VIDEO: Chuck Cast, Co-Creator Say Thanks!

Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak and cast members Ryan McPartlin, Joshua Gomez, Zachary Levi, Adam Baldwin, Yvonne Strahovski and Sarah Lancaster send their thanks from the set of Chuck after we hit a million streams (episodes watched via ChuckMeOut.com) this week.

VIDEO: The Chuck Comic Con Panel

NBC has posted the Chuck panel from Comic Con 2009, minus the JEFFSTER! performance (licensing issues). This video will only work the U.S., so apologies to overseas fans for that.

Grab a beverage and a snack, and settle in to watch. If you want the true Comic Con experience, go stand outside for two hours, starting about 2 blocks down the street, and slowly walk to your house. When you get to your front door, let out a cheer and walk quickly (but don’t run!) to your computer, jostling imaginary people on the way to make sure you get the best seat.

PHOTOS: Chuck at Comic Con

While we sort out our own photos from Chuck at Comic Con, the professionals have been getting theirs up on Wireimage for us to view. A handful of photos from the panel are up, plus some from the Wired and EW/Syfy parties. If you have photos you’d like to share, send them to mel@chucktv.net along with how you’d like to be credited.

Chuck vs. Comic Con: Details Announced

With only a month to go until Comic Con, Warner Bros. has released some details about the Chuck panel. Here’s what we know so far: the Chuck panel will happen on Saturday, July 25, most likely at 10AM in Ballroom 20. Confirmed attending are Josh Schwartz, Chris Fedak, Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez, Ryan McPartlin, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Vik Sahay, Scott Krinsky, Julia Ling, Sarah Lancaster and Adam Baldwin. We’ll see a retrospective highlight reel (nothing from season 3 since they won’t have begun filming yet) plus “a special surprise from some of your favorite characters!” Can you say Jeffster concert?!? Also, Chuck cheerleader Alan Sepinwall will be moderating the panel, so you know it’s going to be extra awesome.

Liz, siskj and I will be there covering the Chuck-ness live. We plan to organize some sort of get-together for Chuck fans as well, possibly Saturday night. If you’ll be at Comic Con and are interested, leave a comment so we can get a feel for how many people want to meet.

Fedak Talks to SciFiWire; Zac Talks to Collider

We have a couple of interviews today, one from Chris Fedak who gives a lot of not new information about season 3 (c’mon, man!) and one from Zachary Levi who talks about Subway while playing with a baby.

Chris Fedak Talks to SciFiWire:

The creators of NBC’s Chuck aren’t about to let the audience forget about the show during its long hiatus until midseason—they’re planning some kind of Web presence, said Chuck executive producer and co-creator Chris Fedak.

“We’re talking to NBC now about what is going to be the super-clever idea to kind of bridge that time. It is going to be something on the Internet to keep fan awareness alive and remind people about the show,” Fedak told SCI FI Wire in an exclusive phone interview.

Fedak added that Chuck, which was picked up for midseason by NBC, may appear sooner than the expected March 2010.

Chuck is set to air in its same timeslot, on Mondays at 8 p.m. ET/PT. That’s good news for fans who lobbied NBC and key sponsor Subway for the show’s renewal. But with Chuck’s third season planned to premiere in March 2010, that’s a very long wait. “We’re excited to launch after the Winter Olympics and to launch also with NBC’s other new show [Day One]. But schedules aren’t written in stone for a reason. So you never know. Maybe you’ll see us sooner than that,” Fedak said.

(Read the entire interview here…)

Zachary Levi Talks to Collider:

Chris Fedak Discusses Season Finale, Season 3

Alan Sepinwall has a season 2 post-mortem interview with Chris Fedak, who also tries not to spill anything about storylines for the (potential) third season. WARNING: SPOILERS!

Chris Fedak Discusses The Rest of Season 2

Alan Sepinwall, possibly the biggest Chuck fanboy out there (we’re okay with that; this site is run by fangirls ), has an excellent interview with Chris Fedak following last night’s fantastic episode. Here’s an excerpt:

How long ago did you decide that Chuck’s father would be the creator of the Intersect?

We were on that page last season. At the earliest consideration of the show and the idea of who Chuck is, we thought about the mythology and asked ourselves: is Chuck Peter Parker or is he Luke Skywalker? Is he someone who randomly stumbled into this, or someone who was destined to get this power? For Chuck Bartowski, even though his father’s kept him away from it, that is the family business. It was a decision we made early on, going back to the conception of the series.

Well, while most of the reaction to last night’s show has been positive, there have definitely been people saying they’d much rather you stuck with the Peter Parker model.

I think the conceit of our show, going back to the Hellmouth logic of “Buffy,” is in some ways there’s a whirlpool of espionage that surrounds Chuck. It only goes so far — there won’t be a time where you find out that Ellie or Captain Awesome are spies as well — but there are things about his backstory, the idea that there was this larger story involving Stanford and Bryce and Jill, and Chuck is in some ways the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of that story. Our story is about a guy who, in most spy stories, isn’t the hero of the story, but in this crazy tale, he is.

Read the entire interview here…

WonderCon Videos and Photos

Chucksters converged on WonderCon today to see Josh Schwartz, Chris Fedak, Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, Joshua Gomez and Adam Baldwin talk about the show. Photos and videos are coming in thick and fast; we’ll try to keep up!

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Schwartz & Fedak to Appear at WonderCon UPDATE: Zac & Yvonne Now Attending

Chuck co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak are scheduled to appear at WonderCon in San Francisco on Sunday, March 1, to talk about Chuck and show an extended trailer for the rest of the season. More information at the WonderCon website.

Thanks Ivy!

Update 02.17.09: WonderCon admin have confirmed that Zachary Levi and Yvonne Strahovski will also attend the panel alongside Schwartz and Fedak. Book your tickets now!

Scoop from New York Comic Con – UPDATED: Video, Sepinwall

Chris Fedak, Josh Schwartz and Yvonne Strahovski graced the stage at New York Comic Con today, and the reports are starting to come in. So far our favorite is the live blog from the TV Addict. Here’s an excerpt:

11:45AM: The biggest mystery of CHUCK thus far is finally put to rest with Chris Fedak promising that the issue of whether or not Chuck gets paid for working for the CIA will be addressed in an upcoming episode.

Get the full scoop at TVAddict.com and be sure to visit the forum where discussion about the event has everyone in the Spoilers section in a tizzy!

UPDATED 02.09.09: Alan Sepinwall moderated the Chuck panel and has posted a recap from his perspective at his blog:

The panel opened with a special five-minute trailer for the second half of season two. It featured many of the guest stars you’ve heard about — Scott Bakula, Chevy Chase, Tricia Helfer, Arnold Vosloo, Jenny McCarthy and Jonathan Cake — lots of action, lots of skin from both genders (including Sarah having a fight in her underwear), lots of laughs (including what looks to be the high point of the Emmitt Millbarge era to date), and the usual heartfelt moments. In short, it looked great, and even my usual spoiler-phobic tendencies couldn’t overcome my delight at the sheer awesomeness of it.

Arnold Vosloo, people, ARNOLD VOSLOO! Sorry, Bakula and Chase may speak to my geeky heart, but I have this inexplicable love for The Mummy that outweighs the awesomeness of every other guest star on Chuck to date.

Meanwhile, back at the panel, thechairguy has posted several videos on You Tube. Check out this one where Yvonne talks about preparing for her fight scenes:

And here they discuss Yvonne’s wardrobe:

See more videos by going to thechairguy’s profile.

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