Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Waiting for Impact and Truu Stowray host Dave Holmes stopped by for the first time to talk about Pam & Tommy, Hulu's prestige miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, their whirlwind romance, and the sex tape seen 'round the world. Is the story of Seth Rogen's stiffed (...heh) contractor the real heart of the tale, or is it the Pam/Tommy romance? Is the mid-nineties soundtrack intrusive? And should that penis have talked? We went Around The Dial with Somebody Somewhere, The Real Dirty Dancing, The Museum of Home Video, The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, We Need To Talk About Cosby, and 9-1-1: Lone Star before marinating in the Zwick-Herskoverse with a Once & Again Canon submission. _Law & Order_s won, Showtime lost, and we married bands and TV shows in a musical Game Time. Look it up on Alta Vista: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Dave Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩🏼‍❤️‍👨🏻 Pam & Tommy Around The Dial: 📍 Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: 💃 The Real Dirty Dancing Around The Dial: 📹 Museum of Home Video Around The Dial: ❌ Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour Around The Dial: 😥 We Need To Talk About Cosby Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star The Canon: 🏆 Once & Again S03.E16: Aaron's List Of Dreams Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order Winner & Loser: 👎 Black Monday Game Time: 🧠 Music Television NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 392 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Holmes on Twitter 📻 Waiting For Impact: A Dave Holmes Passion Project 📹 Museum Of Home Video on Twitch ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 😥 Eve Batey's review of We Need To Talk About Cosby 🎧 Quaid In Full on Twitter

Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto, Abbott Elementary, Ozark, Season 2 of Cheer, Peacemaker, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinseltown. Erica S. asks us to invite several TV characters over for dinner and very specific kinds of discussion. Mlle. Caroline pitches "Redemption," the first-season finale of The Mandalorian, for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that brings that Christmas in July feeling to January. Send your servants back downstairs and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Lisanti TOPICS Lead Topic: 💡 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🚗 American Auto Around The Dial: 📓 Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: 🐊 Ozark Around The Dial: 📣 Cheer Around The Dial: 🦅 Peacemaker Around The Dial: 🐮 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🍞 Toast Of Tinseltown Extra Credit: 🥔 Mashed Debate-os The Canon: 🏆 The Mandalorian S01.E08: Redemption Winner & Loser: 👍 Amy Schneider Winner & Loser: 👎 Maggie Game Time: 🧠 Mark The Halls NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 391 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💡 "How The Gilded Age's Denée Benton Made Sure Peggy Scott's Story Was Told Right" at Glamour.com 🥁 Tara's post on The CW's March at Decider 🗣 Tara's Christina Ricci interview at GQ.com 📣 Sarah on Season 2 of Cheer at BestEvidence.fyi

For this special episode, we have selected 27 very memorable TV mustaches to do battle in our Thunderdome. Listen to find out which of them vanquishes all its opponents! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥸 TV Moustache Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 390 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Resident Amazing Race expert Jessica returns to the guest chair to talk about the legendary reality show's unique thirty-third season: how it handled an 18-month interruption, whether we expect more from its production than we do from other shows, the true-crime connection that's somehow charming, and whom we expect to win. We went Around The Dial with the new Joe Millionaire, Married At First Sight, Letterkenny, Yellowjackets, and 9-1-1: Lone Star before celebrating a Tiny Triumph for Tara going back to March of 2021. Greg L. asked us to Pop Culture Veto TV properties before we went Down Under for Jessica's Canon submission from The Letdown's first season. History won, gas lost, and we boarded a rollercoaster of series highs and lows for Game Time. The world is waiting...for this all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jessica Liese TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌍 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 💰 Joe Millionaire: For Richer Or Poorer Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍺 Letterkenny Around The Dial: 🐝 Yellowjackets Around The Dial: 🤠 9-1-1: Lone Star Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Soapdish Extra Credit: 🤑 Pop Culture Veto The Canon: 🏆 The Letdown S01.E04: Trivial Pursuits Winner & Loser: 👍 Tobias Menzies Winner & Loser: 👎 Stephanie Matto Game Time: 🧠 Best Of Times, Worst Of Times NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 389 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jessica Liese on Twitter 🎧 Jessica's TAR podcasts at Rob Has A Website 🏔 EEHG 109: Adding To Paramount+ 🎙 Tara's interview with Tim Minear 🔍 Best Evidence ✂️ Jourdain Searles intro-ing In The Cut at the Nitehawk

So...the original plan was to watch the 1979 miniseries Backstairs At The White House -- even though, at nine hours, it's longer than some actual series are these days. Then Dave and Tara got less than half an hour into it and pulled the plug. Dan -- who did watch it -- tells us what we missed, but then we just roll on past that to a trio of Non-Regulation Game Times! Who knows the most about TV actors who share names with U.S. presidents, and about original songs from TV episodes, AND about reunion movies made years after the series that spawned them went off the air? This special episode's games leave no one in doubt! GUESTS 👤 Dan Cassino TOPICS Around The Dial: 🏛 Backstairs At The White House Game Time: 🧠 His Name Is My Name Too Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes VIII Game Time: 🧠 TV Reunions NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 388 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter

EEHG 097: Extra Hic Great We challenged our listeners to get us to 1000 Patreon supporters by December 15, and they went above and beyond. Your reward? This drunk episode. Author, screenwriter, and sake enthusiast Pamela Ribon joins us as we discuss Bridgerton, the first Shonda Rhimes show to hit Netflix. Which of us found its 1813 society romances compelling? The answer won't surprise you! Around The Dial takes us through How To With John Wilson, the feature film We Are Little Zombies (available to buy or rent on all the platforms), NBC's revival of The Weakest Link, and Taskmaster NZ. A WILDLY compromised Dave pitches the Peep Show episode "Shrooming" for induction into the Canon; then after Dave crowns the episode's Winner and Loser based on who's most drunk, it's on to the most shambolic Game Time ever. Pour yourself a LARGE cup of Christmas cheer and listen! GUESTS 👤 Pamela Ribon TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Bridgerton Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ We Are Little Zombies Around The Dial: 🔗 The Weakest Link Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster New Zealand The Canon: 👀 Peep Show S03.E03: Shrooming Winner & Loser: 🍺 ??!? Game Time: 🧠 TV Theme Karaoke NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 387 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 👤 Tim Grierson TOPICS Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos Around The Dial: 🕺 Finding Magic Mike Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson Around The Dial: 🛌 Dead Asleep Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Winner & Loser: 👍 Texas Monthly Winner & Loser: 👎 Peloton Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter 🙃 "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter 🤥 "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos" 🗣 Tara's interview with Gloria Calderón Kellett at Decider 🎞 Tim at Screen International 🍈 Tim at Mel 📚 Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie, at The Last Bookshop 🛌 Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence

Novelists and Go Fug Yourself editors Heather and Jessica are back to talk about the Sex & The City...update? reboot? whatever you call it, you can also call it And Just Like That. And you can ALSO call it "tone-deaf," "cringey," and "a clumsy character assassination," as the legendary HBO sit-rom-com returns with a bunch of new characters, and one very notable absence. Is there anything to relate to here? Does the show, as it used to, still do a couple of things extremely well while being exhausting the rest of the time? And couldn't they just have given Samantha COVID? Later, Dan Cassino was NOT a crackpot for suggesting that many Netflix properties would benefit from a faster watch speed, and then we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Live In Front Of A Studio Audience, The Big Leap, The Monkees, and Call My Agent!. Listener Laura hoped there wouldn't be "Bad Blood" between her and the panel when she submitted yet another X-Files ep for the Canon. Yellowstone won, wasting the court's time lost, and we contemplated the legendary hookups of the Big Apple in a non-regulation Game Time. Grab a sad fascinator and have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks 👤 Jessica Morgan TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌆 And Just Like That Around The Dial: 💝 Love Life Around The Dial: 😂 Live In Front Of A Studio Audience Around The Dial: 🎭 The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🐒 The Monkees Around The Dial: ☎️ Call My Agent! I Am Not A Crackpot: ⏩ Speed Watching TV The Canon: 👽 The X-Files S05.E12: Bad Blood Winner & Loser: 👍 1883 Winner & Loser: 👎 Jussie Smollett Game Time: 🧠 The Sexinest City NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 385 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💃 Go Fug Yourself 🐦 GFY on Twitter 📸 GFY on Instagram 📚 Heather and Jessica on Bookshop 💝 The For Colored Nerds podcast on S02 of Love Life 🎭 Vulture on The Big Leap 🐒 The Monkees S02.E22 ("the Paris episode") 👩🏽‍⚕️ Tara's Doogie Kamealoha, MD post at Decider ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 📷 Photo: HBO Max

HBO's latest British miniseries import is Landscapers, telling the story about Christopher and Susan Edwards and their, er, unorthodox gardening habits; we tell you whether we thought it was, heh, fertile ground for drama. Around The Dial takes us through Annie Live!, Money Heist, Baptiste, and Hawkeye. Elenore pitches the Drunk History episode "Civil Rights" for the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we close out with a Game Time that's live from New York, featuring surprise Valued Guest Taylor Cole. Join us for all the dirt on Landscapers and so much more! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛲️ Landscapers Around The Dial: 💸 Money Heist Around The Dial: 👩🏻‍🦰 Annie Live Around The Dial: 🎨 Baptiste Around The Dial: 🎯 Hawkeye Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways The Canon: 🏆 Drunk History S05.E05: Civil Rights Winner & Loser: 👍 FX Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris Cuomo Game Time: 🧠 Do You Know What Not Ready For Prime Time It Is? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 384 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📰 The Guardian's deep dive on the Edwards case 🤔 Streaming options for Quiz 🚨 The Blotter Presents podcast on Quiz 👩🏻‍🦰 Jackson McHenry and Kathryn VanArendonk on Annie Live! at Vulture 💸 Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon 📚 12(% off) Days Of Christmas at Exhibit B. Books

It's the return of the EHG Thunderdome! This time we're sending 27 HBO characters of our choosing into the Thunderdome to see who is the last character standing. Will it be the horse from Luck? WILL IT?! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛈ Selective HBO Character Thunderdome NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 383 page on ExtraHotGreat.com