

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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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Oct 11, 2023 • 1h 18min
480: Testifying On The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
The latest screen adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial was directed by the late William Friedkin and premiered on Paramount+ With Showtime, which means we can claim it as TV and we have; certified film critic Tim Grierson returns to discuss it! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death S02, comedy specials from John Mulaney and (separately) Taylor Tomlinson, The Restaurant, and The Devil's Plan. Bezoar Laura presents the Scrubs episode "My Screw Up" for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time by regarding some TV stars who crossed over into the movies. Put on your dress blues and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Tim Grierson
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Patreon Update!
Lead Topic: 🚢 The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Around The Dial: 🏴☠️ Our Flag Means Death
Around The Dial: 🎙️ Stand Up For Parents
Around The Dial: 🍖 The Restaurant
The Canon: 🩻 Scrubs S03.E14: My Screw Up
Winner & Loser: 👍 Turn-On
Winner & Loser: 👎 Teresa Giudice
Game Time: 🏆 The Nominees Were...
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 480 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter
🏴☠️ Tara's review of Our Flag Means Death S02
🎥 Tim's book, How To Make A Movie, at Bookshop.org
🍿 GriersonLeitch.com
🎶 Wilco The Podcast on Apple Podcasts
🍝 "Spaghetti Western" at NYMag.com
📰 Eve Batey, Marcia Chatelain, and Sarah on food crime at The Docket
👾 Turn-On E01
💾 Turn-On E02
📷 Photo: Paramount Pictures

Oct 4, 2023 • 1h 15min
479: Gen V's Good Genes
Amazon Prime takes us back to the Vought cinematic universe with Gen V, a The Boys spinoff of sorts about up-and-coming college "supes" -- and we're glad Nick Rheinwald-Jones could join us to talk about whether it's a TV campus worth visiting, plus the pleasures of thorough world-building, CGI peens, and putting the grodiest deaths out of frame. We went Around The Dial with Starstruck, Only Connect, and the first season of Feud, then headed out to Neptune, CA for Sarah's Canon presentation on the Veronica Mars pilot. Kevin James won, Linda Fairstein lost, and we all gathered around the non-regulation piano for another round of Tube Tunes in Game Time. Add this all-new Extra Hot Great to your core listening curriculum today!
GUESTS
👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones
TOPICS
Announcement: 🏆 Canon Levels Low!
Lead Topic: 🧪 Gen V
Around The Dial: 🤩 Starstruck
Around The Dial: 🔢 Only Connect
Around The Dial: 🤺 Feud
The Canon: 🏴☠️ Veronica Mars S01.E01: Pilot
Winner & Loser: 👍 Kevin James
Winner & Loser: 👎 Linda Fairstein
Game Time: 🎶 Tube Tunes XIII
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 479 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🧪 Tara's Gen V review at Cracked
🤷♀️ Chance Perdomo's "explanation" of his social-media challenges
🕵🏻♂️ Nick Rheinwald-Jones at SpyBrunch.com
🌤️ Nick on Bluesky
💗 Tara on romcom creators at Cracked
📚 Save some money at Exhibit B. Books
📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / Prime Video

Sep 27, 2023 • 1h 12min
478: Side-Eyeing The Season 5 Premiere Of Love Is Blind
Love Is Blind is back with a whole new crop of singles willing to try their luck at finding love sight unseen; Tara's fellow Coelenologist Brittany Luse returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through American Horror Story, Still Up, and the AppleTV+ documentary feature Still. Theresa pitches the third episode of Normal People for the Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that feels really connected to you already. Grab your gold goblet and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Brittany Luse
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Patreon Drive Update
Lead Topic: 🧑🦯 Love Is Blind
Around The Dial: 🔪 American Horror Story: Delicate
Around The Dial: 🌜 Still Up
Around The Dial: 🫨 Still
The Canon: ☘️ Normal People S01.E03
Winner & Loser: 👍 The WGA
Winner & Loser: 👎 Oprah Winfrey
Game Time: 🔌 Also Also Connect
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 478 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Brittany Luse on Twitter
🌛 Tara's Still Up review at Cracked
⏱️ The It's Been A Minute podcast
🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon
📷 Photo: Netflix

Sep 20, 2023 • 1h 22min
477: Should You Go For The Gold?
Al Lowe Huff drags in a portable smelter -- and Dave gets high off the fumes -- for The Gold, a six-part scripted story about the 1983 Brink's Mat robbery in the UK. We're talking about proportions of process-iness, the class struggle in South London, and how much BAFTA-bait monologuing is too much, before we go Around The Dial with The Other Black Girl, Harry Wild, Whitstable Pearl, and Cagney & Lacey. (And Sean Connery. Don't ask.) Then Laura unfurled HER list of reasons we should consider a My Name Is Earl episode for the Canon. Disney won, Jeremy Strong lost, and we tried to connect the TV dots in Game Time. Put your corrupt lawyer on speed-dial for an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
👤 Allison Lowe Huff
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🥇 The Gold
Around The Dial: 👧🏾 The Other Black Girl
Around The Dial: 🐻 Harry Wild
Around The Dial: 🦪 Whitstable Pearl
Around The Dial: 👮🏻♀️ Cagney And Lacey
The Canon: 📜 My Name Is Earl S02.E05: Van Hickey
Winner & Loser: 👍 Disney
Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy Strong
Game Time: 🔌 Also Connect
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 477 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
👑 Dave summons The Gold into existence in EEHG 017
🏛️ Tara's review of Krapopolis
🏚️ Sarah's review of Amityville: An Origin Story
📷 Photo: Sally Mais / Tannadice Pictures / Paramount+

Sep 13, 2023 • 1h 19min
476: Rocking The Cradle With The Changeling
AppleTV+'s latest sci-fi series is the "modern fairy tale" The Changeling; Dan Cassino returns to discuss what, if anything, we'd have liked to see change. Around The Dial takes us through BS High, Season 2 of Wheel Of Time, the original Japanese Iron Chef, and Murder, She Wrote. Eleanor pitches the Project Runway episode "A Suitable Twist" for induction into The Nonac. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's time for us to stagger into a Non-Regulation Game Time, hoping our brains don't fail us. Put your baby (or is it) down for a nap and join us!
GUESTS
👤 Dan Cassino
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🤰🏾 The Changeling
Around The Dial: 🏈 BS High
Around The Dial: 🛞 Wheel Of Time
Around The Dial: 👩🍳 Iron Chef
Around The Dial: ✍️ Murder, She Wrote
The Nonac: 💃 Project Runway S13.E05: A Suitable Twist
Winner & Loser: 👍 Fans of The Brady Bunch
Winner & Loser: 👎 Drew Barrymore
Game Time: 🧟♂️ He's In The Walking Dead?!
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 476 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
☁️ Dan Cassino on Bluesky
🫥 "The Changeling's Problem With a Disappearing Woman" at NewRepublic.com
🚽 Tara's piece on the end of How To With John Wilson at Cracked
🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast
😤 Gender Threat, the book Dan co-authored with Yasemin Besen-Cassino, on Bookshop.org
📚 Exhibit B. Books
📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Sep 6, 2023 • 1h 26min
475: TV Boss Thunderdome
To mark another Labor Day, we're turning our attention to TV bosses -- specifically, putting them all in a geodesic dome in a radiation-ravaged Australian Outback, and determining which of them would survive mortal combat with one another. We can say for certain that the ultimate victor will surprise you...but they surprised us! Listen for all the bloody speculation.
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 👔 TV Boss Thunderdome
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 475 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 19min
474: In Not-So-Hot Pursuit Of Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn
Stephanie Green is back to talk about a too-long, badly structured true-crime series from AppleTV+, and the many opportunities Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn wastes to tell a good story. Sarah thought it had nonfiction The Morning Show vibes, a characterization Tara resented; listen to our correct-length, non-backloaded conversation and see if you agree! We went Around The Dial with The Ultimatum, Sister Wives, 90 Day UK, and Project Greenlight, and Tara was NOT a crackpot about DIY haircuts on Ahsoka. Listener Jeff begged us to Please Like Me -- well, a third-season episode, anyway -- in this week's Canon segment, and then Adriana La Cerva won and Doogie Kamealoha lost before we all walked down the aisle for Game Time. About to flee the country? Download this all-new episode to your lawyer's hard-drive and hit the road!
GUESTS
👤 Stephanie Green
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🚙 Wanted: The Escape Of Carlos Ghosn
Around The Dial: 🙅 The Ultimatum
Around The Dial: 💍 Sister Wives
Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 90 Day UK
Around The Dial: 🟢 Project Greenlight
I Am Not A Crackpot: 💇🏻♀️ Ahsoka Haircuts
The Canon: 💊 Please Like Me S03.E04: Natural Spring Water
Winner & Loser: 👍 Drea de Matteo
Winner & Loser: 👎 Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.
Game Time: 👰♀️ I Do, Or Maybe I Don't
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 474 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
✍️ Stephanie Early Green's website
💕 Stephanie talks about Please Like Me in episode 306
🧑✈️ Tara on the 50 greatest sitcom pilots at Cracked
🔎 BestEvidence.fyi
📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Aug 23, 2023 • 1h 2min
473: This Week In EHG Anniversary TV History
To celebrate the 10th (!!!) anniversary of EHG Mark II, we're flashing back to the week of August 17-23 in historical TV listings. Our time travel takes us back to 2003 for the fourth-season finale of The Amazing Race; to 2012, for a trip to the Hamptons with Royal Pains; and to the very day of our first episode to watch Lance Reddick's visit to NTSF: SD: SUV::. Join us as we revisit Augusts past!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🌎 The Amazing Race S04.E13: It's Like Adam Building His First House!
Lead Topic: 🩺 Royal Pains S04.E10: Who's Your Daddy
Lead Topic: 🔫 NTSF:SD:SUV:: S03.E05: TGI Murder
Game Time: ⌛️ In The Year 2013
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 473 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
❤️🔥 Lance Reddick as Todd Broger

Aug 16, 2023 • 1h 16min
472: Should You Pick Up Telemarketers?
HBO's newest true crime docu-series, Telemarketers, a look at a New Jersey phone scam; Robert Krut returns to discuss it, and brings personal stories to share! Around The Dial takes us through Winning Time, Poker Face, and Painkiller. Bobby pitches the Atlanta episode "Woods" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that takes us, and our bidding acumen, back to the Garden State. Hang up on that Likely Scam and listen!
GUESTS
👤 Robert Krut
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Club Campaign Update
Lead Topic: ☎️ Telemarketers
Around The Dial: 🏀 Winning Time
Around The Dial: ♠️ Poker Face
Around The Dial: 💊 Painkiller
The Canon: 🌲 Atlanta S02.E08: Woods
Winner & Loser: 👍 Sam Levinson
Winner & Loser: 👎 Sam Levinson
Game Time: 🐄 Garden State TV
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 472 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
📸 Bobby Krut on Instagram
💉 Patton Oswalt's "Toronto Open Mic" on YouTube
👹 Holy Hell on Peacock
🏀 30 For 30's "Celtics/Lakers: Best Of Enemies" on ESPN
🤘 Tara on The Osbournes and At Home With The Furys for Cracked
🐦 Bobby on X
🪶 Bobby's website
🧠 The Masterminds Crazy Eddie episode, on YouTube
💊 Sarah's full Painkiller review at Best Evidence
🚗 "An Open Letter To David Simon, Who Tweeted NYC Is 'On The Make' Because He Got A $50 Speeding Ticket" at HellGate
📷 Photo: HBO

Aug 9, 2023 • 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
👤 David Wiebe
TOPICS
Announcement: 📢 Patreon Snafu & Crisistunity
Lead Topic: 🏢 Only Murders In The Building
Around The Dial: 🤸♀️ Physical
Around The Dial: 🌃 Letterman Originals
Around The Dial: 🗺️ Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown
Around The Dial: 🖖 Star Trek
The Canon: 🐻 The Bear S01.E04: Dogs
Winner & Loser: 👍 Suits
Winner & Loser: 👎 The Church Of Scientology
Game Time: 🤔 19 Questions: Wiebe Edition
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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 471 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 David Wiebe on Twitter
🏢 Tara's post on Only Murders In The Building at Cracked
🐶 "Can Comedy Shows Please Stop Killing Dogs For Laughs?" at Cracked [warning: spoilers]
🌃 Letterman Originals on YouTube
🏡 Barbie: Life In The Dreamhouse on Netflix
🐦 Big House Stories on Twitter
🗺️ Sarah on Anthony Bourdain at the Best Evidence newsletter
📷 Photo: Patrick Harbron / Hulu