Another struggling NBC freshman series has been picked up for the full season. Chase, from executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, joins previously announced The Event, Law & Order: Los Angeles, and Outsourced in getting a vote of confidence from NBC despite middling ratings. Chase premiered under the radar with 7.3 million viewers and a 2.3 in the demo. It has slipped each week but appears to have stabilized or gone up slightly last night depending on final numbers. Through its first four weeks, it averaged a low 6.1 million viewers and a 1.9 in the demo. I didn't like this show's pilot but it's grown on me and is one of the few I am tuning into every week. The villains have been particularly good thus far.In other NBC news, they also gave a full season (and then some to bring the total to 24 episodes) for fourth season show Chuck despite constant low ratings in the Monday 8pm timeslot. With all three Monday shows given the full season, will NBC keep this lineup intact or change things around at midseason? The only new shows whose fate for the season is still TBD is drama Undercovers, which was given an additional script order, and reality show School Pride which debuted to very low ratings last Friday.
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