Joshua Gomez Joins Twitter

Finally, we get the other half of the best spy team around on Twitter. That’s right, Joshua Gomez is now aboard the 140-characters train. Follow him!

See the complete list of Chuck peeps on Twitter here.

PHOTOS: ChuckTV.net at Comic Con

We’re on our last legs here, but wanted to share some photos from the NBC party tonight at Comic Con. We’ll also have a video later of us doing the peacock with Zachary Levi. If we didn’t break the camera filming it. Hey, we’d just spent 10 hours in Ballroom 20.

Zac & Josh Talk to Collider About Chuck, The Hobbit, Tron, E3

Collider caught up with Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez at the Saturn Awards last week and had a nice chat about everything from Chuck season 3 to Tron: The Legacy to The Hobbit to E3. Of particular note is that Zac confirms that they begin filming Chuck season 4 on July 19, the week of Comic Con.

Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez (CHUCK) Video Interview

Chuck Comic Con 2010 Panel Details

Warner Bros. just released their Comic Con 2010 details, including the scoop on Chuck at this year’s geek fest. The panel will be Saturday, July 24 @ 10AM in Ballroom 20. Confirmed to attend are cast members Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Adam Baldwin, Joshua Gomez, Sarah Lancaster, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vik Sahay, and Scott Krinsky, plus co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Alan Sepinwall and Daniel Fienberg from HitFix will moderate the panel.

A “special video presentation” is being touted in addition to the Q&A. They won’t have begun filming season 4 yet, so what could that video be? We will be on hand for both the panel and the press room to bring you all the scoop! Plus, we’re planning another Chuck fan get-together after 2009′s fun evening. In the comments below, please let us know when you’d prefer to meet:

• Thursday evening (7? 8?)
• Friday evening (7? 8?)
• Saturday evening (7? 8?)

For those keeping score at home, yes, 3 (former?) Buy More employees will attend. Also, if you are planning to go to Yvonne’s charity tennis tournament Saturday evening, you have plenty of time to get up to Los Angeles and get in a few practice swings.

Chuck: Declassified Mission – Monday, May 10

Chuck fans, are you ready to put the pedal to the metal? Are you ready for one last, week-long effort to let NBC know that we want to watch Chuck, Sarah, Casey, Morgan and the rest of the gang next season? We’ll be calling on you to engage in daily activities to make an impact this week, so be sure to check back every morning for your new mission.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Today’s mission: follow the instructions in the original Chuck: Declassified post and place a classified ad to run TODAY reminding people to watch Chuck live tonight on NBC. Zac and Josh’s baby is depending on you!

Another Chuck Round Up: Yvonne, Reviews, Zac’s Pregnancy Belly

It never fails: within hours of posting a Chuck news round up, so much more comes in that we have to post another one!

• Check out KWing’s review of “Chuck vs. the Other Guy” on You Tube. He gets a little worked up about the game controllers.
• The Sydney Morning Herald has a new interview with Yvonne Strahovski about her new film, I Love You Too, and working in Los Angeles.
• TVGuide.com has a brief interview with Chris Fedak about Chuck’s first (real) kill.
• E! News posted their segment featuring Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez from WonderCon, with Zac sporting his baby bump and Josh playing the proud papa.

Chuck News Round Up: Episode Reviews, Zac on Lopez, Interviews & More

We’ve had a few news items slip through the cracks recently, and more keep coming in, so let’s throw them out there in a quick round up!

• Mo Ryan posted an interesting interview with Chris Fedak and an excellent analysis of last night’s episode – Part 1, Part 2.
• Alan Sepinwall’s review is another we read regularly.
• Zachary Levi will be a guest on Lopez Tonight at 11/10c Thursday on TBS. (Thanks, Jessica!)
• Woefully behind on posting this one – Joshua Gomez was featured in TV Guide early in March, and they have the highly entertaining video from the photoshoot up on You Tube. (Thanks, D!)
• Don’t forget to vote for Chuck in E!’s Save One Show poll.

Chuck Takes WonderCon!

A Chuck convention experience pretty much defies description. The cast and creative team are always incredibly entertaining and mingling with other Chuck fans promotes a lovely sense of community. I wondered how they’d top last year’s JEFFSTER! appearance at Comic Con, but they did it. This year at WonderCon, the 2000 or so Chuck fans in attendance got to see what was originally the season 3 finale, “Chuck vs. the Other Guy”, a day before it aired on NBC, and it was amazing.

We’ve been asked not to spoil anything, simply to spread the word that tomorrow’s episode is a must see, and that I can say without equivocation. Action? Check. Humor? Check. Drama? Check. Romance? Check. It’s a Chuck episode that will not be watched passively. There will be cheering and awwwing and chortles and guffaws and YEAHS! and OMGs! aplenty. Even if you watch it by yourself. But you know what? Zachary Levi told us that the next episode, “Chuck vs. the Honeymooners”, is even better. The two week hiatus is going to be torture!

Now that the episode talk is out of the way, how about a report on the rest of the Chuck goodness today? Warner Bros. invited me to cover the press room and interview Chris Fedak, Zachary Levi, Joshua Gomez and Adam Baldwin, which is always a treat. We’ll have the videos up in our next podcast, so let me just hit some of the highlights.

• Adam was engaging in technology along with the rest of us, filming and taking photos with his phone.
• Zac revealed that they get a NO SPOILERS warning on every script, and for the finale they didn’t even get the last four pages until right before filming.
• Addressing the fans who were upset with some of what happened earlier this season, Zac once again promised that it would all make sense. He can relate, as a fan of Lost. By the way, Zac is a Jack/Kate ‘shipper.
• We informed Zac that “Charah” is totally passe and now it’s “Walkertowski.” ‘Shipper duty done.
• Adam joked that Casey and Sarah might share an air-kiss, then confessed that he actually hugs “others”. Josh then admitted that there is an “indavertent embrace”, which Zac had to top by reminding everyone that he’s kissed Adam. Good times.
• There was some sweet discussion about Chuck‘s place in pop culture and the show’s legacy. Josh said that when he gets recognized, it’s always with “joy”, not just “oh, that guy’s on TV”, which clearly touched him.
• Zac made Adam blush by telling him he looked good in a “Big Mike” suit.
• Adam’s niche is the “funny thug.”
• Chris said that the first 13 episodes this season were really about the Chuck/Sarah relationship. The back 6 episodes will focus more on the spy stuff and the Bartowski family.
• Asked if the finale was written as a season finale or a series finale, Chris said he likes to write a finale “as a prologue, not an epilogue.” In other words, he wants the story to continue off screen, even if we don’t get to see it.
• Because they already had one season finale (3.13) written before learning that they had another six episodes, they essentially got to have two season finales in one season. Chris reiterated that no one is safe.

After talking to us, the guys headed to another part of the room where the camera crews were set up for some of the bigger shows, like E! News. Thanks to Zac’s publicist, I was able to stick around and get some cool soundbytes for Chuck: Declassified, and see Zac strap on a pregnancy pad. Yeah, the gag he started about having Josh Gomez’s baby to get a fourth season? They’re working that and it is hilarious! Video should be forthcoming from E!, but I also snagged a photo and some video of them goofing off (and Adam Baldwin filming it himself).

Following the screening of episode 3.13 (again, WATCH IT!), the guys all came out on stage to talk about the show and answer some questions. Because we’d just seen the episode, there are some spoilers in the discussion so the video will have to be embargoed until Tuesday. Here are some non-spoilery highlights:

• The inevitable “tell us about pranks on set” question came up, which Josh answered with, “I play the prank where I pretend I don’t know my lines.” Adam said that Yvonne’s prank “is flatulence,” which brought a lot of laughs. Somehow that led to a discussion of the book Everyone Poops. Seriously, these things are indescribable!
• An old friend of Zac’s was in the audience, so they had a nice catch up moment.
• Chris clarified that they had already written the first 13 episodes before they got the order for the back six.
• Josh Gomez got huge cheers from the beginning, and many hurrahs for the progression of his character this season. This led to some funny stuff between him and Adam, including a little cuddling, resulting in a new ‘ship – Morgasey. Or Corgan.
• Josh Schwartz said they warned Brandon Routh before he even signed on for the role of Shaw to beware the wrath of the fans.
• Josh Schwartz and Chris both acknowledged the fan upset about “Chuck vs. the Mask.”
• Zac reminded us to watch Chuck LIVE. He then suggested that perhaps we need to figure out how to hack Nielsen.
• Nathan Fillion is not guest starring. Yet.
• Speaking of guest stars, Zac and Josh totally flipped out about Christopher Lloyd coming on the show (episode 3.16). Zac “may or may not call him ‘Doc’ in the episode.”
• The return of Julia Ling brought many cheers. Josh feigned hurt, “She broke my heart!”
• Asked if Casey will return to his fiancee and daughter, Adam tried to sidestep it by saying that often characters brought in so significantly do have some sort of resolution. “Plus we already shot that.” Sneaky!

Good times, as usual. Keep an eye out for more from WonderCon this week, including videos from the press room and the panel.

Chuck News Round Up: Josh in NYC, Laugh With MCL, Vote Chuck

Happy Chuck-day! We’ve got some bits and pieces of Chuck news for you while we wait for tonight and a new episode:

• E! Online’s annual Save One Show contest started today, and Chuck is one of the “bubble” shows included in the ballot. Be sure to read the instructions because they’re doing things a little differently this year.
• Joshua Gomez put in an appearance at the NBC Experience Store in New York City this morning. (Apologies for not posting that earlier; it fell through the cracks while I was traveling.)
• Mark Christopher Lawrence will host a comedy night at the Cygnet Theater in San Diego tomorrow night (Tuesday, March 30). Tickets are still available.
• Yvonne Strahovski is featured in the April issue of Saturday Night Magazine. Hi-res versions of the photos are in the Gallery.
• Zachary Levi accepted the Kids Choice Award for Best Movie on behalf of Alvin & the Chipmunks: The Squeak-uel, last night. Here’s a backstage interview with Zac after receiving the coveted orange blimp.

Joshua Gomez Talks About Morgan & Keeping Secrets

Chuck‘s Joshua Gomez sat down with Matt Mitovich from Fancast for a chat about Morgan, keeping secrets, and the rest of the season:

When did you first find out that Morgan would be learning Chuck’s secret?
I think it was between seasons. See, Morgan can keep a secret!

Were you happy with Morgan’s reaction? Do you feel it was true to character?
Yeah, I was happy we didn’t get bogged with, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me….” I think the fans feel the same way; so far, their reaction has been very positive. After all, it is pretty true to the character [to think,] “This is the coolest thing on the planet!”

What’s cool is that Chuck no longer has to lie to Morgan. The longer he did that, the less we tended to like him and the worse we felt for Morgan.
I’m glad to hear you feel that way. They wanted that to be resolved for a while, but you couldn’t do it too soon. Awesome found out last year, but he has so much more at stake with Ellie and the danger of all that. Morgan is the one guy who can be Alfred to Chuck’s Batman. He can make Chuck a spot of tea as he tells about his day. Awesome is a great character, but he’s not Chuck’s boy!

(read the full interview here…)

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