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".
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I wish I could say that the creation of a TV show based on a commercial was a harbinger of the end times, but such a show has already aired – Baby Bob, based on a Quiznos commercial, back in 2000. And most of the people reading this site grew up on poorly… Continue reading
If you were a pre-teen in the eighties or nineties, you know the name Alvin Schwartz. Next to Stephen King, he's probably responsible for warping more fragile little minds than any other author – between 1981 and 1991, he collected and retold tales of… Continue reading
I guess her marriage to Tom Cruise made Nicole Kidman a fan of fakery, because she’s guest-starring on the fifth season of Nip/Tuck. The Oscar-winning Kidman, who met Nip/Tuck creator Ryan Murphy on the set of their film Need, asked the (warden) pope of… Continue reading
The cop drama that’s really about the decline of the American city The Wire has always been the redheaded stepchild of HBO. A brilliant redheaded stepchild matched only by the greatness of Deadwood, but still, the Baltimore-set series gets all the critical… Continue reading
Michael Mann staple and “Hey! It’s That Guy!” Bruce McGill has joined the cast of the Area 52 pilot, reports Zap2it.com. The Animal House star will play a general in the NBC comedy set at a secret government installation, where he’ll be telling co-star… Continue reading
Even if you hated the shit out of American Beauty and its script by Alan Ball, there’s no denying that Ball’s cable series Six Feet Under helped turn HBO into the critical and awards powerhouse it is today. As previously reported in our THUD pilot roundup,… Continue reading
On the Lot, the reality show that’s had aspiring filmmakers buzzing for months and would-be-writers getting asked “why don’t you enter that there contest?” by their out-of-touch relatives who don’t get the difference between a director and a screenwriter for… Continue reading
Whether you love it, hate it, hate how much you love it (like me), or embarrassed to admit that you watch it, there’s no denying that the hospital primetime soap Grey’s Anatomy is one of the biggest shows on TV. It’s also the only show to consistently… Continue reading
House lost me this season with the weak-ass way they ended out of the David Morse storyline, which took months of pressure, tension (“Good thing you failed to become a mom, because you suck at it!” never gets old) and the possibility of real change for Greg… Continue reading
When THUD reported on the March 5th premiere date for the NBC I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-The Departed crime drama The Black Donnellys, there was a lot of buzz about how the announcement didn’t come with a return date for the show it was replacing, Studio 60 on… Continue reading
Lucy “Xena” Lawless, who’s recently played a Cylon on Battlestar Galactica and one of the best FBI agents ever in the history of badass FBI agents on Veronica Mars, has joined the cast of ABC’s Football Wives, the much-hyped adaptation of the British soap… Continue reading
Last week, THUD took a look at some of the new pilots currently filming in hopes of being picked up for the fall season. Since then, a number of other exciting ones – including the Peter Krause vehicle Dirty Sexy Money, about ethically flexible rich people –… Continue reading
