Pushing Daisies (2007)

Death arrives in glorious storybook colour: a pie-maker can briefly revive the dead, making him useful to a detective and badly complicating his love life. The verbal wit and carefully designed world are the route from Wednesday, rather than a teenage setting. Its two-season run is affectionate, strange and macabre without needing to look grim. Cancellation forced an abbreviated wrap-up instead of a full unfolding of its larger stories.