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'Chuck' finale: Zachary Levi Says His Goodbye's

Zachary Levi didn't get choked up with a group of reporters during filming of the "Chuck" finale in December. To hear him tell it, though, it was one of the few times in the show's last week of production that he didn't. Zachary stated "[The final day] is going to be nothing but waterworks, I'm sure. But last week, we shot pretty much all of the goodbye scenes -- all the characters saying goodbye to one another -- and when art is imitating life simultaneously in that moment, and I'm looking at my friends of five years, my family of five years, in a scene I'm having to look at them say goodbye and I really am saying goodbye? That was -- yeah."

He went on to say "It's not forever, although I'll probably never see Adam Baldwin again. That's not true. ... It's actually not even that final in the world of 'Chuck,' if it were to continue. Obviously Chuck and Morgan [Joshua Gomez] are going to be best friends the rest of their lives. Chuck and Ellie [Sarah Lancaster] are still brother and sister, and therefore Awesome [Ryan McPartlin] is still my brother-in-law. And Casey [Baldwin] would ... we would all still continue to see each other in some way, shape or form. But the world that has been created, and the world in which we all live and work, has drastically changed and is drastically different, and so, you know, we do say goodbyes, at least for the time being. And it's gnarly. It's really, really surreal."

Given what's happened to Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) over the past couple episodes, with the Intersect having wiped out her memory, Levi says the finale also acts as "a reset of sorts."

"The 'will they/won't they' dynamic kind of comes back into play, particularly in the second half of the finale -- episode 13," he says. "There's a ton of homage to the pilot, to the origins of these characters and their journey together. And everyone's in it, and that's awesome, and it's been really emotional."

Levi is grateful that "Chuck," which lived on the edge of cancellation for most of its life on NBC, lasted five seasons, but he also thinks now is the right time to bring the show to a close.

"I don't think we've been shorted. I think five seasons is actually a really good amount of time," he says. "I think that oftentimes in network television, you're left with more than you really wanted. Twenty-two episode seasons, 24-episode seasons at seven, eight, nine, 10 years can eventually [make audiences] kind of go, 'All right, we get it.' ... For something like this which is definitely story arcs and serial, how many bad guys and missions can you go on before you feel like you're repeating the same thing? So I feel like we've gotten a really perfect amount of time together, and it's been special from day one."

As "Chuck" leaves the air with a two-hour finale at 8 p.m. ET Friday (Jan. 27), Levi hopes the emotion he and the cast and crew felt during the final days of production translate into what fans see at home.

"If it's hitting us that hard, I can only assume and hope that the fans, as they're watching the finale, are going to feel the same way. It's good. It's cathartic. It's therapeutic," he says. "It's not necessarily tears of joy, but it's tears of love. I hope that the fans all feel that.

"One of the things I've always heard is that part of the reason why we've been able to maintain what we have is that people can feel the fun that we have, like, transcend the television screen. And if there's any truth to that, then I can only assume that they're going to feel the love and the emotion that we felt doing all this together."

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'Cougar Town' Fans Don't Fear : It's Likely to Return this March

Fans of Cougar Town, fear not. The show's third season is still a go as far as ABC is concerned. Cougar Town is likely to return in the March, said ABC Entertainment president Paul Lee. He went on to say, “We’re going to give [Cougar Town] a really good launch pad,” adding that he thinks the show could be part of a block of “young comedies” with Happy Endings and midseason entrant Don’t Trust the B--- in Apartment 23. HE continued to say, "Nothing is set in stone, and no exact date was talked about, but things are looking good for the show's upcoming return."

After being left off of the network's midseason schedule, this is good news to hear for Cougar Town fans, as manyworry that the show had been quietly cancelled after already having its planned season cut short.

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'Hell on Wheels' Approved For Season 2 on AMC

AMC will unleash "Hell" again in 2012.

The cable channel has picked up its freshman drama series "Hell on Wheels" for a second season. There's no official word yet, but Deadline reports a deal is done. Word from AMC is likely to come next week.

The series, centered around the building of the transcontinental railroad in the years after the Civil War, had a big opening in November, scoring 4.4 million viewers for its premiere. That was the second-biggest premiere for an original series in AMC's history, behind only "The Walking Dead."

Its ratings have fallen some since then, but it typically draws better than 2 million viewers per week, which is a pretty good number for AMC.

"Hell on Wheels" stars Anson Mount, Common, Colm Meaney and Dominique McElligott. Joe and Tony Gayton created it. The series has Christmas off but will return Jan. 1 to finish out its inaugural season.

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Chuck vs. the Santa Suit

Here's how good this Christmas episode of "Chuck" was: The NBC promo department's unleashing a rather huge spoiler two weeks ago had only a negligible impact on how much we enjoyed it.

Would it have been better not to have seen Daniel Shaw before he was revealed to be the mysterious prisoner the Omen virus released? Sure. The show clearly wanted it that way -- we saw his feet and body in the breakout scene, but his face was out of frame until he surprised Sarah in Castle.

But it's a testament to the show that even though those of us who saw the promos could connect the dots and realize Shaw was the one pulling the strings, "Chuck vs. the Santa Suit" still managed to be full of holiday awesomeness.

Appropriately, the return of Shaw echoed the last episode with Brandon Routh in a lot of ways: He went through Sarah to get at Chuck, he once again underestimated Chuck's abilities as a spy, and it ended with a fight in an abandoned Buy More, which wasn't as thoroughly destroyed as it was in "Chuck vs. the Ring Part II" but ended up good and trashed anyway.

Your "Chuck" Plot Hole of the Week has to do with Shaw still having the Intersect despite having been in CIA custody for the past two years, and using it to blackmail Decker into doing his bidding. You could argue that maybe Decker didn't realize Shaw was Intersect-capable at the start, and after the first flash that gave Shaw all the dirt, it was over. But let's not think too hard on that, lest it impinge on how great the rest of the hour was.

Chuck's enlistment of Jeff and Lester to crack the virus while Sarah and Casey are incapacitated (more on that in a moment) was a brilliant stroke (and excellent opportunity Subway product placement), both because it reminded us that these guys, when motivated, actually do contribute something besides comic relief and '80s rock covers, and because the show is usually always better when the whole cast is involved.

Jeff and Lester find out that Shaw unleashed the Omen not to destroy the Internet, but to channel the CIA database into his head, creating Intersect 3.0 and bringing the agency to its knees. In the meantime, he'll use his other Intersect skills to subdue Sarah and take out Chuck.

Chuck, however, uses the week's MacGuffin to remove the Intersect from Shaw's head, thereby setting up a pretty fair fight in the Buy More -- and frankly, because it was just two guys who really hate each other fighting and not two guys with near-super powers, this fight actually played better than the one in "Ring Part II." They beat the snot out of each other, and it was great. Particularly when Ellie ended it with a well-placed blow to the back of Shaw's head.

We've been on the record in the past as liking Shaw as a character, if not his actions, and it was great to see Chuck's most hated nemesis return. The episode could have spent its entire running time on their mano-a-mano showdown, and that would have been good. But the fact that it found great notes for so many of the other regulars elevated it to great.

In particular, the Casey piece of the story featured stellar work from Adam Baldwin, both comedic -- his reaction to Chuck and Morgan finding out about his Christmas gift for Alex -- and dramatic. His recording of a final message for Alex was heart-wrenching, and the fact that he then got to deliver the message in person just made us feel warm and fuzzy. If Baldwin submits an Emmy episode this season, it should be this one.

And somehow we've gotten this far into the recap without even mentioning Gen. Beckman planting a huge kiss on Chuck at the CIA Christmas party. I know Beckman wishes never to speak of it again, but I see myself laughing at that moment for a good long time.

And then -- and then! -- Shaw drops one more bomb into Chuck and Sarah's life at the end of the episode, setting up next week's Sarah-centric episode by asking if Chuck knows "about the baby." Can't wait for that, but for now we'd like to thank "Chuck" for a great early Christmas present.

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A 'Clueless' Reunion On Suburgatory

According to TVLine, Alicia Silverstone will be joining her one-time costar Jeremy Sisto on this hilarious new sitcom Suburgatory.

Silverstone is said to be playing the part of Eden, a potential love interest for George, being played by Sisto. Apparently, Eden's "unusual" line of work even comes between George and Noah, and it's got to be some pretty powerful stuff to break up that bromance.

There has been no word yet on whether Eden and George actually hook up, so I guess we'll have to wait until it airs to see if any sparks fly between these two characters. Let's just hope that they'll do a little "rollin' with the homies" for old times' sake.

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A Lovely Fall Finale From 'Psych'

Juliet and Shawn go away for a "grown-up" vacation, where they encounter a couple, Clive and Barbie, who turn out to be a couple of conmen. Shawn and Juliet thwart their racket, while simultaneously solving a murder committed by "Arrested Development's" Tony Hale.

The real interesting news, though, is that Shawn was going to propose. What is awesome is that all along, I thought he was going to. But when it didn't happen in the hot-air balloon, I thought I must be wrong. But instead of it happening, Gus finds Shawn's hidden ring in the Nintendo that was stolen from Shawn's room by Clive and Barbie. Didn't the look on Gus's face just break your heart a little?

In an awesome B-plot, Gus, Lassiter and Henry go out to see who can do a better job picking up chicks and Henry's finds himself a crazy daddy-issues girl looking for a sugar daddy. It was hilarious. I particularly liked Gus's line to Henry, "Yeah, but when you were young on the outside, this was all farmland."

An all-around very satisfying episode. The guest stars were fun, and both storylines were great, especially when they converged at the hotel. We can hardly wait for the show to return in 2012.

What did you think, "Psych" fans?

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Nick Nolte : It Wasn't A Mug Shot At All!

Nick Nolte is known in equal turns as Oscar-nominee, rebel, and subject of the most famous celebrity "mug shot" of all time. And he's proud of all three descriptors in equal measure. Before social media and Twitter made every celebrity slipup or moment of weakness liable to be a viral sensation, a photo following Nolte's 2002 DUI arrest made the rounds on the web, with seemingly the entire world seeing and laughing at his shocked, matted hair, angry scowl and fantastic Hawaiian shirt. In a new feature interview with GQ, Nolte explains it all -- and has no desire to run away from what to many would be a total embarrassment.

Nolte himself has never spoken about the infamous photo -- until now. In the latest issue of GQ magazine, Nolte reveals that the pic wasn't his mug shot at all, it was just a photo that a cop asked to take at the hospital, where Nolte was getting a blood test. "I said, 'Come on, you don't really want to ask that, do you?'" says Nolte. Nolte told the officer to share any proceeds he got from selling the shot with the rest of his squad. "And I let him shoot the Polaroid."

As it turns out, he wasn't drinking the morning that he was pulled over by police for reckless driving; he was on a substance known as liquid ecstasy, which he used to assist his workouts and improve his moods. Many people look down on the drug, but Nolte has a different take. "I had a different opinion about this substance than most people had," he says. "I knew the history of it and I knew the doctors and I knew how to use it." He did, however, know he was doing it too much; he had driven to an AA meeting that morning, but decided to leave and head home. That's when he was nabbed. He was hospitalized, and that's when the photo was taken.

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