Paul Reubens Helps Push Daisies

For a TV program that hasn't even aired yet, Pushing Daisies - the oddball police procedural/unrequited love saga of a man (Lee Pace) who brings the dead back to life to solve the mystery of how they died - is already racking up coolness points.

Created by gay screenwriter Bryan Fuller (creator of cult fave shows Wonderfalls and Dead Like Me) and due this month, the show's already the most critically acclaimed and hotly anticipated thing on ABC's fall schedule.

Now comes the inclusion of Paul Reubens, whose resurgent career received a jolt of adrenalin last year with his hilarious turn as deformed royalty on 30 Rock.

The erstwhile Pee-Wee Herman will star as the unusually named traveling anti-depressant salesman Alfredo Aldorisio, who becomes involved in the whimsical, resurrection-themed goings on.

Whether his character will end up among the living or dead, however, is a mystery.