My email in-box was just bombarded with notes informing me that Ned the piemaker, the girl named Chuck, fabric arts-loving PI Emerson Cod, itty-bitty waitress Olive Snook, and dead-dog Digby are now following me on Twitter. I, of course, reciprocated, and clicked “follow” on all their Twitter pages.

It’s probably way too late to save Pushing Daisies from a fate worse than Ned, but I suppose it’s nice that someone at ABC -- or perhaps in the show’s production office -- finally took some notice of, you know, the online rabidity over this lovely show. If only someone had tried to harness it earlier.