According to ABC Television president Stephen McPherson ABC's upcoming series,
Pushing Daisies, is set to premiere in the time slot
Lost originally debuted in. McPherson also told reporters last month that the network has been having difficulty finding an appropriate lead-in for the series because it so unique.
"It's always challenging for new shows to find an audience, but I think its originality and the fact that it is different the way
Lost was when
Lost launched at 8 o'clock," McPherson said in a news conference last month. "I think it is a show that, you know, doesn't fit neatly behind any other show.”
Pushing Daisies, a series which McPherson described as a “forensic fairy tale,” follows the story of Ned (
Lee Pace), a man whose touch resurrects the dead. If the resurrected person remains living for more than one minute, he will get the chance to live again, at the expense of a completely random individual, who must die to take his place.
The series is also part romance, with Ned bringing his childhood sweetheart back from the dead, only to never touch her again because it would bring upon her death once more.
Pushing Daisies is also part procedural, with Ned working as a private investigator and using his powers to question murder victims about their killers.
"To me, it's a family show," McPherson said. "I mean, the magical side of it, even the gore, if you will, of somebody being dead is going to be played like it is in the pilot, never in any way gratuitous and in fact humorous 99 percent of the time. So, for us, we feel like it actually is a good anchor to that night.”
When asked if the series is too morbid for family fare, creator Brian Fuller said, “I don't think that you can look at death without looking at life because it's kind of the punctuation to it. So I think there's something very magical and mystical about death, and I would say I'm much more of a magical and mystical person than a morbid person, because I love that sense of awe and spirituality of there's something greater out there that we don't know and we're not qualified to know and we won't know on this plane of existence."
Pushing Daisies will premiere on October 3, airing Wednesday nights at 8pm ET.
-Lisa Claustro, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: SyFy Portal
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