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Chi McBride, who played detective Emerson Cod, told SciFi Wire that series creator Bryan Fuller has begun writing the graphic novel follow-up about which we first reported last year, and McBride has actually seen the first few pages.

Anna Friel, who starred as the undead Chuck in ABC's Pushing Daisies, told reporters that the final episode of the series offers a small resolution, but not as wonderful a resolution as the ultimate ending creator Bryan Fuller had planned. Friel participated in a group interview last week in Hollywood while promoting Land of the Lost. The following Q&A features edited excerpts of the interview. ABC is airing the final three episodes of Daisies Saturday nights at 10 p.m. (Spoilers ahead!)

Prolific executive producer and television show creator Bryan Fuller admits he's a little frustrated that he didn't get to do everything he wanted to do with the final three episodes of this ABC series, Pushing Daisies, which premiere beginning this Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. "One of the things that people ask is how do you wrap up the Chuck and Ned story, and for me, there was one ending, and that ending was decades later, and I couldn't really quite rush their story to any sort of conclusion," Fuller told SCI FI Wire in an exclusive interview last week. "Even if I knew that the series was coming to an end when we were doing the last episode, I don't know if I would have been able to end the Chuck and Ned story because, for me, that's the relationship that goes on and that you fight for." (Spoilers ahead!)

When Pushing Daisies launched in 2007, TV Guide's Matt Roush declared it to be "unquestionably my favorite pilot," and in 2008, the series was nominated for 12 Emmy awards, winning three. But this exercise in dark whimsy about a crime-solving piemaker and his bevy of eccentric friends saw its ratings suffer due to a writers' strike during its first truncated season, and it never quite regained its momentum during the second. ABC will be airing the final three episodes of Pushing Daisies starting May 30th. Those familiar with the show already know why they should tune in, but just in case you haven't yet caught this quirky show, here's everything you need to get up to speed.

The facts are these: in 2007, ABC unveiled a unique and surprising television series as part of their line-up – “Pushing Daisies.” Revolving around the life of Ned the Piemaker (Lee Pace) and his knack for resurrecting the dead, the show received substantial critical acclaim for its smooshing of colorful visuals, wacky concepts and absurd amounts of pie in what can only be described as a work of creative genius. However, as a casualty of the industry-wide strike of the Writers Guild of America, the show came to an abrupt end and after a storming nine episodes promised a strong second season. Alas, through declining ratings and a degree of critical backlash to some creative choices in its second year, the series was axed from schedules and has never been seen again … until now. TV Guide …

Our friends at SyFyPortal have concluded that NBC's Chuck has grown its overnight audience by more than 10 percent from the beginning of the season, marking the largest positive jump of any genre network show in the most recent 10 active television weeks of the season, compared to the first 10.

This week we continue my look at the genre series that aired on network television this fall. Last time out, we talked about the science-fiction/fantasy genre series that aired on CBS and The CW. This time, let’s take a look at ABC and Fox. ABC “Pushing Daisies” was a series doomed to fail. It was smart, funny and cute as hell. The problem is the audience didn’t return when the series did. “Pushing Daisies” did an apparent reboot this season, starting with a new introduction episode, and it lost some of the bizarre charm it had in its premiere season. While cute, the whimsy that launched the show was gone. “Pushing Daisies” is not a bad show, and I think I’d rather see it go now, then watch it degrade into a mess. It didn’t get a back nine pickup, so the 13 we get this season will probably …

This review contains MODERATE SPOILERS for “Norwegians,” the tenth episode from the second season of ABC’s Pushing Daisies. In contrast to the first season, this year promised to “go further” on all the elements that made Year One a joy unrivaled by any other television production; an arc was introduced, stories become more ambitious and above all, more random. Unfortunately the show has struggled to condense all of this into a single hour and so the result has been many threads left dangling overrun into the following week. This approach does have its advantages for building a continual arc, however all of those elements are quickly set aside in the opening teaser for a new, wackier story to be told and any impact they could have had is totally forgotten. Take for instance the runaway …

This review contains MODERATE SPOILERS for “The Legend Of Merle McQuoddy,” the ninth episode from the second season of ABC’s “Pushing Daisies.” “The Legend of Merle McQuoddy” opens with some fantastic tension between Chuck and Ned, however the sting of anxiety is very quickly broken by Ned’s acceptance of her gruesome decision mere minutes after the episode begins. Following on from the unusually dark Ned’s announcement of “you don’t want to hear what I have to say,” their embrace (heart warming though it may be) brings their apprehension to a swift and conveniently easy end. On the flip side, it allows the episode to jump right into its stand alone randomness involving a light house, the Bat signal and some very suave raincoats. Unfortunately, the death of a lighthouse keeper doesn’t …

This review contains MODERATE SPOILERS for “Comfort Food,” the eighth episode from the second season of ABC’s Pushing Daisies. Originally, the notion of a Pushing Daisies/Wonderfalls crossover is nothing less than a cause for celebration; two of television’s greatest and most unique blend of drama and comedy coming together for a single adventure. Then the logistics of it begins to sink in. Both shows starred Lee Pace in very different characters and so any substantial crossover could never come to pass. But for fans of both shows though, the return of Beth Grant (more commonly known as Gracie Lee on Jericho) as the Muffin Buffalo works as a very subtle overlap of the two shows without compromising either series. Instead, she becomes one of many bizarre and outlandish characters like …

This review contains MODERATE SPOILERS for “Robbing Hood,” the seventh episode from the second season of ABC’s Pushing Daisies. The stories this season have helped provide a greater understanding of each individual character on the series, and while there have been a few gems among these (like Olive’s time at the nunnery in “Bad Habits”), they don’t quite have the same dazzle as the slightly shortened first season. “Robbing Hood” is the same, and is at points heavily bogged down by the unnecessarily arced story of Dwight Dixon (Stephen Root) who seems to be infiltrating all angles of the show. The genuine charm of the first season that each episode was intensely standalone with a bizarre mystery to unfold. Although this season, the same tends to hold true most of the time, there are some …

ABC has canceled Pushing Daisies, executive producer Bryan Fuller confirms to E! Online.