When you suddenly lose your job, you usually end up scrambling just to find another one, right?  You can just imagine, then, the exasperation of the folks at the recently-cancelled Pushing Daisies, back when the show’s fate was still a big question mark.  After production for its 13th (and last) episode finished, there was a collective “what’s next?” across the cast and crew—a question only answered when ABC struck down its verdict, and rendered the show as dead after, say, Ned brought Chuck back to life.

Now that the show’s fate is already clear, the folks behind the quirky Emmy-winning series have started looking for new gigs.  Perhaps some have begun looking, while others like Kristin Chenoweth have settled down; in her case, it’s on Broadway where she shows up next.  You can now add show producer Barry Sonnenfeld to the list, now that he has joined the crew of a series currently being developed for CBS.

Pushing Daisies has been canceled.  Dirty Sexy Money has been canceled.  Eli Stone has been canceled.  ABC isn't using that dreaded c-word in its statements today, but it matters not.  You can't argue your way out of reality, and semantics only serve to soften the blow.  The producers on all three of those shows were informed today that ABC would not be picking up the second halves of their respective seasons, and that they have no intention of ever ordering new episodes.  This is the harsh reality of the television business, but it is little solace to the fans, rabid as they were, for each of these three shows.  That shows like Two and a Half Men and CSI: Miami can thrive while the likes of Pushing Daisies are largely ignored is at once unfathomable and depressing. 

As reported yesterday, the cast and crew of Pushing Daisies are still clueless about the fate of their beloved quirky dramedy.  Reports surfaced that the recently filmed 13-episode season could be the last for the series since ABC has given no indication that it plans to order additional installments to complete a full second season, despite the fact that what might be the final episode ends with a “huge cliffhanger” involving a lead character, according to series creator Bryan Fuller.

While everyone anxiously wait for the network's decision on Pushing Daisies, cast member Kristin Chenoweth, who plays Olive Snook, a woman hopelessly in love with a man who doesn't seem to know she exists, has assured fans that she's still going to be visible on stage in case things don't work out on the small screen.

It's no pun if you're a Pushing Daisies fan, drawn to the show the moment it first aired last year, the moment Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel) “met” again, and the moment they started expressing their affections in the most untouchable of methods.  With all those reviews, it seems that the show itself is untouchable, but with cancellation all but happening, fans are up in arms to save their favorite quirky fairy tale.

The thing is, there's no actual word whether the show will actually continue.  Everybody—fans, cast and crew—are clueless about its fate, and now that production for the last of 13 episodes set for this season has finished, the wait has never felt more excruciating.

Pushing Daisies, it seems, is all but gone.  Yesterday, production wrapped on the final episode of ABC's thirteen-episode order.  ABC is remaining mum on the subject, but all signs point to an imminent cancellation of the critically adored but little-watched series.  It's a sneaky way to cancel a series.  In a way, ABC can say that this isn't a cancellation at all, just merely the end of all the ordered episodes.  Their contract has run out.  Bryan Fuller's work on Pushing Daisies has been nothing short of magnificent, and it's a sad day for fans of the show.  There is some hope that ABC will decide to order more episodes, but the prospects are bleak. 

There has been much speculation regarding where Scrubs, now on ABC, will end up on the schedule when it returns for its eighth, and likely final, season.  A proposed mid-season schedule for ABC has been unearthed on Zap2It, and it provides ample insight into what ABC might be thinking come January.  The proposed schedule, which has supposedly been given to advertisers, places Scrubs on Wednesday nights at 8pm, the slot currently held down by critical gem Pushing Daisies.  Interestingly, the schedule has Scrubs in both the 8pm and 8:30pm time slots.  What this means is unclear.  Will ABC burn off two new episodes of Scrubs per week, as NBC once did?  Or is one of those slots simply a place holder while ABC decides what other show to place next to Scrubs?

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Six days before election day, Democratic standard bearer and frontrunner Barack Obama will grace the nation’s television screens tonight at 8pm – or at least on NBC, Fox, CBS, and MSNBC.  ABC will push through with regular programming – Pushing Daisies.

On October 9, the Obama camp bought a half-hour of primetime from all the major networks to air a special “campaign-related program” for the nifty price tag of $1 million each.  Therefore, Americans have a choice to be made tonight.  Watch a most probably taped Obama ad or a new Pushing Daisies episode. Or America’s Next Top Model on the CW.