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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The LA Times is ending months of fan speculation and tension by reporting that the Sci Fi Channel will pick up Battlestar Galactica for a fourth season – but one only 13 episodes long. The show, which is completely fucking great but also the most expensive on… Continue reading
Peter Krause, one of those actors who should be a much bigger star than he is, signed Friday to star in the new ABC pilot Dirty Sexy Money. The NYU graduate (sort of represent) will play an idealistic lawyer who inherits more than an old record collection… Continue reading
Torque star Martin Henderson is trading in his wheels for an assassin’s rifle. The New Zealand actor, who is currently one of the galaxy of stars appearing in Smokin’ Aces, signed with to star opposite Jordan Brewster in the pilot for Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The… Continue reading
Jeff Zucker, the George W. Bush of television, will be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, reports the L.A. Times. Zucker, the 41-year-old former president of NBC’s prime-time entertainment division and executive producer of Today, succeeds… Continue reading
It’s that time again, tv fans—pilot season. Even as we speak, thousands of struggling actors and writers are descending on production offices nationwide (okay, maybe just New York and L.A.), all chasing the dream. And even as we speak, the men and women in… Continue reading
Last week, THUD reported that Spike Lee signed to direct the pilot M.O.N.Y. for NBC. At the time, I said that the project – about an ordinary guy who becomes the mayor of New York – sounded like an ideal match for Lee and that it was one of the new pilots to… Continue reading
It appears Andy Bernard passed his anger management training – Ed Helms is becoming a regular on NBC’s The Office. Look, Greg Daniels and his team of writers have proven over the last two and a half seasons that they know what they’re doing, so they have the… Continue reading
One of the funniest episodes of one of my favorite shows of all time – The West Wing –– is “The U.S. Poet Laureate,” from the show’s third season. I like to call it “Aaron Sorkin Vs. The Internet.” The episode goes a little something like this: Josh Lyman… Continue reading
(I have to give shout-outs to THUD readers Jarrett D. and Phil H. for sending me the uncensored version of that Wire clip I mentioned last week. Unfortunately, I was looking for the censored clip with all the tape hiss that appeared on BET. But watching it… Continue reading
Spike Lee, one of the greatest living directors (yeah, I said it), will direct the pilot for NBC’s M.O.N.Y. That stands for “Mayor of New York” and focuses on an ordinary man who becomes mayor of the greatest city in the world (said that, too). Of all the… Continue reading
Tim Minear, mastermind behind the fast-cancelled The Inside and Wonderfalls, announced last week the revised cast list for his FOX midseason series Drive. Drive, whose pilot script read like the opening of Magnolia meets Cannonball Run with the "all will be… Continue reading
I love television. One of my earliest memories is of watching Ronald Reagan and being taught that in our household, we called him "the Boo-Hiss Man." My father, a television critic and historian for over twenty years, bought a television set specifically to… Continue reading
