UPDATE: Another little juicy morsel of season four news … two words: Baby Awesome.

September 20, the premiere date for Chuck’s fourth season, is still more than a month away, but we have the first season four trailer to tide us over:

Whatcha think? Linda Hamilton, who’ll play Chuck and Ellie’s mama, is teased in the clip, but we’ll also have guest gigs from Lou Ferrigno, Harry Dean Stanton, Dolph Lundgren and Nicole Richie (who returns as Sarah’s high school nemesis-turned-spy rival Heather) to look forward to. Think it’s gonna be another fun season with Chuck and pals.

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Enjoy, Chucksters!

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The big Chuck news out of last weekend’s San Diego Comic-Con, of course, is that Terminator and Beauty and the Beast star Linda Hamilton will be playing Mama Bartowski when the NBC dramedy returns for its fourth season. Reactions? Everyone happy with that choice? I find it a bit underwhelming … Lynda “Wonder Woman” Carter seemed like a better fit to me, though there’s no denying that Hamilton has the action heroine skills ….

For more Chuck fun, NBC filmed a series of quick interviews with the cast, which you can check out below:

Zachary “Chuck” Levi and Joshua “Morgan” Gomez:

Yvonne “Sarah” Strahovski:

Adam “John Casey” Baldwin:

Ryan “Captain Awesome” McPartlin and Sarah “Ellie” Lancaster:

Vic “Lester” Sahay and Scott “Jeff” Krinsky:

Mark Christopher “Big Mike” Lawrence:

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All the tube news that’s fit to surf …

- The best new TV drama since Sons of Anarchy premieres tonight: Justified, starring Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant as a Kentucky marshal. Check out my mini-review here, or better yet. just check out the show (10PM ET, FX).

- Mac and Sweet Dee are having a baby! Actually, it’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars – and real-life marrieds – Rob McElhenney and Kaitlin Olson, who are expecting their first child in August.

- What will the American Idol contestants sing for tonight’s Rolling Stones-themed performances? Here are my suggestions.

- Most TV types have been assuming that ex-American Idol judge Paula Abdul will reunite with Simon Cowell at the judge’s table of his upcoming U.S. version of The X Factor, but rumors leaked earlier this week that she was being wooed by ABC to host yet another revamp of Star Search. Now, The Daily Beast reports that loopy Paula actually passed on gobs of cash from ABC and may be holding out to work with Simon again after all.

- Seems like every day brings a new Betty White story, and there’s nothing wrong with that! Today, we learn that the Golden Girls alum will not only star in the pilot episode of TV Land’s summer sitcom Hot in Cleveland, but that she’s now been made a regular cast member.

- Happy Victor Garber Day! Why? Why not?

- Chuck fans, you might want to prepare for more trips to Subway: Monday night’s episode was the show’s lowest-rated. Ever. Sigh.

- It’s looking good for an eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, says Larry David.

- Check out a first look at Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Kevorkian in HBO’s “Dr. Death” movie You Don’t Know Jack. The made-for-TV flick, directed by Barry Levinson, premieres on HBO in April.

- I know lots of TV fans hate the big-screen makeovers of boob tube classics, but the premiere of the upcoming MacGruber movie was met with a very positive response from fans at the SXSW festival.

- 24 moving from Fox to NBC? Eh, I guess there have been worse ideas. I guess.

- This is certainly a contender for the weirdest show ever: Mike Tyson – yes, that Mike Tyson – is going to star in an Animal Planet reality series called Taking on Tyson, which will find the former boxing champ raising and racing pigeons. Wow.

- And wanna co-star with As the World Turns diva Eileen Fulton before the soap sadly bites the dust next fall? Here’s your chance.

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The Olympics have been great, but March 1 (8PM ET, NBC) marks the return of one of our favorite TV spy guys, Chuck.

Take a look below at a preview clip for the second half of the show’s third season, which features (at least) three sure-to-be-awesome (or is that Awesome?) moments:

1. The return of Jeffster!

2. Casey clunking Jeff and Lester’s heads together like Moe

3. And Chuck asking Sarah if she loves him

Wonder if that last one comes before or after the shot of Superman (a.k.a. guest star Brandon Routh) walking around in his towel?

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