The TV Bar
Last night, some Twitter friends and I took one person’s idea - a bar where people can gather and watch TV together - and created a crazy, multi-room establishment with each room being dedicated to a show. These are the results:
While we’re on the subject of Pushing Daisies, I wanted to embed the scene of Kristin Chenoweth singing Eternal Flame, but all the good videos have disabled embedding, so here is the almost-as-great Candle On The Water. Ellen Greene also had some singing scenes. Just imagine what more we would have gotten had it not been canceled! Sadly, due to the writers’ strike, Raul Esparza never got his duet with Chenoweth.
Also, right now the link for The Pie Maker of Fleet Street isn’t working, but a similar thing happened when I linked the Stratford-On-Hellmouth hashtag, so I’m guessing it’ll be up and running by tomorrow.
The Pie Maker of Fleet Street
It was announced today that Bryan Fuller, creator of Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, and Pushing Daisies, sold a television show version of the Hannibal Lector stories to NBC. To me, this news did nothing more than remind me that Pushing Daisies is no longer on the air. (Sadly, I forgot to mention both Pushing Daisies and Deadwood in my Greatest Shows No One Watched post.) Fortunately, there are many others like me out there, and, like with Stratford-On-Hellmouth, a new dream was born: Sweeney Todd with the cast of Pushing Daisies.
Led by Stratford-On-Hellmouth’s Les and joined by Kate, we set about filling all the roles. We ended up with the following:
Sweeney Todd: Lee Pace
Mrs. Lovett: Kristin Chenoweth
Judge Turpin: Stephen Root
Beggar Woman: Ellen Greene
Beadle Bamford: Chi McBride
Aldolfo Pirelli: Paul Reubens
Anthony Hope: Raul Esparaza
Johanna Todd: Anna Friel
Toby: Field Cate
Ghost Narrators: Jim Dale, Sy Richardson
If Joss Whedon can do Shakespeare in his spare time, Bryan Fuller must be allowed to do this.
