Year: 2010

In the US: Sunday 10th & Monday 11th January 2010, NBC
In the UK: On Virgin 1 some time during the dawning of the Age of Aquarius probably

Well blow me. No Chuck for ages and then suddenly three come along at once. I’m sure there’s a joke to be made there. Hmm…

But it’s back all the same, following a brief brush with cancellation that was only averted thanks to a certain sandwich franchise stepping up to the plate and offering NBC loads of money for a bit of product placement – oh, and if the producers were willing to cut the budget a bit. You know, lose a few characters…

Now if you watched the end of the second season, you’ll know that changes were planned for the show anyway – which, for a show that hardly ever strays away from its formula and always resets everything back to the status quo/the nicest possible option, was a bit brave.

Well, let me tell you, if you were worried that things were going to stay exactly the same, you’d only have been half-right, because although there’s been an awful lot of resetting going on, there’s been a whole lot of changes as well.

Spoilers and more after the jump.

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