I’ll admit it, I was bracing myself for bad news this morning. Chuck aired against two major sporting events last night – Favre on Monday Night Football and the Giants clenching the NLCS – plus pre-emptions in several markets for local election debates, so I expected to see a significant drop. Guess what? In the face of such strong competition, …

We’ve updated the Music page with songs from Chuck episode 4.04, “Chuck vs. the Coup d’Etat”.

Joshua Gomez had some fun on Twitter last night. While the rest of us were watching the latest episode of Chuck, he was posting photos of his epic arm wrestling saga with the rest of the cast.

Kristin from E! has some Chuck casting call scoop this week, revealing a part that’s being cast for an upcoming episode (my guess is episode 4.10 or 4.11): Finley: Chuck is great this season. Any news on what’s ahead? Somebody’s going to stripper school! Chuck is casting for a pole-dancing class instructor. Ellie’s (Sarah Lancaster) pregnant, and preggos don’t generally …

The promo after tonight’s episode of Chuck has several fans in a panic, thinking we have to wait two weeks for a new episode. Fear not, Chucksters, we will have a new episode of Chuck next week, the Casey-centric “Chuck vs. the Couch Lock“. Linda Hamilton returns as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski in 2 weeks.

Are you excited to see Casey begin a relationship with his daughter? Well, we have a treat for you… Mel’s interview with actor Mekenna Melvin, who plays Casey’s daughter Alex Coburn. You’ll love hearing how she auditioned for the role with a single word, and how she works hard to make sure her stunt double has nothing to do! We …

TVBTN has the Live +7 numbers (those who watched live plus those who watched via DVR within 7 days of the original broadcast) for the Chuck season premiere, and they show a nice increase: Chuck had a Live+SD rating with adults 18-49 of 2.0 for its premiere on September 20, and a full week’s worth of DVR viewing pushed it …

The fine folks at Chuck This! have declared the rest of this month Chucktoberfest and invite all Chuck fans to join in telling advertisers thank you for supporting Chuck. Get the details of the campaign and find out how to contact advertisers here. Happy Chucktoberfest! P.S. Arby’s, thank you for supporting Chuck and for your yummy Arby’s sauce!

Chuck is finally going to air in The Netherlands! Dutch TV station Comedy Central will premiere the series, from the beginning, at 22.30 on November 10, 2010. The series will be in English with Dutch subtitles. Thanks to Stefan for the head’s up.

The returning guest star streak continues when Armand Assante reprises his role as Generalissmo Goya in tonight’s episode of Chuck: Chuck AND Sarah HAVE A COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN AS AWESOME IS REUNITED WITH SOMEONE FROM HIS BRIEF SPY PAST – ARMAND ASSANTE RETURNS AS GENERALISSIMO GOYA – TIA TEXADA AND MEKENNA MELVIN ALSO GUEST STAR – Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah …