While Zachary Levi's unlikely spy tries to make the best of an impossible situation – none to easy when your CIA handler is as smokin' as Sarah! – it's up to Adam Baldwin's Casey to keep everyone in line and on target. The Firefly alum gave TVGuide.com a sneak peek at what's ahead on NBC's buzzworthy Chuck (airing Mondays at 8 pm/ET). Plus, what is Zachary Levi really like when the cameras stop rolling?
TVGuide.com: It's nice to see Chuck ticking back up in the ratings.Adam Baldwin: Yeah, yeah, I mean we have really tough competition on Monday nights. The sports guys [watching Monday Night Football], hopefully they'll be finding us [when the NFL season is over]. So we're all full of high hopes. And then… there's the writers strike.
TVGuide.com: And then there's the writers strike. How many episodes did you get done?Baldwin: We will complete the initial order of 13. They banged out Episode
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Rob and Amber wouldn't survive a day in this sprawling journey. Premiering Sunday at 8 pm/ET before settling into its Mondays-at-8 time slot, Fox's Drive takes a wide swatch of types — played by Nathan Fillion, Dylan Baker, Kevin Alejandro, Taryn Manning and Kristin Lehman, to name only a few — then raises the flag on a super-mysterious, super-secret underground cross-country race. Giving the assorted strangers their driving papers (in the form of compelling if not always life-threatening reasons to race) is a man known only as Mr. Bright (played by
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Question: As a fellow Invasion fan, what did you think of the series finale? I thought it was pretty close to perfect — it would have been perfect if we had a second season to look forward to. So much action, so many questions answered and so left unanswered. The possibility that Larkin would start the second season as a hybrid — along with the subtext I read into Russell and Mariel's relationship — promised more emotion along with the sci-fi for a second year. Now that CW has passed on picking up the series, do you think Shaun Cassidy and company might pull a Joss Whedon and release a feature movie to tie up the loose ends and continue the story?
Answer: For my analysis of Invasion's first-rate finale, check out my Dispatch from the morning after. As to Invasion's future, it's an awfully long shot. The show would have to do well in the afterlife: in repeat viewings on Sci Fi or wherever, and in DVD sales for sure, which is what helped Joss Whedon make his dream of a movie version of
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Question: Come on, Ausiello, gimme the scoop on Stargate SG-1! I'll send you a lifetime supply of Snapple and Smurfs!
Answer: You sure? I plan on living a long time. OK, remember me telling you how producers were looking for a "name" actress to play the recurring role of Adria, the rapidly aging daughter of Vala (Claudia Black)? Well, the name they found was Morena Baccarin, whom Firefly/Serenity fans know as prostitute, er, companion Inara.
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Question: In a reply in Ask Matt, you mentioned how a two-hour 24 movie would condense the events of a single day. Why assume that? I'd be horrified if they decided to go that route. Just like the Firefly movie was called Serenity, the 24 movie may be called something entirely different and utilize the characters and background of the show in a completely different kind of story, maybe even one that could span — gasp — days.
Answer: And what, pray tell, would be the point of such a movie? Which is my argument for not doing it. But Daren wrote in with a similar notion: "I think they could do the opposite with 24 as a feature film. Play the story out over several months or years like most movies do, allowing for an ebb and flow of intensities. I think that would be a great contrast to the format everyone is accustomed to, i.e., red-lined adrenaline for 24 hours straight, where everything is very linear and tightly connected. What do you think?" I think it sounds dreadful. 24 is as much
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