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Ned is the protagonist of the ABC television series Pushing Daisies, portrayed by Lee Pace. Ned is the Pie-Maker proprietor of The Pie Hole, notable for his ability to resurrect the dead with a single touch.
Pushing Daisies is an American comedy-drama television series created by Bryan Fuller that aired on ABC from October 3, 2007, to June 13, 2009. The series stars Lee Pace as Ned , a pie-maker with the ability to bring dead things back to life with his touch, an ability that comes with stipulations.
Ned is a 29-year-old pie maker with a unique magical ability to bring back to life anyone or anything that is dead.He owns his own pie restaurant, called The Pie Hole, and also uses his gift to aid Emerson Cod, a private investigator, by bringing dead people back to life to find out how they died, though they can only stay alive for one minute before something else must die in their place.
Pushing Daisies (2007–2009) ... Ned, a pie baker, has an unexplained ability to revive the dead with his touch. But touch them again, and they're dead for good. So when he's not baking pies, he ...
Pushing Up Daisies – “Kerplunk” (2009) ... Yet, with Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel) standing on her aunts’ doorstep, waiting to finally reveal that she’s alive, fans could see ...
Pushing Daisies was renewed for a second season in February 2008 by ABC for the 2008–09 television season. [11] On November 20, 2008, after six episodes were broadcast, ABC canceled the show. A total of thirteen episodes were produced for the season, with four of them broadcast in November and December.
Another touch kills Ned's mother when she kisses him goodnight. Ned's father leaves him soon after, and Ned is sent to boarding school. Chuck is sent to live with her aunts, the reclusive Lily and Vivian Charles. As their parents' funerals are held at the same time, Ned and Chuck share a first kiss, and are then parted it seems for good.
Later, Fuller cast Pace in the lead role of Ned in the series Pushing Daisies which debuted on ABC in October 2007 and returned for its second and final season on October 1, 2008. He received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his performance.