SUCCESS! Chuck Renewed For Third Season!

Multiple sources confirmed today that NBC will bring Chuck back for a third season consisting of 13 episodes. NBC will confirm this and announce when Chuck will air during their upfront presentation on May 19th. Unfortunately, to achieve this pickup, the show has to make some major budget cuts, including scaling back the number of episodes for some of the supporting cast and releasing two of the staff writers. A bit of a cloud on our silver lining, but at least we get more Chuck! Let the Nerd celebrations begin!

We want to take a minute to thank all of the fans who participated in the Watch/Buy/Share/Write campaign as well as the Finale & a Footlong campaign and the Have a Heart – Renew Chuck campaign. We are certain that the enthusiasm and intelligence exhibited with these campaigns had an impact on NBC’s decision, so a well-deserved pat on the back goes to each of you. We also want to thank the critics who joined the fans in championing Chuck, as well as the members of the cast and creative team who not only give us such a wonderful show but reached out to the fans to show their appreciation for our efforts. And special thanks to Chad who created most of the campaign graphics we’ve used, many of them without us even having to ask. When we launched the campaign effort in March, we hoped it would garner a little bit of attention but we had no idea it would become something of a phenomenon. Behold the power of Nerds!

Now that we are assured a Nerd Third, as Mo Ryan from the Chicago Tribune called it, we look forward to spending more time with Chuck fans during the summer hiatus. We have some plans for ways to keep the momentum going into the third season, as well as ways to keep ourselves occupied until September when we meet up again with Chuck, Sarah, Casey, Ellie, Awesome, Morgan and the entire Chuck clan. Stay tuned to ChuckTV.net for details coming soon.

Once again, well done, Chuck fans!

Updated 05.18.09 8:40AM CT: If you’d like to submit an iReport to CNN expressing your thanks to NBC and/or congratulating Chucksters on a job well done, please go to http://www.cnn.com/ireport/ and upload your video. As always, we advise writing out your comments ahead of time for best results. Let’s celebrate!