Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV 386: Coming Home To Being The Ricardos
Being The Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation MacGruber; Insecure; How To With John Wilson; Dead Asleep; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. John Potts asks us to choose a TV getaway for our next imaginary holiday. Ilan brings us back to the TV-to-movie pipeline with a Canon presentation on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie." Then we name the week's Winner and Loser before closing out with a Game Time that really decks the halls. No need to arrange a multi-cam setup: this podcast is for your ears only!
GUESTS
π€ Tim Grierson
TOPICS
Lead Topic: π Being The Ricardos
Around The Dial: πΊ Finding Magic Mike
Around The Dial: 𧨠Macgruber
Around The Dial: π§π½ββοΈ Insecure
Around The Dial: π How To With John Wilson
Around The Dial: π Dead Asleep
Around The Dial: π§ββοΈ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Extra Credit: π TV Getaways
The Canon: π The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
Winner & Loser: π Texas Monthly
Winner & Loser: π Peloton
Game Time: π§ The Caroling Burnett Show II
NOTES
π Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
π "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter
π€₯ "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos"
π£ Tara's interview with Gloria CalderΓ³n Kellett at Decider
π Tim at Screen International
π Tim at Mel
π Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie, at The Last Bookshop