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NBC announced part of their 2009-2010 schedule this morning, but did not include news about Chuck. Additional series pickups will be announced May 19, when NBC announces its 2009-2010 schedule. On the plus side, Ausiello upgraded his take on Chuck‘s chances at a third season to “Safe bet”.  Keep sending in those letters to NBC, Chuck fans!

On the eve of NBC’s official announcement, we have an interview with Yvonne Strahovski, who was out of reach in Australia and would have loved to have been part of the rally podcast last week.  We also have lots of important news, listener emails, and a recap of how the fan campaigns have been going. We had way too much …

How’s this for a roller coaster day: Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood Daily is reporting that Chuck has been renewed and NBC will announce it officially on Monday (despite earlier reports that it might be another 1-2 weeks before the announcement is made). Finke never publishes definitive statements without plenty of confirmation, so we’re putting on our cautiously optimistic faces. …

EW’s Ausiello tweeted late yesterday that NBC might not announce their decision about Chuck‘s third season on Monday, but not to read too much into it. Now comes an article from E!Online quoting Zac (who quotes Josh Schwartz) that it could be a week or more before NBC makes the announcement: “I thought we were going to hear about it …

How’s this for a last minute push? WONKA®, maker of NERDS® candies, will soon be making a very special delivery to executives at NBC: more than 1,000 packs of NERDS (the candy, not the people) in support of Chuck! The idea to send NERDS came from co-creator and producer Josh Schwartz in an interview with The New York Times’ Dave …

Ausiello at EW.com checked in with Zachary Levi at last night’s Star Trek premiere: From Zachary Levi’s lips to God’s Jeff Zucker’s ears… Chuck‘s leading man says he’s feeling optimistic that NBC will renew his spy comedy for a third season. “I think the chances are good that we’ll come back,” he said at last night’s Star Trek premiere. “But …

Multiple sources are reporting that NBC will now make its announcement about which shows will appear on the fall schedule on Monday, May 4th instead of May 5th as originally reported. NBC will only release which shows they’re picking up for next season on Monday; the full programming schedule won’t be announced until May 18th. (We’ll keep the entry deadline …

Yesterday we posted a call for Chuck fans to post their Save Chuck pleas on CNN’s iReport website, and you responded more than any other show’s fans! Here’s a sample of the videos Chuck fans sent in, starting with Chuck vs. the Podcast‘s own Gray: Did you make a vid? Post the link in the comments!

Chuck won USA Today’s Save Our Show poll with a whopping 54% of people voting for a third season. USA Today reports that the number of voters in their poll was up sharply from last year’s poll. Now who could all those new voters be? Our renewal campaign is also being featured on CNN.com right now with an on air …

Thanks to our snappy new server, the Gallery is functioning properly again. We’ve uploaded the screencaps for episodes 2.19-2.22 to the Gallery for your viewing pleasure.

The fast overnight ratings for Chuck are in, and it’s another good news / meh news situation. I know we were hoping for a huge ratings jump based on all of the publicity leading up to the finale, but we didn’t get it. That’s the meh news. The good news is that Chuck held steady with an estimated 6.11 million …

CNN is working on a story about campaigns to save shows and they’ve asked Chuck fans to submit videos of themselves telling them why Chuck should be renewed. If you’d like to participate, go to CNN’s iReport page and submit your video. The deadline is tonight! Please remember that you could be picked as a representative of the fanbase as …

Can you believe that finale? If we weren’t already eager for a third season of Chuck, that would have lit a fire under our collective butts! We still have a week until NBC announces its fall schedule, so now what? Keep the momentum going, Chuck fans! Here’s a handy checklist of Watch/Buy/Share/Write campaign things to do today: Order Season 1 …

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!

We’ve added the song list from “Chuck vs. the Ring” to the Music section.