Source:
Updated Chuck info
I've learned why announcements regarding the renewal fates of
Chuck and
My Name Is Earl have been delayed. And it involves more horsetrading than the Triple Crown. My sources tell me that NBC lowballed the
Earl license fee, and the show's owner, Twentieth Century Fox, came back with a proposal which NBC has been sitting on for a few days. As for
Chuck, this gets complicated. Turns out NBC didn't like David E Kelley's Warner Bros pilot
Legally Mad. Problem is, there's a $2 million penalty that gets paid to WB if the network doesn't pick up the show. So NBC is hoping to work a deal tying the renewal of
Chuck, which is also a WB show, to a pass on paying that
Legally Mad penalty.