A cute cast, but they might not make it through the season.

I’m going to put in my five cents on the premiere of “Pushing Daisies,” which the media and ABC have been marketing as this year’s “Heroes,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Lost” and “24” in terms of sheer watercooler bliss.

Yeah, well, it didn’t really turn out to be that kind of show for me. I will say I enjoyed looking at the visuals, which reminded me of a Technicolor Tim Burton movie (specifically “Edward Scissorhands”). But where is this story headed?

The premiere introduced us to Ned, who can bring someone back to life with his touch. Cute premise. And Chi McBride, probably the only black person in the unspecified town where Ned makes pies, is in on the secret and teams with Ned to collect reward money by asking the newly-risen dead who killed them.

Then, Ned resurrects his childhood love, Chuck (real name Charlotte Charles—how quirky!), after she’s killed on a cruise ship. Instead of touching her again to suck the life out of her, she stays alive. The caveat is that the two can never touch. Sigh. A whole season (or at least six episodes, which is all that have been filmed) of them finding ways to communicate without the sense of touch.

And will the show become murder-of-the-week, as a few dissenting critics have predicted? I can’t imagine what else there is to tell us. We found out who killed Chuck. We got her eccentric aunts out of the house (one of whom is Ellen Greene, who I could listen to singing “Suddenly Seymour” all day long). All that’s left is to requite the one-sided attraction between Ned and Olive, who’s played quite well by Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth.

The only real reason I want to watch next week is for the names in the credits. Two of the producers are Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen, the producers of the Oscar-winning “American Beauty” who haven’t done well with TV so far. They were behind “The Nine,” which didn’t make it to the end of last season, and “Side Order of Life,” which is being filmed as a series when it really should have been a four-episode mini.

But the ratings for “Pushing Daisies” were good, but when the competition is “Deal or No Deal” and “Kid Nation,” you don’t have much to worry about. Next week, we’ll see if the show will end up, well, pushing daisies.