Update 3: Nikki Finke is reporting that pretty much everything but Life, and Knight Rider will be picked up by NBC and announced on Monday (actually she hasn't mentioned Kath & Kim or My Name is Earl yet).
Update 2: Saturday May 2, 11:30A PDT: The Hollywood Reporter has updated its story on Southland's renewal (Southland is still renewed) to include the following:
However, NBC is not expected to make a final decision on the fate of all of them by Monday, with fan favorite "Chuck" among those who will remain in contention beyond the infront.
So it looks like we're just going to have to wait.
Update: Saturday May 2: from our friends at Watch With Kristin on E Online:
When asked last night at an Eva Longoria Parker-hosted charity event benefiting Children's Hospital Los Angeles about prospects for a third season of Chuck, Levi said, "I thought we were going to hear about it this Monday because NBC's announcing a bunch of its schedule, but I just got an email from [Chuck executive producer] Josh Schwartz, and he said stay positive, [but] we're not going to find out on Monday. It could be another week or two. They're making their final tallies and decisions."
Saw the following from Michael Ausiello on Twitter:
BREAKING Chuck UPDATE: Hearing NBC may not make a decision on Monday as expected. I'm told not to read anything into that. Developing...
Like many of you, I wasn't expecting the full schedule announcement from NBC on Monday, but was expecting announcements about which series would be returning. I hope what Ausiello is hearing is not true, but if it is, it's currently hard to read anything into it. If NBC winds up delaying announcements for all shows, then there's absolutely nothing to read into that. But, if NBC is only delaying the annoucement for Chuck, however, I would definitely read something into it and that's that NBC and Warner Brothers are still negotiating.
These must be some negotiations…Nick, any additional insight?
:headdesk:
This could be a good thing. It may take longer than usual for NBC to decide with Warner Brothers for a good deal for Chuck. They may not want to make a quick decision, even though thats exactly what everyone wants.
nicely done, Holly. I’ve changed the headline.
I’m just curious, but has this Nick C person ever been right about anything? I don’t get why there’s a 300-post thread revolving around stuff that guy says — this site is turning into low-brow gossip crap. Whatever happened to talking about the RATINGS — and NOT just the ratings of one poor-performing show…
Maybe NBC is waiting to see how Medium does in the earlier slot after all…
Isn’t Medium in the earlier slot because it’s a 2 hour show?
Anonymous: Nick has definitely been right before, but certainly not everything he hears comes to pass (nor does he usually try to spin it that way). In that post, I clearly said it should be considered rumor.
No other ratings data we’d publish went missing on this site as a result of that post. OK, fine, I didn’t post ratings for That’s So Raven in reruns this week, but that wasn’t due to Chuck speculation.
You apparently don’t like Chuck speculation, and I put “Don’t look if you don’t like Chuck speculation” in the headline…
Ava, on Monday it’s a two parter, but the following Monday it is scheduled from 9p-11p as well,and that’s just back-to-back episodes rather than a two-parter.
Shows on the bubble make the ratings discussion interesting. Whether American Idol went up or down a bit, and Simon’s response, isn’t all that interesting because the show will continue on with his involvement for the known future. On the other hand bubble shows, and Chuck and Medium seem to be the focus at NBC, offer good ratings to discuss. Add to that the fact that the decision on both is going to be made within days, this makea for great, and often heated, discussions. As for Nick, he seems to be in the know. Maybe he’s not, but that’s part of the fun. The more we hear from him and other media sources, the more we get to speculate on what NBC is thinking, mesh that with our understanding of the ratings and Robert’s and Bill’s sage wisdom, along with others, and happily speculate away.
Just Cancel it and be done with it already.
Robert: I know that you’ve posted the ratings everyday, just like you have in the past. But does it not bother you guys at all that *EVERYDAY* the comment section is turning into a CHUCK chatroom? Like I get you guys like the show too, but the last time I checked you’re running a ratings site…not a Chuck fansite. If you wanna turn this into a fan-site, by all means, that’s up to you guys.
However – you should know that you risk alienating your other visitors who don’t care about ONE show and don’t want to wade through literally DOZENS and DONZENS of CHUCK comments in a Wednesday ratings thread just to read some “real” ratings discussion.
Listen. Chuck is on the bubble, and is the center of one of the biggest campaigns of all time in broadcast media. An announcement may be forthcoming in days. Once its fate is decided, Chuck traffic and comments will drop off. Until then, its to be expected that it’ll be a hot topic. Just calm down and wait a few days before checking back on the site.
>>> On the other hand bubble shows, and Chuck and Medium seem to be the focus at NBC
Well, now SOUTHLAND might be in the discussion based on its collapsing, plus they had that programming exec die the other day — so perhaps things might have gotten even more complicated for NBC than they seemed a few days ago?
Anonymous-
don’t look if you don’t like Chuck speculation
Anonymous–well then you should hope NBC does make the announcement Monday.
The sooner we know, the sooner we stop worrying and talking about it all the time.
Hibberd has some interesting stuff about the NBC pilots. Looks like some may not make it. Mercy and and two others are looking less likely. Day One got no mention.
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/nbc-pilot-update-trauma-parenthood-community-.html
If Ausiello has good info, sounds like things are kind of up in the air everywhere at NBC.
Anonymous: I think David above (without the “4″) sums up my thinking on the matter.
It doesn’t bother me at all that there are 300 comments in a post you theoretically have no interest in, however, the off-topic commenting in the overnight posts DOES bother me. But at this point I am resigned to it and think in a few weeks it will be over until next April.
Part of this may also be a result of the tragic death of the NBC executive. I’m new to the ratings discussions and upfronts, and had always assumed these decisions (new shows and cancellations) were made over long periods of time. From what I’ve seen, I was wrong, and the pick-ups can be decided during an exec meeting days before the announcements are to be made after a screening. It’s hard to believe that this death would not delay things, and if it did, that would be completely justified.
So what exactly is NBC going to be announcing on Monday? Not their schedule. And now apparently not the complete list of returning and new shows…