Congrats Ms. Chenoweth on PUSHING DAISIES!

With the recent announcement that PUSHING DAISIES has been picked-up for a full season (guaranteed 22 episodes), seems La Chenoweth has finally broken her bad luck spell with network television.

Thanks to her RV director, Barry Sonnefeld, who also directed the first 2 episodes (and is one of the executive producers of PUSHING DAISIES), he seems to be pushing for La Chenoweth to be showcased more.

Not only has her character Olive been expanded (she's already having her own sublots), but the character has also had the chance to sing in 2 episodes.

HD (high definition) tends to reveal many actor's facial flaws, which sometimes isn't too flattering on them. La Chenoweth has been spared this dilemma and photographs phenomenal on HD. So much so that if this series continues with a successful run, it'll finally give her the mass exposure (alas, a hopeful international one) that'll allow her to be put in the forefront of films, instead of the bit part she's been permitted. In other words...hopefully she'll be a big enough name whenever Universal Pictures decides on making the film-version of WICKED. With some digital work she can definitely pull-off the young Galinda, and keeping her 'as is' for the latter part Glinda.

I'm sure the powers-that-be are keeping an eye-out right now with all this in consideration.

Things are finally starting to look-up for La Chenoweth, and I couldn't be happier for her. It took some time, but good things tend to take a while sometimes. Here's hoping PUSHING DAISIES keeps finding an audience and has a nice run of a few seasons -- not just one.

Never in a million years will she be cast in a film 'Wicked' as anything other than Glinda's grandmother.

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I'm happy for her success, but I don't see her having any major role in a movie version of Wicked.

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She could play Morrible.

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"Billie Burke was 54 years old when she played Glinda in The Wizard of Oz."

Perhaps, but Ms. Burke wasn't playing her as a college student. Maybe Cheno can play young on stage, but onscreen is another matter. Unless they go the Grease route with a completely older cast, she won't play Glinda on film. Jessica Simpson has a better shot at the role.

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Good for Cheno!!! I'm happy for her and the show.

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Maybe I'm just superstitious, but congratulating someone on a "successful" television venture less than a month into the season- on a show where that's at *least* one casualty per episode- makes me feel a bit uneasy.

And I'd prefer Kristin not play Glinda in any movie adaptation of Wicked because she can do better.

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Updated On: 10/25/07 at 03:34 PM

Except for Ned's mom, Chuck's dad, the travel agent, the funeral director, the funeral director's brother...

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Seconded on the wardrobe. Sometimes it's a little too Stepfordlike, but I really loved the dresses KC was wearing in the latest episode. Especially the 70's print one (her hair was teased back and topped with a headband).

This show is visually amazing. A big riot of color after years of beige-looking sitcoms and barely lit, gray-toned procedure dramas.

Who is "David Hyde perice"?

I love the show and I love her on it. Kristin Chenoweth and Ellen Greene singing Birdhouse In Your Soul while a frickin' bedazzled carrier pigeon flew above head is something I never knew I always wanted.

Happy to hear that she's workin' the HD, because I've seen some un-airbrushed photographs of her that would suggest the opposite. The lady is a very strange dichotomy between looking much younger than she is and much older than she is. I attribute that to too much sunshine and smilin'.

I just watched the show for the first time last night (DVR) and I think this is the best new series of the year. A lot of it reminds me of the French film Amelie, both in style and the narration.

Basically, it's awesome.

Broadwayfosse, while I appreciate your passion for Chenoweth, the reason she's getting any buzz at all for this show is *because* she's finally stopped, (or not being allowed to) do her "I'm really a young gal" schtick. She should embrace her age and experience and prehaps she will go on and have a healthy career on the small screen. I don't know that I'm as in love with the show but I'm happy it's not another hospital drama inhabited with spoiled brats. Even better, it has Ellen Greene.

As for playing Glinda on the big screen, that's not going to happen even if she becomes the biggest actress on the planet, which is highly unlikely to begin with.

Updated On: 10/26/07 at 01:12 PM