Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

The latest high school-based '80s sitcom to get a revival is HBO Max's 2021 take on Head Of The Class, so Daniel MacEachern -- a fan of the original in its day -- has joined us to talk about whether it's a pass or fail! Around The Dial takes us through Season 2 of Frayed, an update on Married At First Sight, Deutschland 89, Yellowstone, The Great British Bake Off (or Baking Show, depending on where you are), Project Runway, and the findings of the TV Holiday Corridor Committee. Tara explains why she is NOT a crackpot to think Rick was funnier before his lines got subtitled on Big Mouth. Danny presents the Ted Lasso episode "Trent Crimm: The Independent" for the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and close out with a Game Time that has us contemplating celebrity mortality. Get out your notebook -- do kids still take those to class?! -- and listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🏫 Head Of The Class Around The Dial: 🐨 Frayed Around The Dial: 👰‍♀️ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 89 Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🥐 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 👠 Project Runway Around The Dial: 🎁 TV Holiday Corridor Committee Findings I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Rick Was Funnier Before Big Mouth Started Subtitling Him The Canon: 🏆 Ted Lasso S01.E03: Trent Crimm: The Independent Winner & Loser: 👍 Fantasy Island (2021) Winner & Loser: 👎 Ingo Rademacher Game Time: 🧠 Dead? Simpsons? Both? Neither? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 380 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 🚽 "TV Producer Steven Bochco says he fired lead actor from Murder One because one particular bathroom habit made him an hour late for work EVERY DAY" at DailyMail.com 💄 Listen To Sassy on Patreon 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon 📰 CBC Newfoundland and Labrador 🛑 "Please Stop The Great British Baking Show From Becoming The Great British Science Fair" at VanityFair.com 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎧 Quaid In Full on Patreon

Your co-hosts weren't feeling that psyched about any of this week's TV premieres -- sorry, Judy Justice on IMDbTV -- so we invited our Patreon supporters to pitch and then vote on TV episodes for us to discuss under the rubric Fall Forcenings. Thus we are going in on L.A. Law's "Good To The Last Drop" with guest Adam Grosswirth, who originally watched it as a pre-teen and...learned a lot about hysterectomies and their possible side effects? Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Queens, The Big Leap, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight. Adam makes the case for Max Headroom's series premiere, "Blipverts," to be inducted into The Canon. Then after an extra-spooky Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that doesn't overstay its welcome. Look out: it's a new episode of Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍💼 L.A. Law S05.E16: Good To The Last Drop Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 👸🏽 Queens Around The Dial: 🤸‍♂️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🤦‍♀️ The Good Wife Around The Dial: 👊 The Good Fight The Canon: 🏆 Max Headroom S01.E01: Blipverts Winner & Loser: 👍 Steve Buscemi Winner & Loser: 👎 Ted Lasso Game Time: 🧠 One-Season Wonders NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 379 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Grosswirth on Twitter ☕️ "Good To The Last Drop" on Dailymotion 🚽 "TV producer Steven Bochco says he fired lead actor from Murder One because one particular bathroom habit made him an hour late for work EVERY DAY" on DailyMail.com 🌴 The latest Again With This podcast, featuring Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, aka The Fug Girls 🐷 The Muppeturgy podcast 🏎 Baffled! on YouTube 👾 "Live And Direct: The Definitive Oral History Of 1980s Digital Icon Max Headroom" at The Verge

Netflix's new animated series Inside Job posits a world in which basically every conspiracy theory you've ever seen on Facebook is real; John Ramos returns to discuss whether it's worth exposing the NSA to it via the recording device that's always running in your phone! Around The Dial takes us through the third seasons of Succession and You, and the second season of We're Here. Tara takes a hard stance on when holiday episodes should air. Erica makes a case for Brooklyn Nine-Nine's "Casecation" to be inducted into the Nonac. Then we crown the week's Winners and Loser before getting into a Non-Regulation Game Time that's a little two-dimensional. Take a break from monitoring your Bigfoot traps and join us! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 👽 Inside Job Around The Dial: 🧐 Succession Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🗺 We're Here I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Your Holiday Episode MUST Air Before The Holiday!!! The Nonac: 🤮 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S06.E12: Casecation Winner & Loser: 👍 Stir Wirz! Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 Tube Toons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 378 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter ✍️ Tara's author page at Decider 👃 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🤬 Q: Into The Storm on HBO Max

EEHG 004: That's Just Wrong Our patron Eric Akawie challenges us to name shows that got Wrong Spinoffs, and to correct history by proposing spinoffs that would have been Right! EEHG 081: The Lowest Of Decks Sarah asked: What about creating Star Trek: Lower Decks-style shows for other series? Which low-powered employees from an existing TV show would make for a good spinoff? EEHG 125: Second-Generation Spinoff Lots of spinoffs involve giving side characters the spotlight -- your Rhodas, your Lous Grant. What Lex Ann specifically wants us to imagine are spinoffs that center the CHILDREN of the ancestor series: and we've delivered! EEHG 126: Spin Cycle So maybe MAYBE, Dave didn’t read last week’s EEHG correctly and instead of the prompt being a spinoff featuring children of a show, he thought the challenge was to develop a spinoff OF a spinoff. So that’s what we’re doing this week because the idea has been rattling in his head. TOPICS Lead Topic: ❌ That's Just Wrong Lead Topic: 🪫 The Lowest Of Decks Lead Topic: 👥 Second-Generation Spinoff Lead Topic: 😵‍💫 Spin Cycle NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 377 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We knew Cyd, like Tara and Dave, had just done a rewatch of the original-flavor C.S.I., so we were really glad she could join us to break down CBS's new reboot of its network-changing old favorite (which...only went off the air like six years ago?). We talked about whether we'll keep watching for "The New Class" after l'affaire Hodges gets resolved, when exactly the show thinks it is culturally, and what's going on with the sloppy editing. Then we went Around The Dial with Call The Midwife, Legends Of The Hidden Temple, grief-therapy sitcom recs, and Buried (with another Lauer rant from Buntsy) before Cyd was NOT a crackpot about shows using consultants on "hacker" and other internetty storylines. Chris Billig tried to get all our exercise balls up the hill in support of his Taskmaster Canon submission before Mlle. Caroline won, Netflix lost, and we put a foot in two worlds with a Game Time about reboots. Make sure to leave a fingerprint on the "play" button; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Cyd TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎰 C.S.I.: Vegas Around The Dial: 👩‍⚕️ Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🗿 Legends Of The Hidden Temple Around The Dial: 🥨 Seinfeld Around The Dial: 👮🏽‍♀️ Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🪦 Buried I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Computer Consultants The Canon: 💌 Taskmaster S02.E01: Fear Of Failure Winner & Loser: 👍 Mlle. Caroline Winner & Loser: 👎 Dave Chappelle and Netflix Game Time: 🧠 Getting The Reboot NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 376 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Cyd on Twitter 🐦 Or follow her here 📸 Cyd's drawing Instagram 🧬 Tara's William Petersen piece at Decider 🪦 Sarah's review of Buried at Best Evidence 💌 Taskmaster season playlists on YouTube

The SCU (Sopranos Cinematic Universe) expands with the release, in theaters and on HBO Max, of the prequel film The Many Saints Of Newark, and Rolling Stone Senior TV Critic/certified Sopranologist Alan Sepinwall is here to discuss it with us! Around The Dial takes us through The Problem With Jon Stewart, Our Kind Of People, Maid, and the Working Girl TV series adaptation. Rebecca uses her Extra Credit topic to have us remove and recast disgraced stars from their TV vehicles to make them palatable again. Alan presents the Columbo episode "An Exercise In Fatality" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we're pulling off the turnpike for a New Jersey-themed Non-Regulation Game Time! Find your pew and join us! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔫 The Many Saints Of Newark Around The Dial: 🫠 The Problem With Jon Stewart Around The Dial: ☺️ Our Kind Of People Around The Dial: 🧹 Maid Around The Dial: 👩‍💼 Working Girl Extra Credit: 🍎 Bad Apples The Canon: 🕵🏻‍♂️ Columbo S04.E01: An Exercise In Fatality Winner & Loser: 👍 IATSE Winner & Loser: 👎 Katie Couric Game Time: 🧠 Back To The Garden State NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 375 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🔫 "The Ultimate Sopranos Insider's Guide to The Many Saints of Newark" on RollingStone.com 📚 The Sopranos Sessions on AbramsBooks.com 🫠 Alan's review of The Problem With Jon Stewart at RollingStone.com 🌴 The Again With This podcast on Patreon 👁 Alan's podcast Too Long; Didn't Watch 👩‍💼 The Working Girl TV series adaptation on YouTube 🐉 The Quaid In Full podcast episode on Dragonheart 😬 "I Was Proud to Do This Work With Him: David Simon on James Franco Controversy" at Rolling Stone 🍭 Paul Rudd's candy store, Samuel's Sweet Shop ✊ "As IATSE Workers Go Public, Pressure Mounts on Studios Amid Looming Strike" in The Hollywood Reporter

We're so grateful Nick Rheinwald-Jones jumped through a green Jurassic vagina with us to watch La Brea, NBC's latest attempt at a sci-fi dystopia -- but this one involves a sinkhole in "Los Angeles," were-dogs, and Jon Seda. Should you watch the pilot just for the dumb crappy fun of it all? Or is it too stuck in that 2006 "we can be the next Lost" mindset to be enjoyable? We definitely enjoyed going Around The Dial with Controlling Britney Spears, The Big Leap, Being James Bond, Tea With The Dames, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant, and Squid Game, and in related news, Dave was not a crackpot about flashbacks to events in the same episode. David Ellis Dickerson challenged us to pick a show bible a la the Star Trek: TOS episode "A Piece of the Action," and base an entire future society on it, and then Nick challenged our conceptions about second episodes of series when he pitched Episode 02 of Succession for the Canon. Bergeron won, Messing lost, and the Game Time season came down to a single letter. Take a nip off that flask and tell the government about your visions: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦕 La Brea Around The Dial: 🕹 Controlling Britney Spears Around The Dial: 🤸‍♀️ The Big Leap Around The Dial: 🔫 Being James Bond Around The Dial: 🫖 Tea With The Dames Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🦑 Squid Game I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Extra Credit: 📖 Show Bible The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E02: Shit Show At The Fuck Factory Winner & Loser: 👍 Tic-Tac-Dough Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 One Letter Off NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 374 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🕵🏼‍♂️ Nick's immersive-theater project, Spy Brunch ⛳️ Tara's Holey Moley piece at Defector 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📷 Photo: Sarah Enticknap / NBC

Nearly two years after its first-season premiere, The Morning Show is back on AppleTV+, and its #1 fan Christina Tucker has returned to talk about all the delightful madness! Around The Dial takes us through The Premise, Doogie Kamealoha, M.D., and the new seasons of Sex Education and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Amelia asks us to poach good characters from bad shows and put them together in a new project. Tara presents The Other Two's very recent "Chase Gets Baptized" for Canon consideration. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we wrap up with a pilot-based Game Time that leaves us all in a tailspin. Pour yourself a coffee with Red Bull and listen! GUESTS 👤 Christina Tucker TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌅 The Morning Show Around The Dial: 🔲 The Premise Around The Dial: 👩🏽‍⚕️ Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Around The Dial: 🍆 Sex Education Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 😉 Only The Good Ones The Canon: 🏆 The Other Two S02.E05: Chase Gets Baptized Winner & Loser: 👍 Baltimore Ravens Winner & Loser: 👎 Edie Falco Game Time: 🧠 Pilot Error NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 373 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter 🍙 Christina's The Morning Show recap newsletter Chaos! It's The New Cocaine 🟠 Tara on James Wolk and Ordinary Joe at Decider ⁉️ The Wait, Is This A Date? podcast 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 Christina at Autostraddle 📚 15% off for EHG listeners at Exhibit B. Books 🏛 Backstairs At The White House on Wikipedia

FX on Hulu's take on comics series Y: The Last Man has finally made it to air -- and Taylor Cole has finally made it over from The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show to talk about it with us! How is the show different from the comics? Can Diane Lane's hair still be a national treasure if her roots are a plot point? And does a certain Hero need to get written out of the story? We went Around The Dial with Frogger, Scenes From A Marriage, Miracle Workers, and 30 For 30's take on the '86 Mets before carefully selecting TV's smartest (and hottest) characters to get us Extra Credit at pub quiz. Taylor sent us a care package containing his Canon submission for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp before Momoa won and copaganda lost. And Tara's non-regulation Game Time taught us all a lot. Make 90 minutes disappear Yorick-style by listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Taylor Cole TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐒 Y: The Last Man Around The Dial: 💍 Scenes From A Marriage Around The Dial: 🐸 Frogger Around The Dial: 🪬 Miracle Workers Around The Dial: ⚾️ 30 For 30 Extra Credit: 🤔 Pub Quiz The Canon: 🩳 Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp S01.E06: Electro/City Winner & Loser: 👍 See Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Nation Game Time: 🧠 That'll Teach 'Em NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 372 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Follow Taylor Cole on Twitter 🍸 The G&T With Greta And Taylor podcast 💄 Listen To Sassy on Patreon 🗽 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter

Since the third season of American Crime Story revolves around Bill Clinton's late-'90s impeachment scandal, we could think of no better guest to join us in discussing it than Dan Rogge, noted co-writer of the mid-'00s theatrical production Monica! The Musical. And we got him! Around The Dial takes us through A.P. Bio, Money Heist, Black Monday, and Only Murders In The Building. Katherine asks us to suggest better monikers for mis-named TV characters. Then Dan makes his case for inducting NewsRadio's Season 3 episode "Kids" into The Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser, and close out with a big-name Game Time. Got dry cleaning to drop off? Take us with you and listen! GUESTS 👤 Dan Rogge TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 Impeachment: American Crime Story Around The Dial: 🧫 A.P. Bio Around The Dial: 💸 Money Heist Around The Dial: 📉 Black Monday Around The Dial: 🔪 Only Murders In The Building Extra Credit: 🤑 Restoring Their Good Name The Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E16: Kids Winner & Loser: 👍 Reservation Dogs Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 That's My Name, Too NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 371 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dan Rogge on Twitter 👗 Monica! The Podcast ✍️ Sarah's Impeachment review at Primetimer 💸 Tara's Money Heist recaps at Vulture 🌍 Andy Dehnart's oral history of The Amazing Race's first season at Reality Blurred