"The second episode of Anna Friel's hit US drama Pushing Daisies will not be screened by ITV, it has emerged.
The UK broadcaster bought the rights to the entire nine-part series, but only has space in its schedule to show eight programmes before Euro 2008 begins. Viewers will skip straight to episode three of the modern-day fairytale, about a man who brings people back from the dead - including his first love.
"Episode two was the only show we could drop without spoiling the storyline," an ITV spokesman said." However, ITV said the programme would "be shown at some point because the series will be repeated".
I'm actually not watching it but that's not the point. I cannot believe they're skipping an episode under the bollocks "Episode two was the only show we could drop without spoiling the storyline".
But it's okay as people can just wait for the eventual repeat
In other words they're basically saying "pirate". If I were watching this I'd definitely download the missing episode. It could even get more people to download it, when they realise they can start watching it sooner.
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Why can't they just show the 2nd episode on a different day or something??! That way people who actually want to see it (you know, the people giving ITV their sodding ratings for this program) can get to see it.
I watched the first episode, it was quite good and was going to watch the 2nd. Being someone who actually prefers to wait till things are out on DVD so I can watch all the episodes without fear of missing one, I am quite pissed off at this and now will probably do what I normally do - not watch it till it is out on DVD.
degeneration wrote:Why can't they just show the 2nd episode on a different day or something??! That way people who actually want to see it (you know, the people giving ITV their sodding ratings for this program) can get to see it.
Exactly! How hard would that be. Episode 1 brought in 5.7 million viewers too.
If it were me I'd download Episode 2 then carry on watching as normal.
That's bloody stypid!?!
Couldnt they just show Episode 2 in the Monday ITV slot?! Surely ITV knew how many episodes there were and to buy an 8 episode slot for a 9 episode series is just ludicrous.
Thank god that this isn't an ITV produced show. One of the reasons that Futurama died was because it kept being pre-empted by sports coverage.
I've a couple half episodes of "Pushing Daisies" (as in I only watched the latter halves, as there was something on TV at the same time as the show's first half hour.) and it's quite entertaining, very fairy tale-esque. The writing is quite sharp and the actors give charming, charisma-filled performances.
. I've not used it for years. I don't even have the RF cable plugged into my (Analogue) TV.