Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers, takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less than the sum of a few very good parts; what Roy Cohn content might do a better job with midcentury context than this show; and how much sex creates character development. Then we went Around The Dial with Everyone Else Burns, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Paramount+'s Milli Vanilli documentary, and Tara plotted to get a tenth (!) Simpsons episode into the Canon. Seth Rogen's ceramics hobby won, an ex-SNL writer lost, and we piled into the virtual minivan for a road-trippy Game Time. Moisturize your necks: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧳 Fellow Travelers Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Everyone Else Burns Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 🎙️ Milli Vanilli The Canon: 👨‍🦲 The Simpsons S08.E16: Brother From Another Series Winner & Loser: 👍 Seth Rogen Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Brennan Game Time: 📍 The Great American TV Road Trip SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 483 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧳 Joe's review of Fellow Travelers at Primetimer 🌤️ Joe Reid on Bluesky 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz on Patreon 🎞️ Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League 😆 Tara on the best imported comedies to stream right now at Cracked 🎙️ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Ben Mark Holzberg / SHOWTIME

Bodies is the latest comic book to get a limited series adaptation at Netflix; Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss its many storylines, and timelines! Around The Dial takes us through Savior Complex; RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop; and (speaking of multiple timelines) various different iterations of Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Erin presents the series premiere of Starstruck for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we compete in a Game Time that's all 1s and 0s. Grab your badge and join us! GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Bodies Around The Dial: 😇 Savior Complex Around The Dial: 🦾 RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop Around The Dial: 🔪 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Canon: 🤩 Starstruck S01.E01: NYE Winner & Loser: 👍 Coach K Winner & Loser: 👎 SAG-AFTRA Game Time: 🤖 I, Robot SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 482 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter ⚖️ "A Missionary On Trial" at The New Yorker 👄 Tara's Big Mouth S07 review 🦾 "'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' - Four-Part Docuseries Premieres August 29 on SCREAMBOX" at BloodyDisgusting.com 🎞️ The Film Cast podcast 👨🏾‍💻 Devindra at Engadget 🔪 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents playlist on YouTube 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📚 The EHG listener discount at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Matt Towers / Netflix

Appointment Television and Ars Technica's Andrew Cunningham returns to talk about the return of Frasier, and whether it was necessary. Should the creators have taken a hint from the universe (and David Hyde Pierce)? Could the re-imagining of the beloved original have worked with a few conceptual tweaks? Would we advise you to watch it, or take Eddie for a walk instead? Later, we went Around The Dial with Shining Vale's second season, Home Movies, AHS: Roanoke, and updates on Devil's Plan and House Of Usher, then pinned on our corsages for a Canon entry on a super-size episode of The Venture Bros.. JFK won, walkers lost, and points for trying was more than a metaphor in a b-b-b-b-brilliant Game Time. We'll meet you at the copyright-compliant local tavern for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥗 Frasier Around The Dial: 🔪 Shining Vale Around The Dial: 📹 Home Movies Around The Dial: 🚢 American Horror Story: Roanoke Around The Dial: 😈 The Devil's Plan Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher The Canon: ✌️ The Venture Bros. S04.E16: Operation P.R.O.M. Winner & Loser: 👍 JFK Winner & Loser: 👎 Results-oriented on-TV guide grids Game Time: 📯 B-B-B-B-Broadcast! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 493 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍳 Tara's review of the Frasier reboot at Cracked 🥌 Alan Sepinwall's at Rolling Stone 🥾 More on the reboot's Twitter origins at Vulture ☕️ 130 animators remake "My Coffee With Niles" one frame at a time 🌤️ Andrew Cunningham on Bluesky 👨🏻‍💻 Andrew at Ars Technica ⏳ Andrew on The Wheel Of Time 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 🔪 Tara reviews Shining Vale S02 at Cracked 🚢 EHG 135 with Tara and Eve Batey talking about AHS: Roanoke ⚓️ Tara's Roanoke coverage from Previously.TV 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Pamela Littky / Paramount+

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... SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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+

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?! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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+

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 475 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! 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+