Exclusive: 'Pushing Daisies' Takes (Stephen) Root

OMG, Stephen Root is joining Pushing Daisies!

(Crickets)

OK, let’s try that again: OMG, Milton Waddams from Office Space is joining Pushing Daisies!

(The crowd roars)

Now that’s more like it.

Sources confirm to me exclusively that Root, also fondly remembered as NewsRadio”s billionaire boss, Jimmy James, has booked a four-episode arc on Daisies. His character “has a shared history with both Ned’s dad and Chuck’s dad,” explains series creator Bryan Fuller. “He stirs up a lot of hullabaloo for everyone, particularly Aunts Lily and Vivian.”

Daisies‘ second season kicks off Oct. 1.

(The crowd roars)

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