The title is a familiar phrase for fans of the series that starred David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents chasing after aliens and supernatural happenings. "I Want to Believe" was the slogan on a poster Duchovny's UFO-obsessed agent Fox Mulder had hanging in the cluttered basement office where he and Anderson's Dana Scully worked.

Official bargaining began Tuesday morning at the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers in Encino after sister union AFTRA spurned a last-minute invite from SAG to rejoin it at the bargaining table. It's the first time in 27 years that SAG and AFTRA -- which has asserted that it can't trust SAG leaders -- have not negotiated together on the contract.

The first sessions are expected to be occupied with presentation of proposals. SAG's team is led by national exec director Doug Allen and president Alan Rosenberg, who's asking for a boost in DVD residuals and improvements in the new-media portions of the WGA and DGA deals reached earlier this year.

The SAG-AFTRA deal expires June 30. AFTRA will begin its primetime negotiation on April 28.

The launch of negotiations coincided with a labor solidarity rally at Hancock Park to start a three-day "March to the Docks" to push for better jobs. SAG board member Esai Morales and AFTRA board member Jason George both spoke at the event, which drew about 1,000 supporters from over two dozen unions.

"Unions are the only way to keep our dignity," Morales said. "We've been under assault for decades. Corporate America has turned us into a serf nation."

Morales also said SAG doesn't want a strike. "But we will not be forced into a position where we have to take less and less," he added. "We will not be the bad guy on this. Let it be on them to give us what we deserve."

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Viewers will skip straight to episode three of the modern-day fairytale, about a man who brings people back from the dead - including his first love.

"Episode two was the only show we could drop without spoiling the storyline," an ITV spokesman said.

The missing instalment sees lead character Ned coming to terms with his power, interspersed with flashbacks to his childhood - including a school lesson where he was expected to dissect a frog.

As with the first episode, it was directed by Men In Black and Addams Family film-maker Barry Sonnenfeld.

However, ITV said the programme would "be shown at some point because the series will be repeated".

The broadcaster said its decision was due to the US writers' strike, which meant only nine episodes of Pushing Daisies were made.

The series has made former Brookside star Anna Friel a household name in the US.