Pushing Daisies

Will there be a new episode of Pushing Daisies on October 29th or will this be pre-empted by the fact that Barack Obama’s campaign is bloc buying the said time slot in time for the November elections?

How will this affect Pushing Daisies? As per these reports from The Washington Post:

• Late yesterday, ABC and Obama’s camp were still in talks about whether the network will sell the first half of the time slot, which it had earmarked for another episode of hour-long dramedy “Pushing Daisies.” The show is one of last year’s freshman series hurt by the 100-day writers’ strike and that the network is attempting to relaunch this fall, but so far without much luck. ABC execs may believe there is opportunity for “Pushing Daisies” to get more sampling on Oct. 29 if the network does not join in the Obama time buy. Source
• In that particular half hour on Oct. 29, Fox may or may not be airing Game 6 of the World Series. And ABC at this moment is scheduled to air its struggling dramedy “Pushing Daisies.” “Daisies” is one of last year’s freshman series that got hurt by the 100-day writers strike and which the network is attempting to re-launch this fall, but so far, without much luck. ABC execs may believe there is opportunity for “Pushing Daisies” to get more sampling on Oct. 29 if the network does not join in a so-called “roadblock” buy by the Obama campaign.  With CBS and NBC’s scripted programming scrubbed to make way for Obama, Fox possibly airing baseball and CW running the reality show “America’s Next Top Model,” “Pushing Daisies” would be the only scripted series in the timeslot on broadcast network TV. Source

Is this going to help the show? The most foretelling fact from these reports is that ABC is still intent on saving Pushing Daisies. There is still hope…