Yeah, Pushing Daisies may have gotten all the glory in the ABC cancellation shitstorm, but Eli Stone is equally as axed. Watching tonight's episode (no spoilers), I realized how much I really, really like this show. Even without musical vision, the show is cute and sweet and fun. I know I was pissed when it was originally announced, but my anger ( Read more... )

Have you ever had one of those days when you're sitting down to send out 108 letters when all of a sudden, you think, "Aw shit, Pushing Daisies is canceled," and your whole day devolves into a swirling vortex of rage and despair? No? Just me?

It hit me this morning, as I remember my strangely vivid Pushing Daisies dream, which involved Ned and ( Read more... )

I'm so pissed off at ABC right now. I'm now wondering if Pushing Daisies would have done better on another network, but it probably wouldn't have. All the major networks suck. But this is really ABC's fault for not bringing the show back after the strike and for not advertising it during the off time so viewers wouldn't forget about it. Well they ( Read more... )

Per Michael Ausiello: ABC has effectively canceled Pushing Daisies, Eli Stone, AND Dirty Sexy Money. I've seen the end of Daisies for a while now, so that wasn't too surprising. But I had no idea Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money were on the bubble! I thought both were doing alright or at least performing up to ABC's liking. I suppose I was wrong. I'm ( Read more... )

I think I ran out of clever Life on Mars titles. Well, after all the troubles with a shitty original pilot, David E. Kelley jumping ship, complete recasting (save the lead), and moving the story from LA to NY, who would have guessed the end result would be good? Hell, I didn't. I wavered from complete failure to hesitant hope, and now I'm settling ( Read more... )

So I thought I'd give a big US Life on Mars update, since it seems that the pilot I saw will never see the light of day. Firstly, cast members are being added left and right, everyone from the original cast, save the lead, was fired, and new blood was brought in. Interesting. Not going to lie, this is pretty much never good news, no matter how bad ( Read more... )

Lost episodes will start airing on Sci Fi this fall. What? I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, plenty of shows now are being sent into quasi syndication well before the 100th episode mark (Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, House though that is an arrangement with NBC's production company). That used to be the magic number after which the ( Read more... )

So if anyone was looking at NBC's pre-Upfront schedule and wondering "WTF NBC! Where's Scrubs!", don't fear. Just because NBC's corporate douche bags dumped it doesn't make it gone. Scrubs is lucky, they are produced by ABC, which has been trying to get the show for years. Apparently the cast is going back to work and preparing for an 8th season ( ( Read more... )