Well, looks like the show itself is rising from the dead. Sort of.

Chi McBride, who played detective Emerson Cod, told us 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.

According to the site's analysis, the show grew from an average 3.9 rating/6 share overnight audience in the first 10 weeks to a 4.3/7 in its most recent batch of episodes.

Meanwhile, CBS' Eleventh Hour, which is in the middle of its freshman season, has been murdering the competition. Not only does it lead among genre shows, but its 7.7/13 average rating is also actually 3 percent higher than the ratings it earned in the first 10 active weeks of the season. The 9.7/16 it earned for its 11th episode is the highest any genre show has garnered so far this season, and it's tracking more than 18 percent better than its closest competition, Lost, which averaged a 6.5/10 through the beginning of February.

The site added that four genre shows saw double-digit viewership drops, led by ABC's Pushing Daisies (25 percent), ABC's Life on Mars (23 percent), NBC's Knight Rider (19 percent) and NBC's Heroes (11 percent).