Pushing Daisies

As reported on EW, Stephen Root, is joining Pushing Daisies Season 2 as guest star, playing the role of someone who, as Bryan Fuller stated, “has a shared history with both Ned’s dad and Chuck’s dad” and will most likely “stir up a lot of hullabaloo for everyone, particularly Aunts Lily and Vivian.”

Stephen Root is more familiar to TV fans of NewsRadio, a series that aired for four seasons in the mid-90’s. He is also a voice talent on the cartoon series, King of The Hill and American Dad.

A talented actor like him is a perfect fit for a show like Pushing Daisies as I do remember how much of a presence he is on Seinfeld and Frasier. He is perhaps one of those underrated character actors in the biz.

He will appear in a four episode story arc and it sounds like his character is bad news. Is he Chuck’s real father?

A character from Bryan Fuller’s defunct TV series, Wonderfalls, may be appearing and crossing over to the second season of Pushing Daisies.

This information was revealed at the Comic Con last Saturday. And that character none other than Mary Ann Marie Beetle, who appeared in the Muffin Buffalo episode of Wonderfalls.

She is played by Beth Grant.

Fuller also says he’d like for Jaye Tyler (Caroline Dhavernas) the lead of Wonderfalls to drop by the “sunny Daisies world” as well. Diane Scarwid who played Mother to Lee Pace in this series, is already a confirmed guest on Pushing Daisies.

Watch Mary Ann Marie Beetle on Wonderfalls:

Via THR Comic Con Coverage

Spoiler Alert!

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And this information comes from Lee Pace himself, when he and the other cast Pushing Daisies spoke about the show’s return on Sci Fi Wire. Mo Collins! Ahhhh! How I enjoy watching her on MadTV before!

Spoiler ahead after the cut people!

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Here’s a fresh scoop from Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello!

“The O.C.’s Taylor Townsend herself, Autumn Reeser, will guest star in the season premiere as a Southern Belle named Kentucky Fritz who has a deadly run-in with some killer bees. “She’s the number one girl at Betty’s Bees, who may or may not have been up to some mischief when she was stung to death by a swarm of bees,” teases Daisies creator Bryan Fuller. The gig reunites Reeser with actress Missi Pyle (aka Betty Bee); the two appeared in an episode of Fox’s short-lived Wedding Bells that, unfortunately, no one ever saw. “I walked down the aisle to ‘Maria’ from Sound of Music,” Reeser recalls. “But the show was canceled before it aired.” Ironically, sounds like an episode I would’ve actually watched.”

Ausiello also adds — “Daisies is casting the role of Emerson’s no-nonsense, chain-smoking and, get this, Caucasian mom.”

Didn’t read through this new spoiler properly as I’d still want to remain spoiler-free. I just grabbed this off PushingDaisies-TV which has been very vigilant and generous with spoilers.

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Scheduled to appear in the fourth episode of Pushing Daisies’ second season is David Arquette, who was last seen on ABC’s In Case of Emergency, which the network canceled after 12 airings. David will play the character, Randy Mann, described as “socially awkward” but possesses a very special talent which forges a bond between him and the pie-maker.

The episode’s synopsis via Spoiler TV, after the jump…

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It’s after the cut, people…for the benefit of the spoiler-phobes you’d have to click to read it.

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Not likely so, based on this photo and article from Variety. Because it seems the shows are going on.

This is of course, Kristin Chenoweth, doing her scenes as Olive Snook for Pushing Daisies Season 2. It looks to me  like she’s doing some theatrics, some singing. Oh, and I can’t help but notice — her hair is longer now?

Anyway, according to reports, the show has been "in production for weeks" and the cast of Pushing Daisies are scheduled to film their scenes throughout July. 

Any threats of an upcoming strike by the actors is unlikely, according to a high profile sitcom showrunner — "The threat of a thesp work stoppage "is not even in my thought process right now at all. There’s just a general feeling that it’s not going to happen."

So… there’s no reason to panic for now. TV is moving along well for the new season.

Incidentally, there are more spoilers after the cut…

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Many thanks to Pushing-Daisies.Com for this spoiler. I didn’t read this, though. And that’s really hard to do! But I did not want to get myself too “spoiled” so I’m skipping the text. I’m only seeing words without making sense of ‘em…

This is supposedly a synopsis for the first episode of the second season.

To the curios, the spoiler is right after the jump!

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The producers have apparently cast Diane Scarwid for Pushing Daisies Season 2. She is reportedly going to play the role of Mother Superior in the nunnery Olive will hide off to.

Scarwid was in the cast of Bryan Fuller’s earlier project, Wonderfalls. She played Lee Pace’s mother there.

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Details to the second season are slowly unveiling and I found this from a fan site similar to ours. Pushing Daisies Season 2 Episode 3 is still about Olive’s background mostly. The details are after the jump (for the benefit of those who would want to remain unspoiled) and it involves a lot more than secret agents!

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Remember that spoiler news posted a few days back? It mentioned of Olive going off to the nunnery in order to let a secret remain a secret.

This week, the production is casting actors to play as nuns, a priest and a young Olive Snook and her parents. Yep, we’re getting an Olive flashback (Olive in pigtails - cute!) as well as a mummified nun (I wonder what this is about…)

Casting details below:

SISTER LARUE
30s to early 40s, female, all ethnicities, attractive, warm, open nun who has made a friend in Olive

FATHER ED
Mid 40s to early 50s, male, all ethnicities, attractive, a stoic man, he’s the Priest-in-Charge at the convent

HANSEL VON GETZ
40s, male, stocky but with sex appeal, thick German accent is an acclaimed Swiss chef who was disgraced in his former kitchen and sets up shop near the convent

SISTER MARIA CHRISTINA
30S, female, all ethnicities, gossipy young nun with a taste for forbidden.sptv050769

YOUNG OLIVE
Seen in flashback, she is Olive (Kristin Chenoweth) at 9 years old, all blonde hair and perfect pigtails.

MOTHER AND FATHER
Seen in flashbacks, they are Young Olive’s parents

MUMMIFIED NUN
50s, female, all ethnicities, mummified nun brought back to life.

I’m slowly forming an image of what the second season is going to look like and it’s gonna be beautiful, I know.

I’ve read even further somewhere that Olive will have an abusive set of parents who will scar her childhood. This is an unconfirmed detail though.

Source: Spoiler TV

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September is a couple of months from now, but ABC has been running this promo clip:

Episode details are also slowly coming up on spoiler sites. These spoilers aren’t 100% accurate and some details may be changed as the show progresses. The spoilers follow after the jump…

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Part Two of the interview with Bryan Fuller with the Comic Podcast Network is now out, with more exciting news and scoops from the series creator of Pushing Daisies (SPOILER ALERT!):

• A duet between Olive and Alfredo — Raul Esperza was doing a show before, so they couldn’t easily get him back to the show. But if they’re starting in June this time, there’s a possibility their schedules would work out. There is a plan for a much more complicated character development for his character, Alfredo, as well as another partner for Olive.
• Regarding Molly Shannon - They wanted to get her for the show “from the get-go”. But she was doing another pilot then. (Molly Shannon is doing another pilot again this year).
• More guests on list. The show has roles in mind for: Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews, and some Dr. Who cast appearance, which will excite UK viewers no less.
• There is a possibility for more musical numbers. “They kinda like the way we’re sort of sprinkling the numbers here and there”. There could be original songs. But they currently have a list of songs they would like to get into the show, like Eternal Flame (by the Bangles).
• Ways for Ned and Chuck to touch? “We haven’t even gotten to latex”
• Bryan Fuller regards Orbit (Digby) as one of the better actors of the show. There is actually a Digby double, but Orbit is female.
• Pie Cookbook? Fuller loves the idea.
• A comic book will be available at ComicCon this year, and there would be some recipes in there.
• On the possibility that the aunts would know if Chuck is alive, the answer is a “Maybe”. Whether the aunts or Olive would know Ned’s powers — “No”. Will the aunts go back to their careers? “Yes.”
• On the possibility of Emerson finding his special someone — “Yes”. Fuller would love to have Bitches guest star, Christine Adams, come back on the show.

Part 1 details are found here.

The audio direct download is available here.

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