The facts are these: this quirky show has been on the air for one year, three months, twenty days, six hours. It has won 3 Emmy’s and it has been nominated for twelve, and ABC found the Neilson ratings too low and cancelled it this week.

In case you don’t know, Pushing Daisies is a comedy unlike any other: it’s new, fresh and quirky. It looks almost cartoonish in production and the humour is great as well. The premise is this: Ned, a pie-maker gifted with the mysterious ability to bring dead things back to life by touching them. However, Ned quickly learns that if something is revived for more than exactly one minute, something of similar “life value” in the vicinity drops dead, as a form of balance. Additionally, if he touches the revived person or thing a second time, it falls dead again, this time permanently. He uses this ability to revive murdered people, ask them who killed them, and then put them back, using the information to cash in on rewards for solving their murders.

Pushing Daisies plays on ABC on Wednesday Nights, in Canada in plays on CTV on Tuesdays at 8 and Wednesdays at 8.

In a TV world where every “reality” stupidity show stays on the air for season after season (think: Big Brother, So You Think You Can Dance?, The Bachelor), my favourite show has been cancelled after a season and a half. It’s a real shame.

For more info on Pushing Daisies:

The ABC website

Wikipedia