Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by
Josh Schwartz and
Chris Fedak. The series is about an "average computer-whiz-next-door" named
Chuck, played by
Zachary Levi, who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working for the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The message embeds the only remaining copy of a software program containing the United States' greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain.