ABC Drops Pushing Daisies

Critically acclaimed fantasy show Pushing Daisies is no more, done in by second season ratings that never lived up to expectations. It was quite the bloodletting at ABC yesterday as word is that Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Money also got the boot. E Online’s Kristin dos Santos confirmed the bad news about Daisies with executive producer Bryan Fuller Thursday.

Fuller said there are already discussions with DC Comics to do a comic book that will wrap up the show’s ongoing storyline. That route has already been followed by Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Angel. Both those shows continued on in comic book form after their premature cancellations. There are also talks for a Pushing Daisies movie. There’s a precedent there as well as Joss Whedon’s Firefly wrapped up its story in a big screen version with Serenity.

The scuttlebutt now is that Fuller will return to his former producer role at NBC’s struggling Heroes, hoping to save it from a similar fate.