Now that they look to be going to the right way… no.

There are many possibilities.

Devon didn´t have his death explained. If KR2000 was not ignored by this production KIFT can return as a villain.
Goliath can return with KARR´s cpu on it.
We could see Garth Knight again and Michael Knight should be regular in the show… KI2T should be there too, as special gueststar, at least.

Knight Rider forever…!

I have nothing against “Chuck” but you clearly cannot make the “huge fanbase” argument. If the fanbase was big enough to matter, then the ratings wouldn’t even be an issue.

Not to mention the fact that it has Adam Baldwin – his fans alone will make sure the show stays on air. They’d riot if he got canceled again.

http://spoilertv-heroes.blogspot.com/2009/03/greg-grunberg-confirms-season-4.html

Yes I know Sat would never happen, Heroes is already making NBC money w/ syndicated rights already sold to cable, They seem to like Chuck so I figure it will be back at least for 13 episodes, same w/ Friday Night Lights.

Stephen Starr: I really enjoy Life too, but there is NO chance Life will be back on NBC next season. It’s chances on a scale of 1-10 are…less than 1.

Chuck is warm and sweet. Life is both of these and laugh out loud funny. Given the current state of junk on TV, both are deserving a third season,even if it is only to tie up plot points. (and I have the DVD’s of both shows 1st season and will purchase the second season, as well.)

http://heroesspoilers-odi.blogspot.com/2009/02/breaking-news-chris-zatta-and-others.html

Some of the writers fired.

It could be also for some of the shows that they needed to do it in order to make May sweeps works, though in the case of Chuck and Heroes, I don’t think they are airing in May at all anyway.

it may be odd, but lots of shows are doing it. It could be simply that sweeps is mostly a legacy that is good for PR but doesn’t matter *that* much anymore in terms of setting ad prices.

I would put more stock in the ratings of the last 2 or 3 episodes of the season. Chuck has 8 episodes left and they all will be aired by the end of April. This should give NBC a clear indicator on Chuck’s potential come May when the fall schedule is revealed.

The bright note is Chuck has a trend of building upon its audience when aired in consecutive weeks. In season one, Chuck dipped to 7 mil viewers by episode 6 but was able to boost its ratings back up to 8.5 mil by the fall finale.

This season, episode 2 and 3 received 5.90 and 6.01 mil viewers respectively. However, as the season progressed, Chuck was able to slowly improve its ratings. The last three episodes that aired before the hiatus scored 7.25, 6.93, and 7.66 mil viewers.

Regarding Legally Mad, we have no idea when that’s going to premiere. For all we know, it could debut during the summer or be another mid season show. Remember, The Philanthropist was suppose to debut this year during the spring and nothing has happen so far.

Chuck will have a 50/50 chance of getting renewed if Southland and Kings do relatively well, but so far all their new shows have bombed. If those new shows bomb, then Chuck will have a great chance of season 3.

I think Medium will come back mid-season. DoND is already on 5 nights a week via syndication–I think NBC is saving it only for special airings during sweeps. If they were to air it on a regular basis, the franchise will go down the drain as what happened to Millionaire.

NBC has also made a blind series commitment to Legally Mad—so that’s one more hour taken up in their Fall line-up.

Heroes will probably get only a 13 episode order but if its demo continue to sink, NBC may just cancel it.

I see Chuck coming back mid-season or going to USA. However, I could also see it coming back for a full season but a lot of things have to go their way: Heroes is canned, Kings & Southland does poorly, and its demo improves.

But if you consider that there’s only 8 hours left of primetime between monday and thursday you have

1 hour for heroes
1 hour for deal or no deal
2 hours for the biggest loser
30 minutes for 30 rock
30 minutes for the office
1 hour for law and order svu
1 hour for medium

all of these shows would get renewal priority over chuck, sot that leaves one hour of prime time between monday and thursday.(thank god that this is E.R.’s final season or chuck would stand no chance).

so for chuck to come back we need to hope that all of the spring pilots suck(considering amy poehler is doing one that is unlikely).

And even if they do suck NBC has to decide to renew chuck instead of having a historic 20th season of law and order.

prognosis: things look grim for chuck:(

If Knight Rider is renewed, you’ll have to chalk it up to art or craziness but if it’s cancelled you can chalk it up to simple science.

But it’s true that with this wonderful medium called the Internet, we can debate ad nauseum over what NBC and the other networks will decide to do next year, and if you are a fan of a particular show, you can make your points to keep the show known to the world.

Unfortunately, science and technology have yet to perfect the decision-making processes of those entities known as network programming executives.

1. Didn’t bring it back post-strike.
2. Left it on Mondays when it should’ve moved it come mid-season
3. Never aired in-slot reruns.
4. Didn’t give it the post superbowl slot
5. Giving 5 primetime hours to Leno
6. Gave it a longer winter break period than any other show had.
7. Not enough promotion (I mean, get Zach Levi to host SNL!)

This sucks.

I’m not so sure because there is option b.) replace marginally performing scripted shows with UNSCRIPTED content, and there’s also option c.)roll the dice on replacing marginally performing shows from OTHER STUDIOS (Chuck = Warner Bros) with a show from NBCU studios. If it fails, it fails, but it might not result in as much of an ass-kicking. They’re not going to close down NBCU studios, and the studio exists to make content.

Of course, I think it’s crazy that Silverman still has a job at all, or that it wasn’t Kring who was fired from Heroes instead of the scapegoats they choose. So what do I know?

NBC is far and away the worst performing network. The CW and Uni and the others you mention are not networks. Well, they are but they aren’t. Let’s call them netlets, at best. NBC is in another league from that lot. NBC is spending a fortune that the others you name are not.

So from a return on dollars perspective, NBC is the worst performing network in the world, and Univision is the best. Univision is not trying to capture 10-20 million viewers with their shows. NBC is. And NBC is paying a wage that reflects that. Comparing NBC to Univision not only doesn’t weaken my argument, it bolsters it. Univision is a blazing success compared, well, pretty much compared to all of the other networks.

As for Heroes, again, you must have perspective. Heroes, relative to cost, will be the worst performing show on NBC if the demo gets down into the two’s. A 2.5 from, say, Life is a hell of a lot better than a 2.5 from Heroes. Not everything is equal to itself when you put the whole thing into perspective. And a loss of 1 million more viewers in the demo from this season to next is more probable than unthinkable. A show cannot be considered to have stabalized two days after it pulled the worst ratings of it entire run.

Jeez, its total viewer numbers will be below those of Chuck by the end of the season. I know that’s not the most important number, but that’s a gargantuan nose dive from just the beginning of the season. And there are still, as mentioned above, those all time low demos they just pulled two days ago.

But I believe #1 on the NBC perspective list has got to be The Biggest Loser, which is pulling gargantuan numbers relative to cost. NBC must look at The Biggest Loser and shake their head everytime they think of greenlighting any scripted series, much less think about renewing the most expensive series on their network.

And before anyone says, “Well, they can’t just go all reality, all the time,” may I take a moment and point to Jay Leno? If anyone told you a year ago that Leno would be airing at 10 pm, five nights a week, you’d have said they were out of their mind.

As for quality, I wasn’t judging the quality of Heroes lately, because I don’t watch it. I was merely reflecting the mass of stuff I read about the show (although that mass has shrunk considerably in the last few months, which should also worry NBC tremendously—-no on is really even talking about Heroes anymore, not even to say that it stinks).

But the overwhelming majority of the mainstream coverage of the show that has appeared this season has been pretty much only been about the bad numbers it’s pulling and the bad quality of the show. I don’t write the stuff. I just read it.