Well, can it? Not according to the Renew or Cancel Index, barring a remarkable turnaround.
But E!'s Kristin Dos Santos has all the info on attempts at saving the show.
Do I think the show has a chance at being saved? Should it be saved?
Well, I suppose it has a chance, just like there's a chance that the hair on my head would, you know, just magically grow back. Should it be saved? Honestly, with the numbers it has been pulling, ABC should certainly cancel it. It performs horribly among the 18-49 demographic that advertisers salivate over.
I know, I know "look at all the pretty colors." But the colorful cinematography isn't pulling in hordes of viewers. While I understand the show has millions of fans -- at least five million -- so far this year it's averaged only 2.6 million 18-49 year olds, well less than ABC's average even including PD and other 18-49 dogs like Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone. Pushing Daisies has been the worst performer of the lot of them.
Do I think it should be saved? No. Do I think it could be saved? No. Am I quite often wrong?
Oh yeah.
Will Pushing Daisies score massively improved numbers up against a wall of Obama and what turns out to be the final game of the World Series? Probably not, but remember, I'm quite often wrong. Check back tomorrow for our overnight ratings report and see the details for yourself.
As much as I love Pushing Daisies, I do realize it’s fate is not good. It’s a shame. I’ll miss it. Am I ready to join some big “Save Our Show” campaign? No. Been there, done that (and oddly enough it was for another Bryan Fuller show- “Wonderfalls”), maybe if I was still in my 20′s. It seems, unfortunately, that Bryan Fuller’s creativity doesn’t appeal to the masses (although I have LOVED his 3 shows to date).
PD is to abstract for network tv, it needs to be on a cable channel for it to last
I more concerned with ‘Life on Mars.’ Thank You
PD can do just that.
I love the show but no. ABC should move on
Saddie, saddie…
I love the show, but i’ll use ABC’s terms to explain my theories. PD is such an bright and shiny show, so it’s delusional and unbearable for our dark and twist country to watch it.
Even so I still think they should save the pie maker, so they’d save my wednesdays
I think this show represents what is wrong with America. The fact of the matter is that America is too stupid to understand it. When a show like Survivor can make it until their umteenth season it’s proof that America doesn’t have the attention span for something as complex as Pushing Daisies. Just look at the number of stupid crime dramas with ridiculous plotlines that pop up every season… ehem Life on Mars.
I agree with Mandy. While I love Pushing Daisies I felt it was doomed if held to normal network standards. However, since ABC Family is, well, in ABC’s family, and the show budget could somehow match, I’ll happily follow the show there.
Last time I saw Pushing Daisies, Shwa, it was a stupid crime comedy with ridiculous plotlines.
Schwa, I understand that you’re upset that a show you like is going to be canceled, but insulting those who don’t like the show isn’t going to help your cause or garner any sympathy. The problem with Pushing Daisies isn’t that it is too complex because it’s not complex at all. Personally, I think its biggest problem is that it is far to cute and whimsical. The colors and bizarre plot lines are OK for a little while, but annoying week after week.
Pushing Daisies complex? If you think that show is complex…your level of stupidity can’t be read.
The best shows are simple, not complex. Even if you are smart, complex shows can confuse you and tend to be more boring. Not because people are stupid, but simply because the plot lines are boring. When it’s simple, it’s entertaining (which is what TV is SUPPOSED to be). Also note that just because it’s simple doesn’t mean it is stupid. Frankly put CSI is simple, yet it has depth and intelligence (even if you don’t like CSI, you have to give credit where credit is due). Pushing Daisies is simple: A pie-make temp. brings people back to life to help solve crimes. It has more depth than that, but overall it’s pretty simple.
Oh yeah:
Star Wars (The Original Trilogy): Simple
Lord of the Rings: Simple
Gladiator: Simple
Live Free or Die Hard: Simple
All of them are great, and all of them are pretty simple.
I think the problem with Pushing Daisies isn’t that it’s complex. It’s simply to colorful and different. Americans have always had a problem choosing something different over something similar. This is a weakness and a strength at the same time, such as it made Frost extremely popular but Whitman really unpopular. Those two by the way are some of the greatest Realist Poets from America. Frost was more traditional, while Whitman was more “modern”-as in different.
When I first saw a promo, I thought it was going to be canceled…and I thought it was British. Apparently it was American…and it got renewed. It might not get renewed again, but it has survived longer than it would actually have been expected.
I think I will die if the show gets canceled. Honestly, I’m getting tired of stupid reality shows that make no sense and just spend millions of advertising dollars on stupid people and following them around with the camera. It’s voyeurism at its worst. In the end, I know they go with the ratings and that the ratings they look at, have to go with the demographic of the advertisers. It’s stupid, but it is capitalism.
Also, I’m 37, so I’m in the demographic they look for.
This show is totally amazing and funny and witty gives you every sort of warm fuzzy that people need to brighten their day.
Heradite did you READ her whole comment or just like five words and go off half cocked like a DOPE?
Bill had this pegged all along. Rhymes with toon night….
Move along, nothing to see here…
Rhymes with toon night….
^^ what?
I’m still holding on to any scrap of hope for this show I can find… I guess you could say I’m in denial.
My hope is that if it IS cancelled, it will ge picked up by another network…. I know that there are many varying opinions on this show, but (in my opinion) it is the most interesting, unique, and colorful show on TV and it would be a shame to take it off the air.
I’ve still got my fingers crossed that, even if it’s not renewed, we have not seen the last of Pushing Daisies.
Amanda, I say this as a PD fan, but if it is not renewed, it’s the last we’ll see of it. Period.
PD is the comedy-type of show ABC has on their hand, they shouldnt let it go. Everyone knows that comedies dont last too long..theyre the last watched shows on TV…so 5-6 million is good.
Warner Bros, however, can move it to another network. Like CW would be perfect, on that network the highest is a 4 million.
Heradite,
I agree with your Star Wars example (for obvious reasons) but am a bit lost at your comparison between Frost and Whitman. I have always found Frost’s subject material to be more interesting than Whitman’s, not really a difference in traditional vs. modern. Alas, if only this were a literary criticism blog, we could debate further.
Robert,
Let’s not be too harsh. The debate of whether simple or complex shows are better intrigues me.
This show is over if its numbers aren’t above 2.5/6 in the 18-49 last night. Last week it was 1.9/5. ABC plans on letting Fuller know tomorrow so that he can re-write the 13th episode as a Series Finale over the weekend. This show is over is my guess. Then again maybe 10 million people watched it last night.
Wow the author of this article is biased against this show. Anyway, Eli Stone did its worst last night, so it might be in last place after today. Don’t write out pushing daisies yet!
Josh, it’s not bias to note that a show is the least watched show on a Network. You can take a swipe at Eli Stone, but Eli Stone was watched by 2 million more people and 100,000 more 18-49 year olds than last week’s Pushing Daisies.
It’s over. Dead.