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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney, Charlene Lydon and Bren Murphy, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

This week, the first season of Don Mancini’s Chucky.

Jake Wheeler finds a retro doll at a lawn sale. Looking for materials for his art project, Jake takes it home. Little does Jake realise that he has invited true evil into his home. The demonic doll Chucky has a whole new generation to terrorise as he returns home to Hackensack, the home of notorious serial killer Charles Lee Ray.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best television shows of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 29th July 2024.
• Chucky at The Internet Movie Database.
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• Michael Kennedy at ScreenRant considers all of the television shows spun off from popular horror film franchises, November 2021.
• Brian Lowry reviews Hannibal for Variety, June 2015.
• Don Mancini talks to Entertainment Weekly about how Hannibal paved the way for Chucky, July 2021.
• Emily St. James writes at Vox about the difficulty securing the music rights for classic shows released on home media, November 2014.
• Katie Dean writes a Wired about how music rights make it difficult to release classic shows on home media, March 2005.
• Brett White at Decider reports on how difficult it is to watch Mad About You on streaming, November 2019.
• Calum Marsh at The New York Times considers how streaming services have changed the iconic soundtracks of beloved shows like Dawson’s Creek, April 2021.
• Natalie Abrams at Entertainment Weekly considers the decision to press ahead with a Scream television show without access to the iconic mask, November 2014.
• Drew Taylor at The Wrap considers the collapse of Bryan Fuller’s planned Friday the 13th television show, June 2024.
• John Squires at Bloody Disgusting considers the plans to make a Halloween television show as a “creative reset” of Michael Myers, March 2024.
• Todd Spangler at Variety considers how Chernobyl became the best television show of all-time at the Internet Movie Database, June 2019.
• Kyle Chayka at Vox ponders whether the monoculture can survive the algorithm, December 2019.
• Joe Maceda at Medium on how the coinciding ends of the Avengers saga and Game of Thrones represent a seismic shift in the monoculture, April 2019.
• Emily St. James at Vox on the culmination of the Avengers franchise and Game of Thrones as a season finale of geek culture, April 2019.
• Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture wonders whether Game of Thrones would “the last show we watch together”, April 2019.
• Ciara Moloney writes at The Sundae about the huge swathes of television history that have been lost and erased, March 2022.
• Mark Gale at Science and Media Museum considers the lost television histyory, July 2024.
• Gary Baum and Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter considers the decaying digital television files, March 2024.
• Ann-Derrick Gaillot at The Outline considers how the television “canon” is largely defined by what has survived and been preserved, August 2018.
• Christopher Fiduccia at ScreenRant considers Don Mancini’s efforts to take the Chucky franchise back to Child’s Play 2, July 2021.
• Don Mancini talks to The New York Times about how much of Chucky is drawn from his own life and experiences, October 2021.
• Don Mancini talks to CinemaBlend about his abiding affection for the films of Brian DaPalma, April 2024.
• Fiona Dourif talks to Collider about playing her father’s role in flashbacks during the production of Chucky, November 2021.
• Brad Dourif talks to Fangoria about retiring from acting, aside from the Chucky franchise, April 2024.
• Don Mancini talks to SyFy about the decision to use practical puppet effects in Chucky, May 2020.
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