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ABC's critically acclaimed (and criminally cancelled) "Pushing Daisies" won three awards this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Figures.
Also, Tina Fey won an award for her portrayal of former Governor Sarah Palin on "Saturday Night Live," and Justin Timberlake was the first SNL host to win a guest actor in a comedy series award.
The show's host, Kathy Griffin, who has nicknamed the event "The Schmemmies," was nominated for her Bravo reality show, "My Life on the D-List." Griffin has won in this category for the past two years, but lost out this time to A&E's "Intervention."
Other big winners came from HBO, PBS, and NBC. You can read more about the full list of winners, and Griffin's over-the-top hosting shenanigans.
The show will air on E! on September 18.
Kings (8pm, NBC) - If anyone is still watching "Kings," Jack and David go to Gath to shore up a peace treaty.
Harper's Island (9pm, ABC) - If anyone is still watching "Harper's Island," the surviving wedding party members discover a series of tunnels on the island and search for Madison.
Pushing Daisies (10pm, ABC) - If anyone is still watching "Pushing Daisies," tonight is the series finale -- which is criminal for a show this fanstastic. In the last installment, titled "Kerplunk," Ned and Olive and Emerson go undercover to solve the murder of a member of a synchronized swimming duo, The Aquadolls (Nora Dunn, Wendy Malick). To help with the case, Vivian and Lily (Ellen Greene and Swoosie Kurtz, above) reunite as the Darling Mermaid Darlings. The episode was filmed before producers knew the show had been cancelled, so don't expect much closure. The episode originally had a huge cliffhanger for the character Chuck (Anna Friel), but was reworked a bit in post production. Still. We're not happy.
Fans of ABC dramas will get to see the last few episodes this summer.
TV Week is reporting that the network is bring back Burnoff Theater aka filling the schedule with the shows you loved but didn't make them enough money.
As we reported the other day, “Pushing Daisies” will air Saturdays at 10 from May 30 until June 13; “Eli Stone” taking over that slot on June 20.
Good news!
The Hollywood Reporter says ABC is expected to announce its summer schedule soon and that our favorite brilliant, but canceled show "Pushing Daisies" should return to burn off its remaining original episodes Saturdays at 10 p.m. beginning May 30.
Many of us are still not over the cancellation of Pushing Daisies, and particularly ticked that ABC wouldn't even have the decency to show us the final three episodes they already had filmed and in the can. I mean, what's the reasoning there?
The good news, if we can call it that, is that we will eventually get to see them -- on DVD.
The second season of Pushing Daisies, including the three "lost" episodes, will be available on DVD July 21.
111 days and counting...
If you're jonesing for "Pushing Daisies" or you missed some episodes or you've never seen it and want to see what Brooke is always fussing about, you can now watch episodes online.
Check this out.
News on three shows we love:
First, EW's The Ausiello Files reports that Amy Ryan, the actress who played Holly, Michael's perfect match will return to "The Office."
TVGuide.com talks to Kristin Chenoweth,who says the storylines on "Pushing Daisies" may be wrapped up in a film.
And finally, it seems "Lipstick Jungle's" fate rests on the failure of others.
It was so gratifying watching Aunt Lilly pull a shotgun on evil Dwight and blow him to bits.
And of course, disappointing when it was all just fantasy, because if anyone ever deserved being blown to bits, it's Dwight.
But it worked out in the end (for us, not for Dwight). Chuck's jaw-dropping decision to keep her un-dead father alive, even though the consequences meant someone else would have to die in his place, ended up killing Dwight after all.
Whew. Just when I was lamenting the lack of satisfying violence on television.
Rosie Live (8pm, NBC) - Rosie O'Donnell is trying to bring old timey variety shows back. Think Ed Sullivan and Carol Burnett -- comedy skits and musical numbers. And it's live. We're curious.
Pushing Daisies (8pm, ABC) - Just because ABC is run by a bunch of short sighted poopy heads doesn't mean we should stop watching this brilliant little piece of TV heaven. 'Tis better to have watched and lost, than never to have watched at all.
Dirty Sexy Money (10pm, ABC) - Ditto. Only a few of these left, so you might as well watch them. It's a Darling Thanksgiving.
Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion (10pm, OXYGEN) - These erudite southern belles gather to peacefully and thoughtfully reflect on their past year together -- complete with physical threats, name calling, and (hopefully) wig pulling.
The Pushing Daisies news just gets more depressing. Entertainment Weekly's Ausiello Report is saying that ABC will show all 13 episodes they've filmed of Pushing Daisies, but the final episode ends on a huge cliffhanger that is likely to anger fans. Great.
However, the creator of the show says they are thinking of continuing the show in a comic book format to tie up all the loose strings. That's something, but it's just not the same.
Read about it here and watch Ausiello's video for more scoop on Daisies (which is oddly jammed in the middle of a Smallville wedding video...).