Chuck is an action-comedy television
program from the United States created by
Josh Schwartz and
Chris
Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door"
who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now
working in the
CIA; the
message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy
secrets into Chuck's brain.
Produced by College Hill Pictures,
Wonderland Sound and Vision and
Warner Bros. Television, the series premiered on
September 24, 2007, on
NBC, airing on Monday
nights at 8/7c leading into
Heroes. Despite receiving a full
season pickup, the first season contained only thirteen episodes;
production was stalled due to the
2007–2008
Writers Guild of America strike. The second season started on
September 29, 2008, with a full 22-episode season order. NBC
released the first episode of season two a week before its air date
via multiple online distribution methods, and cable on
demand.
After a two-month "Save Chuck" campaign mounted by fans,
Chuck was renewed for a third season with a
thirteen-episode order that was subsequently extended to nineteen
episodes. A major sponsorship deal between NBC and the
Subway restaurant chain was also
announced to help cover costs of the third season. NBC announced on
November 19, 2009 that season 3 of Chuck would premiere on Sunday,
January 10, 2010 with a two hour premiere at 9/8c before moving to
its permanent timeslot of Mondays 8/7c.
Plot
Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a twenty-something in Burbank, CA
who works as a computer expert at the Nerd Herd at his local Buy More (a parody of
Best Buy's Geek
Squad), a large retail consumer-electronics chain, with his
best friend, Morgan Grimes (Joshua Gomez). Chuck's sister
Ellie (
Sarah
Lancaster) is a doctor who is constantly encouraging him to
make progress in his professional and romantic life. Also joining
the cast is Ellie's now-husband,
Devon
"Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (
Ryan
McPartlin), also a doctor looking out for Chuck's social life.
On the night of his birthday party, Chuck receives an e-mail from
Bryce Larkin (
Matthew Bomer), his former Stanford University
roommate, who is now a "rogue"
Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) agent. When he opens it, the entire database of all the US
government's secret information—a neural supercomputer called
The Intersect—is subliminally embedded
into his brain.
Both the National Security Agency
(NSA) and the CIA want the intelligence returned to
them and dispatch agents of their own—Major John Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski)—to retrieve the
data.
Since the information was stolen by Bryce and the government's copy
destroyed in his attempted escape, and since Chuck experiences
"flashes" of information from
the database activated by certain triggers around him (such as
faces, voices, in-context keywords, and various objects), he must
use the knowledge he now possesses to help the government thwart
assassins and international terrorists—upending his previously
uneventful life. In order to preserve their safety, Chuck must keep
his newfound occupation a secret from his family and friends,
forcing Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance and secret
identities; Walker poses as Chuck's girlfriend and takes a cover
job at the local restaurant next to the Buy More (formerly
Wienerlicious, currently Orange Orange) while Casey gets a job at
the Buy More, with the shared goal of protecting Chuck at all
costs.
In the meantime, the government attempts to rebuild the Intersect
computer. As it nears completion, Casey is ordered to kill Chuck as
soon as the new Intersect is ready. However, in the premiere of
season 2, it is sabotaged, keeping Chuck alive.
As the series progresses, it is revealed that Bryce is still alive
and that a rogue spy agency called "
Fulcrum" is searching for the Intersect,
which they believe to still be in the possession of Bryce, not
Chuck. Several Fulcrum agents have independently discovered that
Chuck actually is the Intersect, but all have been apprehended or
killed before they could pass the information on.
It is also revealed that Fulcrum is attempting to build its own
Intersect, and that Fulcrum believes the CIA has stopped trying to
rebuild its own. In the episode "
Chuck Versus the Suburbs" (February
16, 2009), the collection of all secrets from Fulcrum's own
Intersect testbed project was implanted into Chuck's head.
Eventually, (presumably) all of the Intersect information is
removed by Chuck's father and the Intersect's chief inventor,
Steven Bartowski (a.k.a. "Orion",
played by
Scott Bakula); however, in
the second season finale "
Chuck
Versus the Ring" (April 27, 2009), Chuck voluntarily uploads
the
newest version of the
Intersect into himself which allows him to flash on
other skills à la
The Matrix, rather than just the
raw
information and
computation
of the earlier Intersect.
Cast and characters
Production
Conception
Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak wrote
the script for the first episode which was initially given a
put pilot commitment by
NBC before a pilot order was green lit by the network in
January 2007.
Schwartz and Fedak both attended the University of
Southern California
and the latter pitched the idea to Schwartz who
agreed to develop the project with him. Joseph McGinty Nichol, Schwartz's
fellow executive producer on
The
O.C., directed the first hour of the series and
consequently became an executive producer via his production
company,
Wonderland Sound
and Vision. Fedak, Peter Johnson, Scott Rosenbaum, Matthew
Miller and
Allison Adler also serve as
co-executive producers. NBC gave the series an early pick-up and a
thirteen-episode order on May 10, 2007. On November 26, 2007,
TV Guide reported that NBC had picked up
the series for a full, 22 episode season.
Casting
Zachary Levi and
Adam Baldwin were the first two to be cast in
February 2007 in the roles of Chuck Bartowski and veteran NSA agent
Major John Casey, respectively. Fedak always had Baldwin in mind
for the role of John Casey and the producers found that the actor
was a "perfect fit" for the character during the first casting
session. Relative newcomer
Yvonne
Strahovski was chosen for the female lead role of
CIA officer Sarah Walker in the
same month. Casting continued throughout
March with
Sarah
Lancaster,
Joshua Gomez, and
Natalie Martinez landing the parts
of Dr. Ellie Bartowski (Chuck's older sister), Morgan Grimes
(Chuck's best friend), and Kayla Hart (Chuck's neighbor and love
interest), respectively. The Kayla Hart character was dropped
before filming because creators
Chris
Fedak and
Josh Schwartz found it
unlikely and too complicated to the storyline that two women would
be pining over Chuck. Morgan's surname was later changed to
"Grimes" and Sarah's surname was changed to "Walker" as it was
previously "Kent".
Reception
Ratings
Despite heavy promotion from NBC and soaring critical reviews,
Chuck has suffered in domestic ratings due to stiff
competition of established hits from ABC (
Dancing with the Stars), FOX
(
House), and CBS
(
How I Met Your
Mother,
The Big Bang
Theory) in the Monday 8:00–9:00 pm ET timeslot. Its
ratings have also been affected by the
2007–2008
Writers Guild of America strike in the first season and
President
Barack Obama's prime time
news conference that led to the show being preempted for a week in
the second season, shortly after NBC had done heavy promotion for
the show around the Super Bowl.
| Season |
Timeslot (EDT) |
Season premiere |
Season finale |
TV season |
Rank |
U.S. viewers
in millions |
| 1 |
Monday 8:00 pm (September 24, 2007 – December 3,
2007)
Thursday 8:00 pm (January 24, 2008)
Thursday 10:00 pm (January 24, 2008) |
September 24, 2007 |
January 24, 2008 |
2007–2008 |
#65 |
8.68 |
| 2 |
Monday 8:00 pm (September 29, 2008 – April 27,
2009) |
September 29, 2008 |
April 27, 2009 |
2008–2009 |
#71 |
7.36 |
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Rolling Stone (1035):44
- Bianco, Robert (September 7, 2007) "10 picks for 2007". USA
Today.
- Bianco, Robert (September 24, 2007), "'Chuck' comes to fall
season's rescue". USA Today.
- Flynn, Gillian (September 28, 2007). "Geek Squad".
Entertainment Weekly. (956):93-94
- Pastorek, Whitney (December 7, 2007), "BATTLE OF THE BOX
STORES". Entertainment Weekly. (968):69
Critical reception
Early reviews for
Chuck were strong.
Rolling Stone magazine included the show
on its Fall 2007 "We Like to Watch" list, saying the show "wipes
the floor with the other fall debuts."
Chuck landed on
USA Today's list of the "10 Picks for 2007", and they
called Levi's performance "incredibly winning", giving the comedy
three-out-of-four stars.
Chuck drew numerous comparisons
to another critically-acclaimed comedy that debuted in Fall
2007—
Reaper—which also
starred a twenty-something underachiever who works in a large
retail, "
big-box" store (Work Bench)
and is drawn into heroism against his will.
As the year 2008 drew to a close, the show received further
critical acclaim. In December of that year
Time magazine named the show one of the
top 10 TV series of the year. It also made the year-end top 10 list
of the
Chicago Tribune,
Television Without Pity's list of
TV Shows We Wish More People Watched,
The Star-Ledger's
Top TV shows of
2008 (#4),
The Miami Herald's
TV's Top 5 list,
The New
York Observer's
Top 10 TV Shows of the Year (#6), and
the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
mentions
Chuck as one of the few bright spots in
television in 2008.
The
Chicago Tribune's Maureen Ryan wrote that "the show
pays attention to the mechanics of storytelling and doesn't just
try to coast on the comedy." She continued, "[Given] the level of
attention paid to all those other things—emotion, suspense,
plotting, character—
Chuck ends up being one of the TV
scene's greatest pleasures at the moment."
Television Without Pity's Angel
Cohn finds
Chuck to be a well-written show, saying "it
features some of the smartest and most quick-witted dialogue on
TV". He praises the ensemble cast and notes "while the first season
was good, this show has really hit its stride in its second
season." James Poniewozik of
Time magazine says the show is a
"delight" and that with the second season the "new episodes quickly
jump back in, with higher stakes and sharper jokes."
The Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall calls
Chuck "the most purely entertaining show currently on
television, whether you're talking network or cable." He states
that "what makes
Chuck so special ... is that there's a
fundamental warmth and humanity underneath the jokes", with "a cast
of appealing characters played by very good actors."
Awards
Season 1 of
Chuck enjoyed much formal recognition. The
program was mentioned multiple times in
IGN's
2007 year-in-review awards. Along with winning the honor of Best
New TV Series, Sarah Walker won the award for best TV character,
and Chuck and Sarah as a couple won the "Couple That We Rooted for
the Most" award.
Chuck was also nominated for "Best New TV
Comedy Series" at the 2008
People's Choice Awards, which aired
on January 8, 2008, but lost to
Samantha Who? The series stunt
coordinator Merritt Yohnka won the 2007-2008
Primetime Emmy for "Outstanding Stunt
Coordination".
Chuck was also nominated for "Outstanding
Main Title Design" in 2007, but didn't win. Merritt Yohnka also won
the 2008-2009
Primetime Emmy for
"Outstanding Stunt Coordination", back-to-back wins for the same
award. In 2009, the series won the
Ewwy
Award for Best Comedy Series.
Campaign for series renewal
Despite being one of the first series to be renewed by NBC for the
2008-2009 television season,
Chuck was classified as a
show "on the bubble" between renewal and cancellation in April 2009
after NBC decided to delay its decision on its renewal for a third
season until early May. The show's second season did not improve on
or maintain the audience numbers received in the first season and
has consistently obtained low ratings, making it one of the
least-watched shows in its Monday 8:00 pm ET timeslot.
Concerned that the show would not be renewed for a third season,
fans launched a "Save Chuck" campaign that gained momentum with the
use of social-networking websites like
Twitter and
Facebook.
Fansite ChuckTV.net launched the first organized fan effort, the
Watch/Buy/Share campaign, on March 18, 2009; a letter writing
campaign was later added to the effort. The week of April 6, 2009,
television blogger Kath Skerry changed the name of her website
GiveMeMyRemote.com to GiveMeMyChuck.com and used Twitter to notify
her readers to support the show, prompting television columnists
Alan Sepinwall of
The
Star-Ledger, Maureen Ryan of
Chicago Tribune and Josef Adalian of
TelevisionWeek to write
Chuck-related news on their websites and Twitter feeds.
Sepinwall also wrote an open letter to NBC on reasons for renewal,
while Ryan encouraged fan support by listing the various ways in
which they could contribute to the campaign to save
Chuck.
One fan, Wendy Farrington, was inspired by a product placement in
second season episodes to organize a campaign to purchase
"Footlong"
submarine sandwiches
from
Subway on the air date of
the second season finale.
This movement gained support from various
cast and crew members, with actor Zachary
Levi seen leading hundreds of fans to a Subway restaurant in
Birmingham
, England
.
Members of the show's cast and crew participated in a special
"rally cry" episode of Chuck vs the Podcast on April 24, 2009, just
before the season finale, to encourage fans to keep the campaign
going and thank them for their support. On the campaign, co-creator
Josh Schwartz remarked that it "has
been one of the most amazing experiences of [his] life to witness —
and certainly the most creatively gratifying". Other fan efforts
include the "Have a Heart, Renew
Chuck" campaign,
involving
Chuck fans donating money to the
American Heart Association on
behalf of NBC. By the NBC
upfront on May 19,
2009 over $17,000 was raised.
The campaign also prompted press and media coverage, with
The Hollywood
Reporter calling
Chuck one of the "most discussed
bubble show[s] online". Linda Holmes, writing for
NPR, noted the support the campaign
has received from both fans and critics, and comments: "It's very
common for chasms to open between critics and viewers... But here,
critics find themselves passionately advocating for something
that's extraordinarily enjoyable to watch." James Poniewozik of
Time magazine wrote about
the efficacy of save-this-show columns and fan protests, saying,
"The sad fact of advertising-supported television is that, unlike
cable, it still rewards breadth, not depth, of viewership. Four
million people who watch a show really hard are still just four
million people to an ad buyer. Unless they spend money." He stated
that the "Finale & Footlong" campaign was a far more effective
way to demonstrate support since Subway is one of the show's major
sponsors. However, Josh Bernoff of
Advertising Age remarks, "Thousands of
visible, loyal viewers does not equal millions of actual viewers.
Objects in the groundswell may be smaller than they appear. People
who congregate online are not a representative sample."
In support of the show,
Nestlé sent more
than 1,000 packs of its
Wonka Nerds candy to NBC after Josh Schwartz made
such a suggestion to fans in an April 20, 2009 interview with
The New York Times.
Additionally,
Chuck won the annual "Save Our Shows" poll
by
USA Today in which 43,000
people voted, topping the poll with 54% of respondents favoring
renewal, beating other bubble shows such as
Cold Case (45%) and
Without a Trace (41%). The petition
campaigns were also mentioned on the May 12, 2009 episode of
The Daily Show with
Jon Stewart.
NBC's decision to renew the show for a thirteen-episode third
season was announced on May 17, 2009. Both NBC's
Ben Silverman and co-creator
Chris Fedak have confirmed that the option
remains for a pickup of nine more episodes. Although Silverman has
claimed that NBC is not looking to lower costs, Schwartz has stated
that series production studio Warner Bros. Television had asked the
producers to make budget cuts to meet a decrease in the license fee
by NBC. Silverman, Fedak and Schwartz have all stated that the
show's quality will not be impacted.
On October 28, 2009, numerous media sources began to run reports
that NBC had picked up an additional six episodes.
Broadcast and distribution
Broadcast history
The first
showing of the pilot occurred on July 27, 2007 at Comic-Con International in San Diego
. The series was originally slated to air on
Tuesday nights at 9PM/8c as announced at the 2007
Upfronts but this was later changed to Monday
nights at 8PM/7c as announced during the 2007
Television Critics
Association summer press tour. The season premiere aired on
September 24, 2007 on
NBC. The pilot was leaked
onto
torrent websites on July 22, 2007. All
thirteen episodes produced before the
2007 Writers Guild of
America strike have aired. The last two episodes of the
original thirteen aired on January 24, 2008, with episode 12 airing
at 8PM/7c and episode 13 at 10 pm/9c, three days after they
aired in Canada.
Season Two premiered on September 29, 2008. While the series
originally had a 13 episode order, NBC ordered another nine,
ensuring the series will get the full 22-episode treatment. The
theme song is "
Short Skirt/Long
Jacket" by
Cake.
On February 2, 2009, Chuck became the first scripted television
series in the U.S. to broadcast a full-length
3D television episode. The episode was
broadcast using the
ColorCode 3D
stereoscopy system, and could be viewed by wearing a pair of
glasses distributed as part of a national promotion for the movie
"
Monsters Vs. Aliens," which was sponsored by
Intel.
International distribution
| Country |
TV network(s) |
Weekly schedule (local time) |
Argentina |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
Aruba |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
| Australia |
FOX8 |
8:30 pm Wednesdays EST (Season 1) – Premiered April 1,
20098:30 pm Thursdays EST (Season 2) |
Barbados |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Belgium |
VT4
la deux |
6:35 pm Sundays
6:40 pm Saturdays |
Bolivia |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Brazil |
Warner Channel (subtitles
portuguese)
SBT (dubbed version)
|
Six-month window past NBC broadcast
6:00 pm Sundays |
Canada |
Citytv
/>
Space
/> Ztélé (French
version) || Simulcast with NBC broadcast
/> 10:00 pm Thursdays
/> Ztélé: 09:00 pm Wednesdays (with repeats) |
Chile |
Warner Channel |
10:00 pm Sundays |
Colombia |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
Costa
Rica |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Croatia |
RTL Televizija |
10:30 pm Tuesdays (Season 1) |
Curaçao |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Czech Republic |
Prima Cool |
8:15 pm Wednesday (Season 1) – Premiered April 1,
2009 |
Denmark |
6'eren |
9:00 pm Thursday |
Dominican Republic |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Ecuador |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
El Salvador |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Fiji |
Maitv |
8:00 pm Mondays |
France |
TF1 |
2:15 pm Sundays (Season 1 premiered November 9, 2008.
Season 2 in progress.) |
Germany |
ProSieben |
5:00 pm Saturdays (Premiered August 22, 2009.) |
Greece |
Star Channel |
5:45 pm Saturdays-Sundays(Season 1) |
Guatemala |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Honduras |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Hong
Kong |
AXN (Pay-tv)
TVB J2 (Free-to-air) |
11:00 pm Thursday
1:00 pm, 10:30 pm Sunday – Premiered May 2008 |
Hungary |
RTL Klub |
9:20 pm Tuesdays - Premiere July 14, 2009 |
Iceland |
Stöð 2 |
9:10 pm Tuesdays |
India |
AXN |
10:00 pm Wednesdays, 7:00 pm Saturdays |
Indonesia |
AXN |
8:00 pm Mondays |
Ireland |
TV3 / 3e |
Premiered June 7, 2008, Now shown @ 8pm Saturday nights on
sister Channel 3e |
Israel |
HOT Zone |
5 pm Wednesdays – Premiered January 7, 2009 |
Italy |
Steel (Pay-tv)
Italia 1 (Free-to-air) |
9:00 pm Sundays — Premiered June 22, 2008
10.45 pm Tuesdays — Premiered June 9, 2009 |
Lithuania |
TV1 |
6:00 pm Saturdays and Sundays — Premiered August 2,
2009. Only first season aired. |
Malaysia |
AXN |
9:00 pm Tuesdays |
Mexico |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
New Zealand |
TV2 |
9:30 pm Wednesdays — Premiered June 18, 2008 |
Nicaragua |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Norway |
Viasat4 |
9:35 pm Mondays — Premiered August 18, 2008 |
Pakistan |
AXN |
9:30 pm Wednesdays, 6:30 pm Saturdays |
Panama |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
Paraguay |
Warner Channel |
6:00 pm Sundays |
Peru |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
Philippines |
AXN
C/S
Jack TV |
9:00 pm Mondays
9:00 pm Thursdays
10:00 pm |
Poland |
TVN Siedem |
1:00 pm Sundays (Season 2) |
Portugal |
RTP2 (Free-to-air)
AXN (Pay-tv)
RTP1 (FTA reruns) |
10:40 pm Wednesdays
22:30 pm Fridays
3:00 pm Sundays |
Romania |
Pro TV |
11:45 pm Mondays to Thursdays — Premiered August 20,
2009 |
Saint Lucia |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Singapore |
AXN |
9:00 pm Mondays |
Slovenia |
Kanal A |
10:45 pm Fridays–Sundays — Season 1 premiered September 4,
2009 |
Spain |
TV3
Canal 9
Calle 13
TPA |
10:50 pm Thursdays
08:00 pm Saturdays and Sundays
9:30 pm Thursdays
Tuesdays 23:15 |
| South Africa |
M-Net |
7:30 pm Tuesdays — Premiered June 4, 2008 |
Sri
Lanka |
AXN on DialogTV |
06:30 pm Mondays — Premiered May 5 |
Suriname |
Warner Channel |
8:00 pm Sundays |
Sweden |
TV6 |
8:00 pm Mondays |
Switzerland |
SF2 |
6:45 pm Monday to Friday (Season 1) |
Taiwan |
AXN |
9:00 pm Tuesdays |
Thailand |
AXN |
9:00 pm Mondays |
Trinidad and Tobago |
NBC-e |
8:00 pm Mondays (Season 2) |
Turkey |
CNBC-e |
8:00 pm Tuesdays (Season 1)8:00 pm Mondays (Season
2)8:00 pm Mondays (Season 3 will start in March 2010) |
United Kingdom |
Virgin1 |
10:00 pm Mondays (Season 1) — Premiered April 7,
2008
9:00 pm Tuesdays (Season 2) — Premiered June 9, 2009 |
Uruguay |
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Sundays |
United States |
NBC |
8:00 pm Mondays, 7:00 pm Central time |
Venezuela |
Venevisión
Warner Channel |
7:00 pm Thursdays — Premiered 10 February
7:00 pm Sundays |
Online distribution
In the U.S., the entire first season is available for purchase on
the
iTunes Store, as well as the
Playstation Network and
Xbox Live Marketplace. In an
aggressive marketing campaign by NBC, the pilot episode was
released across a broad range of media from
satellite broadcasting to popular
social networking websites such as
Facebook, shown on
United Airlines flights, freely distributed
on
video on demand on about 30 cable
and satellite systems including
Comcast,
Time Warner Cable,
Cox Communications and
Dish Network, on
Yahoo,
and from
Amazon Unbox.Also, prior to
the airing of
Chuck in the United Kingdom the pilot
episode was released as a free temporary download on iTunes. A full
week before the second season premier in the US, iTunes offered a
free download of the first episode as a 'pre-aire premiere', this
promotion was also available on the Xbox live marketplace. The
second season is also available for purchase in the
iTunes Store.
Home media
| Name |
Release dates |
Ep # |
| Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 4 |
| The Complete First Season |
September 16, 2008 (DVD)
November 11, 2008 (Blu-ray Disc) |
August 18, 2008 |
November 12 2008 |
13 |
| The Complete Second Season |
January 5, 2010 |
October 5, 2009 |
TBA |
22 |
Both the
DVD and
Blu-ray
Disc box sets are distributed by
Warner Home Video.
The DVD and Blu-ray Disc box sets of
The Complete First
Season contain the same special features: deleted scenes
("Declassified Scenes"); "Chuck's World—an inside look at character
development and casting sessions"; "Chuck on Chuck"—commentaries by
Zachary Levi,
Joshua Gomez,
Josh
Schwartz and
Chris Fedak; bloopers
("Chuck vs. the Chuckles"); and "Chuck's Online World—a gallery of
web originated mini-featurettes".
On October 28, 2009, Warner Home Video announced that the second
season of
Chuck will be released on January 5, 2010. Like
its predecessor,
Chuck: The Complete Second Season will be
available in both DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats.
Other media
Marketing
In May 2007, NBC announced that their official website would launch
"MyNBC" allowing users to be more interactive with selected shows.
MyNBC will allow fans to delve inside Chuck's "brain" which will
host hot spots of top-secret government information that the title
character possesses. It will also have bonus video features. In
addition, NBC further announced in July 2007 that tie-in micro
websites where fans who log onto Buy-More.net would be directed to
NerdHerdHelp.com giving them access to exclusive content of the
show and a blog written by the title character's best friend and
sidekick, Morgan, would be launched in September 2007.
NBC is reportedly expected to spend about $8 million in
total promoting the show.
Comics
Wildstorm, a
DC
Comics imprint, produced a six-issue
mini-series written by Peter Johnson
and
Zev Borow (series co-executive
producer and writer, respectively), with art by
Jeremy Haun and
Phil
Noto. It started in June 2008. A trade paperback collection was
published in July, 2009. It also includes a public service
announcement on brushing one's teeth from Captain Awesome and two
gag adventures with Morgan based on
film
noir and
The Odyssey.
(WildStorm also releases
Brian K.
Vaughan's
Ex Machina, a series which sees its
main character fused with a technological structure, issue #39 of
which is used within
Chuck to conceal the Intersect
Operating manual from General Beckman, Casey, and Sarah for Chuck's
studies from Season 2, episode #17 onwards.)
References
- Sheffield, Rob (September 20, 2007), "We Like to Watch".
Rolling Stone (1035):44
- Bianco, Robert (September 7, 2007) "10 picks for 2007". USA
Today.
- Bianco, Robert (September 24, 2007), "'Chuck' comes to fall
season's rescue". USA Today.
- Flynn, Gillian (September 28, 2007). "Geek Squad".
Entertainment Weekly. (956):93-94
- Pastorek, Whitney (December 7, 2007), "BATTLE OF THE BOX
STORES". Entertainment Weekly. (968):69
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