Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Today On (North American) TV: Wednesday

Personal favourites:

Dirty Sexy Money (find last week's recap here)

Gossip Girl (find last week's recap here)

Premiering:

Pushing Daisies - Ned, the pie-maker, can revive the dead with a single touch in this Amélie-like fairy tale. Unfortunately his gift comes with a caveat: if he touches the revived again, they die, this time for good. And if he keeps them alive for more than a minute, someone else has to die instead.

I won't give any more away, but in my opinion this was the sweetest, most colourful and endearing pilot of the entire fall line-up. Creator Bryan Fuller previously had equally peculiar shows on the air, Wonderfalls (college drop-out gift shop employee at the Niagara Falls starts getting instructions from the toys in the gift shop) and Dead Like Me (18 year old college drop-out dies when hit by a MIR-toilet seat and becomes a grim reaper), which both only lasted one or two seasons respectively. Let's hope third time's a charm!

Also on tonight:

Criminal Minds (3x02), Back To You (1x03), 'Til Death (2x03), Kid Nation (1x03, recap), America's Next Top Model (9x03, recap), CSI: NY (4x02), Bionic Woman (1x02, recap), Private Practice (1x02, recap), Life (1x02), South Park (11x08)

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