NOTIFICATION: Pushing Daisies Season 2

Next season to start will be:

Pushing Daisies
Season 2
Initial run: 01/10/2008 - 13/06/2009

Starring:

	Lee Pace	as	"Ned" (adult)
	Anna Friel	as	Charlotte Charles
	Chi McBride	as	Emerson Cod
	Jim Dale	as	The Narrator
	Field Cate	as	"Ned" (child)
	Ellen Greene	as	Vivian Charles
with	Swoosie Kurtz	as	Lily Charles
and	Kristin Chenoweth	as	Olive Snook

Pre-season buzz (quotes):

• "The big headline for season 2 is family. We're getting into the familial relationships with the main characters and expanding into almost Twin Peaks-ian soap opera running through the episodes." - Bryan Fuller, Entertainment Weekly.
• "The second season picks up ten months after the first season. They’re kind of in the same place where Chuck and Ned we saw last season were in an emotionally difficult place and those wounds have healed and they’re moving forward, but who hasn’t healed is Olive who’s been forced to be the keeper of a great many secrets." - Bryan Fuller, Blast Magazine.
• "We discovered that Chuck and Ned really work best when it's Chuck and Ned against the world as opposed to Chuck and Ned against each other. They may not be as sexually frustrated as they were before." - Bryan Fuller, Entertainment Weekly.

Pre-season buzz (from last season's finale):

• The big cliffhanger of last season was that Lily is actually Chuck's mother. I imagine Chuck will eventually find this out, and also why it had to be kept a secret. But for now, Olive is the only one who knows, which is bound to create some tension.
• Toward the end of last season, Ned and Chuck fell out over the fact that Ned killed Chuck's father. However it all seems to have been cleared up now - I wouldn't be too surprised if it is mentioned again some point this season.
• Erm, apart from that, not much happened. The season was cut short because of the writers' strike.

Pre-season buzz (statistical):

• The season premiere is titled "Bzzzzzzz!" and is known (as above) to take place 10 months after last season's finale.
• The season finale is titled "Kerplunk!"; there are 13 episodes total in this season.
• Field Cate is now credited as a regular main cast member; he appeared in every episode of season one but was just credited as a guest star.
• Recurring characters from season 1 include The Coroner and Simone from the episode "Bitches". Unfortunately, Oscar Vibenius does not appear in this season.
• New recurring characters include Dwight Dixon, who appears for 5 episodes, and Charles Charles, who is Chuck's father and previously appeared in the series pilot.