ABC's summer schedule includes fresh seasons of "The Bachelorette" and "Wipeout," a few new shows -- and the final episodes of three second-year dramas that were cancelled midway through the season.

Fans of "Pushing Daisies" now have a certain date when they can see the final episodes of the series -- provided they're willing to pony up for the DVD set.

The sample size is pretty small, but early returns on the new TV season suggest it's not an especially good time to be a new show, and an even worse one to be a second-year show -- particularly one whose first season was cut short by the writers strike.

The writers strike wreaked havoc all over the scripted-television landscape last season, but it may have been felt more acutely on ABC's Wednesday lineup than anyplace else.