Pushing Daisies News

The Broadcast Film Critics Assn . continues to boost the profile of its Critics' Choice Movie Awards ; in addition to the name change, additional categories and a location change to the Hollywood Palladium, the organization has tapped Emmy-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth to host its 15th Annual Awards gala.

Tonight at 9 on Lifetime. Lifetime's "12 Men of Christmas" is one of those movies in which the viewer knows exactly how it's going to end after watching the opening credits.

The former Pushing Daisies star has received rave reviews for her role as Holly Golightly in the London stage version of the classic 1961 movie.

ABC has handed out a pilot order to the single-camera comedy "Funny in Farsi," with Barry Sonnenfeld on board to direct and executive produce.

MONDAY Keep that holiday spirit going with the encore animated specials "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Shrek the Halls." They may be mean, they may be green -- but they're really just a pair of softies underneath.

By DAVID MARTINDALE It has been three months since Kristin Chenoweth accepted an Emmy award and launched a job search in the same breath.'I'm unemployed now and I'd like to be on Mad Men ,' she said while hoisting the Emmy for her performance in the canceled Pushing Daisies .

Glee's goofy charm has won over an audience perhaps jaded by too many dead-body-in-the-morgue crime dramas and witless reality shows.

The CW is planning to adapt the Warren Ellis-penned comic book Global Frequency .

Kristin Chenoweth with her Emmy for Pushing Daisies. AP PHOTO It's beginning to look a lot like Kristen.

This could be bad news for "Heroes" fans. Real bad news. Sources at NBC have told Airlock Alpha that the inevitable is finally happening: Networks executives will ask "Heroes" producers to wind the series down, possibly with an overall finale by May.

We have even MORE Glee news to deliver, PopWatchers: Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth will reprise her role as the boozy glee alum April Rhodes for at least one episode in 2010.

Actress Kristin Chenoweth from the TV show "Pushing Daisies" kisses the Best Supporting Actress award for a Comedy Series, in the press room during the 2009 Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on September 20, 2009.

Tony Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, who recently picked up her first Emmy Award for her work in ABC's "Pushing Daisies," may be headed back to Broadway.

For many years now, one of our regular attendees at the D: All Things Digital conference has been award-winning movie and television director, producer and writer Barry Sonnenfeld, who is-as it turns out-a not-so-closeted geek in his spare time.

The good news: 'Ugly Betty' returns for a fourth season Friday night.

The bad news: 'Ugly Betty' returns for a fourth season . . . Friday night.

While airing Friday at 9 isn't the worst that could happen to the ABC dramedy (the fate of 'Pushing Daisies,' anyone?), even the most naive television viewer knows the new time slot is the 'death slot.' Some fans have worked themselves into a frenzy, fearing that ABC is trying to kill off the show, which used to air on Thursday nights.

But fear not, an ABC executive has assured viewers: 'Betty,' centered on the sweet-but-unfashionable Betty (America Ferrera) in the evil-but-fashionable world of fictitious Mode magazine, wasn't kicked to the curb. It was simply shifted to make room on Thursdays for sci-fi fest 'FlashForward,' which, with 9 million viewers last week, is doing better in the 8 p.m. Thursday slot than 'Betty' was at the end of Season 3. Only 6.3 million tuned in for the finale.

Stage and screen star Kristin Chenoweth will guest with Il Divo when they visit New York City's Beacon Theatre December 15th through 17th.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. a ' ABC will add just one new series, the time-travel thriller Life on Mars, when the new TV season begins this fall, ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson announced Wednesday at the summer meeting of the TV Critics Association.

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We must celebrate Oklahoma every chance we get. I hope that you have been watching Ken Burn's national parks special on PBS.

Anna Friel, who rose to fame on Channel 4's Brookside, is best known for her film and TV work including Pushing Daisies.