Fresh as a Daisy? Bryan Fuller Pitches Long-Delayed ‘Pushing Daisies’ Season 3 With Full Cast Returning

Could it be time for Ned the Piemaker to fire up the oven for another season of Pushing Daisies?
Fuller, the creator of the series which aired for 2 seasons on ABC from 2007-2009 before falling victim to the 2007-08 Writer’s Guild strike, said in an interview to promote his new movie Dust Bunny that he was working toward a season 3 for the show.
“We have a season three pitch, and the entire cast wants to come back, and we’re hoping we get to return to them. We just have to find somebody who wants to make it.”
“We have a season three pitch, and the entire cast wants to come back, and we’re hoping we get to return to them. We just have to find somebody who wants to make it,” Fuller said in an interview for ComicBook.
In another interview, Fuller said, “Well, we’re working on a Season 3, and the whole cast wants to come back. And, we’ve got a whole story. We’re trying to do another season this year,” he told The Mary Sue.
Pushing Daisies was the story of Ned, played by Lee Pace, a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, but only until he touched them again. After his childhood sweetheart Chuck (Anna Friel) is murdered, he uses his special talent to revive her, but only under the condition that the two of them never touch again, as his power had the massive downside of killing the person he revived should he ever lay a finger on them.
Together, Chuck and Ned use his power to solve murders, reviving corpses at the county morgue to find out who killed them. Also starring were Kristin Chenoweth as Olive Snook who worked with Ned and had a crush on him, Chi McBride as Emerson Cod, a detective who helped with Ned and Chuck’s sleuthing, and Swoosie Kurtz and Ellen Greene as Chuck’s aunts Lili and Vivian. Jim Dale provided the whimsical narration that accompanied every episode.
Because of the Writers Guild strike, Pushing Daisies completed just nine episodes of the planned 22-episode second season. In the show’s last aired episode, the show wrapped up with a flash-forward episode that gave everyone a happy – or happyish – ending.
Pushing Daisies was nominated for several Emmy Awards over its two seasons, scoring 17 nominations and winning 7, including Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for Chenoweth, among others.
Fuller is known for creating quirky comedies that mix magic with comedy and drama, like Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me, as well as the series Hannibal.
Though a third season of the show would have to work around the character wrap-up that previously aired, the biggest hurdle to seeing more of Ned, Chuck, Olive and Emerson is the lack of a streaming home. The first two seasons of the show are not available to stream, and no service has yet expressed interest in giving Pushing Daisies the touch of Ned.


