Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Nine Extra Hot Great listeners who do know how to tell time, unlike some people, compete in a special all-Game Time episode! We test their knowledge of TV MacGuffins, TV vampires, and TV weddings; then the winner of each game progresses on to the finals, in which they show off how much they know about shows that changed their theme songs. Find out which Valued Guest is the most Valued in this very special episode! TOPICS Game Time: 🏺 MacGuffins Game Time: 🧛🏻‍♂️ Blah! Game Time: 💍 I Do, I Do, I Do, I Don't Game Time: 🎶 Change That Tune NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 443 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Chernobyl's Craig Mazin has teamed with Neil Druckman, creator of the video game The Last Of Us, to adapt said game as a post-apocalyptic drama series; Omar Gallaga is here to discuss the series premiere! Around The Dial takes us through MILF Manor (a real show, not a 30 Rock gag); Alice In Borderland, a whole pile of Nordic crime dramas, and the British true crime period piece Stonehouse. Omar pitches South Side's S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building, for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that stays too long at the party. Put your car battery somewhere safe and join us! GUESTS 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♂️ The Last Of Us Around The Dial: 👩 MILF Manor Around The Dial: 🎩 Alice In Borderland Around The Dial: ❄️ Nordic Noirs Around The Dial: 💷 Stonehouse The Canon: 💨 South Side S01.E03: Turner Buys A Building Winner & Loser: 👍 Morgan Freeman Winner & Loser: 👎 Chelsea Handler Game Time: 👋 The Last Of Them NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 442 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🧟‍♂️ Omar's The Last Of Us premiere review at BookAndFilmGlobe.com 🌹 Tara's spring 2023 TV preview at GQ.com 📷 Photo: Liane Hentscher / HBO

Anne Rice source material is back on TV, and Best Evidence's Eve Batey is back to talk about Mayfair Witches, the latest Rice IP to hit the small screen. Listen and find out whether anyone on the panel is going to keep watching, how realistic an Alexandra D'Addario neurosurgeon is, why Interview With The Vampire works better than this one, and when to stop reading Rice. We also went Around The Dial with Harry & Meghan, Slow Horses, The Circle, and "randomized" show Kaleidoscope, before Mlle. Caroline urged us to bet on Supernatural for the Nonac. Abbott Elementary won, various Housewives lost, and Rob Hartmann scrambled our brains with Game Time. Grab your thickest blue gel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Eve Batey TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧹 Mayfair Witches Around The Dial: 👑 Harry & Meghan Around The Dial: 🐴 Slow Horses Around The Dial: ⭕️ The Circle Around The Dial: 🌈 Kaleidoscope The Nonac: 🎱 Supernatural S15.E11: The Gamblers Winner & Loser: 👍 Abbott Elementary Winner & Loser: 👎 Buncha Housewives Game Time: 🐣 Chicken Or Egg? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 441 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👕 The EHG store is at ThroughMethods.com 🏢 Stay with Eve Batey in Indianapolis 🛍️ Visit Eve's store, Avenues Dry Goods 📚 Salon digs into Anne Rice's journals 📉 Prince Harry's crap ratings on 60 Minutes 🤣 Tara's list of 2022's funniest shows at Cracked 👴🏻 Gary Oldman's "dark past" 🔀 “What’s The Best Way To Watch Randomized Heist Series Kaleidoscope?” at Vulture 🌈 Eve on Kaleidoscope's "true story" clickbait strat 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 👩‍🏫 The Abbott Elementary / Donors Choose crossover event 📷 Photo: AMC

It's a mini Television Without Pity reunion as the gang and former recappers Dan Rogge (DJB), John Ramos (Couch Baron), Kim Reed (Kim), and Joe Reid (Joe R) play Mullendash -- a game invented and played at the TWoP annual summits of yore. Take the game Balderdash and replace the cards with items from Jim Mullen's Hot Sheet from the pages of Entertainment Weekly. The set up to a Hot Sheet "joke" is read and players must create their own punchline in that particularly confounding Mullen style in an attempt to fool the others that they are The Mullen. It's a game full of WTF, shame and pretzeltine mental gymnastics!

To ring in 2023, Tara has crafted a very special non-regulation game time. Refill your champagne and find someone to kiss! Or just listen in the normal way.

EEHG 156: The 12 Shows Of Christmas We’ll all getting our asses ready for some serious not-moving-off-the-couch action over the holidays. So here are 12 shows from each of us that we think are worth your time. EEHG 158: What Made Your Christmas Crappy? If you’re a TV character approaching a holiday, one thing is certain: something is going to happen that will make it SUCK. But how well do Dave and Sarah remember what things sucked on which shows? Tara tests their knowledge in this festive Non-Regulation Game Time episode!

Seriously. Do they? Because four people just didn't show up. The Listener Game Time Tournament is back! Kinda! Up to maybe 9 contestants may or may not do battle in all sorts of TV trivia concocted by some of our smartest, most devious and possibly French game makers. TOPICS Game Time: 🥖 En Français Game Time: 🌟 Special Guest Star Heather Locklear Game Time: 🛋️ The One With The One With Titles Game Time: 🛌 Strange Bedfellows NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 437 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! GUESTS 👤 Andrew Cunningham 👤 Robert Krut 👤 Brandi Brown 👤 Dan Cassino 👤 Dan Rogge 👤 Daniel MacEachern 👤 Dave Chen 👤 Devindra Hardawar 👤 Ilan Muskat 👤 Jeff Drake 👤 Joe Reid 👤 John Ramos 👤 Karina Longworth 👤 Kim Reed 👤 Nadia Chaudhury 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones 👤 Roxana Hadadi 👤 Santiago Melli-Huber 👤 Sarah Baker 👤 Simone Chavoor 👤 Stephanie Green 👤 Will Hines 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 436 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Netflix's new cooking show takes a leaf from Claire Saffitz's book and challenges its chefs to make their own homemade versions of commercially available snacks. Home Cook and Food Scientist (one of these titles accurately applies) Adam Grosswirth returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through S03 of Mythic Quest, Selena + Chef, and an update on Sarah's Cheers rewatch. Adam pitches the Will & Grace two-parter "Lows In The Mid-Eighties" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's on the bleeding edge of culture. Grab some Oreos and listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥨 Snack Vs. Chef Around The Dial: 🗡️ Mythic Quest Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 💃 Smash Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍🍳 Selena + Chef Around The Dial: 🍺 Cheers Around The Dial: 🦘 The Canon: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Will & Grace S03.E08 & 09: Lows In The Mid-Eighties Winner & Loser: 👍 Michelle Williams Winner & Loser: 👎 Mark Schwahn Game Time: 👁️ Peaky Minders NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 435 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter 📸 Adam on Instagram 🍖 The Bon Appétit Gourmet Makes series 📺 "The One Streaming Service You Should Subscribe To For December" at GQ.com 🌴 Again With This on Patreon 🐸 The Muppeturgy podcast 🐦 Muppeturgy on Twitter 📸 Muppeturgy on Instagram 📚 #asseenonTV at Exhibit B. Books 👵🏻 "Michelle Williams Shouted Out Her Grams From Dawson's Creek" at Vulture 🌳 "Sophia Bush And Hilarie Burton Claim One Tree Hill Creator Threatened Their Jobs Over Maxim Shoot, Told Bethany Joy Lenz She Was 'Too Fat'" at Variety.com 📷 Photo: Netflix

Book critic and The Maris Review host Maris Kreizman is here to discuss Hulu's glowingly reviewed adaption of Fleishman Is In Trouble, whether it works as TV given its structure as a book, and how. Is it better for people who didn't read the book? Is the pleasure in watching what Claire Danes, Lizzy Caplan, and the former Seth Cohen do with the roles? And is Hannah the most sympathetically slappable TV tween of all time? Later, we went Around The Dial with a Married At First Sight recap, Gypsy, and Spector, and Dave was not a crackpot about titling conventions. Lynsey, Katherine, and their dog hoped they wouldn't saw the panel in half when they submitted a third-season ep of The Magicians to the Canon. NBC won, the Chrisleys lost, and we returned to those thrilling days of yester-century for a period-piece Game Time. Get yourself a phone already -- so you can listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Maris Kreizman TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥼 Fleishman Is In Trouble Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🚕 Gypsy Around The Dial: 💈 Spector The Canon: 🪄 The Magicians S03.E05: A Life In The Day Winner & Loser: 👍 NBC Winner & Loser: 👎 Todd and Julie Chrisley Game Time: 👀 A TV Watcher’s Guide to the 20th Century NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 434 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🎙️ Maris interview with Taffy Brodesser-Akner on The Maris Review 📚 More Maris Review 📸 Maris on Instagram 📄 Maris on Substack 🦤 Maris at Vulture 💄 Listen To Sassy Club 🔎 Best Evidence