There are always Chuck fans talking about "could the show come back sooner than its planned March arrival after the Olympics?"
Chicago Tribune critic Mo Ryan pleas with NBC to bring back Chuck early in her review of Trauma:
The only upside I can see to the existence of "Mercy" and "Trauma" is that one of them is likely to recall a scene from the latter pilot and crash and burn this fall. And then we may (please!) get the third season of "Chuck" sooner than March.
But I'm a fan of Chuck who does not want to see it come back early.
A part of me feels like just let the new shows get completely hammered for as long as possible. So that when Chuck comes back, whatever its ratings are they will look good to NBC!
And though neither Mercy nor Trauma (despite being filmed on location in San Francisco) are interesting to me, I'm not rooting for these shows to fail either. I don't want NBC to become so fatalistic about scripted programming that it gives up on scripted shows altogether. That might result in a primetime schedule next year of "Today Show: Recap", "Dateline" and "The Jay Leno Show".
Either way, I think holding out until March works to Chuck's advantage. And as a fan, I view that as a good thing.
Your post makes perfect sense to me.
I agree Robert! Let the new shows run their course and get the Olympics out of the way. Then the ratings will be even better for Chuck.
i want NBC’s shows to fail so Persons Unknown comes in early not Chuck
yep, and this whole spring/summer thing that nick C talked about (what happened to him, anyhoo? NBC put out a bounty on his head or something?!) could be a saving grace for season 4 (NOT a typo)
And OMG you guys got a new picture! now im missing my Chinese food already.
oh well..
djm Nick, (and, apparently others) are blogging at:
http://behindthescreensblog.com/
NBC will probably launch Persons Unknown before chuck anyway if something fails as unlike the rest of the NBC show persons unknown already filmed all 13 episodes (Pilot,The Edge,The Way Through,Exit One,Incoming,The Truth,Smoke and Steel,Saved,Identity,Seven Sacrifices,And Then There Was One and finale Shadows in the Cave)
Personally i think Persons Unknown looks like their best show even if they never promote it
teaser here :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xacpzw_persons-unknown-trailer-2_shortfilms
I very much have been thinking the same thing, especially considering how well House did last week.
The one hesitation that I have is that all of the shows that I can think of which have begun in March or later have not seemed to catch on too well. I haven’t done any serious research about that, so I may be missing some obvious examples of shows that have succeeded, but that is my chief concern about bringing Chuck back so late in the Spring schedule.
The Olympics are one of the most watched TV events of any year. Having that many eyeballs watching NBC RELENTLESSLY PROMOTE CHUCK (hint hint)would go a long way in rebooting the series when it returns following the Olympics
^Because promotion during the Olympics did so much for the fall series last year?
One small difference, Summer olimpics ended like one month before premiere, not one day.
AO, in recent years you are correct, but The Office and Grey’s Anatomy were both shows that started in March (or April? I don’t feel like looking it up.)
Grey’s Anatomy and The Office debuted in late March 2005 and New Adventures of Old Christine was March 2006.
I have a Wikipedia list of all primetime scripted programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dralwik/Television
@ Julia,
Thanks for the info. I went ahead and looked them up and you are correct. Both shows started in late March 2005. Though their success was several years ago, that does make me feel a bit better.
And AO, Castle started in March of this year, although it’s not really a hit.
@ Drew,
Thanks to you as well! That’s a very handy link.
Is “New Adventures of Old Christine” a hit? I’ll have to look that up as it’s one of those shows that I have so little interest in that I never remember anything about it. I’ll research though.
And Castle. Yeah, that’s something. I don’t love the March/April launch strategy myself, but it looks like it is capable of producing some success with the right circumstances. That’s heartening.
You’re welcome.
I have a feeling that Trauma will get a full season, and though Mercy may get axed, both series will run all of their episodes. Anyway Chuck wont come back early, and it will likely get as crushed as Heroes when it comes back anyway.
Yeah Chuck is done unless Subway funds the entire episode
I think NBC’s entire post Olympics schedule is going to be much stronger then the fall line up they have now. But I don’t see NBC promoting Chuck as heavily during the Olympics as they will Day One and Parenthood NBC will be promoting the crap out of Parenthood if they can get Helen Hunt (If she signs on to replace Maura Tierney) to return to TV. So as much as I’m personally rooting for Chuck I am worried about it’s future.