And in the case of Chuck, a long, long time to play catch-up...
'Southland' AND 'Chuck': NBC.COM GIVES VIEWERS A CHANCE TO PLAY CATCH-UP BEFORE THE SEASON PREMIERES
Fans Can Also Stay 'Up-To-Date' on NBC's 'SNL Weekend Update Thursday' and 'Saturday Night Live'
September 21, 2009 10:23 AM
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - September 21, 2009 - NBC.com is giving viewers of fan-favorite series "Chuck" and the critically acclaimed police-drama "Southland" the chance to play catch-up prior to the series' season premieres with streams of previous season episodes. As an extra bonus, NBC.com is also allowing viewers to get "up-to-date" by streaming current season episodes of "SNL Weekend Update Thursday" and "Saturday Night Live."
"Southland" will include all season one episodes and will start streaming Monday, October 9. "Chuck" streaming will include the original season one pilot and rotate through season two five episodes at a time. Episodes of "Chuck" will begin streaming Monday, September 21. Both series will stream full episodes through the week of their respective season debuts.
A full list of NBC shows streaming this season follows:
"30 Rock"
"The Biggest Loser"
"Chuck"
"Heroes"
"The Jay Leno Show"
"Late Night with Jimmy Fallon"
"Mercy"
"The Office"
"Parks and Recreation"
"SNL Weekend Update Thursday"
"The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien"
"Trauma"
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As if the full season of Southland hasn’t been already available on hulu since the original episodes aired…
They were available for a while, certainly when they first aired, and for a while after. But then they weren’t available.
Well since Chuck and Southland are NBC’s two youngest returning dramas (Chuck entering its third season and Southland its second) it makes sense. Hopefully interest will continue for Chuck. It will compete against House, DWTS, and How I Met Your Mother/Accidentally on Purpose. Good Luck Chuck (no pun intended).
NBC’s only dramas left are…
Law & Order
Law & Order SVU
Law & Order CI
Heroes
Friday Night Lights
Chuck
Southland
After all of those seasons of trying out shows NBC comes out with a successful franchise trio, and the rest of the shows are still around do to either luck or help from another company.
Dan, I wouldn’t count Law & Order: CI as being an NBC drama. It’s a USA drama. (or an NBCU drama)
it has been far too long since YS graced TVBTN, bravo robert!
Bill – CI is a USA show technically but it still airs on NBC primetime. Using that logic, we would have to say that Friday Night Lights is a DirecTV series. I guess if you dont count FNL and L&O CI then NBC has only 5 dramas left. 2 of which are from the 1990s and the rest are the lone dramas fromt he past 3 seasons. Though FNL and L&O have already been renewed for their fifth and ninth seasons respectively, the only other regular NBC series that I can say will return in 10-11 is Heroes and Law & Order SVU. SVU for ratings and Heroes just because NBC still needs it. This may be the final year for Law & Order (depending on how the other dramas perform) and I don’t see Chuck or Southland doing better than last year.
Dan, fair enough. FNL and L&O:CI should be in the same bucket. What that bucket is a bit more complicated
Maybe note these are the “first run” dramas on NBC
Law & Order (almost certainly final season)
Law & Order SVU
Heroes (weakening rapidly last season)
Chuck (borderline last season)
Southland (DOA?)
Looking at it that way, not a pretty picture.
Dollhouse was in worse shape than Southland and even it got a pass and had more episodes to prove its unworthiness but alas this is brave new territory
I checked the nbc.com site and this press release hasn’t been posted yet. Maybe it was posted and then was removed because they’re making revisions to the initial press release?
This news release hasn’t been posted on futoncritic either.
TVbythenumbers.com is the only site carrying it.
Please double check.
ariana, that could well be. it was originally here:
http://www.nbc.com/news/2009/09/21/southland-and-chuck-nbccom-gives-viewers-a-chance-to-play-catch-up-before-the-season-premieres/
but now it is not!
ariana, Fascinating. Google still has it indexed, but as Robert noted, the page is now gone.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Fans+Can+Also+Stay+‘Up-To-Date’+on+NBC’s+‘SNL+Weekend+Update+Thursday’+and+‘Saturday+Night+Live’+September+21,+2009+10:23+AM+UNIVERSAL+CITY,+Calif.+–+September+21,+2009+–+NBC.com+is+giving+viewers+of+fan-favorite+series+“Chuck”+and+the+critically+acclaimed+police-drama+“Southland”+the+chance+to+play+catch-up+prior+to+the+series’+season+premieres+with+streams+of+previous+season+episodes.+As+an+extra+bonus,+NBC.com+is+also+allowing+viewers+to+get+“up-to-date”+by+streaming+current+season+episodes+of+“SNL+Weekend+Update+Thursday”+and+“Saturday+Night+Live.”&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
I hope/wish that NBC would include the 5 minute catch-up video of what happened on Chuck during the first season. Otherwise people are going to watch the pilot episode, and then start the S02E01 wondering who the hell Bryce is, what Fulcrum is, and why Casey starts the episode with a kill order against Chuck.
This is the recap I was referring to:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/34507/chuck-recap-chuck-season-1
Um, didn’t NBC just finish airing the first season of Southland on NBC Fridays like two or three weeks ago? I have high hopes for this show, but I am afraid. Here’s why:
1. NBC aired the first season from April 9-May 21 on Thursdays at 10pm. There were a few good ratings eps but nothing impressionable.
2. NBC posted Southland on nbc.com and hulu.com for fans to watch and for new viewers to catch-up.
3. NBC re-aired the first season of Southland on Fridays from mid July-mid August to “re-introduce” Southland to prepare for the second season. Again, ratings were not great. Between 2-3 million viewers?!
4. NBC, deciding that they didn’t have enough faith in the show, decided to push back the season premiere date until October to promote it more during their new “hit show”, Jay Leno and other NBC shows.
5. Now, NBC announces that they STILL have Southland on line for viewing at hulu.com and nbc.com.
Does anyone else see a problem here?
Someone please correct me, but I don’t think all seven episodes of SL were on hulu.com at the same time. Hulu posted the first four and then a few weeks later replaced them with the last 3 or 4 episodes. I’m not sure if all 7 episodes were available on nbc.com.
The summer reruns averaged between 3.5 to 4 million viewers.
In addition, not a single photo still from Season 2 has been released by NBC, except for a small picture in EW’s Fall TV Preview issue. I haven’t seen any new pictures online. There have been no promos with clips from the new season either.
I can’t wait for Chuck. I am hoping that with promotions it does well. I watched Community on Hulu and wasn’t impressed. I didn” find it funny at all. So it may not perform well as the season wears on. Also does anyone know when they will release Season 2 on Bluray. I have it on itunes but I want the blurays.
Go Chuck! I know that on Chuckmeout.com they had said for a while that they were going to make the original season available, but then backed out on that for whatever reason (read: NBC likes to shoot themselves in the foot).
Hopefully they’ll get all of season one and two available at some point soon, so people can get the word out to new fans before the (hopeful) media blitz during the Olympics.
BTW, the release is up, for now, at:
http://nbcumv.com//release_detail.nbc/digitalmedia-200992117113-nbc.comgivesviewer.html?
and it appears unchanged from what was originally posted.
Alot of this information could also be found at chuckmeout.com
http://www.chuckmeout.com/