MickeyPushing Daisies cancelled: Is all hope for excellent TV lost?
I was planning on writing about another subject entirely, but yesterday I the TV world was dealt a bit of a cruel blow and I feel like I need to vent.
One of my favourite new-ish shows at the moment is the brilliant Pushing Daisies. It's a fantasy based, sort of storybook type TV show that has a sort of surreal comic books sort of element to it as well. It was funny. It had a brilliant cast of Lee Pace (Wonderfalls), Anna Friel, Chi McBride and my personal favourite, Kristin Chenoweth (The West Wing). It was brilliant writing. It was funny and sad and clever and most importantly, completely different to anything else on television and now it's gone.
Along with Pushing Daisies, the ABC has cancelled Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money. I was never an Eli fan, but I did watch a few episodes of DSM and it was quite a good show too. But the loss of Pushing Daisies worries me. What is happening to the average television viewer? Now I love trashy 90210 type shows as much as the next person, but it starts to worry me when a brilliant, funny and smart show like Daisies gets the chop. Are we getting stupider? Are we that obsessed with watching pretty people that smart stories and good plots no longer mean anything?
And don't get me started on the fact that in Australia, the show was advertised, free DVDs were given out and yet it never aired.
[Source: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Cancelled E online
One of my favourite new-ish shows at the moment is the brilliant Pushing Daisies. It's a fantasy based, sort of storybook type TV show that has a sort of surreal comic books sort of element to it as well. It was funny. It had a brilliant cast of Lee Pace (Wonderfalls), Anna Friel, Chi McBride and my personal favourite, Kristin Chenoweth (The West Wing). It was brilliant writing. It was funny and sad and clever and most importantly, completely different to anything else on television and now it's gone.
Along with Pushing Daisies, the ABC has cancelled Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money. I was never an Eli fan, but I did watch a few episodes of DSM and it was quite a good show too. But the loss of Pushing Daisies worries me. What is happening to the average television viewer? Now I love trashy 90210 type shows as much as the next person, but it starts to worry me when a brilliant, funny and smart show like Daisies gets the chop. Are we getting stupider? Are we that obsessed with watching pretty people that smart stories and good plots no longer mean anything?
And don't get me started on the fact that in Australia, the show was advertised, free DVDs were given out and yet it never aired.
[Source: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Cancelled E online
