Dear HeroesL What happened? Villains marked an all time low in your ratings, and lost you a significant portion of your core audience (myself included). You broke my heart, Heroes. Fugitives won me back in much the same way your ex does when he or she promises to reform, to be better and try harder. But the make-up sex just wasn't that great. Heroes, if you really want to win me back, here's what you have to do. - IO9.com

Just about all renewals and hoped-for pickups come with big budget cuts attached. If the current economy has put pressure on networks to think about making shows that don't have to be runaway popular successes in order to justify what's being spent on them, that may be a good thing in the long run. - NPR.org

The 13-episode pickup came after Warner Bros. agreed to make significant budget concessions, including scaling back the number of episodes several members of the show's stellar supporting cast will appear in and possibly eliminating one actor altogether. - EW.com

OPINION - Keep shows on the air. Yes, this is very difficult for you to understand. If you have 13 episodes, air them all. In a row. Series interruptus - it's a bad idea. Oh, and if you run five episodes, take it off for two months and then bring back the final eight episodes on another night and time, well, you're just more stupid than we originally thought. - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

When rumors started circulating that NBC has yet to pick up Chuck for a third season, the groundswell started. TV blog Give Me My Remote shifted it's focus to "Give Me My Chuck" with a week of posts and an entire kit for you to dedicate your online presence to the show, and make sure NBC notices it. GMMR was joined by TV Squad and a bunch of separate Twitterers to drive traffic and exposure of the movement by healthy doses of the #savechuck hashtag. - MOST LIKELY TO DIE ALONE

Let me tell you how toilet paper is made ... wait, that sounds about as exciting as an appointment with your accountant. And yet watching toilet paper being produced—as you can see in the clip below from the amazing TV show How It's Made—is irresistibly absorbing.