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News Archive for Pushing Daisies

COAST TO COAST 09.30.08 11:32 AM

ABC Hands Out Free Pie in 10 Cities to Promote Pushing Daisies

The pie mobile parked in Times Square
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With the sophomore season of Pushing Daisies premiering nine months after its first outing was shortened by the writers strike, ABC’s marketing team needed a way to reacquaint the public with the network’s quirky comedy. The result was a 10 city, cross-country pie giveaway that reached the end of its road trip in New York this week.

Winding its way through Anaheim, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, ABC's “Touch of Wonder Tour” spent the past month evangelizing Pushing Daisies. Operating out of an Airstream trailer designed to look like the Pie Hole—the fictional pie shop that serves as the backdrop for much of the series—staffers treated visitors to complimentary slices of apple and blueberry pie and peach cobbler. MORE >>

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Q & A 09.25.08 12:39 PM

ABC's Darren Schillace on Using Events to Launch the Post-Strike TV Season

ABC's Darren Schillace
Photo: Craig Sjodin/ABC

ABC, like most networks, finds itself in an interesting position this fall. Not only has the departure from the traditional television schedule changed the way audiences think about the new season, the lengthy break in programming caused by the writers’ strike forced some shows off the air for almost a year.

Promoting the fall lineup demanded a different strategy, so ABC vice president of advertising and marketing Darren Schillace and his team focused on ways to reacquaint the public with ABC's returning series. The onslaught included a mobile pie shop for comedy Pushing Daisies (whose main character is a pie maker), buying all of the ad pages in a September issue of TV Guide, and creating a seven-day celebration in honor of ABC's new programming. On the eve of the network’s big week, we asked Schillace how he is bringing the many initiatives together.

ABC is calling its big fall campaign "National Stay at Home Week." What are some of the elements you're incorporating into that program?
In light of our world today—people not getting on planes or driving as much—we wanted to have some fun in announcing the week of great TV. Stay home, save the gas money, and just enjoy some great ABC television because we’re premiering pretty much our entire network in a week and a half. We wanted to concentrate it all into one pretty package. MORE >>

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