Nick C's Behind the Screens

An NBC fall schedule that includes Conan O’Brien but not “Law & Order?”  Who’d have thought!  That’s because Conaco-produced “Outlaw” (formerly known as “Garza”) starring Jimmy Smits made it onto the schedule, albeit in an invisible timeslot, while “Law & Order” was officially given the axe.  Despite L&O going by the wayside, a new spin-off, “Law & Order: Los Angeles” made the schedule as expected.  That means Wednesdays will now include two full hours of L&O shows, with SVU being bumped back to 9 pm where it floundered last fall when Leno was acting as a ratings-suck in the 10 pm slot.  But hey, it’s NBC.  To their credit, they didn’t let the fact that they had five extra hours to fill stop them from canceling crap like “Mercy,” “Trauma,” and “Heroes.”  NBC programmers had but one season to make an impression on Comcast, so it was out with the old, in with the new.

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NBC has unveiled it’s new primetime lineup that will premiere after the Olympics.   Now, instead of having “The Jay Leno Show” in primetime, NBC can be ignored with more “Trauma” in primetime.   Here’s the full schedule as most television viewers won’t even see it come March.

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In news that shouldn’t shock anyone who have been reading here or the internet in general, CHUCK has picked up 6 new episodes.

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Color me shocked! NBC canceled TRAUMA only moments after picking up 6 additional episodes of CHUCK for January debut.

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Today word slowly spread that NBC was going to stick with TRAUMA.  It isn’t because it is going up in ratings (from a 1.8 to a 1.9 in the demo) but because Gaspin and the others at NBC believe it is best to stick with the plan.  What plan you might ask?

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Tonight might be the last night of TRAUMA.  The key word being “might,” and we’ll know more as soon as the overnights get posted on Tuesday morning.  What does this mean for HEROES fans and CHUCK fans?

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Right now it is likely that CHUCK will be making its season 3 premier in November…

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Word around the street is NBC may put Chuck back on TV soon.

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Around this time last year NBC went ahead and made a move of picking up a full season order for CHUCK, and the question a lot of people seem to be asking is, will it happen again?

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First off, sorry for the lack of articles this month.  I was on holiday.  So lets get to an important subject matter for CHUCK fans:

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