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LOST: ALL WILL BE REVEALED…OR WILL IT? It looks like the brain trust behind Lost is serious about not falling into the same holding pattern as The X-Files, dragging the central mysteries between pretty people on a pretty fucked up island out for as long as… Continue reading
As its third season winds down and the upfronts approach, NBC is planning big changes for The Office. According to Thursday’s Variety, the Emmy-award winning series and second-most watched comedy on tv (in the 18-49 demo, it’s behind only Two and a Half Men)… Continue reading
If you’ve been reading the columns I’ve been writing for THUD over these past few months, you know that I, Brendan Leonard, am a fan of the girl show – and I’m not talking about the one you can get for ten bucks at Christie’s in North Canton, Ohio. Devin has… Continue reading
NOT-SO-SWEET STUDIO 60 The Aaron Sorkin After School Special, which was the most anticipated drama of the 2006-2007 television season back when we all knew it as Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is, at last, coming back to television. The show, which, after a… Continue reading
SKY BLUE, WATER WET, BALDWIN STAYING ‘30’ It was the bullshit that made the internet nearly explode. Making the traditional tv talk show rounds asking America’s apologies for showing his daughter what Glengarry Glen Ross II: Blake Goes Hawaiian would look… Continue reading
Well, that was fast. After less than three weeks on the road, Drive, the secret road-race show starring CHUD favorite Battlin’ Nathan Fillion, has been cancelled by FOX. Michael Ausiello of TV Guide ran this item in his blog, citing “multiple sources.”… Continue reading
Score one for the Donald, I guess. After less than a year as moderator for The View, Rosie O’Donnell is leaving the show when her contract expires in June. Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune reported that the former Queen of Nice said on the Wednesday… Continue reading
Dear Dumbass Parents of America, I don’t know how many times I have to keep saying this: Grow the fuck up. I refer to, of course, the latest article from The Washington Post, which reports that the Federal Communications Commission is ready to send the… Continue reading
MAYBE LILLY KANE KNOWS THE ANSWER… I got to say, the number of different stories regarding the fate of Veronica Mars (beyond getting her head smashed in by Powers Boothe, but we knew that already) don’t give me hope for the show’s fourth season. Last Friday,… Continue reading
NO TV MOVIES IN DEADWOOD? After teasing you cocksuckers that read this column with shout-outs to Deadwood and yet providing no news on the greatest show to ever fucking air on HBO (Note from God: No.), I’m pleased to finally provide you godless heathens with… Continue reading
‘LIFE’ OF ‘ASHES’ If there’s one reason I hate not having cable other than not having HBO, it’s not having BBC America. And chief among the reasons I want BBC America is so that I can see Life on Mars, the time-traveling police procedural that combines two of… Continue reading
Super-documentarian Ken Burns of Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, can’t win when it comes to The War. The War, Burns’s latest opus for PBS, is a 14-hour documentary about World War II, told through people from four “distinctly American communities” –… Continue reading
