I am not quite sure when the airing is of the remaining last three episodes of Pushing Daisies. The mid-season calendar is about to begin this week. The time slots for Wednesdays has changed. I am not aware of any promo for when our program favorite returns (have you seen any?).

It seems, everyone is really moving on. Aside from Bryan Fuller going back to Heroes this year, Kristin Chenoweth doing a new show with David E. Kelley, and Anna Friel doing her movies, there are two other people in the Daisies family with new projects to keep them busy now that PD is done. Writers Gretchen Berg and Aaron Harberts, who have also worked on Wonderfalls (one of Bryan Fuller’s shows) have been asked to work on a new program called Bitches. It is scheduled to run on Fox. The show is described as a Sex and The City type of a series…yup, with four female leads. Only the women are actual werewolves. It is also described as “a quirky urban fairy tale.” Frankly, the idea of Bitches to me sounds…ludicrous. I am not quite optimistic about it, but then again, with today’s changing preference in the TV landscape, who knows how this one turns out.

Bitches is from feature writer Michael Dougherty who said that the idea for the show began several years ago. He says to shocktillyoudrop.com,  “I want to continue the tongue-in-cheek feel.  If you’re a werewolf, it should just be another aspect of yourself you’re trying to deal with.  You do want to explore those parallels of being a werewolf and human sexuality. How can you date and fall in love with someone when you’re a werewolf and you start to turn when you’re aroused?”

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Leaving you for awhile with these lovely fan-made video I found off YouTube:

We’ve listed the track lists over here, and today we finally have the artwork and even some photos behind the making of this musical treat. Like this one with Ellen Greene (Aunt Vivian) who lends her singing voice in the album. She is standing next to Jim Dooley, of course, the man behind the magnificent songs you hear on Pushing Daisies.

The composer recently won his first Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition. He also became the very first recipient of the Hollywood Music Award (Best Original Score - Television).

This photo below is just an image of how the songs are translated into the series, with its big orchestra and Jim Dooley conducting the musicians. This is a peak to how a stellar show makes beautiful music, thanks to these very talented people —-

Below you’ll find some of the artwork for the soundtrack CD, which you can get at iTunes and at Amazon.Com.Click on the thumbnails to see the full image:

The official press release:

EMMY AWARD-WINNING SOUNDTRACK OF “PUSHING DAISIES”

TO BE RELEASED DECEMBER 16th and 23rd

Soundtrack to the first season scored by Emmy Award-Winning Composer Jim Dooley

Los Angeles, CA — The highly anticipated, Emmy award-winning soundtrack to the first season of “Pushing Daisies” will be released by Varese Records on iTunes / digitally on December 16th, 2008, and in stores nation-wide on December 23rd. The “Daisies” soundtrack is currently available for pre-order on Amazon.com

“Daisies” is scored by recent Emmy Award-winning composer Jim Dooley. A unique bonus feature of the inaugural soundtrack will be full vocal tracks by show stars Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene, reprising their cameo songs from episodes of the show, “Birdhouse In Your Soul,” “Hopelessly Devoted To You” and “Morning Has Broken.”

Fans also have the chance to win an advanced, signed copy of the soundtrack at www.jimdooley.com. See link for details http://www.jimdooley.com/contest/pushingdaisies. Dooley will also be locally signing limited edition advanced copies of the soundtrack live at Dark Delicacies, 4213 West Burbank Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505, at 2pm on December 13th alongside Bear McCreary, composer to Battlestar: Galactica and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Jim Dooley recently won his first Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series. Just last month, Dooley was the 1st recipient of the new Hollywood Music Award for Best Original Score-TV, and accepted in person at Hollywood & Highland. Dooley also recently completed work on the current hit film “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” and is currently working on the second season of “Daisies.” Next, he will be scoring InFamous, the new anticipated videogame for Play Station 3.

ABC’s “Pushing Daisies” tells the story of a young pie maker named Ned (played by Golden Globe-nominee Lee Pace) who has the unique ability to bring people back to life with a simple touch. Ned brings his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (played by Anna Friel) back to life and together they use Ned’s power to solve crimes. The twist to the story remains that Ned can never touch Chuck again or she will lose her life forever. “This is a fairytale-esque love story and we really worked to incorporate that into the music,” says composer Jim Dooley.

Dooley graduated from NYU with a degree in Music Composition and studied the art of film composing at USC. Dooley joined Media Ventures in 1999 and began collaboration with the world-renowned Hans Zimmer both as his Chief Technical Engineer on Gladiator and as an additional composer, arranger and orchestrator on such notable features as The Da Vinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Ring, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Ridley Scott’s Hannibal and Black Hawk Down. Dooley worked on several animated feature scores such as Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Madagascar, A Christmas Caper and the Academy Award-winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

Dooley’s most ambitious projects to date have been scoring all episodes of “Daisies”, an original score to Simon West’s remake of the box-office record-breaking, cult-classic-thriller When a Stranger Calls, and composing the complex, interactive scores for best-selling videogame titles such as SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy Seals and U.S. Navy Seals: Combined Assault. He also fully scored the German animated release Urmel aus dem Eis (”Impy’s Island”), DreamWorks Animation’s musically-acclaimed short First Flight, and worked with director Fred Savage on the theatrical sequel Daddy Day Camp. Jim has also provided score for episodes of ABC television series, What About Brian, and has scored such projects as Little Mermaid 3: Ariel’s Beginning, a sequel to Urmel aus dem, and his first amusement park attraction score for the Simpsons ride at Universal Studios.

Emerson: Well, then allow me to put this to you delicately. You see, men are dogs. They come, you know, sniffin’ around, barking up your tree. But if they don’t see a kitty cat up in that tree, pretty soon they stop barking. Dwight’s not missing. He’s barking up somebody else’s tree.

Chuck: Poor Vivian. She’s carrying a torch for a flame I extinguished.
Ned: With my finger.

Nils Nilsen: You and Dwight hobnobbed in the same circles.
Emerson: The Hell I did. We didn’t nob no hobs. And certainly not in no damned circle.

Olive: But I don’t need protection. That’s what I have several longstanding restraining orders for.

Vivian: They came highly recommended. In their home county, they’re the most decorated figures since Thor Bjorklund–inventor of the hand-held cheese slicer.

Olive: This gives me pause.
Vivian: A manicure might help.
Olive: No, “pause,” like one step past “play” and not quite to “stop.”

Vivian: There may have been involvement with a criminal element in his past, but that’s behind him now.
Lily: It ain’t behind him. It’s right on top of him, if not inside him.

Nils Nilsen: The DNA analysis that I performed on your hair told us everything we needed to know.
Olive: Oh. I was under the impression that penicillin would clear that up.

Emerson: Detective work is a lot like money. It don’t really come with instructions.

Emerson: There’s a time for callous braggadocio and a time for sensitivity. To the Norwegians, that time is never.
Vivian: I suppose it’s a holdover from their Viking ancestry. It would be difficult to rape and pillage with the subtlety of a humanist.

Olive: Did he die of natural causes?
Chuck and Ned: Yes!
Olive: Are either of you referring to “murder” as a natural cause?

Olive: Then they beat me with a blue-and-yellow stock as they got high on Abba and tiny little meatballs.
Nils and Magnus: Swedes!

Emerson: Listen, we’re all professionals, people. This doesn’t have to get ugly.
Nils Nilsen: Your shirt suggests otherwise.

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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His name wasn’t in the press releases that came out in recent weeks. They really kept this a big secret!

Following last episode’s story…when Vivian becomes suspicious of gentleman caller, Dwight Dixon’s whereabouts, she comes to Emerson for help. But the latter jolts her back to reality and insisted there was no case, prompting Vivian to seek the help of Emerson’s competitors, the Norwegian investigators, instead.

Soon, the trail leads the Norwegians to the Pie Hole. And everything that the three of them have done in the last few weeks snowballed and spilled over. Chuck blames herself for keeping her dad alive. Ned blames himself and his magic fingers. Emerson blames himself for not keeping a lid on all this, since it was his job to keep cases from becoming sloppy. Meanwhile, Olive blames no one but feels mighty left out from the group.

But when it appeared like she has jumped shipped and sided with the Norwegians to find out what really happened to Dwight, I knew that Olive was up to something else. The three couldn’t tell her, they couldn’t say they had something to do with it, so she’s finding the truth for herself. And in the process, helping the PI palooza. If there was one thing Olive Snook does not have in her, it’s disloyalty.

Following some twists and turns, and a jittery trio who think that their secret may soon be discovered…Dwight Dixon’s body reappears in his motel room, as if dying in his sleep. This finally gives the Norwegian’s case some closure, keeping everyone’s secret safe.

But it didn’t make it all better for Aunt Vivian and Aunt Lily, who learned that it seems Dwight Dixon stole the bodies of Charlotte and Charles Charles from the grave.

But the truth is, someone was covering up for Ned and his friends. And that someone was revealed in the last few seconds of the episode. Yup, Ned….it was your father!

Some notes:

• Mother, the Norwegian’s hot crime lab/RV, is short for: Mobile Investigative Lab Facility. Hah!
• Ned feels a little something for Olive! It’s not as if there was nothing there and he didn’t look at her that way. He said so himself. Which is sad and cruel. Way to do that to a girl, dude!
• Vivian and Lily’s scenes together were priceless.
• Vivian’s meekness makes me cry and sympathize for her. Watching her with Emerson, and then later with Lily, just breaks my heart. Ellen Greene is so good an actress!
• Olive is so sharp, she really can have a second career as a PI. And I enjoyed her Q & A scenes with Ned.
• I’m running out of superlatives for Chi McBride and Emerson. He was great this episode, as usual.
• So what do you suppose is Ned’s dad’s name? Charles Charles, Dwight Dixson. Could Ned’s dad be EE? And will we finally know Ned’s complete real name before this series is done?
• This is probably the second best episode of the season…I’m not yet so sure because I also liked Oh, Oh, Oh it’s Magic a lot.

Yes, there will be one! And it’s possibly the last episode of the year.

Episode 10th
Episode Title: The Norwegian
Episode Summary: When Emerson turns down her offer of employment, Vivian hires a team of Norwegian detectives to locate the missing Dwight Dixon. However, the trail of clues leads to Ned and Chuck, and their secrets. Ned, Chuck, and Emerson finally meet their match when three rival Norwegian detectives start to get in their way.
uest Stars: Nicholas Khayyat as Eugene, Stephen Root as Dwight Dixon, Michael Weaver (1) as Nils Nilsen, Ivana Milicevic as Hedda Lillihammer, Orlando Jones as Magnus Olsdatter
Director: Tricia Brock
Writer: Scott Nimerfro

Following this episode, Pushing Daisies has three more left. It’s not yet known when these will air but according to reports, fans will be getting the closure they need when it finally is off the air, permanently. (As in, dead again…forever….*sigh*).

The actress is wrapping up her film with Will Ferrel, Land of the Lost, and up next for her (that is, if a studio buys the movie rights) is this romantic comedy film helmed by Jason Reitman (Juno) called, The Wedding.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, it’s a film that “visits the perils and peccadilloes of young love.”

Anna will star opposite Jesse Eisenberg, who will play the role of a young man who crashes at the weding and becomes infatuated with Friel’s character. Friel is the bride in this movie.

Max Winkler is writing the script.

The project is just waiting for a studio to back it up.