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Pushing Daisies - Complete Season 1 | 
 enlarge | Actors: Anna Friel, Lee Pace, Chi Mcbride, Ellen Greene, Swoosie Kurtz
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 360 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 7321902220178
ASIN: B0012PUU1G
Release Date: June 23, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Ignore the fact that ITV, bizarrely, decided to meddle with its UK transmission of Pushing Daisies by lopping out an entire episode. Instead, consider giving this box set a chance, which brings together every episode--fully in tact!--of one of the most interesting new shows to come out of the States. The concept behind Pushing Daisies is quite simple, but unsurprisingly, it doesn't take long before it gets more complicated. It follows Ned, a young man who discovers he can bring the dead back to life for a short period of time. Inevitably, he starts using his gift on humans, solving crime as he goes along. Yet things get far more troubled when he then brings the love of his life back from beyond the grave. In lesser hands, Pushing Daisies could so easily have gone wrong. But in the mits of Bryan Fuller, the man who previously gave us the terrific Dead Like Me, it really does work. The concept gels exceptionally well--thanks also to a cast led by Lee Pace and Anna Friel--and it's an unpredictable programme that you simply can't help but enjoy. On the downside, this maiden series is just nine episodes long, and that's a pity, but a promised second series--off the back of this first run--is a very welcome prospect. --Jon Foster
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| Customer Reviews:
 Just pre-order it now! March 13, 2008
Dillan Gandhi (Oxford, UK)
15 out of 19 found this review helpful
The best new series to come out of the US, and a successful one too. Season Two was ordered a few weeks ago.
Without boring you, the show is funny, witty, dry, dark and magical. Wonderful is probably the best word to describe it.
Fantastic March 26, 2008
Mr. B. Davis (Wales, UK)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Fantastic series!
Due to the Writer's Strike in America, the first season is only nine episodes in length but it is enough to wet your appetite and for you to embrace this weird, colorful, dark, wonderful and magical world.
I won't summarise the show as that is done above efficiently by Amazon, but I will say that this show carries many a secret, and is just wonderful all round.
 I can't carry on watching this May 5, 2008
BigJeff (Wales)
7 out of 43 found this review helpful
It's a great idea for a show, a man who can raise the dead by touching them but they stay dead when he touches them again raises his only love from the dead.
The acting's alright, Anna Friel and the other guy are good. The person who plays Olive is annoying as is that random guy who seems to follow the main characters around while being no help whatsoever and getting mad alot.
The most annoying thing about this show however, is the very reason that I have to stop watching this show when ever I try.
Jim Dale's narration. It's not his voice, or his acting, it's the script.
Jim Dale is given lines at the start and end of almost every scene (and also sometimes in the middle).
His role in this show is basically to explain everything that happens, even if we've already seen it happen. I'm not sure if the writer's think we're too stupid too understand what's going on unless we have Jim Dale describing it as we watch.
Aswell as this, said genius writers came up with the hilarious joke of making him describe people's ages in years, months, days, hours, minutes AND seconds.
And this happens every single time Jim Dale tells us how old someone is.
It's a decent enough show, sweet and funny, but Jim Dale's script is just too annoying.
CLASSIC ...BEST NEW SHOW FROM AMERICA-LOVE IT!!! May 11, 2008
S. J. Pinder (Cornwall,UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
its the highlight of my week-saturdays at 9:05:):)its a class show and i havent enjoyed a show quite like this since buffy the vampire slayer...im ADDICTED.
the episodes:-
PIE-LETTE-9/10-a great episode, and one of the best pilots ive ever seen a great start:):)
DUMMY-unaired episode-shuld be fun to see on dvd
THE FUN IN FUNERAL-9/10 again highly entertaining.
PIGEON-9.5/10 hilarious and great visuals.
GIRTH-10/10 my favourite episode so far-Halloween themed with a killer horseman/woman? whose after olive:):)
BITCHES-10/10 another great episode about a dog owner who gets killed(with hilarious results)but which one of his wives killed him??
SMELL OF SUCCESS-10/10 again a classy episode, so good you could smell it:)
BITTER SWEETS-10/10 an episode that really makes you feel for olive:]and yet another great mystery:)
CORPSICLE-10/10 i have yet to see this episode but it sounds like a super finale...
as you can tell its a fantastic show...in fact its the best thing on tv at the moment along with season 4 of desperate housewives:)and doctor who:)maybe pushing daisies is even better...yes it is better...and very very funny.
im gonna pre-order it soon:P
I'm already in love...but.... April 12, 2008
Ticked Off
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I've just finished watching the pilot for this show and I'm in love already. Absolutely adorable! A wonderful cast of characters, a seam of dry and sly wit and a surreal fantasy. But once again - they want 30 RRP for this. For just NINE episodes?!? Even at Amazon's reduced 18 it's a bit steep. I love this one so much that I'm prepared to pay the 18 though - reluctantly. But I never would have paid 30 for it. That's just daylight robbery.
Reviewer's Disclaimer: Please note that this review is for the product as billed at the time of reviewing. Although this review may be attached to later editions of the product by Amazon, prices and details may not stay the same as the edition reviewed here.
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