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There’s a slim possibility we may not have to wait until next Autumn for a new season of Chuck, reckons its star Zachary Levi. One of the hits of the ’07 US TV Fall season, Chuck (which SFX loves and begins airing in the UK in April on Virgin 1), was given an order for a full season pretty soon after it began airing. But then the writers’ strike got in the way, and production shut down after 13 episodes.
SFX spoke to Levi earlier this week, and he reassured us that in one way or another the show will be back:
““It will definitely come back, yeah,” said Levi. “For no other reason than the fact that Warner Brothers has put so much money into it I can’t imagine that they would be like, ‘Ah, alright, we’re just gonna scrap it.’ But that aside, the numbers have been good, the audience continues to grow and the media and the press have really gotten behind it. I don’t know if we’ve had a bad review. We’ve had some that have been, like, not ‘It’s the greatest thing we’ve ever seen,’ but continually they’ve been, ‘This is one of my favourite shows from this season.’ And I don’t know if you could take all of those things combined and not [bring the show back]. And considering that they picked us up for a back nine – and that was after the strike had already been announced – they knew what they were doing. They calculated the risk and they knew it was going to happen, and they knew that the strike could go for quite some time. It was just a matter of, ‘Are we going to finish the rest of the first season, or will the strike take so long we’ll just have to wait and pick up for the second season?”
And is that what’s going to happen now, SFX asked him?
“Possibly. I dunno. There’s an outside chance [it’ll return earlier]… The Directors’ Guild is getting their negotiations pretty much settled. So if that happens then I think the WGA pretty much has to follow suit. And if it has anything to do with me I’ll make sure the actors don’t strike. There’s no reason to. We don’t deserve anything better than the directors and the writers.” Source.
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Chuck is the best tv shoes ever i love it so much i would die for it
Comment by Wonder January 20, 2009 @ 1:19 amgreat show keep it on
Comment by lacye baker January 20, 2009 @ 2:30 amI LOVE THE SHOW CHUCK YOU SHOULD MAKE LONGER SHOWS
Comment by SAL January 25, 2009 @ 12:23 amI love Chuck so much!! I hope it comes back soon……My whole family loves this show! I LOVE CHUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Kortney June 12, 2009 @ 2:17 amI LOVE CHUCK!! It’s my favorite show!I hope it starts up again soon! I miss Chuck
Comment by Kate August 18, 2009 @ 2:07 amGet Chuck back. Finally there is something to watch other than stupid reality which isn’t real. I love Chuck
Comment by Kathy Higgins September 9, 2009 @ 6:54 pmI need more Chuck! I watched season 1 twice over the summer and season 2 hasn’t been released so… when will season three begin?!
Comment by Deb September 18, 2009 @ 12:18 amMARCH!!!
Comment by Deb September 18, 2009 @ 12:19 amhave sex with me chuck from onniemouse
Comment by quagmiaer December 8, 2009 @ 1:22 amhail from turkey.great show.also ı watched season 3 until the episode 8 but ı want more 😀
Comment by emre March 7, 2010 @ 2:29 pmI LOVE CHUCK!!!! It’s the thing I look forward to every week.I can’t wait until the new season. Keep up the good work everyone. There has never been a let down episode. Thanks. : )
Comment by JEM July 16, 2010 @ 8:03 pm