The news is trickling in that Chuck has a new start date for the fall — a full 3 months earlier than predicted!

The Chicago Tribune is reporting that Chuck will be back for its 3rd season starting on Sunday, January 10th for a 2 hour premiere of back to back episodes.

The third episode will then play the very next night at Chuck’s old slot on Mondays at 8pm.   Heroes will shift back to its old 9pm time-slot.

Check out the Season 3 Teaser below:

Welcome news indeed!  Not too much longer without our weekly Yvonne fix.  I, for one, can’t wait!

Those who follow the site may remember the daughter of forum-goer radi8n who dressed up as Sarah Walker for Halloween.

Well it turns out Chuck writer Ali Adler got word of this awesome costume and made a point of showing it to Yvonne Strahovski on the set of Chuck.

That alone would have been a major coup for little Bailey, but it only got better from there.

Yvonne was so impressed with the costume, that she mailed Bailey a special gift for her awesomeness.

It’s not like we needed more evidence to prove that Yvonne Strahovski is an amazing person, but I really love being able to post this kind of news.  Looks like that’s certainly a one-of-a-kind souvenir!

Yes, Yvonne Strahovski is beautiful.  And of course she’s an amazing actress.  But what really endears her to all of us is that under it all she’s a great person.

It’s small gestures like this that really endear Ms. Strahovski to her fans.  A special congratulations to Bailey for her awesome jacket!

I was able to get links out on Twitter a few days ago for both of these, but Yvonne has recently sat down with Televisionary for an interview about season 3 of Chuck.

In addition, someone found this Schick Quattro commercial which I assume is from Australia.  Yvonne doesn’t have a speaking role and is barely in the commercial at all, but it’s Yvonne Strahovski so I know you’ll watch it anyway.

Enjoy them both!

Also, if you don’t already follow us on Twitter then do so!  A lot of this sort of stuff gets there before I have time to post it on the main site… and some stuff never makes it to the main site at all.

Warner has finally released the full details for Chuck: The Complete Second Season, coming on DVD and Blu-ray. It looks like all 6 discs will be hitting stores on January 5th, and will include 3D glasses for Chuck vs. the Third Dimension.

Available for pre-order on Amazon.com:

Special features will include:

• Truth, Spies and Regular Guys: Exploring the Mythology of Chuck
• Dude in Distress: Explore Some of This Season’s Best Action Sequences
• Chuck Versus the Webisodes: Web-Originated Minifeaturettes
• Chuck: A Real-Life Captain Awesome’s Tips for Being Awesome
• John Casey Presents: So You Want to Be a Deadly Spy?
• Declassified Scenes
• Gag Reel

I don’t know about you, but I think A Real-Life Captain Awesome’s Tips for Being Awesome sounds pretty hilarious.

Also, don’t forget that Yvonne will be appearing (albeit in digital form) in Mass Effect 2, which will be hitting PC and Xbox 360 on January 26th. I think that’s her on the cover.

UPDATE: Reader Mike pointed out that if you zoom in on the Mass Effect 2 cover on Amazon’s site, you can clearly see that it is in fact Yvonne on the cover:

Here are the screen captures for Yvonne Strahovski’s interview with Carson Daly on October 28, 2009.  The legendary interview where Yvonne gave a shout out to Strahotski.com specifically (can it be legendary in less than 24 hours?).

Yvonne is as beautiful as always.  Given the special occasion, this gallery comes in at 40 images which is 10 more than any other interview gallery.

It’s probably also bigger because — let’s face it — we’re all needing an Yvonne Strahovski fix right about now.

All of the pictures are lovely of course, but my favorite is this picture which I’ve made a special thumbnail for.

This capture is taken right before she starts talking about Strahotski.com. It’s that split second when she’s formulating exactly what she’s going to say to Carson Daly’s question about her Googling herself…

At least that’s how I imagine it anyway.  It may be wishful thinking on my part, but it’s a beautiful screen capture nonetheless.

Though I have chosen not to personally upload the video to YouTube, someone else has done so.  I can’t in good conscience keep such an awesome interview from the masses, so enjoy!

What did you think of the interview and the screen captures?  Yvonne’s becoming a regular over at Last Call, and each interview just gets better and better.