TVGuide.com has 10 questions with Chuck's Zachary Levi. Here's one, click through for the other nine.
1. TVGuide.com: Congratulations on the show coming back and also being picked up for additional episodes. What's the feeling like right now?
Zachary Levi: It's good. When we only had 13 episodes, it felt good then, too. There's so many things in this business that are outside of your control, and you just have to let go and let God, as they say. Cable does 13 episodes and I think 13 episodes is a great number to do. It allows you to really focus on them and make them all great, as opposed to a lot of times with a 22-episode schedule, you end up with a lot of filler episodes. I'm a Lost guy, I love Lost. There were a lot of episodes where you hope to get a little mythology and you hope to get answers and there's nothing resolved because they have to stretch it out. If they only had 13 episodes in the season then we'd get to the meat of it more.
via TVGuide.com.
Thanks for posting this. I’m always fascinated by what the people in the tv biz themselves watch. I remember he used to be a big Pushing Daisies fan, too.
I wonder if NBC will be pissed he mentioned a show on a competing network? They did ban the Glee cast from their Thanksgiving parade.
I would hope NBC wouldn’t chastise him for liking shows on other networks. After all, they’ll be singing his praises in a month’s time when season three of Chuck is back.
Dave, I don’t think NBC will do that but I’m sure they’d rather he’d said his favorite show was Community or Heroes or something else on NBC.
Honestly I thought NBC behaved pretty childishly by not allowing the Glee cast on their Thanksgiving parade float and I don’t even like Glee. And hasn’t NBC also banned cast members from rival networks’ shows appearing on Jay Leno? So I wouldn’t put it past them to be unhappy if their own stars make these types of statements.
I think the other networks banned their cast members from the Jay Leno Show for a bit, or at least didn’t allow them to show clips
The title of this article should say “TVGuide.com,” not “TV Guide.” They are now separate entities. In fact, TV Guide’s website (the magazine) is now tvguidemagazine.com.
In the past, Levi has said that he preferred Heroes to Lost. Hopefully, that has changed.
Ryan, really? I thought it was the other way around. Because the other networks banning their stars from Leno makes no sense because those actors go on Leno to promote their own shows so why wouldn’t the networks allow for that promotion?
Whatever the case may be, I find this kind of thing very silly, particularly given how many network shows are actually produced by rival network studios anyway.
LOL…
What's the feeling like right now?
ok you have to put the apostrophe code correctly in the HTML as I started to read this as “what a POS ….” and had to read it twice to realize the HTML needs fixing….
Gave me a good laugh!
There’s no way that NBC will be pissed about it. Especially with the amount of times 30 Rock has brought it up over the past few years…
Zac never said he preferred HEROES to LOST.
Zach actually makes a good point.
If they didn’t have to stretch it out, the new season of Chuck could have every episode move the story forward and create deeper character dynamics. Now, we’re likely to get a bunch of episodes that are just procedural missions with very little drama relating to the underlying plot, especially since the storyline was initially crafted for only 13 instalments.
That said, I never complain about extra Chuck.
Allisonhiro,
The creators have already said they are going to leave the 13-episode order pretty much intact and then use the extra six episodes as a mini-arc, like a season 3.2, so there shouldn’t be much filler.
@allisonhiro: “That said, I never complain about extra Chuck.”
Neither do I. Three episodes in two days in a month’s time! Awesome.