"Chuck" Q&A Panel at San Diego Comic-Con July 24th

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San Diego Comic-Con: Saturday, July 24th



10:00am-10:45am in Ballroom 20— "Chuck" Screening and Q&A:


"Chuck" executive producers and co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak appear along with series stars:


Zachary Levi
Yvonne Strahovski
Joshua Gomez
Ryan McPartlin
Mark Christopher Lawrence
Vik Sahay
Scott Krinsky
Sarah Lancaster
and Adam Baldwin


...for their usual hijinks—a Q&A to discuss the upcoming season four (made possible by the devoted fanbase) and a special video presentation.

http://www.comic-con.org/cci/cci10_prog_sat.php

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Linda Hamilton is Chuck's Mom! - "Chuck" at Comic Con
by Laura Prudom
posted Jul 24th 2010


Attention "Chuck" fans! Chuck's mom is Linda Hamilton! Sarah Connor herself.



The audience was warned that The Ring had taken control of the room by way of introduction - showing the crowd in ballroom 20 a video to program us as intersects.

Then "Chuck" stars Zachary Levi and Joshua Gomez came on the video screens in a prerecorded video to see if the audience was feeling okay, before the eponymous Jeffster (Jeff and Lester - Scott Krinsky and Vik Sahay) took over the video screens with a "Bad Romance" video complete with fans as wind machines, and spray cans for smoke machines.

Vik Sahay had some wicked dance moves.







Did the cast have doubts about "Chuck" being renewed?

Adam Baldwin, who plays Casey, explained, "There's always honest cynicism about these things, but the network and the fans believed in us."







Series creator Josh Schwartz was asked how Chuck's going to handle the search for his mom, and is it going to drive the story this year.

"Linda Hamilton lives in the universe of this show - she's such an icon in terms of action female badass mom, which really speaks to what we're doing."

She heard about the fans campaigning for her and called Josh up, saying "So I hear I'm Chuck's mom?" -- how could he say no to that?







Another question was about Chuck and Morgan as a spy team ...

According to co-executive producer Chris Fedak: "Team Bartowski is still going to be together - we love seeing them working together."







Olivia Munn, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Isaiah Mustafa (The Old Spice guy), Dolph Lundgren are all slated to guest star this season

(also Nicole Richie, which the room didn't care about).





The Buy More is now owned and operated by the CIA, so it has the most badass employees ever -- quite a change.







Every week there will be a new kickass CIA operative green shirt working at store with Team Bartowski, recast with someone every week --

Munn first week, Mustafa the second episode, that's as far as they've gone in casting it.







Zachary says the love has always been there with Chuck and Sarah - their relationship hasn't really changed through the seasons in that respect.






Fedak says they've learned their lesson about putting people between Chuck and Sarah.

Schwartz said Daniel Shaw (Brandon Routh) was a great villain, but Chuck and Sarah have an undeniable chemistry that's hard to replicate, so they've learned some things. "This year you'll be very happy".









What about the undeniable chemistry between Morgan and Casey?

Baldwin asked Gomez what Morgan likes best about John Casey: Gomez says he has very soft hands. Adam is "looking forward to working with this guy" more this season.





It gave Joshua a lot of angst that Ryan McPartlin (Devon) was a spy before he was - it made Ryan happy to one-up Joshua, but "Captain Awesome couldn't take it" - now everyone's happy.





Schwartz concluded, "There's a real tension in the relationship between Chuck and Ellie because he promised to quit the spy game, but he also has to find mom."

They figure Jeff will be the last to know that Chuck's a spy. And if he does find out, he probably won't remember it in the morning.

http://www.tvsquad.com/2010/07/24/li...-at-comic-con/