TV Series · 2007 · TV Series · 2000s
Pushing Daisies
Scored from 111 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2000s (1,360 peers).
Summary
Ned (Lee Pace) runs a pie shop called the Pie Hole and can bring the dead back to life with a touch — but a second touch returns them to death permanently, and anything he keeps alive past one minute costs a nearby life in exchange. Private investigator Emerson Cod (Chi McBride) learns of the gift and partners with him to question murder victims and collect the reward money. When Ned revives his childhood sweetheart Charlotte 'Chuck' Charles (Anna Friel) and refuses to touch her again, the two begin a romance conducted entirely without contact, watched by lovelorn waitress Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth). Bryan Fuller created this candy-coloured ABC comedy-drama, narrated by Jim Dale.
Released in 2007, Pushing Daisies is a comedy, drama and fantasy television series. Its country of origin is listed as the United States. Its certificate is TV-PG. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy. Episodes run about 42m.
The calibrated figure is built from 111 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 120 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 17 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s television series — 1,360 of them.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Pushing Daisies lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2000s (1,360 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 111.
Cohort: TV Series · 2000s
