, Pushing Daisies actually won it last year. It’s also the second nomination for Lee Pace and a first for Kristin Chenoweth.

Congratulations to the nominees and I hope the show wins another batch of awards again!

The Satellite Award is a recognition given by the International Press Academy, which was formed in the 90’s. The organization has over 200 members worldwide, in print, radio, television, cable and more recently, the internet. This body is actually a spin-off from HFPA (Hollywood Foreign Press Association) who is responsible for the Golden Globes.

If you missed Kristin Chenoweth’s performance at the Macy Thanksgiving Day Parade early today, here she is —

With her movie Four Christmases playing in theaters soon, Kristin Chenoweth talks to Celebrity Parade about how the holiday celebrations are done in her own household, surrounded by families —

Q: You’re really mean to your sister in the movie. Have you ever had to cope with sibling rivalry?

A: I was fortunate enough to have an older brother who was interested in chemical engineering, calculus—everything that I’m not. I should never be near a math book and he should never sing. So we didn’t really have sibling rivalry. It was more of ‘Let me take care of you.’

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Here’s a video compilation I found of Youtube of Kristin Chenoweth’s performances, which earned for her a Point Courage Award recently:

Kristin Chenoweth arrives at The 4th Annual A Fine Romance to Benefit The Motion Picture & Televison Fund at Sony Pictures Studios on November 8, 2008 in Culver City, California.

The actress is also scheduled to be on Jay Leno’s talk show November 19th.

Kristin Chenoweth will be gracing the 82nd Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which will air Nov 27th from morning till 12 noon. It will also feature today’s hottest teem stars like Miley Cyrus and David Achuleta performers.

The event will be hosted by NBC’s most familiar faces in the morning — Matt Lauer, Meredith Viera and Al Roker.

Expect the following performers and celebrities to grace the event as well:

New balloons featuring Buzz Lightyear, Horton and Smurfs will also be featured.

Kristin Chenoweth is going to be in the holiday movie, Four Christmases, slated to run in theaters by the end of November. The movie also stars Reese Witherspoon, Vince Vaughn, Jon Voight Jon Favreau and Mary Steenburgen.

The story is a romantic comedy — “The story of a young couple, each of whose parents divorce and then marry other people. This leaves the newlyweds with four parental households to visit over the course of Christmas Day.”

You can check the trailer here.

As announced last weekend, Kristin Chenoweth was on Ellen Tuesday, October 21st. Here are videos to her interview and guest appearance, where she gamely participated on a prank Ellen DeGeneres was trying to pull:

Videos from: Pushing Daisies LJ Community

In addition to this, here’s an interesting story on Cheno from StarPulse: Kristin Chenoweth Is Mistaken For A Child

• “I try to order flowers and they won’t let me .They think I’m a child. The last time, the flowers didn’t turn up, I called my credit card company and they told me a child was trying to use my card. I tried to call another place to order my brother a Christmas present, but my voice was too high for the automated system. It sucks. People call me and ask if my mom is home. It’s frustrating.”

This lady is hilarious, that’s why we love her!

The actress played voice part to Tinkerbell and these are the photos from the premiere. The animated film goes direct to DVD and BluRay.

Kristin is also joined by Young Ned and Young Chuck

Actor Field Cate, Sammi Hanratty and Kristin Chenoweth arrive at the Pixie Premiere of the full-length CG animated movie ‘Tinker Bell’ due to be released on October 28,2008 on DVD and Blu-Ray Disc held at the El Capitan Theatre on October 19, 2008 in Hollywood, California.

Check for Tinkerbell on DVD here. Or at your favorite video stores.

Heads up, PD fans!

Kristin Chenoweth will be on Ellen Degeneres’ show on Tuesday, October 21st. Don’t miss it!

CNN Living puts a list of TV Characters together and sums up how much they make if they were actual, living persons. Ned and Olive are in this list:

• Ned, “Pushing Daisies” — Head pie maker, general manager

Real-life median salary: $21,241, according CBSalary.com.

Ned (Lee Pace) probably makes a little more than this as the owner of his restaurant, which is near broke. To pad his pockets in the meantime, Ned helps a private investigator bring murder victims back from the dead to gather details to solve their murders, collecting reward money in the end. That should be enough to buy pie ingredients for a lifetime.

• Olive Snook, “Pushing Daisies” — Waitress

Real-life median salary: $15,850, according to the BLS.

Presumably Olive (Kristin Chenowith) doesn’t rake in much additional money from tips from her services at The Pie Hole, the financially-failing restaurant where she works. Something tells us she’s not in it for the money — she just wants to be near Ned, head pie maker and apple of her eye.

Here are a couple of interviews featuring Lee Pace and Kristin Chenoweth for the Houston Chronicle.

Lee talked about his childhood…

• Pace had a somewhat rootless childhood. He was born in Oklahoma and spent part of his youth in the Middle East, before the family settled in Spring. He’s not sure if that informs Ned’s awkwardness around people in any way. To wit: “I bet it does. Or maybe not,” he says. He laughs. “I don’t know . . . I’m not as self-reflective as many other actors are. So maybe. Probably.” Pace says he fell into acting. He’d wanted to be a swimmer but recurring ear infections kept him out of the water. He needed another high school elective, which is when his mother suggested acting. “I thought she was kidding.” He says “in Texas they can make anything competitive,” so he found himself in speech tournaments that included actors and debaters interacting.

  Pace did some work at the Alley Theatre before studying acting further at Juilliard. He suggests that time between high school and drama school was particularly important. “It gave me some perspective,” he says. “You hear people in drama school ask things like, ‘When I get out do I want to work in theater, TV or film?’ When you get out you don’t have time to ask that. You have to hustle.”

Kristin dished on her upcoming autobiography…

• Chenoweth, whose on-again, off-again romance with West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin was mined for material in Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — in which the Christian character played by Sarah Paulson was not-so-loosely based on Chenoweth — has stories of her own to tell, and she’ll be doing just that next year in a book titled A Little Bit Wicked. “I had a ghost writer, I’m not going to pretend I wrote it by myself. I worked on it solid for three months,” Chenoweth said. “It’s about my adoption, but it is about my life. I didn’t want to call it a memoir, because I don’t think that fits yet,” she said, laughing.

  One thing it’s not about is the search for her birth parents. “It’s actually kind of the opposite, about what it’s like not to do that, and what it’s like not to have that family history, but to connect with the people who raised you,” Chenoweth said. At first, she was nervous about telling her family about the book, “because I didn’t want to hurt them. Because my mom’s always like, ‘You know, if you ever want to find your real parents . . . ‘ But they were thrilled. Because I wanted to kind of give other people inspiration.”

Here’s an interview with Lee Pace and Anna Friel which was printed on a broadsheet daily in the Philippines. The interview took place during Pushing Daisies’ press junket a couple of weeks ago. In addition to discussing the series, the two also gave a few tidbits about their personal lives like first kisses…

Some excerpts to the interview…

• In real life, how much of a touch person are you?
• A: I’m really tactile. I’m very close to my mum and dad. I get my big lovely hugs all the time. It’s not nice to be able to work with someone so gorgeous (as Lee is) and not be able to go “Hi” (and she demonstrated physical contact by locking an arm with Lee’s).
• L: I sometimes have a hard time getting close to people. Anna caught me when we were shooting. Someone had come up to me and touched me. I kind of flinched. Anna said, “That’s Ned.”
• Since you play childhood sweethearts who shared the first kiss, can you tell us about your first kiss in real life?
• L: My first kiss was very awkward. I’ll say the girl’s name if people promise not to print it (laughter). Her name is actually very funny. [He mentioned the name.] I remember walking around the back of the junior high school and holding her hands. Both our hands were all sweaty. We kissed and we didn’t know what to do with our tongues. Then we pulled away and went like, “Was that it? Yeah, I think that’s it (laughter). All right, let’s go home.”
• A: I got taught. I got to practice. I used to go to my godparents every weekend. Their son taught me how to do it (laughter) because I didn’t know how. He showed me on his hand so it wasn’t particularly romantic. I thought, at least when it does get romantic, I’ll know what to do. My girlfriends and I used to lie in bed and we’d practice on our own hands. I don’t know how many girls will ever admit to doing that. You quite don’t know what to do with the tongue bit.
• What kind of comments about the show or your characters do you get from strangers?
• L: I get the “Oh, shake my hand. Oh, I’m dead” bit.

You can read the full interview here.

There’s also an interview with Kristin Chenoweth.

E! Talks to Kristin Chenoweth and Lee Pace at the Emmy party: