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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This is a couple of weeks old, but The Futon Critic released their annual “50 Best Episodes of 2006” over the first week of the year. The Top Ten: 10. 24: Day 5: 7:00 a.m-8:00 a.m; 9. Dexter: Pilot; 8. Smith: Pilot; 7. Veronica Mars: Not Pictured; 6. Friday… Continue reading
NBC ordered full-season pick-ups last week for the 2007-2008 season last week for four of its hit shows—The Office, My Name is Earl, Heroes, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Sorry, those of you waiting for Jim and Pam to get together, Earl to finish… Continue reading
Last night I watched some of the American Idol season 6 premiere, and I noticed that it had a lot in common with the 24 season 6 premiere – namely torture. There’s no other word for what goes on in the preliminary rounds of the singing competition, when… Continue reading
If you could get whiplash by being surprised about an article in the trades, I’d be wearing a neck brace right now. That’s how shocked I was to learn that HBO has acquired George RR Martin’s fantasy novel series, A Song of Ice and Fire, for a TV series – one… Continue reading
Sometimes I have ignored my better judgment and stood by the creators of ABC’s desert island drama, Lost. While the online fanbase bitched about slow-moving plots and endless mysteries, I have long believed that these guys had an idea of what they were doing… Continue reading
Great news for fans of Futurama who are mostly looking forward to the New Year because it will bring them that much closer to the 2008 release of new episodes of the classic animated show: ToyFare Magazine has an interview with David X Cohen, co-creator of… Continue reading
Early Saturday morning weary journalists assembled for the junket for We Are Marshall, the upcoming film based on the true story of Marshall University, which had its whole football team wiped out in one plane crash. Matthew Fox was there; he plays Red… Continue reading
The later period novels of Stephen King have been marked with an overblown quality, as well as a tortured attempt to link them all together in a fairly lame mythology. While he’s gone back and included many of his older books in that mythology, he really… Continue reading
This week NBC’s surprise smash hit Heroes turned a big corner – it got rid of the shitty opening and closing voice over. I don’t know how that decision got made, but I hope it sticks. The show sports some of the worst writing on network TV, and the… Continue reading
John Ford is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I’ve argued in the past that his epic western The Searchers is the best movie ever made, and I haven’t really changed my mind yet. The man had a long and fascinating career, peppered with many classics,… Continue reading
