Weirdest Fall TV Shows

With the success of such fantasy/supernatural shows as "Lost" and "Heroes", the networks are looking to enhance their fall lineups with shows that are unusual. Some have interesting twists, some are downright weird. Here is a look at some of the weirdest fall tv shows.

One of the more anticipated shows is ABC's "Pushing Daisies", which centers around Ned, a pie-maker, (played by Lee Pace) who with a single touch, can bring anything that's dead back to life. Any dead thing he touches - rotting fruit, wilted plants, and the bodies of animals and people - comes back to life. This amazing gift has two important drawbacks, however; if he touches something twice, it dies forever, and if the revived thing/person doesn't die again within one minute, something or someone close dies in its place.

With such emphasis on death this show could easily be a macabre bummer, but with clever wit by creator Bryan Fuller (who created the similarly ghoulish but funny "Dead Like Me"), and such vibrant settings by Barry Sonnefeld (of "Men in Black" fame), it could breakthrough into a mainstream hit.

The show also painstakingly focuses on time, giving the ages of the characters in years, days, weeks, and minutes. Fuller explained this meticulous timekeeping by likening it to the reflections that people have in their dying moments: "The motivation is that at the end of your life, down to the minute, you look at every minute as precious," he told the LA Times.

Another new series that deals with death is "Reaper", a show from CW about a twenty-one year old slacker Sam (played by Bret Harrison) who discovers that his parents had sold his soul to the devil before he was born. Satan comes to employ young Sam to be his bounty hunter for souls who have escaped Hell (one of the tools he uses is a Dirt Devil). Kevin Smith ("Clerks", "Chasing Amy") directed the pilot.