Question: What American director, born Joseph McGinty Nichol, directed the pilot episode of "Chuck"?

Context articles: Lemonade and Brownies
Chuck Versus the Intersect
Demolition (The Young Ones)
List of Chuck episodes
Damian McGinty
Pilot (Glee)
The Cage (Star Trek: The Original Series)
The Strain (TV series)
McG
List of Dominion episodes

Lemonade and Brownies is the debut studio album by the American rock band Sugar Ray.
 It was produced by the band's director friend Joseph McGinty "McG" Nichol and DJ Lethal and released on April 4, 1995 by Atlantic Records.
 Actress Nicole Eggert is featured on the cover.
 Even though the album did not chart and was a commercial and critical failure for Atlantic Records, the band stayed on the label, going on to huge success.
"Chuck Versus the Intersect" is the pilot episode of the American action-comedy television series "Chuck".
 The episode was directed by McG and written by series co-creators Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak.
 It originally aired on September 24, 2007.
"Demolition" was the pilot episode for British sitcom "The Young Ones".
 It was written by Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer, and directed by Paul Jackson.
 Although made as a pilot episode, the five subsequent episodes had been commissioned and recorded by the time of broadcast, so instead "Demolition" was promoted to the ordinary first episode of a series, and has remained as so.
 It was first aired on BBC2 on 9 November 1982.
"Chuck" is an American spy action-comedy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak.
 It premiered on the terrestrial television network NBC on September 24, 2007, airing on Mondays at 8:00 pm ET.
 "Chuck" centers on Chuck Bartowski (played by Zachary Levi), an "average computer-whiz-next-door", who receives an encoded e-mail from an old college friend now working in the CIA; the message embeds the only remaining copy of the world's greatest spy secrets into Chuck's brain.
 The first season of "Chuck" aired in 2007–08, containing 13 episodes.
 After the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, NBC renewed "Chuck" for a second season instead of extending the first to a full season of 22 episodes.
 The full-length second season originally aired in 2008–09.
 Episodes of "Chuck" are also available in various new media formats.
 The first through fifth seasons are available to purchase on DVD and Blu-ray.
 In the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, every episode is available for download from iTunes.
 Episode titles for "Chuck" are consistently formatted as "Chuck Versus...".
 For example, the pilot episode is titled "Chuck Versus the Intersect".
 This list is ordered by the episodes' original air date and not by the production codes, which show the order in which episodes were filmed.
 On May 13, 2011, NBC renewed "Chuck" for a fifth and final season consisting of 13 episodes.
 The series concluded with a two-hour finale on January 27, 2012.
Damian Joseph McGinty Jr. (born 9 September 1992) is an actor and singer from Derry, Northern Ireland.
 McGinty has been performing for over a decade, and was a member of the group Celtic Thunder for four years starting when he was fourteen.
 On 21 August 2011, McGinty won the Oxygen reality show "The Glee Project", earning him a seven-episode guest-starring role on the hit Fox television show "Glee" which was later extended to 18 episodes.
"Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American television series "Glee", which premiered on the Fox network on May 19, 2009.
 An extended director's cut version aired on September 2, 2009.
 The show focuses on a high school show choir, also known as a glee club, set within the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.
 The pilot episode covers the formation of the club and introduces the main characters.
 The episode was directed by series creator Ryan Murphy, and written by Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan.
 Murphy selected the music featured in the episode, with the intention of maintaining a balance between showtunes and chart hits.
"The Cage" is the first pilot episode of the American television series "."
 It was completed in early 1965 (with a copyright date of 1964), but not broadcast on television in its complete form until late 1988.
 The episode was written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler.
 It was rejected by NBC in February 1965, and the network ordered another pilot episode, which became "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
The Strain is an American horror drama television series that premiered on FX on July 13, 2014.
 It was created by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, based on their novel trilogy of the same name.
 Carlton Cuse serves as executive producer and showrunner.
 Del Toro and Hogan wrote the pilot episode, "Night Zero", which del Toro directed.
 A thirteen-episode first season was ordered on November 19, 2013.
 The pilot episode premiered at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, in early June 2014.
Joseph McGinty Nichol (born August 9, 1968), known mononymously as McG, is an American director, producer, and former record producer.
"Dominion" is an American apocalyptic supernatural action television series created by Vaun Wilmott.
 It is loosely based on the 2010 film "Legion", written by Peter Schink and Scott Stewart.
 In December 2013, Syfy ordered a pilot episode and the series premiered on the American cable television network Syfy on June 19, 2014.
 The show is filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.
 Stewart serves as series executive producer, as well as director of the pilot episode, written by Wilmott.