Post-Chuck Careers

You guys, I’m so excited! I was already stoked that ABC picked up The Astronaut Wives Club from Josh Schwartz (you know, the co-creator of Chuck) and Stephanie Savage, and now The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Yvonne Strahovski will co-star! Based on the terrific book by the same name, The Astronaut Wives Club is a 10-episode series coming to ABC …

We’ve been wondering what Zachary Levi was going to do next, and the news was worth the wait: Deadline reports that Zac is attached to executive produce and possibly star in a half-hour musical comedy, co-produced by Eva Longoria, called Tuned. Just so you know going in, there are a lot of qualifiers attached to this report, presumably because the papers …

Deadline reports that Ryan McPartlin has booked a recurring gig as Billy the Fireman on the upcoming NBC series Bad Judge opposite Kate Walsh. The comedy series follows Rebecca (Walsh), a “hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman” who also happens to be a judge in the criminal court system. Ryan’s Billy the Fireman will be a love interest for Rebecca. Bad Judge premieres October 2 on …

Already gracing our TV screens this summer in ABC Family’s Mystery Girls, Ryan McPartlin will next be seen in web series Sequestered, premiering August 5 on Crackle. (See Ryan on the left in the photo above, behind Summer Glau?) The 12-episode series follows a group of jurors confined to a hotel while deliberating a huge court case with life-changing implications. In addition …

Yvonne Strahovski stopped by Nerd HQ last weekend for a conversation with Zachary Levi and 300 fans who had a chance to ask her all sorts of questions about Chuck, Mass Effect, Dexter, 24, and more. Our own Cay was in the audience, live Tweeting during the conversation, but now you can watch it yourself!

Witches of East End is one of my newest guilty pleasures. The new-ish Lifetime series (season 2 is airing now, after season 1 wrapped in December) is a sometimes cheesy, always entertaining tale of a family of female witches and how they cope with their powers, threats both human and supernatural, and very complicated love lives. I’ve been a fan …

Last month Vik Sahay filmed the romantic comedy A Date with Miss Fortune in Canada alongside Jeanette Sousa, Ryan Scott, and Nelly Furtado. Plot details are scarce, but we do know that Vik plays Wilson, “a punchy, exuberant TV writer with a yen for sturdy, handy women”. The independent film is currently scheduled for release in 2016. Thanks to Vik …

Chuck co-creator and executive producer Chris Fedak will be overseeing a new series this fall: ABC’s Forever, starring Ioan Gruffudd. Deadline reports that Fedak will join the show as an executive producer, reuniting with Forever creator/executive producer Matt Miller, another former Chuck writer/executive producer. (Miller also co-created the CW’s sci-fi hit The 100 which was renewed for a second season.) …

Mystery Girls, a new series on ABC Family, premiered last night. I wasn’t the least bit interested in it, until Ryan McPartlin posted on Twitter that he’ll play a recurring character. Now I have to check it out just to support Ryan. Here’s the official show synopsis: Charlie Contour (Jennie Garth) is a suburban housewife and mother, while Holly Hamilton …

Michael Bay, well-known and well-respect executive producer of action movies is branching out and working on TNT’s latest show The Last Ship, premiering Sunday, June 22 at 9/8c. The show looks at a post-apocalyptic world after a deadly virus has killed nearly eighty percent of the population. One remaining Navy Destroyer remains, having been on assignment with the one doctor who …