Pushing Daisies Episode 2 - Is this a Joke?
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ITV drops Pushing Daisies episode
Pushing Daisies was nominated for three Golden Globes in the US
The second episode of Anna Friel's hit US drama Pushing Daisies will not be screened by ITV, it has emerged.
The UK broadcaster bought the rights to the entire nine-part series, but only has space in its schedule to show eight programmes before Euro 2008 begins.
Viewers will skip straight to episode three of the modern-day fairytale, about a man who brings people back from the dead - including his first love.
:eek: how can they do that??? :mad:
ITV drops Pushing Daisies episode
Pushing Daisies was nominated for three Golden Globes in the US
The second episode of Anna Friel's hit US drama Pushing Daisies will not be screened by ITV, it has emerged.
The UK broadcaster bought the rights to the entire nine-part series, but only has space in its schedule to show eight programmes before Euro 2008 begins.
Viewers will skip straight to episode three of the modern-day fairytale, about a man who brings people back from the dead - including his first love.
:eek: how can they do that??? :mad:
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Quite a big thread on this - in fact, it may well be down to this thread that this has become a story!
Yep, some people on the thread have done a really good job of getting the news out to various media outlets.
I'm down to half what I watched two years ago!
It's totally sureal for ITV to do this, but BBC are just as insane in their programming decisions (no surprise since they seem to swap executives constantly)
I don't understand why they didn't play two episodes on saturday night instead of playing the very old American Pie again which i think everyone has seen by now.:mad:
BBC admittedly have not, to my knowledge, performed such an atrocity. They do tend to move episodes around (start times) with gay abandon, which is almost as bad and has effectively the same consequence for the viewer.
Reminds me of the time they cut half an hour of the Footballers Wives finale
No, at least the viewer still has an opportunity to watch it (even if it is at a different time or day, and even if some viewers are not in a position to watch due to other things) - it is still being shown (and still on VoD, Catchup TV etc) The trailers normally include the new time, as well as the changed programme listings, EPG etc. I don't think that it really has the same consequences.
iPlayer and PVRs have alleviated the effects of this crime to a large degree, it's true. However, the memory of Seinfeld (a fair few years ago, I admit) still lingers. And they did the same to another great US import, How I Met Your Mother, more recently. Both the big broadcasters treat US shows quite badly, which beg the frustrated question - why buy them?
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Yes, treated badly, and yes appalling scheduling decisions, and yes Seinfeld was particularly badly treated. But they were still broadcast.
Have they ever dropped an episode of a major drama just so that it could be shoehorned in to a convenient gap? They might have dropped an episode out of its normal place and shown it elsewhere in the week, but I can't recall something as bad as dropping an episode to satisfy a time slot.
American Pie 2 getting shifted to 11pm wouldn't bother most people, as it's been on hundreds of times before.
Take Midsomer Murders, one of their best exports and a hugely sucessful programme. All ITV seem to want to do is only show new episodes sporadicaly, and then it seems so they are up against some TV special so that they can lessen the damage. Some episodes filmed ages ago have yet to be screened, they don't even show them as a series now.
Hopefully this publicity may make ITV reconsider dropping the Pushing Dasies episode and their future scheduling.
“Unfortunately due to scheduling restrictions we can only screen eight of the nine programmes in the current run. Episode two is the only one we can take out at this stage with out disrupting the flow of the series but it’s a great ‘stand alone’ episode, and one that we will broadcast later this year”.
"Due to the US writers strike, delivery of many acquisitions has been affected. Rather than receiving a full series of many of this year’s shows we’ve had a range of different options – such as 13 parts so far for Gossip Girl and 9 parts for Pushing Daisies. This has an impact on scheduling – particularly in the more competitive slots - as we typically receive dramas in parts of six or eight."
"Unfortunately given the high profile nature of the 9pm Saturday slot, we only have eight windows at the moment and have therefore made the decision to show the second episode at a future point."
DUTY OFFICER (PEL)
Crap excuse if you ask me.
ah ok, I did wonder... it didn't seem like alot must have happened in episode 2 then, as it looked like the next episode was continuing the same story with Chucks relatives and what-not... maybe it didn't contain too much so they thought viewers wouldn't notice the loss of the episode or something(?) its still not very professional though to just drop an ep... esp. when its a show that they've been promoting...
And that's before you start counting ITV2, 3 and 4.
The other option is just watch it by "other means" - watch them all when you want, without edits or adverts. I hear some people do this with TV shows.
But as ITV's a commercial station, I don't think it's anywhere near as big a crime as the BBC spending about £4 million per second series episode of Heroes which only stretches to a handful of episodes due to the writers strike.
Thanks for posting that... I guess thats not *so* bad... hmmm... oh well... by the time they do show the episode, we'll have forgotten where the story was back at episode 1 for it to make much sense probably :rolleyes:
The story has certainly interested many - currently the most read article on BBC News.
What good PR for ITV :rolleyes:
No, it was entirely down to the fact that they only left room for eight episodes. Episode 2 is the one that contains the least serial elements (though it does fit into the overall story).