I'm not able to confirm it yet, but a source that has been very reliable in the past says Chuck has received a standard 13 episode pickup with an option for a back 9. Hardly a shocker if true, unless you were one of those definitively declaring it had zero chance for renewal. If that's you, please wait for confirmation before going into hiding!
Update: again, my understanding of the deal is that it's a standard 13+9 order (NBC has the option to order 9 more episodes, commonly referred to as a "back 9") and that indicates Chuck would be on the fall schedule. Last year (for the current season). Chuck was announced as a mid-season show to begin with last May and there was no "back 9" attached. Later its air date was pushed up to early January and NBC ordered six additional episodes.
Cue the onslaught.
If it's true, YAAAAAAAAHHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please let this be true! I would LOVE if NBC did this.
No one should be surprised.
Yay! Glad this is true!
For the fall of midseason? Either way though YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
I'm not surprised either.
Isn't this half the point of the Sunday announcement? That NBC would get the undivided twitterverse attention when they renew various genre shows (that I will not bait by naming)?
No one should be surprised because, Although Chuck has it's faults It's still an amazing hour of television.
Fall pickup.
For the last few years NBC has gone into the year thinking “at least things couldn't get worse” and every year things have in fact gotten worse. Given that fact I think they'd be fools not to pursue a strategy of better safe than sorry.
I hope this will be a reality!
Just in time for Bill and Robert to change their “Oddsmakers” guess to 100%…or 99% depending on the reliability of the source! And as a Chuck fan, might I add: Hurray!
Oh crap! so that means NBC will be still FOURTH next year
I am quite happy, as I LOVE this show
I also like the new non-tradtional couple 
Indeed, this is their “semi-cute nice person that should be your girlfriend if you would stop going for the hotties” fallback position. Still, I've lived my whole life as the semi-cute nice person…without the semi-cute part. I'll take what I can get.
Ahh yes…. the lovely sound of silence from those were ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that Chuck was dead and gone.
Look on the bright side. We get it out of the way now, and you have a whole summer off from the Chucksters.
Nice Morgan pic by the way!
I won't be shocked if this is true, I'd be more surprised if it ends up on the fall schedule. I don't see NBC officially confirming this until Sunday when they announce their schedule. Chuck is the bubble show the blogosphere goes nuts over, I don't see NBC taking that anticipation away from their announcement.