Chuck

By Heather Salerno Well, everyone except Dan. (Hey, his turn is coming after Georgina returns next week: Yes – whoops, my bad, SPOILER ALERT! – I said Dan and GEORGINA…) Unfortunately, I didn’t feel much passion about any of these relationships, even – GASP! – Chuck and Blair.

By Brian Howard Chuck doesn’t return to the NBC airwaves for another seven months, but Remote Access readers apparently look forward to its return far more than the nearer premiers of The Office or Lost. That’s pretty unbelievable, when you think about it. OK, the vote totals are pretty low. Still, as unsci...

By Brian Howard As I rambled on about the other day, my love affair with the show has cooled off considerably in recent season. And while Season 5 had fewer plot missteps than Season 3 and was more consistent than Season 4, it wasn’t without warts. Losing Amy Ryan, making Charles Minor both uninteresting and...

By Brian Howard Even if Chuck isn’t back yet, the coolest fan campaign I’ve ever seen is. By the way, Chuck Me Mondays continue. If you’re on Twitter, join in every Monday evening and use the hashtag #freechuck to help implore NBC and the rest of the powers that be to free the early Season 2 episodes for online s...

By Brian Howard Chuck is my Monday night mainstay, but it’s slated for a March debut because NBC is stupid has other plans for that night. Still, I have about five more episodes in my Season 1 Look-Back to recap thanks to my recent hiatus, so I may begin filling the gap with that. Might not have enough weeks to pl...

By Heather Salerno We all know Chuck Bass is a womanizer, womanizer, oh, a womanizer, baby. Blair’s involved in this sudden turn of events, naturally. Bledsoe’s gay character is in charge of picking a student to deliver an important speech and – surprise, surprise – Blair is willing to offer up her boyfriend t...

By Brian Howard Speaking of Morgan, this is an episode I’ll show anyone who doesn’t fully appreciate what Josh Gomez’s character brings to this show. He was pitifully sympathetic in this one. The guy’s always had Chuck to bail him out, and he was lost without his friend. It was fitting that Ellie filled that r...

By Brian Howard I’d even forgotten that Sarah Walker is a cover in itself, as we’re reminded from her reintroduction to Carina (guest star Mini Anden) after they gratuitously (i.e. awesomely) fought in Sarah’s apartment. The theme of this season is that Chuck has to learn to trust Sarah, and that becomes re...

By Brian Howard For me, part of what’s been holding Chuck back has to be NBC’s scheduling and the network’s overall misfortunes. Chuck has had to fight to get noticed in Monday’s most overcrowded hour, and being yoked to Heroes as it struggles season by season hasn’t helped. The writers’ strike cutting off...

By Brian Howard Sarah and Casey are divided on whether that’s best for him. Ellie and Morgan are similarly divided as to what’s best for Chuck, but in a different way. La Ciudad: Uh, Mr. Carmichael. Chuck: Please, Chuck. Harry: Chuck, hiding from work again? Chuck: I think I dropped something. Go away, Harry.

By Brian Howard That was one bit of advice Chuck could have used in this, the third episode of Season 1 and the latest focus of Chuck Me Mondays. All summer, the fans are keeping the heat on Chuck, making sure the buzz of the renewal campaign doesn’t fade when the dog days roll by.

By Brian Howard Jonesing for Chuck spoilers? Well, this video doesn’t have any. But if you’re just jonesing for a Chuck fix, TVGuide.com’s Q&A with Vik Sahay should do the trick. At least it’s better than the only tangentially Chuck-ish news that Sarah Lancaster has scored a summer gig on TNT’s Hawthor...

By Brian Howard After all, if I’m blogging about a show it’s because I really like it. Otherwise I wouldn’t bother. So I’m predisposed to root for “my” shows. When they falter, it bums me out. The early spring episodes of The Office’s third season were particularly rough on me.

By Brian Howard So I was a bit taken a back when Sarah tore into Chuck near the end. Chuck: Everyone OK? Morgan: Yeah, just a little hungry, dude. You’re late. This was the point in the episode where Chuck employs his non-Intersect abilities, deducing where to find Sarah in a way that impresses even Casey.

By Brian Howard Go to wb.com at 9 p.m. ET and watch the second episode of Season 1, “Chuck Versus the Helicopter.” That’s the one where Casey doesn’t trust Sarah, Sarah doesn’t trust Casey, Chuck doesn’t trust either one of them and Morgan fails to score any of Ellie’s pot roast.

By Brian Howard Burn Notice and So You Think You Can Dance led the tally with 17 percent apiece, while Psych was close behind with 11 percent. Weeds and Entourage took 9 percent each. Most of the 25 or so shows listed received only 1 vote or no votes at all. Even Pushing Daisies, which is just running out its final...

By Brian Howard The Buy More crew got barely a cameo outside of Morgan, not surprisingly. He really is a good guy. He encourages Chuck to call Sarah and cheers him on when he lands the date. The very first sight we see of the show is him helping Chuck escape an uncomfortable situation, the party. And it’s Morgan wh...

By Brian Howard Chuck Me Mondays kicks off tonight, and my Chuck Versus the Hiatus flashback recaps start tomorrow. Chuck fans across the globe—seriously—will be tuning in to the pilot episode at 9 ET tonight via WB.com, their Season 1 DVDs and iTunes or other downloads. And as they do, they’ll be twitterin...

By Brian Howard Mel: We hope this will provide Chuck fans with an outlet for all that energy that was built up during the renewal campaign, and show NBC (and the media) that we’re not done supporting Chuck simply because we’ve been given our third season. The ultimate goal is to build a fan base for next seaso...

By Brian Howard I figured when I put this one up that I’d get an onslaught of angry Chucksters bemoaning the 10-month wait for new episodes. We asked the following: Chuck won’t be back for nine months, tempering fans’ enthusiasm over its renewal. How satisfied are you with NBC’s plans for the show?

By Brian Howard Personally, I started rewatching Season 1 at wb.com about three weeks ago, finishing up last night, and it’s as awesome as I remember. But then I rewatched a bit of “Chuck Versus The Colonel” yesterdday and was reminded how much better the show got in the second season. So I think this is going t...

By Brian Howard We had to repost the poll after a day after dueling Terminator and Chuck fans kept adding their shows to the list. Once we reposted it, we turned off the “Add Your Own Answer” option, and it was all set. The readers have spoken. Now go speak again and tell us what you think of the way NBC is handling t...

By Brian Howard I should be ecstatic that Chuck was renewed. But leave it to Alan Sepinwall, TV writer extraordinaire of What’s Alan Watching, for shining a little sunshine on my Chuck-induced malaise. His interview today with co-exec producer Chris Fedak is worth a read for every Chuckie out there.

 NY Morgan— His every storyline is a parallel to Chuck's latest superagent dilemma. He grounds his best friend in reality. He's the link between Chuck Bartowski: Stanford drop-out-turned-Nerd Herder and Chuck Bartowski: Home of the Intersect and defender ...

By Brian Howard Here’s the bad news: The 13-episode pickup came after Warner Bros. agreed to make significant budget concessions, including scaling back the number of episodes several members of the show’s stellar supporting cast will appear in and, per one insider, possibly eliminating one actor al...

By Brian Howard As of Wednesday morning, $13,255.92 had been donated to the American Heart Association in the name of Chuck Bartowski, the show’s title character. The favored charity of Chuck sponsor Subway mailed a donation acknowledgment card to NBC execs Ben Silverman or Angela Bromstad for each of t...

By Brian Howard “I hear a lot of “@^& Chuck You show soooo much love to Chuck, but, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a wayyyyyyy better show,” the Day Six installment reads. By the way, the LA Times’s breakdown lists Chuck as on the bubble still while Sarah Connor is dying.

By Brian Howard All I’ve got left is Thursday nights. I took on a lot of shows this season, both to blog about and recap and just to watch for enjoyment. But one by one, they’ve fallen by the way side, from Flight of the Conchords and Battlestar Galactica to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I gave...

By Brian Howard Nikki Finke claims Chuck’s return is tied to negotiations surrounding another WB project NBC isn’t so fond of. That also makes sense since Chuck got slaughtered on Mondays, especially after Fox replaced Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles with the ratings powerhouse House.

By Brian Howard “i love chuck please bring it back Chuck and Sarah rock” —Curtis ——- “PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE renew Chuck for another season!!!” —Digitalrick ——- ——- “I agree with Memphizmike….on NBC or another network, we will follow Chuck.” —Riggs ——-

By Brian Howard Michael Ausiello, the scoopmeister over at EW, reports NBC has unveiled a partial renewal list that includes Parks and Recreation, Heroes and Southland (Oy!), but no Chuck just yet. His source at the network says not to expect any news before May 19. (Double  Oy!) However, he saw that comin...

By Brian Howard Before I lay out the must-see lineup, I want to remind you all to check out PleaseSaveChuck.com for the latest on the efforts to save the best show on television. The NBC upfronts are Tuesday, so a decision on Season 3 is imminent. Watch the show on Hulu, buy a Subway footlong, send a letter to Ben...

By Brian Howard So I was reading about the Chuck season finale over at Time magazine’s TV blog, and a thought struck me. Time has blogs? About TV? No, not just that. The writer mentioned a catch-22 that may have confronted the show from the start in its bid to attract new viewers. The oddball brilliance of Chuck...

By Brian Howard In doing so, creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak threw down the gauntlet to NBC and absolutely dared the Peacock to anger a huge swath of viewers — many in the 18-34 and 18-49 demographics — by not immediately picking up Chuck for a third season. Bring back Chuck.

By Brian Howard Why, you ask? Oh, because of about a bajillion reasons: Chuck, Sarah, Casey, Morgan, Jeffster, the Buy More, Big Mike and Morgan’s mom, living with the Intersect, living without the Intersect, the Nerd Herd, Nerdmobiles and Captain Awesome.

By Brian Howard Between the brilliant pop-culture references and the oh-so-relevant geek humor, I can’t help but smile through every episode. Of the many shows I watch, it is at the absolute top of the list: ahead of my old stalwart The Office, the consistently excellent Friday Night Lights, and even 24 d...

By Brian Howard Back in February, with the second half of the season under way, I posted a poll here asking what season finale event readers most hoped for. Sure some of my options were a bit tongue-in-cheek. But is it too much to ask that Grey’s Anatomy have one episode, just one, in which nothing ridiculous h...

By Brian Howard And I never got that feeling again, not from The Office or from any other show. Until last night’s episode of Chuck: “Chuck Versus the Colonel.” That was just another reason why, as creator Chris Fedak warned, this felt like a finale episode. And a series finale at that.

By Brian Howard OK, I’m off the soapbox. If people won’t watch after an episode like last night’s, “Chuck versus the First Kill,” they might never watch. And Casey, while maniacal and single-minded, is a good guy. Once upon a time he might have put a bullet in Chuck as ordered. I don’t think that’s the case anymo...

By Brian Howard Of course, they tested that by having Chuck overpower Casey with a tranq gun. In reality, Casey would have snapped him in two before he got a dart off, but who cares? Chuck the spy was cool! Dorky, but cool! I could have used more Nerd Herd, though Jeff, Lester and Morgan were used to good effect.

By Brian Howard The episode put Chuck’s spy training on hold, unfortunately, while it dealt with the nagging question of how Sarah can continue as his handler while she and Chuck have such obvious feelings for each other. I love that Casey put protocol aside by the end of the episode and stood up for Sarah, d...

By Brian Howard Chuck Versus the Broken Heart — When Chuck (Zachary Levi) expresses his feelings about his complicated relationship with Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski), a heartless female agent named Alex Forrest (guest star Tricia Helfer) is sent to evaluate Sarah’s performance as Chuck’s handler. Mor...

By Brian Howard That’s heady stuff for an episode that featured Jeff’s bathroom stall office, petty store-on-store vandalism, Right Stuff and Untouchables mini-homages and the frightening sight of Morgan in bed as Big Mike gets busy with his mom on the other side of the wall.

By Brian Howard I don’t get what NBC is thinking. How is it possible Chuck, a funny, smart and fairly hip show that is growing a solid following is out on a limb right now waiting for word on a third season while the frustratingly uneven and reportedly expensive-to-produce Heroes has already punched its tic...

By Brian Howard Last week I thought Cole was an unnecessary plot device, planted in order to serve as yet another obstacle for Chuck and Sarah. After last night’s Chuck episode, “Chuck vs. the Lethal Weapon,” I have to say I hate to see the guy go. He proved to be more than a plot device. He was a [...]

By Brian Howard I could go on all day with what I liked about this episode if I wanted to, and I just might, starting with John Casey. (Adam Baldwin should be an even bigger star than he is. I’d plunk down $10 to see him open a movie.) By the way, did Chuck flash on Fulcrum intersect data now? Nice continuity from “Ch...

By Brian Howard Nice. And considering Chevy Chase, Scott Bakula and Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer will show up later this season, it was refreshing to have an episode with no distracting guest stars. Of course, Caprica Six is a distraction I don’t expect I’ll mind. And was it odd to see Anna and Sarah...

By Brian Howard I don’t see where the writers have much choice but to milk the romantic tension between Chuck and Sarah. They did it to pretty good effect in this episode, with Chuck telling Ellie at the end that he’s resigned to never having any more with Sarah than he already has. And her wistful stares tell u...

By Brian Howard I should have taken a shot at getting credentials for New York Comic-Con last week. If I had, I might have gotten to sit in as Alan Sepinwall (What’s Alan Watching?) moderated the Chuck panel featuring Yvonne Strahovski and co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Very lame of me to miss ou...

By Heather Salerno We knew Chuck’s would be, but where the heck is Dwight’s body? (When Dwight kicked the bucket because of Ned’s one-minute rule with Charles Charles was broken, Emerson put Dwight in the empty grave.) Or are they? Because the masked man is NOT Charles Charles. It’s NED’S DAD.

By Heather Salerno But really, the Captain is still a broke ass who wants to pretend-ransom Nate and his mom to Mama Archibald’s rich family so they’ll have money to live on. After talking to Chuck and Vanessa, Nate convinces his dad to turn himself in. The show is back on Dec. 1 with a winter-themed episode: It’s t...

By Heather Salerno I mean, my husband actually giggled for half an hour after Chuck uttered the phrase “piss-jitters.” HA! 2. Chuck and Olive playing dress up as undercover Chinese waitresses. 6. Chuck saying “piss-jitters.” Sorry, it was so funny I’ve just got to mention it again.

By msartwel@lohud.com It's been one year, 22 weeks and 4 days since the Piemaker brought a girl named Chuck back to life. Take last night's episode, which sent Ned, Emerson and Chuck to a circus. Yes, a real, live circus. As if life in Coeur d'Coeurs wasn't freaky enough.

By msartwel@lohud.com Larroquette would go on to star in his darker, self-titled NBC sitcom for 84 episodes, and continue to make a name for himself on other series—including recurring role on ABC's "Boston Public" that scored him one of his Emmys—but there's an entire generation of viewers who may not have ha...

By Chris Serico Knowing I'd get one or maaaybe two questions to ask "Chuck" stars Zachary Levi (Chuck, pictured right) and Joshua Gomez (Morgan, left) during Thursday's NBC conference call, I wanted to keep the subject light and veer from the typical reporter fare.

By Chris Serico Due to the WGA strike, I’m not sure how many episodes of “Chuck” are left in the vault right now (I’m guessing there’s just one more, since that’s how many of “The Office” remain), but the series is really hitting its stride. In my rundown of “Chuck vs. The Truth” after the break, I’ll go into mor...