They should move it to Thursdays at 10 (9 Central) next season. It would fit in with their comedy lineup more than the sci-fi shows (despite the nerd connection) and procedurals it's been getting paired up with. A Community/30 Rock/Office/Parks/Chuck lineup would be awesome.

I anticipate much comedy over on tvbythenumbers.com

Thats actually not a bad idea imho.

NBC comedies tend to be a little nerdier/dorkier than standard comedies (this isn't a bad thing) so it actually fits really well.

I use to really love this show and still like it, however I would have been OK if this was the last season as long as it got a proper finale.

Sounds like you're right where they took a break in the schedule. I was shaky at that point too, but the last couple have been excellent.

Great news, but yeah Im a bit behind as well... But this give me incentive to catch up and look forward to some more Chuck next year because I was all but certain it was moving on after this season.

I really hope they map out a 13 episode story and be done with it. No more of this waffling that pushes them an extra 3, 6, 9 or 11 episodes. I know that's more a function of the network, but they always seem to leave some sort of major cliffhanger to be unresolved should they not get extra episodes. I think it would be a fitting bookend to the first season that was 13 episodes due to the writers strike.

Same here, a few episodes behind when I used to watch almost immediately.

I'm sure the old go-to excuse would be that they finally got Chuck and Sarah together thus removing the romantic tension in the show, but that excuse doesn't fly with me.

Did you just compare Chuck to Gossip Girl?????

Please change your username to "9 year old girl".

Nah, the difference is that Chuck is now not the underdog. He is now superpowered.

I still enjoy the show very much. Maybe not as much as before, but still a lot. My second most liked show (amongst the current ones).

I also liked it when he had nothing but his geeky brain, but I realize they can't keep him being the screwup who gets lucky forever. Morgan has filled out the geeky/comedy role very well.

To those that are behind; the last few episodes have been great.

This is excellent news! It's the Captain Awesome of television renewals!

I'm so excited we get more Chuck... Easily, hand's down, one of my favorite shows on television!

I'm psyched about this news but I'd probably be more so after I watch the 8 episodes sitting on my DVR.

Yeah, I'm not sure what the point was for me but somewhere along the line I just stopped watching them and slowly started to see them get deleted off the Tivo. Maybe at some point I'll pick up season 4 on Blu-Ray but at this point I think I may be out.

Now it's official. 13 episodes.

I'm behind more of just circumstance and not because of liking the show less... Maybe this weekend I'll catch up to celebrate the renewal.

Officially 13 episodes and final season.

^^ Cool that's fair. At least now Schwartz and Fedak can map out these final 13 episodes and end it properly.

this is actually the best news...

I stopped watching this year. The show suffers from Moonlighting disease...once they get together, who care? What made the show great was him dealing with his feelings. It should have ended when he slept with her. A perfect ending to the series.

For me, it's just that it's a bunch of puzzle pieces that don't snap together anymore.

The Buy More stuff is completely disconnected from everything else that's going on. Instead of a couple of seasoned spies struggling to carry out missions with a clumsy, overeager, hyperintelligent civilian, now Chuck's seemingly incapable of making any mistakes, and Sarah and Casey are kind of just standing around as his cheerleaders. The show keeps dipping into the "oh no, someone else has built an Intersect!" and the "oh no, Chuck has lost the Intersect!" well over and over and over and over and over and over and over again to the point where it's hard to care. Chuck's Intersect flashes almost always seem to revolve around fighting, and that diminishes what makes him special in the first place since Sarah and Casey can already do that. I don't think it's a bad idea that Chuck and Sarah got together, but his whining and insecurity about it is just...ack. "Will you be my girlfriend?" "Yes." "Oooh! We should move in together!" "Oh, I don't..." "...and get married! And have kids! Two boys and two girls. Wait, three boys and two girls." "Can we just go on a second date first?" ::Chuck weeps openly about how he and Sarah aren't on the same page:: My God, as much as I love what Timothy Dalton's doing here, this Volkoff stuff just won't end. Love the character; really tired of everything that's going on around him.

It just feels like a show that's run out of ideas. On the other hand, everytime I think I'm ready to finally give up on Chuck, it gets better again, and I think the past few episodes in particular have been really solid. It's always been an uneven show, but I think it was much more hit than miss in the first two seasons, and now it's the other way around. Just good enough for me to keep tuning in but not appointment television by any stretch.

Yeah, I don't buy the "Moonlighting" effect either. Chuck and Sarah are great together. Anyway, if they weren't together by now we would be bitching about them dragging it out for so long. I agree, that the crux of the problem is that Chuck isn't a bumbling wannabe spy anymore, he's a super-spy that never screws up anymore. That's far more detrimental to the charm of the show than whether Chuck and Sarah are together.

Also as a previous defender of the Buy More stuff, it really is disconnected to the point where it serves no purpose anymore.

Again, I'm a good 5-6 episodes behind, but the problem I've found is Chuck is too often unassured of himself. Maybe it's the way he comes off at times, but I hate it. To me, it's really out of character when you look at it against any of the great fountain scenes like him telling Sarah he'll get the Intersect out so he can be with her, or simply any number of Chuck/Ellie talks. To me those have always been the real Chuck - calm, cool and collected with or without a computer.

As for this being the final season, we'll see once all of NBC's new shows fail. Like I said earlier, Chuck has turned into Scrubs. Never a ratings bonanza, and not owned by NBC, but something that does well enough to fill a slot on the schedule when needed.