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Pushing Daisies: “Oh, Oh, Oh, … It’s Magic!”

The Magic Dies Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Oh, Oh, Oh, … It’s Magic!” Written by Kath Lingenfelter Directed by Adam Kane It died of cute. ABC officially announced on Thursday that Pushing Daisies has been cancelled. Producer Bryan Fuller indicated that he might “continue” the series past its last episode as a comic book; he also indicated that he might be going back to write for Heroes. I suspect we’ll see Fuller’s name on an episode of that show long before we see it on the cover of a graphic novel, and for good reason. Pushing…

Pushing Daisies: “Dim Some, Lose Sum”

Daddy Dearest Copyright © 2008 by Sarah Stegall Pushing Daisies ABC, Wednesdays, 8/79/8 E/C “Dim Some, Lose Sum” Written by Davey Holmes Directed by Lawrence Trilling Given the abandonment issues so largely featured in this show, I’m surprised it’s taken this long to get around to the other elephant in the room: Ned’s father. Now that Chuck has discovered that she has a mother she never knew, Ned discovers that his father didn’t just abandon him twenty years ago, he replaced him. A stranger named Dwight  Dixon (Stephen Root, King of the Hill) arrives in the Pie Hole and tells Ned his…