
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Aug 9, 2023 โข 1h 19min
471: Getting Cozy In Only Murders In The Building
Only Murders In The Building is back for a third season of death, mayhem, and...theatre? New guest David Wiebe joins us to discuss all the players new and old. Around The Dial takes us through Physical, Letterman Originals on YouTube, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, and Star Trek's Paramount+ branding. Julie pitches The Bear's Season 1 episode "Dogs" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a highly questionable Game Time. Grab your Beats and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค David Wiebe
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข Patreon Snafu & Crisistunity
Lead Topic: ๐ข Only Murders In The Building
Around The Dial: ๐คธโโ๏ธ Physical
Around The Dial: ๐ Letterman Originals
Around The Dial: ๐บ๏ธ Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Around The Dial: ๐ Star Trek
The Canon: ๐ป The Bear S01.E04: Dogs
Winner & Loser: ๐ Suits
Winner & Loser: ๐ The Church Of Scientology
Game Time: ๐ค 19 Questions: Wiebe Edition
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 471 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ David Wiebe on Twitter
๐ข Tara's post on Only Murders In The Building at Cracked
๐ถ "Can Comedy Shows Please Stop Killing Dogs For Laughs?" at Cracked [warning: spoilers]
๐ Letterman Originals on YouTube
๐ก Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse on Netflix
๐ฆ Big House Stories on Twitter
๐บ๏ธ Sarah on Anthony Bourdain at the Best Evidence newsletter
๐ท Photo: Patrick Harbron / Hulu

Aug 2, 2023 โข 1h 15min
470: Don't Let Reservation Dogs Lie
Reservation Dogs is back on FX/Hulu this week, and Variety's Alison Herman is back on EHG to talk about the show's final season: realistic teenage-character arcs, spiritual cousins to Atlanta, and the meanings of "home." We went Around The Dial with This Fool, Minx's second season, and Hunted, aka "the darkest Amazing Race" (which we completely forgot we covered the American version of in a long-ago episode) before Tara took the solo on a Girls5Eva Canon pitch. The Glovers' future won, the former Arrow lost, and we set our minds to siblings of the small screen in Game Time. The bus is leaving, so charge up your phone for an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Alison Herman
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ชถ Reservation Dogs
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ This Fool
Around The Dial: ๐ Minx
Around The Dial: ๐น Hunted
The Canon: ๐ Girls5Eva S02.E06: B.P.E.
Winner & Loser: ๐ The Glover Brothers
Winner & Loser: ๐ Stephen Amell
Game Time: ๐ฏ Sibling Rivalry
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 470 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Alison on Twitter
๐ฐ Alison Herman at Variety
๐ชถ Alison's review of Reservation Dogs
๐คฌ Tara talks Citadel on the Appointment Television podcast
๐ฆ Sarah reviews Hunted on Best Evidence
๐คทโโ๏ธ We reviewed Hunted U.S. in episode 142 with Monty Ashley; oops
๐ท Photo: Shane Brown / FX

Jul 26, 2023 โข 1h 5min
469: Should You Revere Praise Petey?
Ex-SNL head writer Anna Drezen teamed up with King Of The Hill co-creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge on Praise Petey, the story of a New York girl boss taking over her late father's doomsday cult; we tell you whether it's...well, doomed. Around The Dial takes us through the re-re-revived Futurama, the spinoff XO, Kitty, and the true crime miniseries Myth Of The Zodiac Killer. Mlle. Caroline presents the Abbott Elementary episode "Candy Zombies" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time we can really sink our teeth into. Take a break from preparing a beloved character actor for human sacrifice and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Nadia Chaudhury
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐งโโ๏ธ Praise Petey
Around The Dial: ๐ค Futurama
Around The Dial: ๐ XO, Kitty
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Myth of the Zodiac Killer
The Canon: ๐ซ Abbott Elementary S02.E06: Candy Zombies
Winner & Loser: ๐ Jeopardy Winners
Winner & Loser: ๐ Al "Bubba" Baker
Game Time: ๐ The Leftovers
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 469 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
โ Nadia Chaudhury on Twitter
๐ Tara's Praise Petey review at Cracked
๐ค Tara's Futurama S11 review at Cracked
๐ฎ Eater Austin
๐ต๐ปโโ๏ธ BestEvidence.fyi
๐ท Photo: Freeform

Jul 19, 2023 โข 1h 39min
468: Should You Visit Justified: City Primeval?
Justified is back, and so is Kathryn VanArendonk to talk about it: vibes versus process, when you can't replace Walton Goggins, what great villains know about themselves, and whether (...sigh) Kentucky was a character in the original. Then we went Around The Dial with The Real Housewives Of Jenna Ly-- er, New York, Project Greenlight, Dennis Quaid's Full Circle coif, and Hack My Home before Tara made the case for a second-season Detroiters episode as a Canon gem. Streaming shows won, Zaslav lost, and "band name, called it!" took on new meaning in a tube-tunes-adjacent Game Time from Rebecca. Curl up with a German Shepherd on steroids, take off that clip-on nose ring, and get comfy for an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Kathryn VanArendonk
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข Patreon Update
Lead Topic: ๐ค Justified: City Primeval
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ The Real Housewives Of New York City
Around The Dial: ๐ข Project Greenlight
Around The Dial: ๐๏ธ Hack My Home
The Canon: ๐บ Detroiters S02.E04: Trevor
Winner & Loser: ๐ Streaming shows on broadcast
Winner & Loser: ๐ David Zaslav's public Venmo
Game Time: ๐จ๐ปโ๐ค Tube Tune Crooners
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 468 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Kathryn VanArendonk on Twitter
๐ฆค Kathryn's author page at Vulture
๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ "The copaganda piece" by Kathryn, also at Vulture
๐ข Kathryn on Project Greenlight
๐ Tara's Stylish With Jenna Lyons review at Primetimer
๐ฅ From Late Night With Seth Meyers, Conner OโMalleyโs interpretive dance set to the theme of Frasier
๐ฅ Conner OโMalley on YouTube
๐๏ธ Tara's Luke Macfarlane interview at Cracked
โฒ๏ธ The David Copperfield Niagara Falls watch-along for Listen To Sassy Club members
๐ Exhibit B. Books
๐ท Photo: Chuck Hodes / FX

Jul 12, 2023 โข 1h 11min
467: Dishing On The Horror Of Dolores Roach
The Horror Of Dolores Roach has evolved from a one-person Broadway play to a podcast to a Prime Video series; Liz Shannon Miller of Consequence.com joins us to discuss the story's final (?) form. Around The Dial takes us through Couples Therapy, My Adventures With Superman, and Last Call. Erica pitches the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode "Terminal Provocations" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a cryptic, puzzling Game Time. Grab an empanada or two -- filling is up to you -- and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Liz Shannon Miller
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฅ The Horror Of Dolores Roach
Around The Dial: ๐ฉ๐ผโโค๏ธโ๐จ๐ป Couples Therapy
Around The Dial: ๐ฆธ๐ปโโ๏ธ My Adventures With Superman
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Last Call
The Canon: ๐ Star Trek: Lower Decks S01.E06: Terminal Provocations
Winner & Loser: ๐ Ariana Madix
Winner & Loser: ๐ Blake Bjornson
Game Time: ๐ชข Double Straights
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 467 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Liz Shannon Miller on Twitter
๐ "The Best TV Of 2023, So Far" at VanityFair.com
๐๏ธ Liz on Letterboxd
๐ฐ Sign up for Consequence's Stream On newsletter
๐ Stream On, on the web
๐ Exhibit B. Books
๐ฐ "Ariana Madix Is Making A Fortune From All This" at The Cut
๐จ Alabama TV Reporter Valerie Bell Creates Breaking News At Alleged Crime Scene
๐ท Photo: Prime Video

Jul 5, 2023 โข 1h 1min
466: Canada Day Forcenings
For the first week of this July, we decided to honor the other national holiday: Canada Day! And what genre delivers the most CONCENTRATED dose of Canadian TV crappiness? Game shows! Therefore, Dave is forcening Sarah to watch Pitfall; Sarah's forcening Tara to watch Acting Crazy; and Tara's forcening Dave to watch Jackpot. We can't promise you that listening will help you win an 8-and-a-half-pound portable TV, but you should do it anyway!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Pitfall
Lead Topic: ๐ Acting Crazy
Lead Topic: ๐ฐ Jackpot
Game Time: ๐ Canadian Or Something Else?
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 466 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ Sarah's forcened episode of Pitfall on YouTube
๐ Tara's forcened episode of Acting Crazy on YouTube
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Tara's interview with Maureen Ryan on Cracked.com
๐ Signed copies of Last Call at Exhibit B.
๐ต The 1975 episode of American Jackpot Dave was initially forcened to watch
๐ฐ Dave's forcened episode of (Canadian) Jackpot

Jun 28, 2023 โข 1h 17min
465: Do The Stars Align For I'm A Virgo?
Sorry to Bother You creator Boots Riley is back with a delightful Marxist fairy-tale dramedy (...right? Let's just go with it) on Amazon Prime, and Dan D'Addario is back in the guest chair for the first time since EHG Mark 1 to talk about it: how much overt Marxism it gets away with given where we're watching it, the care of the world-building, Jharrel Jerome's storytelling superpowers, and more. We went Around The Dial with Judge Steve Harvey, And Just Like That..., and McEnroe, and Mlle. Caroline was NOT a crackpot for thinking we don't need pilot episodes anymore. After Tara crammed us all into a phone booth for her Saved By The Bell (2020) Canon presentation, Ryan Seacrest won, Will & Grace lost, and we all made sure to park wheels-in for a Bay-Area-based non-regulation Game Time. Don't let silence happen -- it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
๐ค Daniel DโAddario
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โ๏ธ I'm A Virgo
Around The Dial: ๐จ๐พโโ๏ธ Judge Steve Harvey
Around The Dial: ๐ And Just Like That
Around The Dial: ๐พ McEnroe
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ Secret Invasion
I Am Not A Crackpot: ๐ฉ๐ผโโ๏ธ Pilots in 2023
The Canon: ๐๏ธ Saved By The Bell (2020) S01.E06: Teen-Line
Winner & Loser: ๐ Ryan Seacrest
Winner & Loser: ๐ Will & Grace
Game Time: ๐ It's Almost Like The San Francisco Bay Area Is Another Character
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 465 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Dan D'Addario on Twitter
๐ฌ Dan at Variety
โ๏ธ Danโs review of I'm A Virgo
๐ฆ Danโs review of The Unicorn
๐ฅ Kelsey Grammer falls off stage
๐ด The Again With This podcast
๐ถ MASTAS chooses our #FirstNameBasis Top 20
๐ท Photo: Pete Lee / Prime Video

Jun 21, 2023 โข 1h 30min
464: Reflecting On Black Mirror
Black Mirror has returned for Season 6 with five new episodes of (as usual) varying quality; Brandi Brown has also returned to discuss and rank them! Around The Dial takes us through The Righteous Gemstones; Ovation as a background cable channel; Season 2 of The Cleaner on BritBox; and an important line reading from a Camp LeJeune-related class-action legal solicitation commercial. Sarah makes the case for the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Avatar" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's really into labels. Pause the latest hit Streamberry drama and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Brandi Brown
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข Club Sticker Reminder
Lead Topic: ๐ช Black Mirror
Around The Dial: ๐ The Righteous Gemstones
Around The Dial: ๐ Ovation
Around The Dial: ๐งน The Cleaner
Around The Dial: ๐ญ Ridley
Around The Dial: ๐ซ The "No" Challenge
The Canon: ๐จ๐ปโ๐ป Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S09.E02: Avatar
Winner & Loser: ๐ Shannen Doherty
Winner & Loser: ๐ Dean McDermott
Game Time: ๐ฏ The Game Of The Name
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 464 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Brandi Brown on Twitter
๐ Terms & Conditions May Apply on Amazon
๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Ranking the new wigs of the Righteous Gemstones Season 3 premiere, at Cracked
๐ Gideon Gemstone Appreciation Post, at Cracked
๐ The Exhibit B. Books "(allegedly)" t-shirt
๐ท Photo: Nick Wall / Netflix

Jun 14, 2023 โข 1h 32min
463: Should You Hang With The Full Monty?
More than a quarter century after The Full Monty unexpectedly charmed movie audiences, the boys are back for a limited-series TV sequel -- and not everyone on the panel is as charmed by Round 2. Mo Ryan returns to the guest chair to talk about unmitigated in "dramedies," whether TFM: The TV Show started as a feature-length sequel, and the correct amount of onscreen nudity. We went Around The Dial with Never Have I Ever, I, Tina, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds before Tara hoped a second-season episode of Reservation Dogs would get adopted into the Canon. Bill Hader won, The Crowded Room lost, and Game Time had us scouring the index of Mo's book. Grab a bag of chips and run: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!
GUESTS
๐ค Mo Ryan
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ The Full Monty
Around The Dial: ๐ค Never Have I Ever
Around The Dial: ๐ถ Tina
Around The Dial: โฝ๏ธ The Real Housewives Of New Jersey
Around The Dial: ๐ช Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
The Canon: ๐ง Reservation Dogs S02.E07: Stay Gold Cheesy Boy
Winner & Loser: ๐ซ Bill Hader
Winner & Loser: ๐ช The Crowded Room
Game Time: ๐ฅ 19 Questions: Burn It Down Edition
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 463 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Mo Ryan on Twitter
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Buy Burn It Down
๐ชซ The NY Daily News cites Burn It Down on Jeff Garlin's The Goldbergs power trip
๐คจ Garlin denies getting fired to Vanity Fair
๐ Tara's Based On A True Story review at Cracked.com
๐ โAmerica loved Tina Turner. But it wasnโt good to her.โ at Andscape.com
๐ฆ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Twitter
๐ท Photo: Ben Blackall / FX

Jun 7, 2023 โข 1h 6min
462: Launching An Investigation On Deadloch
Prime Video's newest international import is Deadloch, an Australian comedy that parodies the tropes of dark season-long murder mysteries from national treasures Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan. Actual Australian Anthony Farrell joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Ultimatum: Queer Love, Fear The Walking Dead, and 30 For 30. Julie presents the thirtysomething episode "Mr. Right" for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that has us hearing double. Check your peripherals for Kevin The Seal and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Anthony Farrell
TOPICS
Announcement: ๐ข
Lead Topic: ๐จ Deadloch
Around The Dial: ๐ The Ultimatum
Around The Dial: ๐งโโ๏ธ Fear The Walking Dead
Around The Dial: ๐ 30 For 30
The Canon: ๐ thirtysomething S03.E03: Mr. Right
Winner & Loser: ๐ Somebody Somewhere
Winner & Loser: ๐ Top Chef
Game Time: ๐ฃ๏ธ Syllable Bull
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NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 462 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Anthony on Twitter
๐ฆ Tara's Deadloch review at Cracked
๐ต Kroll Show's "Dead Girl Town" on YouTube
๐ค Tara's ATX Festival coverage at Cracked
๐ Exhibit B. Books
โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Buy Maureen Ryan's book Burn It Down at Exhibit B. Books
๐ท Photo: Amazon Studios