Cherry Jones Front-Runner for 2012 Presidential Election: Emmys 2009

I’d folded this into the Andre-Braugher-Is-Fabulous-And-Will-Be-On-House post, but the more I think about it, the more annoyed I get. I think I’ve figured out my problem with the Emmys–it’s that they have neither rhyme nor reason. (Perhaps that is why they used John Hodgman as an announcer, which was genius.) If we could always say, “Well, [...]

Is There An Awards Show Tonight? 2009 Emmy Awards Allegedly Given

We’ve been trying to think of something to say about the Emmy awards–we supposely think about TV a lot around here–and we’ve got nothing. Susannah’s a lot better at accepting this than I am, but we’re just not well aligned with the Academy. We realized last year that we agreed with about 25% of the [...]

Start the Wake: ABC Begins Burning Off PUSHING DAISIES Tonight

As I will never, ever forgive ABC for holding a pillow over Pushing Daisies‘ face, I may still be going through the stages of grief. Please don’t try to console me by telling me they’re in a better place now–they’re in the last primetime slot on a Saturday night going into June. That’s not a [...]

PUSHING DAISIES at the Paley Festival: Yes, It’s You We’re Looking For

If you haven’t been lucky enough to hit the Paley Festival, I have to highly recommend it. Programmed by the wonderful Paley Center for the Media, a repository for television and radio both classic and contemporary, each spring the Paley Festival puts on panels with the creators of current shows and thematic sessions about the [...]

Squee! It’s…

Squee! It’s Audrey Wasilewski tonight on Bones! In addition to having seen Wasilewski on fare as wide-ranging as Big Love, Mad Men, Eli Stone, Pushing Daisies (make a wish!), Gilmore Girls, Wonderfalls, Friends, and The Bernie Mac Show (wow), you’ve almost certainly heard her, as she’s an accomplished voice actor who’s done work on animation [...]

The Ten Best Television Moments of 2008

I’m one of those grouches who generally doesn’t love New Year’s Eve, spending the evening grousing in a corner about another year slipping away into the ether. In a lot of ways, however, 2008 has been great enough to kick me out of that rut. This year, we saw whales in two different oceans and camped with [...]

PUSHING DAISIES “The Norwegians”: But Isn’t Stockholm in Sweden?

We’ve devoted considerable attention (read: whinerpantsering) to the mystery of why the delightful Pushing Daisies has not been successful at capturing enough hearts to stay alive. “The Norwegians” may help provide some answers. While I adored it–how could I not? It addressed a key character issue that sticks in my craw and had a higher-than-average [...]

Choose Your Chenoweth

I guess there really can be too much of a good thing. At 8pm Eastern and Pacific tonight, you can catch the incandescent Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook, the best thing about the brilliant Pushing Daisies. This may be the last episode of Pushing Daisies we ever get on broadcast TV (an additional couple of [...]

PUSHING DAISIES “The Legend of Merle McQuoddy”: Cod and Snook, Inc.

The opening moments of this week’s Pushing Daisies seemed a little disappointing at first–after last week’s dramatic set-up, Ned’s hasty willingness to forgive Chuck for keeping her reanimated father alive and lying about it seemed like it was going to deflate some perfectly good tension too quickly. Charles Charles’ desire to make Chuck choose between [...]

PUSHING DAISIES “Comfort Food”: It’s Justice O’Clock

I almost wish Pushing Daisies weren’t so brilliant this week. In the face of an episode where Chuck makes a huge mistake Ned might not be able to forgive at the same time he’s reviving Olive’s eternal flame (oh, Olive), we have to wonder where they would have taken this storyline before circling back to [...]