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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Showtime’s Masters of Horror series is back for its second season, with many of the previous Masters returning for another go round and a couple of newcomers trying their hand at the format. Last week I received a DVD with the first three episodes and I have… Continue reading
David Eick is one of the guys behind the amazing relaunch of Battlestar Galactica. Now he’s setting his sights on another cheesy 70s show: The Bionic Woman. Yes, the Six Million Dollar Man’s girlfriend is getting a new life on television. "It's a complete… Continue reading
Eight seconds lasts forever. That’s how long you have to stay on a bucking bull to begin racking up points, and it’s the points that determine the winner of the PBR (Professional Bull Riders) Championship. That man takes home a check for a million dollars and… Continue reading
Last night NBC’s new Monday line-up debuted in full with the first episode of Heroes, which was followed up by Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The media has been salivating about the possibility of Studio 60 failing – show creator Aaron Sorkin is, I guess,… Continue reading
When people talk about Francis Ford Coppola they always mention the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now, and maybe if they’re disparaging him, Jack. But one of his great films almost never gets mentioned, and it’s too bad – The Conversation, released between… Continue reading
We’re just a few weeks from the return of Battlestar Galactica for its third season, and anticipation is high. Finally, I’ll have an almost reasonable excuse for being home on Friday nights! In the next few weeks we’ll be having some continuing coverage of… Continue reading
The liberal media is at it again, as ABC prepares to air The Path to 9/11, a miniseries “docudrama” about the events leading up to the attack on America five years ago. This time the pinkos are taking aim at… Bill Clinton? Yup, the miniseries is being called… Continue reading
Earlier today I got on the phone with Black Dahlia screenwriter Josh Friedman*, and one of the topics of conversation ended up being The Sarah Connor Chronicles, the newly greenlit Terminator TV show he is executive producing and writing. The Sarah Connor… Continue reading
This contains spoilers for the finale of Battlestar season 2. Don't read it if you haven't seen all the episodes. I feel like an alcoholic who swallowed a little bit of mouth wash. I thought that I was handling the long hiatus between seasons of Battlestar… Continue reading
It’s the 40th anniversary of the original Star Trek series, and it’s coming back to broadcast TV for the first time in 16 years. That makes me feel old – when I was a kid I used to wait up to watch Trek at midnight on Channel 11 WPIX, and would curse when the… Continue reading
What exactly happened to Sarah Connor after Terminator 2? She’s already out of the picture by the time 3 rolls around, but apparently she has stories to be told – and they’ll be told on TV. The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a TV show spin-off of the Terminator… Continue reading
It’s been fifty years since the Civil Rights Movement and what do we have to show for it? Black people exiled to their own island! That’s the basic – and dare I say, brilliant – conceit behind the next season of Survivor. The show will have four tribes, split… Continue reading
