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‘Pushing Daisies’ Spreads ‘Em for TV Guide

by Chandra on October 17th, 2007

That’s right. A full two-page spread, in fact.

When I cracked open my mailed October 22–28 edition of TV Guide yesterday, that’s what I found on pages 32 and 33—the entire six-member regular cast of ABC’s hit dramedy Pushing Daisies in a pretty, double-wide picture captioned “Flower Power.”

After the introductory one-two image punch, which teases “We dig up the secrets of ABC’s surreal hit PUSHING DAISIES,” there’s a five-bullet primer for the show.

1. Daisies bloomed out of a never-realized storyline for Showtime’s Dead Like Me.
   *I guess only people who’ve never had the pleasure of seeing Dead Like Me would find that surprising.
2. From its hyperactive color palette to its fantastical sets and props, Daisies looks like nothing else on TV.
   *That’s a glass half-full, half-empty thing, too. I know just as many people who find the whole Technicolor, fantasyland approach incredibly annoying and/or ridiculous as who consider it incredibly refreshing and/or appealing.
3. [Series creator Bryan] Fuller had Pace in mind to play the gifted/cursed Ned when he sat down to write the pilot.
   *Also no revelation to those lucky viewers who’ve seen Pace at work in Fuller’s previous whimsical series Wonderfalls.
4. [Anna] Friel is a stage-trained British actress who made her first stateside splash in Closer on Broadway.
   *Okay, good one. Most fans probably know she’s British, but the Broadway stuff, not so much. Before I reached the word “Broadway,” I thought the writer was referring to Kyra Sedgwick’s hit crime drama on TNT, or maybe that movie with Natalie Portman et al.
5. Daisies has more imaginative curveballs in store.
   *Duh.

Read the full article at TV Guide, but without the pretty pictures included in the print edition. For those, keep going.

Click the images for the larger versions. And, apologies for the creases on the upper outer corners—I think my mailman knocked back a few before starting his shift. The imperfections do add character and uniqueness, though.

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