Anna Friel has revealed that she has put plans to have more babies on hold for the sake of her TV show, Pushing Daisies.
Anna landed a role in the hit US comedy Pushing Daisies, which premiered in the UK in March. Anna plays the character of Chuck who was brought back to life by her ‘first love.’
“I would like another two, probably, but not yet. I can’t right now,” Friel told InStyle magazine. Read More »
Get a load of this - ITV are dropping the second episode of Pushing Daisies so that they can finish the series before Euro 2008 begins.
This isn’t the first time one of the major networks has screwed over the fans of a TV show in favour of another show. The Doctor Who timeslot varies ridiculously due to the BBC giving other programmes priority.
Apparently, they will drop the second episode - which gives us more insight into Ned and his ability to raise the dead - because it’s the only episode they could lose without spoiling the story.
Anna Friel may have hit the big time with her hit US TV show, Pushing Daisies, but the actress has revealed that she vowed never to return to America after the harsh rejection she faced during her first attempt at Hollywood.
At the age of 21 and having achieved considerable success in the UK, Anna went to America and landed a major role in the Broadway production of Closer.
However after her stint on the show, she struggled to get another role and ended up returning to Britain with her tail between her legs.
Anna told The Sun:
She explains: “I was 21 and going to Broadway. That was the time my career could have just gone whoosh!
“But I got disillusioned because any part I went for was always, always between me and another person. Then the director would want me but the producer wouldn’t because I wasn’t a big enough name to carry the film, to put the bums on the seats. Read More »
Modern life can be pretty rubbish, so who can blame us for wanting to occasionally indulge in a little whimsy and fantasy? Enter the modern day fairytale that is Pushing Daisies; a charming drama that mixes romance, tragedy, magic and murder with a kooky Tim Burtonesque delivery.
The facts of the case are these…” so says our narrator, veteran comedy actor Jim Dale, in episode one of this fairytale love story.
Little Ned is a young boy with a very special gift. He can bring people back to life with just one touch. It’s a skill he learns when his beloved pooch Digby gets hit by a truck. Just after impact the lovely retriever is up and about again. Read More »
The amazing US drama, Pushing Daisies is coming to ITV1 next month.
The show stars our very own Anna Friel, (the gorgeous lesbian one from Brookside!), and Lee Pace and was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, the man responsilbe for comedies such as Men In Black, Get Shorty and The Addams Family!
Judging from this promo clip above the show looks massively funny, and is most likely set to be a HUGE hit on this side of the Atlantic!
ITV1 presents Pushing Daisies, the US hit series from Bryan Fuller (Heroes) and Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) featuring an unprecedented blend of romance, fantasy and mystery. Nominated for three Golden Globes, Pushing Daisies stars Lee Pace and Anna Friel.
Narrated by Jim Dale, this forensic fairytale follows Ned (Lee Pace), a young man with a very special gift. As a boy, Ned discovered that he could return the dead briefly back to life with just one touch. But his random gift isn’t without deadly consequences, as he soon finds out.
As a pie shop owner, grownup Ned puts his talent to good use by touching dead fruit and making it ripe with everlasting flavour. But his gift leaves him wary of becoming close to anyone, as beautiful waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth) finds out. His life as a pie maker gets more complicated when private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) learns about Ned’s secret. Emerson convinces the cash-strapped Ned to help him solve murder cases (and collect the hefty reward fees) by raising the dead and getting them to name their killers. Read More »
Actress Anna Friel has admitted that she is nervous about the launch of her new TV show, Pushing Daisies in the UK next month.
Speaking before a screening of the programme at Hollywood’s Paley Television Festival, she said: “I’m so nervous, all the big billboards have started to go up [in the UK] so I’m hoping they like it. It’s very important for me that the Brits like it.”
Anna’s co-star Lee Pace explained what the show is about: “I play Ned who can touch the dead back to life. If the dead live for longer than a minute then something else will die and if I touch something for a second time they die again forever. But in the first episode I bring to life my childhood sweetheart (played by Anna) and high comedy ensues.”
Ned’s powers mean he can never lay a finger on Anna’s character Chuck. And Lee revealed there were several times when filming that he accidentally touched Anna.
“She’ll drop dead and we’ll all laugh and have to do another take but I really like that there’s that standing in between us, rather than us falling into bed together.”
Pushing Daisies airs on ITV in April.
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