Chuck returns to NBC with a special two hour airing on Sunday January 10, 2010 from 9p-11p before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night.
As expected Heroes will shift back to 9pm following a two hour block between 8p-10p on January 4.
Chuck Returns (Video Message from Zach + A Clip from Season 3)
Maureen Ryan has more details on what to expect for Chuck in season 3.
Here’s the press release from NBC:
‘CHUCK’ RETURNS TO NBC ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 WITH ALL-NEW MISSIONS AND ACTION-PACKED BACK-TO-BACK PREMIERE EPISODES BEFORE MOVING TO REGULAR DAY AND TIME (MONDAYS, 8-9 P.M. ET) BEGINNING JANUARY 11
‘CHUCK’ GUEST STARS INCLUDE ANGIE HARMON, BRANDON ROUTH, ROBERT PATRICK, KRISTIN KREUK, ARMAND ASSANTE, STEVE AUSTIN AND VINNIE JONES
In Addition, Special Two-hour Episode of “Heroes” to Be Broadcast on Monday, January 4 (8-10 p.m. ET) Before Series Moves to Its New Time Slot of Mondays (9-10 p.m. ET) Starting January 11
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – November 19, 2009 – NBC’s action-comedy series “Chuck” returns to the NBC lineup on Sunday, January 10 with all-new missions and two action-packed, back-to-back original episodes in its season premiere (9-11 p.m. ET) before the series — starring Zachary Levi in the title role — moves to its regular day and time (Mondays 8-9 p.m. ET) beginning January 11.
In addition, “Chuck” returns with guest stars galore in its third season. These include: Angie Harmon (NBC’s “Law & Order”), who will play Sydney, an enemy operative; Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns”), who is set to play CIA Agent Daniel Shaw; Robert Patrick (“Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) will play Colonel Keller, a soldier and spy from Casey’s past; Kristin Kreuk (“Smallville”), who will portray Hannah — a potential love interest for Chuck; Armand Assante (“Judge Dredd”) as dictator Premier Goya, who is the target of an assassin; Steve Austin (“WWE Smackdown!”) will portray Hugo Panzer, who becomes entangled in Chuck’s first solo mission; and Vinnie Jones (“Snatch”) will play Carl Stromberg, an arms dealer.
In other programming news, a special two-hour episode of “Heroes” will be broadcast on Monday, January 4 (8-10 p.m. ET) and then the series moves to its new time slot of Mondays (9-10 p.m. ET) starting January 11.
“Josh (Schwartz) and Chris (Fedak) and the writing team are doing a great job this season, and we think the loyal fan base for this show will be happy to see it back on the NBC schedule,” said Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios.
In “Chuck,” the world’s nerdiest secret agent is back in the one-hour action-comedy series. Chuck Bartowski (Levi, “Less Than Perfect”) continues as the Buy More electronics store computer geek, who unwittingly becomes the government’s most vital secret agent. Chuck is transformed into the Intersect 2.0 after another data download into his brain. This time, he not only knows government secrets, but he is also well equipped with deadly fight skills. Chuck has the potential to become a real agent, but he has one problem — his emotions. Now he faces the battle of keeping his emotions in check in order to protect himself and the people around him.
The ever stoic Colonel John Casey (Adam Baldwin, “My Bodyguard”) returns with partner Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski, “Gone”), one of the CIA’s top agents and Chuck’s dream girl. As Chuck assumes his new role as the Intersect 2.0, Casey and Sarah need to protect him but also help him become the agent he is destined to be.
Also starring are: Joshua Gomez (“Without a Trace”) as Morgan Grimes — Chuck’s best buddy; Sarah Lancaster (“What About Brian?”) as Chuck’s ever-supportive sister Ellie; Ryan McPartlin (“Living with Fran”) as Devon Woodcomb (also known as “Captain Awesome”), Ellie’s husband. Chuck’s Buy More team consists of Big Mike (Mark Christopher Lawrence, “The Pursuit of Happyness”) and the Nerd Herd, which includes Lester (Vik Sahay, “Time Bomb”) and Jeff (Scott Krinsky, “The O.C.”).
Fans of “Chuck” can catch up on full episodes from the series’ recent second season, watch original web series and share with fans on the official “Chuck” website on NBC.com.
“Chuck” is co-created and written by Josh Schwartz (“The O.C., “Gossip Girl”) and Chris Fedak, and is executive-produced by Schwartz, McG (“Charlie’s Angels,” “We Are Marshall”), Fedak, Allison Adler and Matthew Miller. “Chuck” is produced by College Hill Pictures, Wonderland Sound and Vision, in association with Warner Bros. Television.
So, as I just said in the comments elsewhere, this takes care of three of the additional six episodes ordered in one week.
Great, let Chuck go up against House again.
And don’t forget – Season 2 hits DVD and Blu-ray on January 5th!
why would that surprise anyone? Of COURSE they were going to move Heroes out of House’s way…
woooooooooooooooooooooooow cant wait
Nice, Lost and Chuck return dates announced in 1 day!
Chuck was up against House AND BBT last year and was still beating the demo that Heroes has put up the last couple of weeks. With BBT now airing at 9:30 I think Chuck *should* be flat or even improve compared to last season.
Same team , same slots , hopefully with House not as strong as now
( ok I know I’m asking too much ):)
Isn’t House a bit weaker in the ratings though?
And Heroes moving to 9 doesn’t help it much, now it has to deal with 2.5Men, BBT and 24.
Move Mercy to Mondays and put Chuck on Wednesdays.
Julia do you think it’s possible that they may extend it to a 22 episode season? I think this strategy is odd as I had said in the post post. It just makes me wonder what NBC is up to. It’s very rare for a NBC to do a 2hr Premiere on a different night, and then the next night air it on it’s regular timeslot.
Ausiello is also reporting that NBC has ordered 3 more episodes of Trauma… Ten will air now, leaving the remaining six for next year… Where will the schedule it? Makes no sense.
i think “chuck” should permantly on sunday, there it would do better because the competition is not stiff, and like put “the marriage ref” on monday
Chmarin, this most likely means that Parenthood is either getting its order cut or not going to air during regular season.
Hibberd is saying 4 more hours of Trauma have been ordered.
Sundays? at least CBS will no be last that day
I hope Chuck can do better then Heroes has been doing, might even help Chuck if Heroes drops in that slot.
Tommy, if NBC wanted 22 episodes, they would’ve ordered them already. It seems to me that they mean to order 4 and somehow decided 6 sounded better, so they have to dump them somewhere.
I think I might like the Sundays move, but it depends on whether it does well in its two hour block.
But hey, CHUCK’S BACK!
Maybe they’ll just do a two-hour finale to burn them off.
Trauma just does not make any sense. NBC lacks 8pm shows, not 9pm.
Any way this shakes out, Persons Unknown and/or Parenthood just got booted to Summer.
And to think, Heroes at 9 used to worry me about my show 24.
@Tom, “Any way this shakes out, Persons Unknown and/or Parenthood just got booted to Summer.”
Or into oblivion.
Bill, Hibberd says that NBC ordered 3, not 4, more episodes of Trauma.
James Hibberd
“NBC is serving up more “Trauma,” sources say, because the network is short on inventory — content that’s ready to roll and appropriate for Monday nights. Ten “Trauma” episodes will air before the holidays. Now they’ll have another six, instead of an awkward three, to air at some other time (which has yet to be determined). With the start of NBC’s Winter Olympics coverage in early February, it’s unclear if “Trauma” will finish before or after the Games.”
YAYYYYY!!!!!!!! Im so excited, this is my favorite show, besides heroes, and its coming on after it, yes!!!!!!
I’m happy about the Chuck move, and really confused by the Trauma one. It does seem like one of the new shows is dead. NBC is messing with my mind tonight….lol
SWEET! So Excited. A two-hour premiere shows NBC has some faith in Chuck. It’s about freaking time!
Tom, Heroes has 19 episodes this season. They’ll be done airing all of them by Olympics. With Chuck at 8, Trauma fits right in at 9.
Anyway, where are they missing 8pm shows? TBL, Mercy, P&R, Community and L&O have full seasons. The only place they might have an opening is Sunday, but they have 2 hours of Celeb Apprentice and the Seinfeld show, so they don’t need much there either.
Love this schedule… NBC has 2 NFL playoff games the day before, and can promote the hell out of Chuck’s return. I was going to do some shouting about how it would be up against football, but I forgot that the NFL schedules its Sunday Wild Card games for the afternoon, so it won’t have to go against those, either. And I don’t think 24 returns for another week after that.
I understand that ordering more episodes of Trauma means trouble for Parenthood, but what I don’t understand is – Where are they going to schedule it? Fridays after Law & Order? They may as well air Southland then. Sundays? Why?
With the 2-hour Heroes the week before, about when does that put Heroes finishing?
Julia has a good point, and it shakes some sense into things. Heroes will wrap up before the Olympics and Trauma will come back after them to wrap things up. Trauma will be taking a hiatus starting in December.
Anyone else notice that Julia Ling isn’t listed under the main cast in this?
I can’t believe NBC doesn’t have enough inventory?
I’m baffled by the Sunday thing.
Rock on! BRING ON THE CHUCK!!!
persons unknown and parenthood will probably still air, Trauma will probably go on at 9:00 after Heroes finishes its run.
Rick Holy, with that picture you have, saying Rock On makes me smile ….lol
I think Johnthemon is right.
johnthemon, where would you have them air? Trauma will air for six weeks from March through middle of April, most likely, leaving about four weeks left of season to air something else. Every other slot has a full season, unless you think NBC will dump both of them from 7-9 on Sundays.
Great news! Glad to have Chuck on its way back. Hopefully it can find a few new eyeballs with the Sunday airing, and hopefully it can get some traction in the Monday slot before shows like House and DWTS return from the holiday break.
Julia, those 4 weeks are probably going to be the slot when the Day One mini series airs. Unless they choose not to do another Biggest Loser (Which is 99.99% crazy talk) they have no other options to air Parenthood or Persons Unknown.
Jason Katims also runs Friday Night Lights. So, if there is a hiccup with Parenthood, it might have something to do with Friday Night Lights.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
I dont think it matters what Chuck is up against … either people will watch it or they wont. I think V kind of proves this … when it went up against NCIS and still got 15 million viewers? (Although I do think Chuck might be better off now that Big Bang Theory is on at 9:30 instead of 8:00)
I am not sure why promoting Chuck during the NFL games would help … this is considered a geek show … do geeks watch football?
Anyway … I am very excited Chuck will be back soon … cant wait to watch the new episodes.
Maybe jay Leno will be cancelled so more space for these shows ! ( just kidding , this will never happen
)
House has really taken a dive over the last week weeks. If we didn’t have a DVR, I could totally see us watching Chuck instead of House.
@Tommy – Church music isn’t the only thing I listen to! Add Paul Rodgers, Allman Brothers, Skynyrd, Stevie Ray, Mellencamp and a list of others!! We don’t all just sit around listening to Gregorian chant – we’re REAL PEOPLE!! Glad I could bring a smile to your face. Peace, bro!
Leo, because a lot of men watch the NFL and they can sell Yvonne Strahovski as the sexy agent. That’s why it would work.
What’s against gregorian chants !!
5 bucks says this topic goes over 200 comments by this time tomorrow
oh, and HECK YEA!! counting down the days!
I didn’t mean any disrespect rick, just brightened my day a little
Where’s Nick C on this?
I’m betting they put Trauma on Fridays.
YES!!!! I can’t wait for the season 3 premiere! Its the best show on NBC, I hope it does great!
@leo and Parenthood: In addition to promoting Yvonne, they can promote the show as a spy/action thriller. Especially with Chuck’s new “abilities.” There should be a lot of crossover between NFL fans and Chuck fans.
The season 3 trailer looks nice
I’d want Chuck on Wednesdays at 8. Just sayin’
Yea I see your point about Yvonne and the spy/action.
My question now is … what is better for a show … to have average ratings and go up a little over time or to have high ratings and go down sharply?
But, kind of thinking of it, didn’t Fox try to promote Dollhouse as nothing but sexy chicks too and that didn’t work out too well. But, the difference is that show had a lot of bad publicity. Whereas Chuck does not.
leo, where a show ends is far more important than where it starts, and the trend is important. However, very few shows *increase* their ratings after their premieres. It happens, but its not the way to bet.
tdot, Idol would kill Chuck, that’s a really bad timeslot for it.
Between Chuck’s announced return date and Oprah’s pending departure date this has been an above-average day of “news breaks” for the television industry.
My guess is that those extra three episodes will wrap up Trauma’s storyline because I doubt it will do well enough for renewal again.
It’ll be interesting to see how a 2 hour Chuck special does on Sunday against Fox’s Animation Block. Both are geared toward younger male audiences. I’m not familiar with NBC’s normal Sunday programming because I typically watch Fox but it might be a better night for Chuck than Monday.
Ideally it would go to Wednesday though. I think Chuck could get stable numbers against Idol just like reaper did last year. Both Chuck and Reaper are male oriented whereas I don’t think Idol is. Chuck could get those guys who don’t want to watch Idol like myself.
I wonder why NBC is airing 3 episodes of Chuck in 2 days. It seems they are rushing things a bit.
I can’t wait until we get the many days of Chuck posts again.
Im absolutely ecstatic!!!!!
I dont see it as them “burning off” the additional episodes they ordered, but more like giving it a good push to start with nothing else on deck. It doesnt make sense to order 6 more episodes of a show and then burn them off without any airings first.
What will be interesting to see is whether the other networks air original programming or reruns on Jan. 10 and 11. Traditionally, that’s prime rerun season, and Chuck might be able to air without much competition for a week or two. But then again, the other networks might try to prevent that by putting on original episodes those first two nights and preventing any momentum from building.
Chrisjozo, I’m thinking that Wednesdays is a bad idea for Chuck? Why? Because American Idol will be airing there this season because Fox drive up the numbers for Glee at 9 pm et/pt.
@chrisjozo: How did that work out for Reaper?
@Tommy – no disrespect taken at all – not in the least. I’m just stoked, stoked, stoked about the return of CHUCK!! It’s been too long of a wait for it’s return. I’ve been going through “Chuck withdrawl” for what? like 6-7 months now? It’s time for us Chuckaholics to get our fix!! Jan 10th can’t get here soon enough. BRING ON THE CHUCK!!! And a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours, Robert and Bill, and everyone else who thinks TVBTN ROCKS!
I can’t wait for January 10th!!!
If they’re airing 3 episodes in 2 days, then why not just upgrade the order to 22 episodes/
“I wonder why NBC is airing 3 episodes of Chuck in 2 days. It seems they are rushing things a bit.”
My guesses would be (a) a big, immediate push to bring attention to Chuck’s return, (b) the aforementioned (by someone else) NFL playoff push with 2 NBC games on Jan 9 for promotion (although, on the downside, the late game on Sunday could run long, causing a possible problem in ratings), and (c) NBC is going to run a split-season of Chuck around the Olympics and wants to stuff a few in the first half before the Winter Games hit, kind of like what has been done with Leverage, Eureka, and Burn Notice, only on a tighter schedule. Just my 2 pennies on the table.
Forgot to mention, late game on another network (Fox or CBS, not sure which).
Someone please tell me what Maureen Ryan means by units.
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2009/11/chuck-sets-season-3-return-date.html
“According to co-creator Chris Fedak, production is underway on the 10th episode of “Chuck’s” third season. He also said that the first 13 episodes of Season 3 will function as one unit, and then the set of six additional episodes that NBC ordered will sort of be like another mini-season (he called it “Season 3 2.0″).
“We broke a very tight 13 episodes” after NBC ordered a third season, Fedak said. “But we had started production early, so [when NBC ordered six more episodes for a total of 19,] we had lead time to kind of sit back and think about what the next phase of the story would be. We’re very excited about extending the season out and having more fun with our characters and deepening the world that is ‘Chuck.’”
Julia, where s Nick C on this? Will he be writing up an article?
unit as in season. there will be an underlying story and arc in the 1st 13, then they will begin a new story arc with the next 6, like s3 part 2.
But, wouldn”t the Winter Olympics interrupt the 1st unit then?
Parenthood, Fedak means that there was an overarching story arc that runs through the thirteen episodes, and I’m guessing that arc ENDS with the 13th episode.
Yeah Sarah Walker is back, woot!
Every show has lost viewers since last season, except NCIS.
Too bad i won’t be watching CHUCK live, HOUSE comes 1st, unless there’s a repeat.
“Chuck.”…”Chuck”…that’s the show I’ve always thought of as “The Bottom of the Barrel Fallback Career for the Superawesome Adam Baldwin Whose Career Peaked With Firefly”, isn’t it?! But I may need a new show to watch if (and I say IF because I don’t believe it!) Dollhouse is actually going off the air!
I have tried to watch some of the actors from Joss’s shows in their post-Joss career lulls, but they have yet to compare with Joss’s amazing work! Why do the bones on “Bones” just sit there, when on Buffy or Angel they’d surely be coming back to life and killing people?! On “How I Met Your Mother”, why is Alyson Hannigan not playing a lesbian, or at least playing someone with a crush on Nicholas Brendon? Etc.!
So, “Chuck” fans, is this “Chuck” show any good?! More importantly, does the Chuck fandom need a super-interested fan?! I can’t imagine they have any of those already!
Dollhouse forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever!
Is it wrong that I might be more excited about the prospects of JBF throwing his/her considerable allegiances to Chuck than the actual return of the show itself?
It’s possible the 2 Sunday eps is because when the Olympics start (and Chuck stops for a few weeks) that last episode that will air has a nice break point.
With the mess NBC is in itll be interesting to see how chuck performs when returns will it improve sink or stick to what it was doing i think itll stick.
Maureen Ryan has a source at NBC saying they’ll run Chuck during the Olympics, which would be amazing for the show.
An NBC source says the show will keep airing during the Olympics and won’t take a break in order to avoid airing during that time frame. As mentioned above, NBC has ordered at total of 19 “Chuck” episodes at this point, and the possibility still exists that the episode order could be bumped up to 22. So if the ratings are decent or better than decent, we may be hanging with the Buy More crew for quite some time come 2010.
If it does run during the Olympics, then a 19-episode order ends May 3. And I have to imagine, with them front-loading episodes like this, that there’s a big temptation to extend to order to 21 or 22 episodes, to bring the series total to 56 or 57. Why? Because that puts them two 22-episode seasons from 100-episode syndication.
Ah, I see the blockquote tags don’t work here. If I’d known that, I would have used italics and quote marks for that middle paragraph. Sorry.
@devdog
Reaper was cancelled because it didn’t fit the demo the CW was going after not because it was getting bad ratings.
JBF, Joss Whedon is my favorite writer and creator in TV and I love Chuck. Last season I even found myself with more expectation por Chuck episodes than Dollhouse episodes (and I like Dollhouse very much), so I recomend it to you for sure.
Wow, three episode in two days, that’s quite a treat! Sadly it’s going to get crushed in the ratings on sunday AND monday night. Ah well, I’ll enjoy it while it last. Maybe, if it does better than heroes… 2.2… It’ll stick around… maybe…
Build: blame the webmaster (me!) I added italics on your behalf though.
And I’ve written to Mo seeking clarification because I’m not clear how they could keep airing Chuck during the Olympics since it seems like every night during the Olympics, NBC’s primetime lineup will be wall-to-wall Olympic coverage.
So…let me get this straight…
I’m guessing this is how NBC’s schedule will shake out:
8:00
Now to January 4, Heroes
January 11 to the end of the season, Chuck
9:00
January 11 to the Olympics, Heroes
March to mid-April, four weeks of Trauma
Mid-April to the end of season, four weeks of Day One (an attempt at stunt programming for sweeps, like V on ABC in November?)
And then Wednesday at 8:00 is Mercy and…maybe like 6 episodes of Parenthood in April or something? Mercy alone isn’t enough to fill that timeslot until May.
Persons Unknown is an international series (read: summer filler).
So I think this is starting to make sense now.
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN’T WAIT!!!!
Unleash the Casey
Can’t wait until 1/10/2010. Chuck returns and alleviates my Yvonne withdraw;
18 non-Olympic Mondays from Chuck’s 1/11 premiere to end of May Sweeps. 17 of those probably go to Chuck at 8pm.
At 9, we’ll see Heroes for 5 weeks pre-Olympics. Then I’m guessing 9pm goes to Trauma (6 weeks) and something else for the other 7, maybe the reality show Breakthrough with Tony Robbins (which has 8 episodes, so it could fill the 7 along with the open 8pm hour that Chuck will leave).
I would guess Day One will get burnt off on the two open Sundays they have, Jan. 24 & 31. Just doesn’t seem like it’s high on their priority list. No idea about Parenthood, maybe it could get 8 eps and air on Monday rather than the reality show.
Thanks, Robert, both for the edit and the email to Mo. It sounds too good to believe… but I want to believe.
I can’t wait for January! I love Chuck and look forward to its return. As an on and off House viewer I can say that Chuck will be viewed live and House on Hulu.
Build: Mo is double checking and will update her post as she gets more info. I’d expect she’ll hear for certain by tomorrow.
Update: Mo says no Chuck during Olympics…
Well, I think no matter how things are lined up Chuck has basically locked up the Monday at 8:00 slot until the end of the season, with an event-style premiere and no awkward hiatuses or anything (besides the Olympics, but that’s only two weeks, that won’t kill a show in its third season).
Probably about the best news fans could have hoped for.
Ahh, that’s too bad. But expected. Thanks for following up, Robert.
No Chuck during Olympics is a smarter idea.
Sunday is a great time to have it, thats usually when Sunday night football is one. They can promote the heck out of it using SUnday Night Football and the Play off games the day before.
According to the people I’ve talked to at NBC Chuck actually does really well with females (almost more so, than males) due to the chemistry of their romantic leads Yvonne and Zac. At first I thought that was weird until I realized that I fit into that category. The show has really broad appeal but that also makes it hard to describe to others. In fact, I think the reason I love Chuck is because it combines all the elements of my favorite shows…Burn Notice (Spy/Action/Team dynamic), Bones (Chemistry), and Big Bang Theory (Geek humor and pop culture references).
It will be interesting to see how the show fares on Mondays after the triple decker premiere. I’m just really hoping we don’t have to sell our souls to Subway to get S4
Does anybody think that promoting Chuck during the NFL will work?
Parenthood i dont i personally see it returning with the same ratings as season 2
That was after the Super Bowl.
Plus, I see it doing better than season 2. Why? A)Because the ratings for House are weaker this season. B)Ben Silverman is not running NBC anymore. C)Nick C says that Jeff Gaspin is better at marketing than anyone else at NBC. Just look at how he turned around USA.
i read article saying day one will be airing after the olympics probably sunday or something
nbc will probably announced it’ midseason schedule after the Sunday Night Footbal in America ended this season.
Chuck is a waste of space and that 2-hour return will be wasted after the Wild Card Playoff Round.
JA, Chuck is a great show with great actors!
yes, i was right “day one” will debut sometime after the olympics
according to variety.com nbc is gonna “promote” the heck out of “day one”
here’s the article:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009437.html?categoryid=14&cs=1
NBC really jumped on the ball, 3 hours after the press release they have a 30 second promo during the Office.
If you want to know what the premier was during the Office then here it is. The premiere looks amazing. http://twitvid.com/2A060
By the way that is how you promo Chuck.
i hope they don’t put persons unknown as a summer series from what i seen it looks to good to go on when no ones watching, let alone a network that no one watches
Rich said, “NBC really jumped on the ball, 3 hours after the press release they have a 30 second promo during the Office.”
They must really want to save Chuck then!!!
It looks like NBC will be kicking off mid-season earlier than most nets, and will probably take only a few breaks. I’m sure they have a plan for Day One, Person’s Unknown and Parenthood. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
Yeah, the question is whether or not some of the other networks move some of their shows up to compete against Chuck.
Woot!!!!!
Alan Sepinwall just conducted a Q&A with Chris Fedak. Sepinwall and Fedak had this to say.
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2009/11/chuck_premiere_date_chris_feda.html
“[sepinwall]Now, I haven’t done the math yet, but you should have aired around eight episodes before the Winter Olympics begin and take you off the air for a few weeks.
[fedak]episodes, I believe.
[sepinwall] So how do you think episode seven works as the last one people will be seeing until the Olympics are over?
[fedak] Episode seven is kind of a good stopping point. It’s a good place to break for the mid-point of the season. It’s kind of cool, I think.”
So, episode 7 should air on Feb. 8th.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Yes!! Definitely made my entire week, looking forward to Chuck returning! I am very happy NBC is promoting the show already. 3 episodes of Chuck in 2 days, that’s amazing.
YES! Let Chuck get slaughtered by House and give precious Heroes some room to breathe!
Actually, ratings for House this season are way down. I’ll bet that with major promotion during Football and the Olympics, Chuck might be able to compete on Monday Nights at 8!
No Mr. Nice Spy. Dang I’m lovin it already.
There was a chuck commercial on during The Office today….NBC’s highest rated half hour (not counting football)
Parenthood:
House is actually performing about where it was last season.
But at least Chuck doesn’t have to go head-to-head with Big Bang Theory (which has a similar target audience) anymore. It does have to face HIMYM, which is down slightly from last year.
Gossip Girl (Schwartz’s other show on Mondays at
is way down. Haven’t checked the numbers, but I think I heard DWTS is slowing down a bit, though I hear this season has been particularly good.
“Sausageroll
YES! Let Chuck get slaughtered by House and give precious Heroes some room to breathe!”
Amen
NBC advertising Chuck’s January return during the Office tonight. Can’t complain about that.
CAN’T WAIT for this show to come back!
I don’t care about Chuck, but that “No More Mr. Nice Spy” alone already pays the ticket!
Oh yeah Chuck, Castle and well I guess House will have to be watched on the PC. Also looking forward to Monday Subway night again.
Great news. And the promo and sneak peek show how the new Intersect is going to bring a whole new dimension to the show that I believe will bring more viewers to the show.
And the 13 episode arc is going to stay relatively unchanged. Yippee!
Awesome!
1. Zak really enjoyed his directing opportunity. For your calendars I think its #9
2. NBC does not care if Chuck reached the numbers for syndication. It has very little to gain from syndication. But it still owns one rerun of each episode
3. The only possibility that would lead to Chuck producing 22, is if NBC decided to air some original scripted programming on Mondays during June, July. August and September, then Chuck would be one of the lead ins
Things are gonna get complicated, I have to watch house, Chuck, 24 and heroes… I guess house and heroes are going to get the west broadcasting time treatment… or streaming
Paul 80 – No, NBC doesn’t care, but WB cares. And I may not know much about the business, but if they’re optimistic enough about the future of the show, it strikes me as reasonable that WB could try to work out a deal for 2 more episodes.
And so it begins…
BABF
Optimism is a good thing, so is hope, lets hope lots of TV viewers tune in to Chuck,
Darn. I was looking at the ratings for last night’s 8PM slot (wednesday) and said to myself how Chuck could easily win its timeslot if it was there instead of Mercy. My hope has been crushed. Well, good luck Chuck (and you too, Sarah Walker). Let the rollercoaster ride begins.
Flop!!!
New slogan for NBC again! their slogan suck
As Will Ferrell’s Alex Trebek would say… “Simply stunning”
It amazes me that all are so excited about this. What’s awesome about NBC’s single big chance to draw a fresh audience being blown against playoff football? And then against House.
This show better be a lock for renewal with the 2.8- it’s destined to draw, given just how far out of it’s way NBC has gone to F@%k the show over.
Wednesdays are even for Chuck. Why? American Idol. House is no longer as strong as it once was. I think Chuck is going to get help from huge promotion from the NFL the night before. Wait a minute, Parenthood, but didn’t Chuck get a huge promotion push during the Super Bowl? It did but, NBC made 2 blunders. 1)Opting o air The Office after the Super Bowl. 2) Airing that stupid 3D episode which probably turned a lot of people off. But, that was the Ben Silverman days and these are the Jeff Gaspin days.
Wednesdays are even worse for Chuck.
And I just remembered there’s the whole promotion for Chuck during the Winter Olympics. That should work. Emphasize Yvonne Strahovski and NFL male fans will watch.
It would be smart of NBC to let Yvonne Strahovski do more of the promotion this year/this premiere.
I just saw my first ad already, so there’s plenty of time besides the night before. Still, it’s a weak viewership night generally and will be up against a playoff game (at least partly) going largely after the same demo. The devout fans will be stuck with all the catching up crap eating into episode time and potential new viewers won’t be watching at all. Maybe the mindset will change, but if it premieres over a 3 in the demo I’ll be very surprised.
Scott R. – I don’t think they’ll be going up against a playoff game. I read this on the ChuckTV.net forum:
“The Sunday games on Wild Card weekend don’t get shifted to prime time. They’ll start at 12:30 PM EST and 4:15 PM EST. Chuck won’t start that night until 9PM, so there should be no problem. The Saturday Wild Card games are at 4:15 PM and 8:00 PM. It’s the following week when they start pushing the games on Sundays into prime time.”
Scott is a really worse idea. Why? American Idol. AI will air at 8 to give Glee a good lead-in.
Oh good they’re bringing Chuck back in January, keeping it on Monday at 8 against House and then taking it off the air a few weeks later for the Olympics.
Can all the fans just write their excuses posts now and get them out of the way?
Best. News. Ever.
Alex, Monday is better than Wednesday.
Yay, I can finally watch House and Heroes back to back again.
I’m really looking forward to Kristin Kreuk showing up. I think she’s a great actress! By the way, see Ausiello’s blog? He puts in the word Scoop as though it were an exclusive. Ausiello is a self indulgent jerk. LOL!!!
Parenthood I don’t really care when (or even if) Chuck comes back beyond not wanting to sit through another six months of ‘its up against House’ and ‘it was pre-empted by…’ posts.
2h premier?? that’s Awesome
Terrible job by NBC to continue this on Monday’s at 8pm.
CHUCK should be moved to Wednesday’s at 8pm. The competition is not as strong and the ratings for CHUCK would be much better.
I am concerned the ratings will not be any better than last year on Monday’s at 8.
You know, Chuck has been given a really good ride.
Time for it to put up or shut down.
I saw promo commercials for this last night on NBC during the Office.
They’re already promoting it, woot!
They’ve ALWAYS promoted it. No network show on the air has gotten more promotion than Chuck. It’s been treated like a hit for its entire run to date.
To revise my previous comment slightly–time for Chuck to put up or be put DOWN.
E you’re totally right Wednesday night at 8PM is a wasteland its not as if televisions biggest show returns to that slot in January or anything… Oh wait.
Seriously it never fails to amaze me that Chuck fans complain that House is denting its numbers and then want to move the show opposite American Idol (and there’s no way they move Idol to 9PM again like this did last year). If Chuck can’t hold up against House how the hell is it going to hold up against Idol? And does it not occur to anyone that Wednesday 8PM might actually be the hardest slot to launch a show? Outside of Idol when was the last time any of the networks aired/launched a genuine hit in the slot?
On another note this ‘House is destroying Chuck’ line is weird as well. Chuck’s numbers were bad before House moved to Monday and they didn’t get dramatically worse after House moved. The problem existed before House so either its the CBS comedies or its Dancing with the Stars that’s ‘killing’ Chuck or maybe its just that a large audience doesn’t want to watch it…
But Chuck fans can at least comfort themselves with the fact that sub- par is the new success at NBC and that Chuck’s numbers last year would make it a mass audience show for NBC.
And pisher I agree, its more than time for Chuck to prove its worth or sail off into the sunset.
Back in 2007, I discarded the free “Chuck” DVD that came in my Entertainment Weekly unwatched. Then, shortly before the premiere my niece met Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez, in Boston. So, out of curiosity, I watched the premiere. I was thoroughly entertained, and in my opinion, “Chuck,” just got better and better. No other recent TV program has been as fun.
I’ve lived long enough to have gone through many decades of favorite shows that were critical hits but ratings disappointments, and any number of ratings blockbusters that I totally was not a part of. So, while I have no faith that the Neilsen ratings are going to explode for Season 3 of “Chuck,” my family and I will be eagerly watching.
I Love this show so much
Chuck @ 8:00 & Heores @ 9:00.
THE DREAM TEAM IS BACK!
My favorite shows ever, besides Dollhouse, but it got canceled so… lol
whoohoo
It’s funny reading posts by the haters.
I love the Renew / Cancel Index, but…
I GUARANTEE you that Fringe and Chuck both live ’til next season.
Brad says:
November 19, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I’m baffled by the Sunday thing.
The reason for the two-hour Sunday special “Chuck” is Sunday traditionally has one of the largest prime time audiences of the week, so NBC wants to relaunch Chuck on a night when as many potential viewers as possible and then lead into the regular schedule the following night. It’s not a bad idea. I doubt that NBC expects “Chuck” to win Sunday but it may get decent ratings.
I’m sure that nobody can say that NBC does not support the show .
It got a very good opportunity …. also becuase at this moment in time NBC desperately need a success
Great!! Really missed Chuck and Sara.
Nothing worth a damn is on Tuesdays (except the “new” Scrubs), put Chuck (and/or Heroes) on Tuesdays! You don’t get the FOX’s Sunday Animation Domination, you don’t have to go up against House/MNF/WWE RAW/Two and a Half Men/BBT on Mondays, you don’t have the comedy’s on ABC for Wednesdays, or even the Thursdays for Grey’s Anatomy.
Whatever NBC does for the future…PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE the living crap out of Chuck AND Heroes!!!
Chuck will not beat FOX or ABC, but it has a very good chance of beating CBS. Three Rivers (1.8) and Cold Case (2.2) are extremely weak. Chuck could easily beat those shows. But the important day will be Monday in its original time slot.
Ken a move to Tuesday night would put Chuck against, American Idol, NCIS and then from March Dancing with the Stars. Personally I’d rather be on Monday at 8PM than Tuesday. That would also mean that NBC would have to move Biggest Loser, which is behind only football and The Office on the ratings front for NBC. Not going to happen.
Yeah put Chuck vs lost, or Idol on Tuesday. Man there was some braindead people here. If they programmed NBC the network would have folded already.
Ken’s argument was basically “every other channel has great programming, NBC should just give up.”
Which, is a different thread altogether…
Also, he mentioned Two and a Half Men / Big Bang Theory.
While I’ve never seen Big Bang Theory, i did happen to leave my remote out of arms reach the other night, long enough for an episode of Two and a Half Men to get 5 minutes in… That show is horrible. There is a laugh track every other line of dialogue, none of which was worthy of a laugh. Who actually enjoys that bile?
Sweeeeet! I LOVE this show! Can’t wait for it to be back on the air.
Eric people watch 2.5men because its a simple sitcom, it has little or any story arcs in the storyline, which allows viewers to pick up at anytime and watch without the worry of feeling lost on the shows progression. Its why Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Everybody Love Raymond, and a few others all went on for as long as they did, and why they all had huge audiences.
“why would that surprise anyone? Of COURSE they were going to move Heroes out of House’s way…”
…and right back into Two & Half Men and even 24’s line of fire. And now The Big Bang Theory DAMM!!!
Come on NBC bring closure to Heroes. This is too much.
Bill and Rob…are we going to have a guess Chuck’s rating experiment for it’s Sunday 2 hour premiere and Monday regular time slot? I’ve really enjoyed the ones you’ve been doing this fall (White Collar, V, The Prisoner) but they seemed restricted to just new shows. I think the dynamic of trying to predict Chuck’s number would be interesting since it’s a returning show, itt was on the verge of cancellation last spring, and it’s returning as a triple play…lots of variables to make it more challenging.
Wendy, I can guarantee enough Chuck related items on our site to make your head spin.
Chuck will not beat FOX or ABC, but it has a very good chance of beating CBS. Three Rivers (1.8) and Cold Case (2.2) are extremely weak. Chuck could easily beat those shows. But the important day will be Monday in its original time slot.
“Eric people watch 2.5men because its a simple sitcom, it has little or any story arcs in the storyline, which allows viewers to pick up at anytime and watch without the worry of feeling lost on the shows progression. Its why Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, Everybody Love Raymond, and a few others all went on for as long as they did, and why they all had huge audiences.”
Well, that and those shows were actually *good* (well, really ELR and 2.5 Men are about at the same mediocre par) But anyway, 2.5 (and CBS in general) does sitcoms the traditional way whereas ABC and NBC have moved on to single-camera, lack-track new-wave comedies. If Seinfeld was on today it probably wouldn’t have a laugh track, but it was trapped in the 90s when it had no option.
“Chuck will not beat FOX or ABC, but it has a very good chance of beating CBS. Three Rivers (1.8) and Cold Case (2.2) are extremely weak. Chuck could easily beat those shows. But the important day will be Monday in its original time slot.”
Well, for one of those two hours there’s nothing airing on FOX at all. And does it’s animation block get good numbers? I thought they were merely passable but made themselves cost-effective due to how cheap they are.
Quote: Bill Gorman says:
Wendy, I can guarantee enough Chuck related items on our site to make your head spin.
Boo-ya, and much thanks in advance!
Oh, and @Parenthood:
Whether Ausiello is a jerk or not, I have no basis for comment, but of the different websites I follow, he *did* have the info about Chuck up first. Just to be fair.
3 hours of Chuck in 2 days !! I think my head is going to explode. Thank you NBC for doing something right for a change. This news has made my day.
Chris by anyone’s standard The Simpsons and Family Guy have both been getting very good – great numbers so far this season. The Cleveland Show debuted strong but I can’t off the top of my head remember how its holding up. The only show in the block that’s questionable is American Dad but even then that’s not utterly terrible. Just a quick scan of the Renew/Cancel will probably tell you that the animation block is only behind House as Fox’s biggest shows of course that will change a little when Idol returns.
Well, maybe this time it was a Scoop for Ausiello.
Can they promote Chuck on CBS with spot during big bang theory?
My son is going to be soooooo happy (me too!)
Networks do not promote shows on rival networks. It just isn’t done. You might see an ad for CBS on USA. However, you would never see an ad for CBS on NBC.
Robert, what NBC Universal should do is promote Chuck on their sister cable network, USA. WHY WON’T THEY DO THAT????????????
House talk: As much as I love Thirteen and Taub, I think getting rid of the original team was a mistake.
Chuck talk: Good! Can’t wait.
Heroes talk: Improved this season (story-wise), and hope the ratings improve with it!
I was just kidding about the CBS promo Parenthood. But how much for those 30 second spots again CBS?
Sundays at 8 after football was what I was always hoping for! It actually surprises me that they are going to move it back to Mondays.
I think if NBC is smart they will push Chuck like hell during the NFL season. (largest number of eyes watching the Peacock, and most of them are already in Chuck’s demographic)
I heard that Chuck will air the Sunday for 2hrs then not return till the following Monday (not the day after). Apparently their doing a Heroes two hour event on Jan 4th 8-10. From Jan 11th it will be Chuck 8pm, then Heroes 9pm.
Awesome for me! Two hours each of Chuck and Heroes in two nights!
LostAtSea the dates for the Chuck return are in the title of the post…
The 2-hour Sunday return is January 10 with the timeslot return the next night, Monday January 11.
Ya know, maybe there should be a contest with Chuck’s pending return… oh, maybe a guess at where the ratings land, for example… with some Chuck prizes like season DVD sets (1 & 2), pics of the cast, soundtrack(s) (if they exist), an autographed script, a Chuck T-/sweatshirt, comic books… think NBC night help out with that?
WHY WON’T THEY PROMOTE CHUCK ON USA?? i APOLOGIZE FOR THE ALL CAPS.
WHY WON’T THEY PROMOTE THE NCIS RERUNS ON USA ON NBC?! WHY!?? WHY!???!
Bill
When you see the stuff I am going to send, your head is going to spin.
CRUD! I was off by four!
oh well…
Dan, technically you were only off by 3 because you forgot to count your own post
Do you think the NFL wild card game on NBC on the Saturday before, will help Chuck? Why or why not? I think it’ll definitely help. Why? Because Yvonne Strahovski appeals to male viewers. Who watches NFL? Mostly males.
Nice to know when it’s coming back. Nice selection of guest stars – except, no Summer Glau! Waaah!
For the 201st post, I’ll make mention that Zachary Levi (Chuck) and Jane Krokowski (30 Rock) will co-host NBC’s Christmas special this year.
Maybe Summer will show up in the newly minted extra episodes?
there was no mention of Julia Ling in this or the other Chuck post … does that mean no Anna Wu for season 3??
It’s looks like Julia Ling will not be coming back unfortunately. Anyway, Subway ought to promote Chuck at their stores. I wonder why they aren’t doing that. Maybe they plan to.
@parenthood. I would think/hope that Subway will do SOMETHING as far as promotion – even if only having some small posters up like we’ve seen for the premiere episodes of S3. They did that for some movie that they were associated with this past summer. Zach Levi was even at some Subway out in California.
I think a BRILLIANT plan would have one of the actors (Zach, Yvonne, Adam and all the rest) appearing at Subways in the downtowns of major cities (and thus major TV viewing markets) on a given day in advance of the return of the show. L.A., Chicago, New York, etc. That would get coverage – I would think – in the local media of each of those cities. Benefits Subway and CHUCK – a “win/win” for both.
We fans need to remember to continue to support Subway – especially on nights that CHUCK is on – and keep dropping in those comment cards or comment emails thanking them for sponsoring CHUCK. (and NO, I don’t work for Subway or have any connection whatsoever).
That’s it. PEACE, all!
@RSH – YES – Summer needs to come back to TV SOMEWHERE! Got through all of S1 and have of S2 of TSCC – and she is GREAT in it – just like she was in Firefly. Her range of facial expressions is simply amazing. People can say what they want about TSCC, either positive or negative, but the show would have not been anywhere near as good without her. She brought a “personality” to a robot – and did a da*n good job of it.
Having her show up on CHUCK would ROCK!!! Who knows? We’ll have six or possibly more episodes after the first 13.
Well, a great actress by the name of Kristin Kreuk will guest star. So, why not have another great actress by the name of Summer Glau show up on Chuck!!!!
Yeah Chuck!
Just saw this Season 2 DVD extra that Adam Baldwin linked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqEWRt8sBo
Enjoy John Casey explaining what it takes to be a “deadly spy”.
just seen the chuck promo during Notre dame game,awesome
again Chuck 3 season commercial during Nortre Dame game. oh yeah sarah looked great in white bikini
They promod it 3 times. Here is a new one as well. http://twitvid.com/2D3C4
Then they’re obviously serious about saving the show.
Long Live CHUCK!!!
January is going to be a great month, second half of Burn Notice Season 3 is back Jan 28th I believe.
Go Chuck go!
YIpppppeee. I am still so stoked about the return of Chuck. I predict it will beat its numbers last spring if NBC promotes and shows some key reruns.
Another brandnew promo on NBC Football Night in America, holy promoting NBC.
Chuck and Sarah stickfighting. Cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6MA0b3mLLI
If they’re promoting it during Football Night in America, then it shows that they are serious about saving Chuck. How many times did the ad run during the game on Sunday Night Football?
3 times tonight. A new 30 second clip in the pregame then two more during the game.
Just showed another new one. NBC has their game face on.
Well, if Chuck doesn’t make it out of a 3rd season, it won’t be for a lack of promotion. That’s for sure. Chuck fans, good luck on staying off of the bubble and enjoy the season.
I know that the writers had already written the first 13 episodes prior to the additional 6 episode pick up. Does anyone know how far they were in shooting when the pick up occurred? Because the writing staff was convinced they would only get 13 and wrote a complete story ending with a *bang* Just wondering how far shooting went ahead of the additional episodes?
They were on episode 11. However according to Fedak they are going to go with the original 13 and just continue from there. They are going in as season 3.2 and the back six will be a continuation of this.
By the way Ali Adler is writing 3.14 now. They have 3 weeks off then come back to shoot some more so they have plenty of time to get things in order.
Also here is all 4 promos in HD. http://www.youtube.com/user/rac2873
It had previews during Heroes last night as well. Granted that isn’t getting as many eyes as it used to.
Watched the clip. Hope they aren’t using the new abilities too much.
I’m a die-hard Chuckaholic – but I’m also in agreement with the folks who say that it’s time for the show to either “put up or shut up.” This is the make or break season. I have confidence that the writers are going to give us someting more than a repeat of the “other love interest formula” from season 2, even though the “O.T.I.” formula has been mentioned as part of S3.
Truthfully, I’ve spoken with some other folks (some of the few to whom I mention CHUCK who’ve actually watched the show and know what I’m talking about) and I’ve received the same response, which is basically this: “Tired of the on again/off again and will they/won’t they with the Chuck and Sarah thing.” (Maybe that works for teen-oriented shows, but I’m pretty sure that Chuck’s primary fan base isn’t teen-angsters).
Bottom line, so far what I’ve seen in the previews looks like it has the potential to be the most entertaining season yet. But this show will either live or die with what the writers put out this season. And if it dies, no excuses. It’s like baseball. Three strikes and you’re out. CHUCK is up at the plate with two strikes (seasons). If he can’t hit the ball out of the park – or at least hit a double (and some improved – even slightly – ratings) I think this will be the end – as much as that pains me to say it. And if it ends, it can’t be said that it was because it wasn’t given enough chances.
All I can say is, “GO CHUCK, GO!” for S3 – And hope for the best.
Yay for Chuck Season 3 on Jan 10th!