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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News pours in from the Groeningverse: The Simpsons has been renewed for two more seasons, bringing it to 19 seasons; meanwhile Billy West is claiming that Futurama isn’t just back – it’s back for 26 episodes. I know I’m going to get mail about this, mail… Continue reading
I hate to bring you such bad news on the weekend, but it looks like Darren Aronofsky won’t be directing an episode of Lost. At least not this season. The director has dropped out due to his impending fatherhood – look for Rachel Weisz to be preggers at the… Continue reading
If you know Ving Rhames, or anyone who knows Ving Rhames, please try to get this important message to him: Ving, you have not signed on to do a guest spot on Entourage, the HBO show that spent its second season making fun of how lame Aquaman is by having its… Continue reading
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Battlestar Galactica’s final few episodes of this season. Battlestar Galactica’s second season is ending on a big note – a two part story with a 90 minute finale. Someone on the CHUD Message Boards recently lamented… Continue reading
Friends, Romans, Lost fans, I bring you the news you may have been waiting for – according to reports the annoying character of Ana Lucia is being knocked off ASAP. That’s the story from “NineMSN,” which I guess is MSN News for people in Australia. The site… Continue reading
After 7 years and 4 Emmys for Best Series, The West Wing is coming to an end at the conclusion of this season with the swearing in of a new president. The show has been on the edge of cancellation for some time, and the recent move to Sundays, a night owned… Continue reading
I caught Ed Wood on IFC a few weeks back (I know, why is that on IFC? Because it’s in black and white, I think) and I was enjoying Criswell. I was thinking to myself that there aren’t enough Prognosticators anymore – and that’s not just an inside joke about… Continue reading
The long afterlife of Futurama may finally be coming to an end. There’s been a lot of talk about a Futurama movie, or a straight to DVD release, but that all seems to be out the window, as plans for a brand new TV show has begun to form. That’s right, a whole… Continue reading
Is there hope for fans of Arrested Development? Could another network pick up the beloved – and little seen – comedy? ABC and Showtime have been in talks with 20th Century Fox to get their hands on the show, which Fox has all but cancelled, leaving us with… Continue reading
Over the course of the second season to date, I have kept the flame lit for Lost. I have kept the faith. I have stayed true. But this week’s episode, The Other 48 Days, is the one that broke me. I believe that not only was this the worst episode of the series… Continue reading
Doug Liman’s new show for NBC – Heist – now has a lead in the person of Dougray Scott, a guy with two names but three first names. Blows my mind. Scott, who is a member of the If I Had That Role I Could Have Been A Lot More Famous club with almost-Aragorn… Continue reading
I grew up reading comic books, so it’s not uncommon for me to think (or just pretend) that something happened to reality and that I am now living in a strange and changed world, or have been pushed into an alternate universe. Today I woke up and read the news… Continue reading
