Pushing Daisies, ABC’s self-described “forensic fairy tale” about a man who could bring dead people back to life with the touch of a finger, was easily one of the most interesting and daring television shows in years.
Maybe a little too daring. Pushing Daisies, with its extremely distinctive visual style, was a critical and popular hit upon its debut, but its first season was cut short by the writers’ strike after only nine episodes. When it came back last fall for a second season, ratings were much lower, and the show was soon canceled.
Last Saturday, after a total of only 22 episodes, the network aired what had become the show’s series finale.
But what if the show, like Celine Dion’s heart, had gone on?
We decided to ask the creator, Bryan Fuller, who is also the creator of Dead Like Me, the co-creator of Wonderfalls, and the writer and co-executive producer of the well-received first season of Heroes (on which he is now working again).
What we discovered is that, in addition to being very talented and very prolific, he’s also a heck of a nice guy.
TheTorchOnline: So the last episode of Pushing Daisies turned out to be the series finale. But it looked like you were able to sort of wrap things up at the very end. How did that come about?
Bryan Fuller: We knew when we were shooting it that it was our last episode essentially. After we got into post and it was like, “Okay. That’s our last episode and it ends on a cliffhanger.” Because, as scripted, the last moment of the show was they open the door, and Chuck says to Vivian and Lily, “I’m alive,” and then it cuts to black. That would set up our back nine arc, which we were going to bring back George Hamilton as Ned’s father, and we just had so many balls up in the air that I was looking forward to bringing down and writing, but we just never got the opportunity.
In post, it was like, “OK, can’t end on a cliffhanger on our last episode ever,” so it really was a mad scramble to write and see if we could get the visual effects. We couldn’t roll film on anything because production was axed.
TTO: So you didn’t reshoot anything, that was all just footage that you had?
BF: Yeah, everything was footage that we had. For instance, Bill Powloski, who was our visual effects supervisor on the show and did such a wonderful job, really came through for us in this last episode. He went to all the houses that we had been dealing with over the twenty-two episodes of the show, and was like, “We have no money, but we’d like to do this sequence at the end to give some semblance of closure for the show. Can anybody help us?”
And everybody helped us. We had shots that were donated. We had the big shot of going through town past all the landmarks that we’d seen in the series. That was like a $90,000 effects shot that we paid $8000 for. They donated to us because they liked the show, and they were sad to see it go, and they were upset that we weren’t able to end it properly.
It was a really warm and wonderful that even the people and the visual effects houses who had contributed to the show were there right up to the last moment and willing to whatever they could to make sure that we had the best possible ending we could have under the circumstances.
TTO: How much of the series did you actually have outlined? The folks at Supernatural said they have a five year plan, and I’m always skeptical when I hear something like that.
BF: I figured I knew very clearly the rest of the second season, and then I knew what the third season was going to be.
TTO: What was the third season going to be?
BF: The Empire Strikes Back. You’re separating R2D2 and C3PO and sending them off into two different directions, and so that was going to be Chuck and Ned. Chuck was going to go off with the father, and Ned was going to try to chase her down.
That was the heart of it, and part of the thing that was going to be part and parcel of the third season was Chuck being exposed and what happens when part of your family shows up and says, “Just kidding! I wasn’t murdered on the beach in Aruba.”
What does she have to deal with in that situation, and obviously Olive was going to have this huge falling out. Those events that were in that last little snippet of [that last episode, called] “Kerplunk,” with that whole tale of how she came to open the Intrepid Cow, the macaroni and cheese palace, was going to be a huge arc for Olive, why she got there and what brought her to those circumstances.
I was really excited about telling those stories. I was excited about shifting the dynamics around with those characters. What would happen when Lily had to move in with Chuck because Vivian kicked her out. The plan was to keep Wendie Malick, who played Cora, Vivian and Lily’s AquaDarling rival, on as a reoccurring character for the rest of the second season.
There were all those little pieces, not to mention the pocket watches with Dwight Dixon, and Chuck’s dad and Ned’s dad, and Emerson’s daughter. It was just a crazy amount of material that kept generating story. It could have gone on for a while.
I could see how the various story threads were going to unfold over the next season and a half. I could honestly say I could see where we were going through the end of season three, then I was hoping that sometimes during season three, season four would occur to me. [laughs]
TTO: You’ve got the ultimate protection against Cheers‘ Sam and Diane ever getting together and sleeping together. They say that ruins a show.
BF: Right.
TTO: Were you going to develop the love story, or were were they always going to stay physically apart?
BF: They were coming up with innovative ways to overcome the no touching, barriers like sheets of plastic dividing the bed and the car. We were going to see them develop romantically before it all blew up at the end of the season and Chuck ran off to see the world with her father.
The sexual aspect was never too big of a hurdle, because if I was in that situation, I’d throw on a plastic suit and start rubbing. There were ways around that. That seemed like the lowest hurdle of the relationship. It definitely created bigger ones down the line, but they kind of figured that one out. I figured if they didn’t figure that one out pretty quickly, it would be hard to really buy their situation as realistic.
I mean, really, he puts on a condom and you go to town.
TTO: Were we ever going to find out where this power came from in the first place?
BF: No. I had a really strong belief after seeing The Phantom Menace and hearing about midichlori and that’s why Jedi are special, it just left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wanted to keep the magic of “this is his ability and this is what he can do,” but there’s no why or where it came from, and he’s not going into why or where it came from, it’s just going to complicate his life in interesting ways. That was really a reaction to that first Star Wars prequel that really took the magic away from being a Jedi, and I didn’t want to take the magic away from what Ned can do.
TTO: Good answer. You’ve mentioned in other interviews that you were going to pitch Pushing Daisies as a movie and there was a comic book in the works. I know the comic book is happening, but did anything happen on the movie front?
BF: I think because the show wasn’t a huge hit, the movie is sadly unlikely. I think it’s a great film franchise, but good luck getting anybody to do any kind of movie these days, much less something from a failed television show.
The idea is to do what I was going to as a feature script, I’m going to do as a comic book story. Hopefully, there will be some success with the comic, and that might be able to generate some kind of film franchise future. It’s all very much a long shot, but it’s definitely something the cast really wants to do, I want to do, everybody who’s worked on the series. There’s such warmth from everyone who worked on the show that we’d love to get together again.
Right now, I’m outlining the comic, the first issue. I’m going through and breaking it out. We’ve got the comic series arc all shaped, and now I just need to go into the individual episodes and break them out in terms of box by box in the comic book. Then we’ll have that out by the end of the year.
TTO: Does it pick up where the series left off? We don’t have an origin story or start over again, do we?
BF: Well, it is a bit of an origin story, but not like the series. We don’t go through the introduction of the ability, but a whole new story starts. If you haven’t seen the TV series, you’ll get everything you need to understand the story in the first episode. In a way, it is a restart, but it’s not a reboot, if that makes sense.
TTO: As you look back over the series, the buzz was so great at the debut — it was the show everybody was talking about, and the reviews were great, and the ratings were good. And then there was the writers’ strike. When you look back at the whole series, is that what you think destroyed the show’s momentum?
BF: I really have to say it was the writers’ strike. We lost our momentum, we were off the air for almost a year, ten or eleven months we were off the air. As much as the billboards in Los Angeles and New York are great for the people who live in Los Angeles and New York, all the cities in between weren’t really aware we were coming back. Ten months is a long time to say, “Yeah, I remember that.” And people generally don’t.
TTO: And you can only be the fresh new thing everybody’s talking about one time, and then people move on.
BF: Exactly. I would say the writers’ strike didn’t do us any favors, even though initially it seemed like it did, but that was wrong. They kind of killed the show. So thanks, writers’ strike!
TTO: I just read Samantha Who, the same thing. I was shocked when that show was canceled.
BF: I was too!
TTO: Not only was it one of the best shows on TV, it was one of the breakout hits. The writers’ strike is a little bit like how the flutter of a butterfly’s wings has endless repercussions.
BF: Yeah, and Christina Applegate is so infectiously charming.
TTO: Who knew? Pushing Daisies was so different, and the fantastical elements were so unique, so unlike anything on television. Where did this come from? Is fantasy the kind of stories you were always gravitating to as a child?
BF: I love big brush stokes. I think Pushing Daisies told stories with a very big brush, but you could see the hairs of the brush within each stroke. It was just so much fun. It kind of took on a life of its own.
When I was writing the pilot, I had no idea where everything was going to go. That kind of took shape while we were filming the pilot. When I was writing it, I was kind of like, “Oh my God! Where is this going to go? What am I going to do? What’s going to generate the stories? How do I keep this from stagnating?”
Once you write it, and you’re on set, and you’re watching all the actors bring it to life like lightning in Frankenstein’s castle, it just takes on such a life of its own, it then becomes its own muse, if you follow. It really created its own universe. I can take responsibility for the pilot and all those characters, but once the cast steps into place and you get a team on board, everybody elevates it, and your understanding of the show is so fluid, and you become a passenger. Yeah, you could be driving, but you’re not always in control in terms of the story. That’s the very exciting part.
Right now, I’m developing new stuff, and I’m sort of thinking, “Oh my God. What am I going to do? Pushing Daisies was so good and fun and dense,” and then I think, “Well, it didn’t start out that way.” It started out with me trying to figure out what I liked about the characters. “Well, I think Chuck should be making honey for the homeless. What would a person like that do?” You just have to sort of go back in and build it brick by brick.
TTO: Are you working on any other fantasy or fantasy-esque shows?
BF: Right now, I’m working on two pilots for NBC, one is a sitcom and one is an hour-long. The sitcom right now has a very small flavor of magic, but it’s very grounded. It’s probably the most grounded thing I’ve written. I’m working on that. Hopefully, we’ll be taking that in to NBC in couple weeks. And I’m fleshing out an hour-long that is a little more genre, but hopefully I’ll be doing a few projects for NBC. I’ve got a pocketful of idea that I would like to see come to fruition.
TTO: In addition to your work on Heroes. My God, I don’t know how you have time!
BF: [laughs] I stay up all night.
TTO: There you go. I’m so sad that the show is no more, but on the other hand, that frees you up to do two new shows. Maybe they’ll both get picked up and we’ll get twice as much Bryan Fuller.
BF: Knocking on wood.
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I say we sstart a petition to get it basck on the air!! It was the best show i’f seen in alomost 10 years, and I’m only 20
It’s cool this article is still having relies. PUSHING DAISIES is by far the best show I’ve ever seen. It was so lovely, magic and creative, and you really fell in love with all the characters, no matter how different they were, they always made our hearts feel happier. I hope it comes back some day soon (life goes on and actors get older), there were so many thing to solve yet. I really pray for PD to comeback, for ABC or somebody to put the money again and bring us back the (at least) hour-long happiness we felt watching Ned, Chuck, Olive, etc.
Liliana, from Peru (i’m sure the show has millions of fans all over the world)
I’ve been watching this show since it first came out, and I still think about it all the time!! Some of the characters even appeared in my dreams haha. I REALLYYYYY want it to come back…I suppose a comic or a movie is better than nothing, but it just won’t be the same as seeing it on TV every Wednesday night at 8:00pm. I WILL MISS IT FOREVER! I watch all of the episodes over and over again on my ipod, trying to hang on to every last bit! It’s sooo good. COME ON, NED, BRING PUSHING DAISIES BACK TO LIFE!
Wow, nice interview. Just finished watching this on bluray. Too bad there is no hope for this series being picked up again.
On a side note, there were a number of typos in the article. Do you not proof-read?
so tired of loving shows the rest of the world can’t appreciate or just doesn’t get…exhausted…loved you daisies, lee, anna, cheno,…damn…
yes, I would looooooooooooooove to see this show come back on the air… I had just started watching it and don’t even think I saw an entire season. I couldn’t wait until the next one and suddenly it was gone… I was so sad… All the characters were so quirky and full of life, and visualization of the sets were so eye catching… and the quick humor, omg, was so fantastic!!! bring it back! bring it back!
I miss it:(
Julia
I wish this show would come back. It was an awesome and really funny show
I like the show so much I wanted to say it twice
I wish this show would come back. It’s an awesome and really funny show
Wow, great interview, just finished sing the series… :s
Too bad it doesn’t continue, will always wander what the watches where about, or if there was a way for Chuck and Ned to be [completely] together…
snif, sniffff
ABC did absolutely nothing to promote this shows second season. I had to hunt for the day and time it was on. We finally get an original inventive show and ABC cancels it. I will never again watch another ABC show. Who wants to get addicted to a television show only to have it canceled before it has a chance to gain an audience.
Pushing Daisies was a wonderful show! Every week me and my mom looked forward to watching it, and every episode had a cliff ahnger that made you want to watch the next episode just to see what happened. It sad that this show was cancelled, and I would love to see it be picked up again by another network, or even on the internet, or just as a book. Either way Pushing Daisies is missed greatly and I have not found a show since that I have liked so much.
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Please, Please, somebody please bring this show back….geez…It was a great show and there could have been several seasons…sucks that ABC did not continue with this show….how can a show that wins 18 awards suck…think about it…the show was dead….now somebody can be like Ned and touch it to bring it back to life…maybe it would kill off a show like Survivor, American Idol, or So you think you can dance.
This was the best show ever! It was so witty, and colorful, and you really came to love the characters! Why on Earth did they cancel it?! It has such a large fanbase and everything! I know this show is long gone, but I still watch the episodes online, over and over again. I need my weekly dose of piemaker! I know if they picked this show up it would get a lot of publicity. Anyone know about the comics?
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I am just atonished! If it’s quite frustating for the fans, figure out how frustating it’d have to be for those who have worked so hard in this amazing show. I can’t admit that Pushing Daisies is over, it may sounds silly but this series has changed my life in many and it has confirmed that TV can be ART too. I really NEED this show in my life. I hope that the comics would help to Pushing Daisies, better something than nothing (although a movie would be awesome!). After reading this interview I’m quite sure that the cast, crew, producers and the fans don’t want that this dream overs.
Best Regards from Spain.
I’ve been a very big fan since the beginning and I’ve just finished re-watching the whole serise on DVD and I’m even more disappointed about it’s cancellation… I also feel disappointed in North Americans honestly. Was it too smart and witty for them? To beautiful and quick? Colourful and imaginative?
I’m so sad… what a great show… what a talented cast and production team. I was in love and now I have a broken heart :(
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I always LOVE Fuller’s shows, but in many cases I’m almost glad they get canceled… if only because I don’t like the direction he says he’d like to take the shows in if they survive. Wonderfalls felt like a fantastic extra-long movie, and Fuller said he wanted to put Jaye in a mental hospital during a second season and destroy any romance between her and Eric. That would have just ruined the whole thing! Just like the description of Pushing Daisies second/third season… I don’t want to watch Ned chasing down Chuck across the globe. The show was magical during it’s stretch and it was a shame it had to end in a 30 second spin, but better than separating Ned & Chuck…
i want the movie!!!!!!
Its such a great series……
Don’t get me wrong I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to get Pushing Daisies back on the air or a movie or something that would at least give the show some closure, but to move it to another network may not be the best solution. Pushing Daisies was a wonderful show and I think part of what made it so wonderful was it’s innocence if it were to go on to another network like Showtime or HBO it would probably lose some of that innocence and not be what we love so much.
But if that were the only way to get it back on the air then I guess maybe it wouldn’t be the worst thing.
I just wanted to say thanks to Bryan for creating the greatest, most unique and innovative show I’ve ever seen. I don’t usually watch much TV, but one day I coincidentally found this lovely and colorful show that immediately caught my attention! The very next day I bought the first season of PD, and I think I’ve seen it like 5 times since then.
In my opinion it is a shame that this brilliant piece of work is cancelled. I hope and cross all my fingers that somebody with their mind and heart on the right place will realize that PD has so much potential, and so many stories to be told that it will get back on air again. I know it will be hard to get the actors back on etc, but this show is just so, pardon my language, bloody f—ing brilliant, and so worth all the trouble!
Come on Ned: give PD a little touch of your magic!
Grieving salutes from Norway…
I was so looking forward to the return of Pushing Daisies the characters were great, the narration was wonderful - it was as though I was listening to a fairytale and the colors were amazing. It was fresh and sweet- and now its gone.
The people who decide on these shows are out of touch - I hate reality tv shows and long for the days of quality on tv- for that I go to PBS, or the History channel (sometimes that gets little over the top)
I’d love to see the movie and will keep an eye out for the comic version . Thanks for the short but sweet memories Bryan!
I bought the first season since the show looked interesting. I liked it a lot so I went and got the second right away then when I looked up when the third season was starting… Well you know the rest. Good unique interesting show
Unfortunately, I agree it’s almost impossible for it to come back as a TV show and maybe there is only slim hope for a movie. But since a movie is a bit more likely, I think we fans should put our energies toward supporting that idea. A petition to show our support for a movie is a good idea - any already existing? Even if it can’t achieve much, it would be nice to show how many of us support the idea.
This is one of the best shows made in the last ten years or show! It’s a travesty that it had to be cancelled. We can only hope some network realizes the mistake that has been made and brings it back to life.
Gosh, I love the show. I have only recently started watching it on DVD. Everyone is so lovable in the show.
Now, wouldn’t it be interesting if the comic or movie pick up?
And then the show comes back…that will be Ned’s gift…life, death, and life again!!
and sci-f… excuse me…. “SyFy” is showing crap like WRESTLING…..
and they can’t pick up pushing daisies???
when’s the comic out?!?!? this universe is too good to let go!!
Ugh. The writers’ strike was hell for a TV-lover like me. Not only did it take a serious chunk out of Heroes (which looked like it was starting to go in a really good direction before the strike, judging by the extras on the Season 2 DVD set), it completely destroyed wonderful shows like Pushing Daisies. Seriously, ABC: how about shifting the spotlight from Desperate Housewives or The Bachelor and putting it on PD? The same thing happened to Dollhouse: amazing show, but no effort was/is put into advertising it (although I am glad to hear that Dollhouse is coming back for a second season :> ).
Perhaps we should send in boxes upon boxes of pies to ABC, demanding they bring back PD, like those fans sent in peanuts for Jericho. Very unlikely to work, but at least I could say I tried. ;P
Is That Possible To Continue Pushing Daisies In Other Television Network, For Instance NBC Or FOX?How Could A Wonderful TV Show End Up Like This?There’s Still A Lot Of Questions In Our Mind.We Need The Third Season.May Be The Americans Do Not Need A Third Season But The Audiences In Hong Kong Or China Do.Shame On You, ABC! You’re A Big Moron That Decided To Cancel Pushing Daisies.
what a foolish company you are
ABC runined yet another show and its best one too. Lets start a petition and send it to abc orsned a bunch of angry letters. Ill do anything to get thos show back on or made into a movie. The best thing is that the cast and crew knew that they weren’t getting a lot of views but they didnt care they felt that they owed it to their show and their fans. Im going to write that letter right now.
Agreed so much!
Id give anything to get this show back and to carry on.
The best show to come along in a REALLY long time!! I am very sad to see it go! I will keep my fingers crossed for a movie, hopefully the memory of it will be kept alive in comic form! I wish HBO or Showtime would pick this show up…they were great at pushing the sexual boundaries and innuendos and with the freedom of one of those networks I think this show would rise to a whole new level!! Save PUSHING DAISIES!!
How sad. In this time where t.v is full of crap like all these reality shows (okay minus so you think you can dance because I really love that show) this was a breath of fresh air. Not only was Pushing Daisies well done but it was visually appealing. Oh ABC, what a foolish company you are!
I think the article spelled out very well why the show got so much love but also why it got cancelled.
Clearly there was an imbalance in production cost versus income generated. Considering it cost $100,000 for 1 minute or so of special effects (produced by 9 different production companies,) there’s no way a smaller cable network, like ABC Family or The USA Network, could have picked up the show. At least, not without compromising Bryan Fuller’s vision (i.e., they’d have to slash the special effects and the budget which completely neuters the fantasy aspect.) Coincidentally, it’s always why there’s an abundance of Reality TV shows; they’re much cheaper to produce since they don’t even have scripts, allegedly.
Also consider that Ellen Green, Swoosie Kurtz, Chi McBride, & Kristen Chenoweth are at the top of their game. I’m sure they don’t work cheap, especially considering as an actor you want to be seen by as many people as possible. Even if the work you do is good and the show is excellent, you’ll stunt your career growth if no one’s watching. You need to be seen. You need name recognition because even excellent shows come to an end sooner or later (especially Bryan Fuller shows.)
Chuck is totally right!
I would definitely love more Pushing Daisies instead of those freakin’ crappy shows.
Showtime should’ve got the rights for PD. We could still have PD with us T^T… haha, we need Ned’s touch to bring Pushing Daisies back!
I agree with Chuck. ABC is clueless as to what people want to watch!
A few short years ago ABC was number 1, and now….
It’s almost like they have a room full of monkeys choosing their lineups (no offense to any monkeys that may be reading this).
Could not agree MORE.
This is why the networks are becoming less and less relevant. Innovative, clever fare like “Pushing Daisies” doesn’t last, but we get an endless string of “Bachelor” knock-offs. I wonder what would’ve happened if they’d been able to do this show on HBO or Showtime.
I agree with you, but audiences have some responsibiilty here too. Why are they watching the crap?
I’m disgusted with the crap on prime time tv … ‘reality’ shows are a complete mystery to me as far as why anyone is interested in watching a bunch of losers react to fabricated ‘real life’(???) scenarioes … I believe this nation has devolved into a herd of ’sheeple’, cud-chewing voyeurs at heart with little or no imagination, which is what happens when ‘real’ people quit reading books and allow degenerate network executives (and politicians) lead them by their noses. I never knew ‘Pushing Daisies’ existed until the dvd’s showed up at my local library. I checked out a couple of season 1 episodes and bought the season 1 and 2 dvd’s for myself, it’s a great show, the dialogue is fantastic . The imagination that went into the show is truely entertaining which is what television is supposed to be about. I wish folks would wake up and quit supporting the mindless crap on tv.
“I wonder what would’ve happened if they’d been able to do this show on HBO or Showtime.”
Or AMC Sci Fi etc….
I am another who never knew anything about the show until it was canceled. ABC did a piss poor job of promoting the show.
The great thing about shows on AMC (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc) was that they could show reruns during the hiatus, and a rerun “marathon’ a week or so before the second season started. That goes a long ways in keeping a series alive in the minds of the viewers.
O well, guess this will be a memory to relive in 10 years or so when the “VH1: I love the ’00s” comes out.
is there any way to get the show back on air?
maybe if it were picked up by another network?
and somebody(ies) with a lot of money wanted it to happen?
i just started watching and am absolutely in love. i’ll keep my fingers crossed for the the revival of pushing daisies.
I agree, but it seems really really unlikely at this point. He pitched the movie, and there were no takers.
I think what he said is true: if the comic book really takes off, the show could have another life. Or if the DVD does amazingly well. Other than that, I think it’s done. :-(
Even though it got cancelled, there are other shows for example Futurama and Family Guy, they got cut, were off air for a while and then came back a year or more later with a bang! I would say that PD has a big enough fan base that another TV company will pick it up like comedy central picked up Futurama after Fox got rid of it.
And, if the comic book goes well, they might have a chance. Dont give up PD fans! It could happen!
It’s a lovely idea, but the two shows you mention are animated, which means the sets weren’t struck and the actors could still work on the project even if they’ve moved onto other things. That’s not the case with PD.
I won’t say it’s IMPOSSIBLE for it to ever come back, but it’s very, very unlikely. And in my discussion with Bryan, we talked about the possible movie, and even he thought that was very, very unlikely, at least until the comic book does fantastic or the DVD breaks out.
Me too, definately! I’ve watched Pushing Daisies since the first episode and I about had a cardio arrest when it ended. I’m extremely bummed about that and I really hope it will start up again next season. :(
Good article!