Filed under: Industry, Programming, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free

From gangsters and serial killers, it looks like cable TV is preparing to tackle another adult subject: superheroes (or rather, homosexuality in the guise of superheroes). Showtime, along with Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment, will be producing a series about a gay superhero. The series is based on the book “Hero” by Perry Moore.

Superhero secret identities have been used as analogies for closeted homosexuals before (the most obvious example I have the ability to think of is from the second X-Men movie in which Iceman’s mother asks “have you considered not being a mutant?”). As a result, I think the concept holds some promise.

My biggest issue with this announcement is the involvement of Stan Lee. While I appreciate everything he’s done for the comic industry and media entertainment, his ideas are kind of old-fashioned at this stage of the game. Still, if the show has the depth of other Showtime series such as Californication or Dexter, I’ll be impressed.

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Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Cancellations, Pushing Daisies, Reality-Free

I would have used a headline like “Pushing Daisies is living up to its name,” but Joe Adalian of TV Week sort of beat me to it…

According to Adalian, it looks like everyone’s favorite cutsey-poo / maudlin-as-hell detective show, Pushing Daisies, will be stopping production after it wraps its thirteenth episode this week. But that doesn’t mean it’s dead. ABC might extend the options on the major players in order to re-launch the show next fall, but that’s a expensive longshot on their part.

So, combine this scuttlebutt with Bryan Fuller’s statement that he’ll go back to Heroes if PD is cancelled, his statement to a Paley Center audience that he’d continue the storylines in a comic book if the show is gone, and the fact that a double-dose of Scrubs is prone to take the show’s timeslot in late January, and things aren’t looking good for the crew at the Pie Hole.

Continue reading More evidence that Pushing Daisies is dying

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