We are getting closer and closer, the fall premiers are coming, and now it is really time to start figuring out what is going to work itself out this coming Fall. Over at BuddyTV they do an interesting look at the competition in the 8pm time slot on Wednesday and analyze how they believe they will fair in that slot against a lot of unknown and new competition like Pushing Daisies. Here is what they had to say:

Pushing Daisies appears to have a legitimate chance at ratings success.  Airing on Wednesdays at 8PM (Lost’s first time slot), the show won’t be going up against anything remotely like it.  However, this is only because Pushing Daisies isn’t like anything else on television.  Let’s take a look at who exactly Pushing Daisies will be up against this Fall.

CBS: Kid Nation
The CW: America’s Next Top Model
FOX: Back to You, ‘Til Death
NBC: Deal or No Deal 

To me personally the only show that stands great success against Pushing Daisies is the fall wild card, Kid Nation. Outside of that Deal or no Deal and America’s Next Top Model are going to hold there faithfuls, and Fox really hasn’t shown much success with Til Death.  So depending on if this negative press on Kid Nation works itself out, will really show the future of Pushing Daisies.

There is no questioning that Pushing Daisies has been feeling the love from many critics, and this love continues with the Chicago Sun Times which has written a fun, very positive article on Pushing Daisies, giving a lot of insight into the show, for those who haven’t been familiarized with it. Below is a brief snippet of the article giving those of you who are also not that familiar with the show a little recap of what its about.

“Pushing Daisies” follows Ned as an adult piemaker, along with Chuck (a woman who’s the love of his life), plus their detective partner Emerson. They find corpses, Ned resurrects them to find out who killed them, then he kills them again.

‘PUSHING DAISIES’7 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays starting Oct. 3 on WLS-Channel 7
That is the literal breakdown of “Pushing Daisies.” But the magic of this procedural, romantic fairy tale is in the brush strokes, not the frame. In Hollywood-speak, it seems like “Amelie” meets Tim Burton, although director Barry (”Men in Black”) Sonnenfeld, who is responsible for the tone, bristles gently when people say this since, well, he’s Barry Sonnenfeld.

Many scenes look sumptuously saturated in colors. Some shots are composed like postmodern and surreal pictures. A mature male narrator speaks “Winnie the Pooh” soothingly of bends in the storyline.

Creator-writer Bryan Fuller tells me the original conception “was ‘Amelie’ meets ‘Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.’ ” I can see that, too.

“Daisies” debuts Oct. 3, but it’s already garnering better buzz from critics than any other new show this fall, since everything seen so far (one episode) is beautiful.

You can read the rest of the article over at the Chicago Sun Times.

This time of year marks the time when we start seeing predictions fly, and shows loose steam before they even get to there premiere. AOL among many other big entertainment venues has named Pushing Daisies the top show of the upcoming new Fall Lineup this year. Here is what AOL TV had to say about the upcoming Pushing Daisies and why they gave it the #1 slot.

This cuckoo, slightly macabre fairy tale is like nothing else on television. The whimsical concept is as fresh as, well, a daisy. And it’s just gorgeous to look at it. The whole package feels more big screen than small, like something you might expect from Tim Burton (although ‘Men in Black’ director Barry Sonnenfeld helmed the pilot). The chemistry between the leads is sweet, the supporting characters are adorably quirky and the storytelling is offbeat enough to put a completely new twist on a procedural. Here’s hoping this show lives happily ever.

To read the whole Best and Worst of Fall 2007 go head over to AOL TV to check it out.

For those of you who don’t know Chi McBride was in one of the more anticipated shows of last season, The Nine. The show really never took off and thus ABC took it off rather quickly. Now Chi McBride is back on the air taking on a support role on Pushing Daisies hoping that this show lasts a little longer then the last. The Chicago Tribune caught up with Chi McBride and this is what he had to say:

“Chicago actor Chi McBride admitted he almost cried when ABC yanked “The Nine” — a drama about hostages in a botched bank robbery — after just a few episodes last fall. The network finally began airing the remaining shows earlier this month. McBride has a theory for why the show, which was lauded by the critics, didn’t work. “We just doled out too little information over the course of the season — we should have been quicker,” the actor told us when we caught up with him in Los Angeles last week. “Plus, I really think that after 9/11, our viewing habits changed. Do you really want to be trapped in a bank for an hour with a gun to your head? It was a hard sell.”

McBride finds himself in a familiar position this fall. Buzz is building around his new ABC show, “Pushing Daisies,” which also stars Lee Pace as a man who can wake the dead with a touch. There’s a comic book in the works should things take off. And, again, critics like it. “Where have I heard that before?” McBride asked.”

We all know there is the ongoing problem of illegal downloading of TV screenings of shows. Somehow there is always one person taping a pilot of a show and it makes its way onto the internet quicker then you can say “Pushing Daisies”. However even though it is illegal to steal content like this it is giving ABC an idea of what the pirates think of the show. Here is what Buddy TV had to say:

“Pushing Daisies is finding positive hype flowing from a new and growing contingent of the media: illegal downloaders.

Screeners for new shows have made their way onto the Internet ahead of release for years now. With the proliferation of the concept of ‘bit torrents’ into even the most innocent computer users vocabulary, the spread of pilots and screeners has reached a dangerous level. Instead of the usual slow leak of hype through trusted media outlets, networks now have to contend with the reactions of the hundreds of thousands of viewers worldwide who download the latest shows well in advance of their premiere.”

For the rest of the article head to Buddy Tv.