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05 May 2008Pushing Daisies continues it's run on ITV through the month, or can still be downloaded in full here. Anna can also be seen in Our Mutual Friend on TCM from the 12th to the 15th May at 13:00, Cadfael on ITV3 this afternoon at 15:15, and in An Everlasting Piece on 20th at 01:45 on Channel 4. 01 April 2008Pushing Daisies finally arrives on ITV1 this month if you haven't already downloaded and watched the entire series! US visitors can catch Anna in Irish Jam on TMCe tomorrow at 23.30, on the 7th at 16.30, and on the 12th at 11.15am. 09 March 2008Anna appears in today's Mail on Sunday, and in this month's Red and Esquire magazines. 23 February 2008Anna has signed up to appear opposite Will Ferrell in a remake of US tv series Land of the Lost, which ran from 1974 to 1977. "A forest ranger and his two children stumble into a mysterious land populated by dinosaurs and other creatures". Production begins next month, and the UK release is expected in July next year. Sure it is. Here are a few more upcoming dates for your TV diary:— Sat 23 Feb, Timeline,
Film4 at 18:55 In the US, you can catch Anna on:— Sun 24 and Weds 27 Feb,
Irish Jam,
SHO2e and SHOe
at 11:30 and 08:25 respectively; also showing on STARZ
on Weds 27 at 07:30 18 February 2008So the Hollywood writers have voted to return to work and the asslicking fest can get under way as scheduled. Collective phews from LA-LA Land, from whence Mr Fuller incidentally has confirmed that ABC have given the green light for a second series of Pushing Daisies. Strikes permitting, it should get a clear run of 13 episodes next time around. 07 February 2008Some of the Pushing Daisies cast will be present at the twenty-fifth annual William S. Paley Television Festival (PaleyFest08) next month at the Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood (6360 Sunset Boulevard, near the corner of Vine Street). Despite her recently-acquired status as a local resident, there's no mention of any appearance by Anna. Herewith the press release burble:— Saturday, March 15 at 7:00
p.m. Individual tickets can be purchased via TicketWeb at www.ticketweb.com from today for Paley Center Members, and from 9:00am on February 10 for the general public. Tickets for all events are also available on Festival evenings from 6:00 to 8:00pm at the Cinerama Dome. Elsewhere an observation that some channels don't half announce their schedules early! TCM from 11:00am, and TCM2 later that day, are repeating Our Mutual Friend again on Saturday 22nd March. 01 February 2008The pilot episode of Pushing Daisies has been nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award in the "Best Television Episode Teleplay" category. You can catch Anna this month on:— Sat 02,
Cadfael, ITV3, 13:15 27 January 2008 Nothing of too much interest in Anna's "interview" with Ross yesterday. As you perhaps shouldn't expect from a public service broadcaster, it was little more than an extended plug for Pushing Daisies on Anna's promotional tour. She did forecast that the writers' strike will end in March, and let slip that there's a planned actors' strike coming up in June. Let's hope nothing decent like 24, Weeds, Lost, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives etc. is affected! Other snippets? Anna bought a house in LA last August (see pics below, a snip at $1,195,000), that's easy to find as it's right underneath the Hollywood sign (allow pause while this sinks in), and has the LA-LA land headquarters of the Scientology knobheads as neighbours (they all seem very nice, but the house is like Fort Knox); and she agreed to have her teeth painted after the producers digitally whitened them for the pilot episode of PD.
As for the PD transmission date and time, the March schedules will apparently feature Daisies in a 9 or 10pm slot rather than the original 11.40pm Friday backwater. The report below from The Guardian website confirms this, along with some of the other details I brought you last week:— ITV1 is to screen its new American series Pushing Daisies in either a 9pm or 10pm slot - the first time an imported drama has aired on the network in peaktime since 1996.The broadcaster has thrown its weight behind the series, which stars Anna Friel as a woman brought back from the dead, with the ITV director of acquisitions, Jay Kandola, describing it as "one of the most dazzling shows" she had ever seen.Pushing Daisies, which airs on ABC in the US, has been one of the most popular new dramas this season in America, with the show, along with Friel and her co-star Lee Pace, nominated for Golden Globe awards.It was originally thought that the series would air in ITV1's new late-night American drama slot on Fridays at 11.40pm.But it has now been earmarked for a more high-profile 9pm weekday or Friday or weekend 10pm slot when it launches at the end of March.The last time an American drama screened on ITV's main network in peak time - which it defines as 7pm to 10.30pm - was in 1996 with Millennium, Chris Carter's ill-fated follow up to The X Files.Kandola told MediaGuardian.co.uk: "Pushing Daisies is earmarked for one of two primetime slots, depending on what the competition is like."They are proper primetime slots - 9pm or 10pm. At the moment it is not at 10.30pm."Kandola said she put a bid in for the Warner Bros drama within an hour of seeing it with the director of programmes, Simon Shaps.She added: "I said to Simon, 'This is the best show we will see this year - and why can't ITV have the best show?' He said, 'If you want it, lets go for it'. He was totally behind it."Filming on the final episodes of the first series is currently suspended because of the US writers' strike.Speaking at a press launch for the show
today, its creator Bryan Fuller said he did not think the rest of
the series would be completed.
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