Posted by
Mark The Plumber on Monday, November 24, 2008 12:00:00 AM
ABC has scraped plans to renew Pushing Daisies for a third season in the primetime fantasy's quest to no longer survive if it does make the
cut, anyway.
According to representatives of Warner Bros. Television, should Daisies fail to stay in the Bob Iger-led Disney-ABC TV Group picture for much longer may or may not be in the Time Warner/WB coffers at a time when many sci-fi/fantasy/action hours have trouble finding
poor audience status.
No comment yet on when the series will return. A spokesman for DATV told WBTV president Peter Roth there are enough changes in store for Pushing Daisies because of what Disney's Iger believed in the Bryan Fuller-created forensic fairy tale and its impact on the fans
who tune in the see who was falling out of the medical center and into an entire new world of imagination and wonder.
Time Warner, which also owns venerable cable networks HBO, CNN, TBS, Cinemax and Cartoon Network as well as ISP portal
AOL and blog publisher Weblogs Inc., is expected to transfer Daisies to DC Comics and Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema
at a time when studio operators such as Disney, Sony and NBC Universal have not yield a single-season flop on broadcast and cable
television networks' primetime schedules.
What now for the producers and cast of Pushing Daisies?
In my blog
http://www.factcheckerssquad.blogspot.com, Pushing Daisies was one of ABC's most acclaimed series television success stories and a tragic megahit with a following of viewers who fall in love with it?
Now what?
WBTV's Roth points out what happened to the cast and production crew of Daisies:
"Following the success of Pushing Daisies, Warner Bros Television feels this was one of a number of fantasy/science fiction and science
factual series we have helped develop through the years, much as Shadow Chasers, V and TimeTrax did during much of the twentieth century.
"If we come up with ways to position itself as a leading supplier of science fiction and science factual programming, we will continue to be
a driving force in this enduring television genre," says WBTV's Roth.
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