Bryan Fuller fills his plate

The creator of Dead Like Me and Pushing Daisies left NBC's Heroes for the second time earlier this year, to focus his attention on two pilots he was developing for the network. And now we have word on what those two projects are!

The first is an adaptation of Augusten Burrough's book Sellevision, about a home shopping channel employee who exposes himself on live TV during a Slumber Sunday Sundown slot while wearing a bathrobe. It will be co-produced with Bryan Fuller (X-Men, Superman Returns).

"I love the world of home shopping -- it's such a rich world. There are those great metaphors of consumerism, buying happiness, all of that chasing material thing."

The second project is half-hour comedy No Kill, about an animal shelter with a policy against killing.

"It's a comedy about becoming human. There's definitely a 'Barney Miller' workplace aspect to it."

Both projects are a move away from the sci-fi/fantasy genre that has informed all of Fuller's previous work, although the writer confirmed he's planning a twelve-issue comic-book of Pushing Daisies, intended as the blueprint for a movie.