Pie-hards, listen up: After many miserable months off the air, ABC is finally lifting the veil on the last three episodes of our beloved Pushing Daisies, beginning with Saturday night’s episode, "Window Dressed to Kill." Last we saw of the gang, Olive was going undercover with a Norwegian detective agency and Ned’s father made a mysterious and maddeningly brief cameo. David Arquette is slated to return for tomorrow night’s episode, reportedly to romance one Olive Snook. Can’t. Wait.
I don’t know about any of you, but it is baffling why it has taken ABC this long to run these episodes. Before it got yanked off the air in December, the show had really built up momentum, and promised answers to some of the series’ long-standing mysteries (Ned’s father, Emerson’s daughter, and Vivian finally learning Lily is Chuck’s mother, to name a few). Canceling the show was hard enough, but to not give fans the courtesy of finishing out the series is near-unforgivable. The show is assuredly long-gone, and no touch from a magical piemaker is going to bring it back, but at least we can take solace in watching it (or setting our DVRs) for the next three Saturday nights. And, of course, subsequently buy the season 2 DVD in July. After that, Pushing Daisies can take a grave alongside Freaks and Geeks and Arrested Development as the only shows whose cancellation made me physically ill. The lone show I’ve seen since that can possibly capture Daisies‘ ingenuity and sense of wonderment is Glee, but even that’s a stretch.
Anyhow, I digress. Are you planning on watching tomorrow night, PopWatchers? Do you also hope the show gets some much-deserved Emmy love? (It better!) And, because it simply cannot be said enough, how much does it truly suck that ABC pulled the plug on this show? I fear watching it all over again will just re-open those old wounds.
You know what’s great about the Internets? They are infinite! See, I wrote this article on Kris Allen for the current issue of Entertainment Weekly and had the pleasure of spending a good chunk of Memorial Day with him in New York City. We roamed around Central Park, where he got a kick out of visiting the John Lennon "Imagine" memorial; we hit Rockefeller Center, where a woman not only asked for a photo but requested that he take off his shades in said photo (he obliged); and we rode the subway (F train, direction downtown, in case you care) because he’d never been on one before. (Twas also his first ever trip to the Big Apple.) Problem is, there’s only so much I could fit into two pages of the magazine. So I hereby offer you some of the morsels that did not make it into the magazine story. (It’s the first of a new PopWatch series we’re calling "Bonus Points.") Behold, your Idol sounding off everything from calling Danny Gokey a "jerk" to Christians rejecting Adam Lambert. Enjoy!
Despite the fact that Britain’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan told Inside Edition that frumpy singing standout 
For a person whose DVR queue is usually long and overloaded, there’s nothing scarier than an empty DVR. But that’s what I’ve been facing quite often lately, folks. And no, it’s not because there’s something wrong with my box. Mind you, that happens often enough (thanks, Time Warner!), but here’s the problem: There’s just not that much new television on right now. We’re in that weird lull time between the regular-season finales and all the new summer stuff. Sure, I’ve got my ginormous episodes of So You Think You Can Dance and the little treat known as Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, but Cat Deeley and Tori Spelling’s blonde ambition on reality TV can only sustain me for so long.
