Pushing Daisies is a Golden Globe-nominated American television dramedy created by Bryan Fuller (creator of Dead Like Me and co-creator of Wonderfalls) who also serves as executive producer alongside Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Brooke Kennedy (episodes 2-7), Peter Ocko (episodes 8-present) and Barry Sonnenfeld. The show is produced by Warner Bros. Television.
The show premiered in the United States on October 3, 2007, and aired on Wednesday nights at 8:00PM Eastern/7:00PM Central. Due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show completed only nine episodes of its order of a full 22-episode season. On February 11, 2008, ABC picked up Pushing Daisies for the 2008-09 television season.
The show premiered in South Africa on January 22, 2008, and airs on Tuesday nights at 7:30PM on M-Net. Pushing Daisies made its premiere in Turkey on February 19, 2008, and airs on Tuesday nights at 9:00PM on CNBC-e. It will begin airing in the Latin America, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom and Hong Kong in early 2008. In Australia, Channel 9 recently started advertising for Pushing Daisies, to air in 2008 as did UK network ITV where it will air in April 2008. It is now airing in New Zealand's TV2.
A man (Pace) named Ned has the ability to bring the dead back to life. The catch is, it's only for one minute, if they are alive longer than a minute someone must die in their place, he also can't touch someone he saves again or they will die and he can't save them again. He discovers this when he's ten years old and he saves his mother after brain hemorrhages. The result is, his next door neighbor dies, unfortunately, his daughter is the girl Ned dreams about. Later that night when his mother tucks him in she kisses his forehead and dies. The girl, Chuck, now lives with her aunts and Ned is sent to boarding school by his father. Many years later, Ned owns a pie shop because his "gift" allows him to re ripen rotten fruit. He also helps a PI with cases because he can ask murder victims about who killed them. One day, on the news it's announced that a reward has been set on information about the murder of a tourist, and rewards being the Emerson's (the PI) only motivation the two of them get involved in the case and soon Ned finds out that the dead girl is Charlotte Charles, the girl he called Chuck. Written by Hannah
Ned (Pace) possesses the unique talent of being able to bring the life to dead merely by touching them. However, the person may remain alive only for one minute, or else someone else dies for them. A second touch will render the person dead again, unable to be revived. Through his connections with PI Emerson Cod (McBride), Ned revives his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Friel). The trio, aided occasionally by Olive Snook (Chenoweth), helps solve the mysteries of various murders, whose murderer is often surprising. Written by Mandy
