Archive for December, 2007

Carson Daly Interview

In our efforts to make sure Strahotski.com has the latest Yvonne Strahovski news, I bring you the interview with Carson Daly that aired in the wee hours of this morning on NBC.

It’s a pretty good interview, though way too short. Sounds like Chuck’s keeping Yvonne really busy! I guess we can forgive her for not stopping by yet. ;)

I’m out of town for the rest of the weekend, so screen captures should be up early next week from the interview.

Enjoy!

New Stuff

It’s not much, but two new pictures have been added to the gallery. Though they may be few in number, I think they’re quality additions to our collection.

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The first was sent in by Ludwig and is a rare treat. It appears to be an ad from some theater she did back in Australia. You can barely even tell it’s her!

The second is just a modification of one of the pictures already in our gallery. It’s our first ‘LOLStrahovski‘ and was sent in by reader Hemisphire. If you’re unfamiliar with the LOLx phenomenon, check out my favorite LOLCats site.

With the pictures come a new album labeled ‘Fan Pictures.’ If you have any pictures that you’ve modified for comedic effect, or just because it looks cool, send it our way and we’ll post it up!

Also, as Yvonne Strahovski gets out there and inevitably gets to meet her fans, if you manage to snag a picture with her we’d be happy to put it up in the same section.

If you have anything you’d like us to post in the Fan Pictures section, send it to submissions@strahotski.com!

Votes and Ratings

Today is the last day to vote for Chuck in the People’s Choice Awards. According to the website, there’s just a shade over 10 hours left at the time of this writing.

– Vote here –

Fansites are nice, ratings are better, but awards last a lifetime. Let’s try to make sure Chuck gets one!

In other Chuck news, the ratings are in and Chuck has risen yet again. For comparison:

  • Episode 1.01 - 9.28 Million
  • Episode 1.02 - 8.22 Million
  • Episode 1.03 - 7.12 Million
  • Episode 1.04 - 8.23 Million
  • Episode 1.05 - 7.14 Million
  • Episode 1.06 - 7.03 Million
  • Episode 1.07 - 7.70 Million
  • Episode 1.08 - 7.56 Million
  • Episode 1.09 - 7.80 Million
  • Episode 1.10 - 8.36 Million
  • Episode 1.11 - 8.48 Million

That’s the biggest yet since the pilot, so gratz to Chuck for continuing to impress! The show has already been picked up for its back nine, but nothing’s better than proving to NBC that they made a wise choice.

Thanks to Chuck Online for the ratings numbers.

Episode 1.11 Captures

We’ve added 70 new screen captures to the gallery from “Chuck Versus the Crown Vic.”

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There are some exquisite shots from this set. We got to see Yvonne in her pajamas, an evening gown, a bikini, and her Weinerlicious outift. Awesome costumes that made her all the more beautiful.

This is the last episode before the hiatus, so cherish these screen captures (and visit everyday during the break to see them).

Enjoy!

Strahovski and Crown Vics

Episode 1.11 already, “Chuck Versus the Crown Vic!”  My, how time flies.

This episode is full of Yvonne Strahovski with bare shoulders, and boy are they cold.  It seems that the mix-up with Bryce has left Sarah chilly towards Chuck, her job, and life.

This episode was a nice episode for Adam Baldwin who got a lot of screen time torturing Chuck about his non-relationship with Sarah.  He’s a fun character, and it was nice to finally see him get a little bit more attention.

Morgan was a train wreck in every scene he was in, but it’s starting to become at least slightly endearing.  At least Anna is cute.

Yvonne did a remarkable job as always playing off her emotions with a steely disposition, and breaking only when no one was looking.  She manages to amaze every week with her superb acting skills.

All that being said, this episode was a dip from the previous few.  It didn’t really deal with the bigger plot much, and there seemed to be an inordinate amount of bad editing.

In one scene, you can actually see Casey talking with no words coming from his mouth.  The entire section with Sarah and Casey talking about Chuck is awkward and strangely edited.

The plot would have yielded a bigger pay off if the Crown Vic had made an appearance in previous episodes.  This episode feels like it was written to be isolated, and then edited to fit the bigger serial plot as an afterthought.

Nonetheless, you can’t expect a home run with every single episode and this one at least gets to second base.  That’s more than most television shows can say.

Perhaps the worst news of all, however, is that this was the last episode of the year!  This news caught me totally by surprise.  I thought there was one more left before the hiatus.  The ending was brutal — waiting until the new year is going to be extremely painful.

We’ll be here, though, full of Yvonne Strahovski goodness to fill the void.  Stick with us!

As always, high res screen caps should be up tomorrow afternoon.  There are lots of nice shots of Yvonne to be excited about.  Until then, talk about the episode here or on the forums.

Yvonne on Last Call

Strahovski-Ferguson Interview_01.jpgReader Judy alerted us to an indication that Yvonne Strahovski will be a guest on Last Call with Carson Daly this Thursday evening.

The Carson Daly calendar doesn’t yet list any of the guests for this week, but Carson has returned to filming despite the strike.

As faithful followers of Yvonne, we’ll be sure to TiVo the show and get the results up as quickly as we can! Expect video and screen captures to usher in an awesome weekend.

This hasn’t been confirmed from any definitive source as far as I can tell, so we’ll see how it shakes out.

Edit: It seems that the Carson Daly site has been updated with the official schedule, so this is a lock.

Downtime

We apologize for the downtime here at Strahotski.com.  It seems our hosting provider had some power troubles that took down the site for over 12 hours.

They were upgrading some things pre-emptively so hopefully we can trust it to be super-stable from here on out.

At least it wasn’t on Chuck Monday, right?!