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"Pushing Daisies" is close to meeting a life found six feet under as the grim reapers start to close in.

Reports are circulating through multiple channels that ABC will opt not to pick up a full season of the Bryan Fuller show, making next week's filming the final week of filming. Further reports even has Fuller himself moving back to "Heroes" in an effort to save the NBC show that he helped get off the ground.

But in what has turned into a rather zany season, it's hard to tell what networks are going to do anymore.

For example, it was widely reported that "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" was being pulled off the air, but at the last minute, Fox gave it a back-nine order, ensuring that there will be, at the very least, a production budget available for the rest of the season. Another show getting a full season was "Knight Rider" on NBC, despite tallying up a smaller viewer audience than its predecessor, "Bionic Woman," that didn't survive a shortened single season.

"Pushing Daisies," however, has been one of the biggest disappointments for ABC. It has averaged a 4.0 rating/6 share after five episodes this season, down more than 36 percent from the 6.3/10 it averaged in its first season on ABC.

In fact, "Pushing Daisies" has been knocked around by the least likely of suspects. "Knight Rider" has averaged a 4.5/7 after five episodes, pulling in an audience that is nearly 13 percent larger than "Pushing Daisies." But even then, "Knight Rider" is off just 18 percent from "Bionic Woman's" average, so NBC's damage in that Wednesday timeslot has been minimized.

It's not clear what it is hurting "Pushing Daisies" so much that audiences aren't showing up. Some analysts have blamed the strike-shortened seasons last year on dramas that were freshmen and failed to attract a base audience. But no one knows for sure.

ABC may find it cheaper to produce a full season of "Pushing Daisies" than to promote a new show in the timeslot, but the network has to be salivating over the chance to whip NBC in the 8 p.m. timeslot, and find something that could be a far better lead-in to "Private Practice" and "Dirty Sexy Money."

No decision has come from ABC just yet on the fate of "Pushing Daisies," but it's safe to say that fans will hear sooner rather than later whether this show has lost its touch.

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