THUD, or Television Happenings Under Development as it's known to geniuses, is CHUD.com's signature television column. The column offers insight, news, and snark aplenty on the tube known to its friends and family as "Boob".
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 →
MAGNUM GOES TO VEGAS Sorry, Magnum, P.I. fans – Tom Selleck isn’t donning the Hawiian shirts for a reunion movie with everyone’s favorite wisecracking Vietnam Vet. (Does anybody even do reunion movies anymore?) But the man who rocks a mustache almost as hard… Continue reading →
TERMINATOR OF ‘PAIN’ Kristanna Loken, star of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and The L Word, is going from hunting John Connor to hunting Masi Oki (but not really). Loken’s headlining the Sci-Fi Channel’s latest original series, Painkiller Jane. Based on… Continue reading →
This interview contains major spoilers for all six seasons of The Sopranos. Everyone’s talking about The Sopranos, whose final nine episodes begin Easter Sunday. Magazines from EW to Vanity Fair to Obscure Sports Monthly has run stories on the influential and… Continue reading →
David Cross is awesome. We can all agree on that, right? He’s a brilliant stand-up comic – Shut Up You Fucking Baby is one of the great modern comedy albums [Note from Nick: No.]. He’s been the best part in many shitty movies like Small Soldiers and Men and… Continue reading →
Many have said it before, but let’s say it again: NBC has been having a shitty run lately. The network went from one of the most successful eras in tv history during its Seinfeld/Fraiser/Friends/ER days to dropping to fourth place of the four major networks… Continue reading →
WALSH’S ‘PRIVATE PRACTICE’ The name of the much-anticipated Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, previously known around here as Addison, Kellerman, and Benny, was revealed to media buyers to be Private Practice. The series, which focuses on Kate Walsh’s neo-natal… Continue reading →
GIAMATTI. LINNEY. WILKINSON. MORSE. That, friends, is the starting line up for HBO’s John Adams, an upcoming seven-hour miniseries based on the Pulitzer Prize winner by David McCullough. The series will tell the story of the titular founding father and second… Continue reading →
GUGINO, NOT GOLD Carla Gugino is a talented actress with a string of bad luck when it comes to television. She’s been a part of two high profile flops since 2003, “Karen Sisco” and “Threshold,” which, in tv land, is enough to stick you with the infamous “show… Continue reading →
It’s funny going down to Little West 12th Street – it’s in what used to be the Meat Packing District of Manhattan, and it was where you went to buy meat… either the kind that comes from an animal or the kind that’s hidden inside the skirt of a tranny hooker.… Continue reading →