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I've been pondering the leaked pilots and here are my thoughts. A bit spoilery but not beyond the basic premises of the shows.

( Chuck, Pushing Daisies, The Sarah Connor Chronicles )

I was in the middle of "Study Drama 07: The Musical! (also a tragedy) Part 1" when the Network Up-fronts occurred, letting us know what had been canceled and what new shows we can look forward to in September. So now I'm going through the schedules and trying to pick the winners.

Right now I'm liking Dirty Sexy Money because of Peter Krause and The Bionic Woman because of David Eick but hopefully there will be others.

The one show I'll definitely be watching is Pushing Daisies.



It's the story of Ned (Lee Pace, who played Jaye's older brother on Wonderfalls) who can raise people from the dead with just a touch. However, if he touches them again, they die and stay dead. This becomes a serious problem when he raises first love Chuck and then can't touch her ever again. (Chuck is played by ANNA FRIEL FROM OUR MUTUAL FRIEND! Her American accent is apparently very good.) When Ned isn't raising murder victims to ask who killed them and then score the reward money, he makes pies at his restaurant The Pie Hole.

So we have a cute couple who can't touch because she'll die, murder investigations and pie. That would be enough to hook me but it gets better as the show was created by Bryan Fuller, he of Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me and Heroes.

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