The entertainment industry in general (music, film, television) seems to me to have made some secret suicide pact with itself. The RIAA constantly suing its customer base, the film industry’s vain and annoying attempts at copy protection, and the television industy’s gift for cancelling top-rated shows with rabidly loyal viewers all suggest a weird death-wish. Which (because of the show’s name) is ironic in the case of ABC’s cancellation of Pushing Daisies, one of the better (and critically acclaimed) programs on TV in a while. I must confess to possibly over-identifying with the show because of the fact that when I was seven I threw the Frisbee that made my first dog get hit by a car (I’m serious. His name was Snoopy), but viewer’s and critic’s reactions seem to validate my surprise at the show’s early demise. Put Pushing Daisies prematurely six feet under with shows like Firefly, Deadwood, Arrested Development, Enterprise, and Freaks & Geeks. If you haven’t seen the Tim Burtonesque genius of Pushing Daisies, it is available on DVD. But since ABC doesn’t seem to care what we think, why should we care what they think? Go ahead and Bittorrent it. On the bright side of all of this, maybe now Anna Friel will have time to notice that I exist…