Fast National ratings for Friday, Dec. 30, 2011
Friday night was full of reruns, movies and a new episode of “Chuck,” so ratings were rather uneventful. “Chuck” was down slightly from its new episode on Christmas Eve a week ago.
CBS won the night with 6.8 million viewers and a 4.3 rating/8 share of households. ABC and NBC were neck-and-neck for second, with ABC eeking out a… Continue reading Ratings: 'Chuck' down slightly, CBS wins with reruns

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.
For about 55 minutes on Friday (Dec. 9), “Chuck” was rolling through a very satisfying, mostly stand-alone episode. And then the last five minutes changed that, a lot.
“Chuck” is trying to cover a lot of ground in the 13 episodes it has for its final season, and because the season is short a lot of people were wondering why the show would choose to begin the season with Morgan having the Intersect.