'Chuck,' 'Chase' Get Full Seasons from NBC
'Chuck' fans, breathe easy: The show got a full-season order from NBC today. It's nice of NBC to realize that 'Chuck' fans get nervous and would no doubt fret about the show until that full-season order came through.
The cherry on top of the 'Chuck' sundae? NBC supersized its order.
There will be a total of 24 'Chuck' episodes in season 4, instead of the usual 22.
'Chuck' hasn't been setting the world on fire with its ratings this year, but NBC recognized, as entertainment president Angela Bromstad noted in a statement, that the show has a "loyal, passionate audience."
No doubt that audience will be very glad to see the very 'Chuck'-esque trio of Morgan Fairchild, Linda Hamilton and Robert Englund in the show's Oct. 25 episode. Hamilton, Ana Gasteyer and Timothy Dalton guest star Nov. 1.
The action drama 'Chase,' which stars Kelli Giddish, also got a full-season order. 'Undercovers,' a much-hyped J.J. Abrams spy drama that has struggled in the ratings, didn't get a pickup but NBC ordered for more scripts for that show. Yesterday, NBC gave full-season orders to 'The Event,' 'Law & Order: Los Angeles' and, inexplicably, 'Outsourced.' Do not ask me to explain that last one. I cannot.
Of the rest of NBC's freshman class, only 'Outlaw' has been canceled. It joins 'My Generation' and 'Lone Star' on the fall scrap heap.

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