Great news for fans of Outsourced, The Event or Law and Order: Los Angeles, those shows have all been picked up for a full season by NBC. Getting what’s called the “back nine” green light means you will continue to see these shows for the rest of the current TV season. That is, if their ratings hold out.
In addition to these shows, a similar pickup for Chase is supposedly on the way as well as one for Chuck. Those announcements are expected later this week. Meanwhile, Undercovers is close to receiving an order for additional scripts but not additional episodes, at least for now.
In a statement about the decisions, NBC’s primetime entertainment president Angela Bromstad indicated that the network brass didn’t focus on the ratings when deciding what to do. “We are pleased with the quality of The Event, Law & Order: Los Angeles and Outsourced, and feel they are an important part of helping to re-build our schedule and our studio pipeline,” she said. “We believe in these new series and the creative auspices behind them.”
Let’s hope that’s true, especially in the case of Chuck and The Event, two shows we’ve definitely got programmed into The Flickcast’s office TiVo. As for the others, we’ve not really gotten into Law and Order and as Chris and Matt have expressed on the podcast, we’re not fans of Outsourced either. So, if those shows don’t make it we probably won’t be too disappointed.
Expect more developments such as this from NBC and the rest of the networks during the coming weeks.
Last year, we got the chance to catch up with one of the two funniest guys at Comic-Con, as Zach Levi and Joshua Gomez were in attendance prepping for the third season of Chuck. Due to an overwhelming response from the fans, and the huge support from Subway, the show was greanted another season, and is coming back again this Fall.
We got the chance to catch up once again with the cast, and most importantly, Chuck Bartowski himself, Zach Levi, at this year’s Con. Both he and his on-screen BFF, Josh Gomez, were pretty excited as we discussed the addition of Terminator’s Linda Hamilton to the cast as Chuck and Ellie’s mother.
Check out our interview with Zach after the jump, and be sure to keep it here for more news straight from Comic-Con 2010, and even some exclusive interviews with the rest of the cast of Chuck.
Last year, fans across the nation teamed up with the sandwich chain Subway to save NBC’s Chuck from getting canceled. NBC was touched by the amount of support from the legion of viewers that they were able to rework the show’s budget so it could stay on for another year. Now it seems like fans are getting ready to save the show from damnation once again.
Starting on Monday, fans will rally in cities like Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, and Philadelphia in “Buy More” clothing (The store that the titular character works at) in an attempt to bring awareness to the NBC series once again. From THR:
The idea is from fan site chucktv.net, one of those that spearheaded last year’s “Finale and a Footlong” campaign that made national headlines when fans bought sandwiches from “Chuck” sponsor Subway. While last year’s effort was about sending a message to NBC that fans will support the show’s advertisers, this year it’s about trying to market the show to potential viewers.
“Chuck fans are the most loyal, dedicated, imaginative and passionate fans any show could ever hope for,” “Chuck” co-creator Josh Schwartz said.
With every new year comes a few constants in the world of TV. There will be another Superbowl, there will be many more award shows, and yes: Chuck will be back. It was iffy for a while whether or not Chuck would actually make a return, a whole bunch of fans and an even bigger bunch of Subway sandwiches may have helped them back in May.
Now that the celebration of another season has calmed down, we’re now getting into the reality that the show makes it’s return to NBC with a special 2-hour season premiere next Sunday. With that in mind, we’ve got just the thing to get you excited for the show’s return: three brand-new clips from the premiere showing off Chuck and his new Intersect powers.
Last we left the team, Chuck (Zach Levi) became the vessel for his once-missing father’s (Scott Bakula) newest Intersect, which implants not only knowledge in the user’s brain, but vast depths of training as well. With that, it became the new mission of Agents Walker (Yvonne Strahovski) and Casey (Adam Baldwin) to protect Chuck once again.
Check out the three new clips after the jump. Be sure to catch the 2-hour season 3 premiere of Chuck on Sunday, January 10, at 9pm EST.
The dust has settled, the bar tabs and hotel bills have been paid and Comic-Con is a slowly fading memory of whirlwind good times, crowded floors, costumed fans, celebrities, new films and tv shows, comics, interviews, photos and a whole lot more. With all the sites covering the Con and providing a great deal of content, The Flickcast included, its sometimes hard for readers and fans to separate out, and in some cases find, all the stuff they want to take a look at.
We had a lot of great coverage from the Con this year and in order to do it, and its subjects, justice and bring it out into the light, I’ve put together a list of the highlights for you. With this, you can see what you may have missed or go back and experience some of it over again.
We will also be bringing you more interviews, reviews and more from the Con as the weeks and months progress and those projects get closer to being released.
But for now, click away, go back in time a bit, and enjoy some of what the Con, and The Flickcast, has to offer. Until next year.
Now that all the dust has settled, and San Diego Comic-Con is slowly becoming a fading memory, we wanted to bring our readers a look at some of the things we saw, people we talked to, and stuff we did during what we like to call NerdiGras.
We put together this little video to show you what we all went through last week, so check it out, and be sure to stay tuned for all of the interviews, specials, and news we have to offer you from The Flickcast team!
Two of the show we really like here at The Flickcast are Chuck and Heroes. In the past months we’ve brought you a lot of info about these two shows and will continue to do so as long as they’re on the air — which is hopefully a long time. We also got a chance to talk with some of the stars of Chuck during this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego. You can find those videos here and here.
Sadly, we missed the Heroes panel this time around (we can’t be in twelve places at once) but fortunately, our friends at NBC were nice enough to send us some video of the panel, which we’ve dropped here after the jump. They also sent us the Chuck panel as well and we’ve included that one too.
Heroes returns to NBC on Monday, September 24th and Chuck returns on a date TBD (but hopefully soon) . Check out both panel videos after the jump.
Great news for fans of Outsourced, The Event or Law and Order: Los Angeles, those shows have all been picked up for a full season by NBC. Getting what’s called the “back nine” green light means you will continue to see these shows for the rest of the current TV season. That is, if their ratings hold out.
Last year, fans across the nation teamed up with the sandwich chain Subway to save NBC’s Chuck from getting canceled. NBC was touched by the amount of support from the legion of viewers that they were able to rework the show’s budget so it could stay on for another year. Now it seems like fans are getting ready to save the show from damnation once again.
The dust has settled, the bar tabs and hotel bills have been paid and Comic-Con is a slowly fading memory of whirlwind good times, crowded floors, costumed fans, celebrities, new films and tv shows, comics, interviews, photos and a whole lot more. With all the sites covering the Con and providing a great deal of content, The Flickcast included, its sometimes hard for readers and fans to separate out, and in some cases find, all the stuff they want to take a look at.
Two of the show we really like here at The Flickcast are 
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