Trauma had the most expensive pilot of the year at $8 million; it was the season's most expensive new series at $3 million per episode (similar to Glee, but apparently higher).
Last year's most expensive pilot was Fringe at $10 million, while Kings was the most expensive per episode at probably $4 million.
I thought Heroes wasn't airing in the spring? I though they were only doing one volume this year that was ending in December? Not sure where I read that though...
Thrilled that we are getting more Chuck! Hopefully this season will perform well and there won't be any guessing as to if it will come back for a fourth season.
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I get a sinking feeling every time I read more good news for "Chuck." It seems like everything points to success, but the last time NBC made six episodes of something, they cancelled the show before they aired.
I have my fingers crossed for "Chuck," and six more episodes is definitely a good sign, but NBC is like bizzarro Midas: everything they touch turns to crap.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
G'Day, as someone who has just seen Chuck for the first time recently this is good news. By no means a perfect show, but one of the better comedies on network televison and something a bit different to everything else.
With all these threads on NBC about the collapse of thier drama pilots, Heroes in more crisis and the damage of the Jay Leno show I'm not sure where to post this, but I am so mad now that they didn't pick up the David E. Kelley Pilot (which was highly sought after by other networks) they had with Kristen Chenoweth. If it picked up anywhere near the viewers Boston Legal had it would have been one of the networks top performing shows.
Thanks to NBC 2009 will be the first year since 1988 that Kelley has not been running a show on television.
Congratulations West Wing, Emmys most honored drama. 27 Emmys including 4 best drama series "What's Next?"
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Love the fact that they ordered more episodes of Chuck. This show is really starting to survive. I'm a big fan of the show and more episodes means more fun.
Though with NBC, anything is possible.
I hope The Office wins as Best Comedy Series for this year's Emmy Awards.
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