Pushing Daisies

I watched the first episode of Pushing Daisies on ITV1 on Saturday. Not a bad show. Very much reminiscent of Amelie or a Tim Burton film. Likeable cast. There's enough in it to warrant my watching episode two.

But wait! I can't! In their infinite wisdom, ITV have decided that because the first season of Pushing Daisies is nine episodes long and they only have eight weeks in that slot until the first match of Euro2008 - Switzerland v Czech Republic, that'll bring in the viewers! - they're not actually going to show episode two. At all. Nada. They could have shown the first two episodes back-to-back on Saturday night, but no, they put American Pie on instead, a film which has probably been seen twice already by everybody in the english-speaking world.

To be honest, I shouldn't expect any better from ITV, a channel with form for treating their viewers like crap. Take Dexter. A drama about a serial killer. Being a drama about a serial killer, you would expect that it's audience would be prepared for a bit of blood and gore, especially at 11pm or whenever ITV chose to show it. ITV on the other hand thought otherwise and proceeded to censor out the more splattery elements (let's not forget Dexter himself works as a blood-splatter analyst) lest the viewers somehow take affront and proceed to gouge out their eyes, such would be the extent of their psychological distress.

Oh well. At least I saw it first on F/X, where they treat people like adults.

But back to Pushing Daisies. All is not lost. Forget ITV and their pisspoor scheduling. The DVD is out on 23rd June.