A Pep Talk For TV Producer Bryan Fuller
Even though the TripleDoubleU’s a-rumbling over “Pushing Daisies” (some hint that the title may become eponymous with its fate), I say, sally forth, Bryan Fuller. Your imagination, and our societal lack thereof, needs it.
From your beginnings, as a fan who got to write for his favorite franchise, “Star Trek,” through your development of the wonderful “Wonderfalls” and “Dead Like Me,” and the best part of the crap that “Heroes” has become (FYI… he wrote the first season’s incredible “Company Man”), I don’t feel like you’ve received your just desserts just yet.
It appears ABC’s gamble last Wednseday was good one (and funny, since the episode was about gambling). I hope that “Pushing Daisies” can find the audience it needs to keep the Brass ordering more seasons.
And fear not if all does not go as planned (crossing fingers for new “Star Trek” show). Look how long it took Judd Apatow to click with the mainstream. There was “The Ben Stiller Show,” “Freaks and Geeks,” and “Undeclared” way before there was “The 40 Year Old Virgin.”
We need people like you in Hollywood (and Charlie Kaufman, and maaaaybe Zack Snyder), since the Lucas and Spielberg wells have all dried up. Who else will do battle with the Michael Bays, Stephen Sommers, Brett Ratners, and (vomit) Friedberg/Seltzers of the world?
