Chuck
Hot off the e-presses, from NBC: NBC has picked up the freshman dramas "Chuck" (Mondays, 8-9 p.m. ET) and "Life" (Wednesdays, 10-11 p.m. ET) for nine more episodes -- or the balance of the 2007-08 season -- it was announced today by Ben Silverman,
Chuck
Spoilers for "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I sharpen the knife in my shoe... For a long time, the NBC promo department was unsurpassed at two things: 1)Getting better-than-expected (or sometimes deserved) tune-ins for shows, and 2)Ruining all the big surprises for the people
Chuck
Spoilers for "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I do a gymnastics routine... A lot went on in the damned entertaining "Chuck Versus the Truth" -- the end of Chuck's (maybe not so) fake relationship, the beginning of a new (and potentially real)
Chuck
Ordinarily, I try not to write too many columns about any one show, even the ones I love, more than two or three times a season: once at the start, once near the end, and maybe once at the middle. The strike, however, wreaks havoc with that approach, and there
Chuck
Spoilers for last night's "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I put "Gotcha!" in my Netflix queue... After last week's outstanding "Chuck Versus the Sandworm," it was all but inevitable that the next episode would be a letdown. "
Chuck
Spoilers for the latest "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I rank the James Bond movies in qualitative order (a list that would have "A View to a Kill" at or near the bottom)... Damn, I enjoyed that. Easily the funniest "Chuck" to
Chuck
Spoilers for "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I make a stakeout mix CD... Thus far, the reaction to Morgan seems to have a range of "Gah, I can't stand him!" to "He's funny, but only in small doses,"
Chuck
Spoilers for "Chuck" and "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just as soon as I rip apart this headboard... Interesting approach for "Chuck" episode four, which was fairly light on the laughs -- minimal Casey and almost no time spent with Captain Awesome
Chuck
Spoilers for episode three of "Chuck" coming up just as soon as I paint some happy little trees and happy little clouds... And here's our show. Set-up, done. Exposition, done. Questions of Sarah and Casey's loyalty, mostly done. (There's still the matter
Chuck
Spoilers for the second episodes of "Chuck" and "Journeyman" coming up just as soon as I boot up my old Apple IIe for a game of Choplifter... Many regime changes ago, someone in NBC research did a study claiming that even the most devoted fans of
Big Bang Theory
I reviewed all three of "Chuck," "Big Bang Theory" and "Journeyman" in today's columns, but I'll have some brief additional thoughts on each coming up just as soon as I price out nail guns at the Large Mart... Like I
Chuck
The first of today's two columns reviews the nearly identical -- and almost equally good -- "Chuck" and "Reaper": Meet Sam. Sam is in his 20s, an underachieving college drop-out who works at a big- box store and lives with his parents. One day,
