Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

HBO has imported Sky Atlantic's miniseries Catherine The Great -- starring seasoned queen portrayer Helen Mirren -- and first-time guest Karen Geier is Russian (sorry) to join us for a discussion all about it! Around The Dial takes us through Living With Yourself, Modern Love, The Politician, Buzz, Survivor, the latest in Ken Burns, and HBO's highly anticipated take on Watchmen! Karen presents the "Interlude" episode of The Righteous Gemstones for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a non-regulation Game Time that's the mother you never had and the sister everybody would want...or that's just about guest stars playing characters' relatives on TV. Saddle up your sturdiest steed and join us! GUESTS 👤 Karen Geier TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐴 Catherine The Great Around The Dial: 🫵 Living With Yourself Around The Dial: ❤️ Modern Love Around The Dial: 🗳 The Politician Around The Dial: 🏜 Survivor Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: ⌚️ Watchmen The Canon: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones S01.E05: Interlude Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris Game Time: 🧠 It's All Relative NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 273 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Karen Geier on Twitter 👻 The On Belief podcast 👻 On Belief on Patreon 😢 The On Grief podcast 😢 On Grief on Patreon 🎙 KarenGeier.com ❤️ Maureen Ryan's Modern Love review at NYTimes.com 🏝 Again With This 🏝 Again With This on Patreon 🎶 MASTAS on Patreon ⌚️ James Poniewozik's Watchmen review

We're so glad our esteemed colleague and Breaking Bad 101 author Alan Sepinwall could join us to talk about El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel on Netflix that starts just minutes after the finale ended. Did we think it was necessary and/or satisfying? Were the fan-service elements welcome, or distracting? And which other characters should get their own post-BB films? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dynasty, Riverdale's Luke Perry tribute episode, Lodge 49, Private Lives Of The Windsors, and an objection from Dave to breathy cover-song TV themes (and the ending of Press, kind of), before Alan warmed up a second-season Leftovers episode as his Canon submission. Holey Moley won, a FOX affiliate (and racist sports teams) lost, and we sprang into action (verbs) for Game Time with the season hanging in the balance. An all-new Extra Hot Great: that's church, yo. GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚘 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Riverdale Around The Dial: 🍺 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 👑 Private Lives Of The Windsors Around The Dial: 🎞 Get Shorty I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Breathy slowed-down cover songs as TV themes Around The Dial: 🗞 Press The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Holey Moley Winner & Loser: 👎 California Fox affiliate using chyron "Braves Scalped?" Game Time: 🧠 The Verb Is The Word NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 272 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 🌆 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🎥 Quaid In Full

PBS's Masterpiece has premiered the British miniseries Press, a tale of warring London newspapers, and we've brought a former newspaper reporter, Daniel MacEachern, back to the podcast to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through Evil, Big Mouth, and Cash Cab, before we each pitch our own Fosse/Verdon-style limited series based on a real person's life (and possibly a specific biography). Danny presents The Grinder's "Grinder v. Grinder" for induction into the Canon. Then we're on to naming the week's Winner and Loser, and finishing up with a Game Time that might sound a little familiar. Put down any newspaper you might be reading and listen to us instead! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 📰 Press Around The Dial: 👿 Evil Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🚕 Cash Cab Extra Credit: 🤑 Small Screen / Larger Than Life The Canon: 🏆 The Grinder S01.E13: Grinder v. Grinder Winner & Loser: 👍 Rachel Maddow Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 Familiar Situations NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 271 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 🏸 David Roth, Laura Wagner, and Kelsey McKinney's Deadspin report on TheMaven's Sports Illustrated takeover 👄 Big Mouth co-creator Andrew Goldberg apologized for the show's description of pansexuality 🕳 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranks "Live Through This" 🚀 Quaid In Full's episode on Dennis Quaid's Baretta episode 🏞 The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt

We couldn't decide which headline show to cover for EHG 270, so we set our shot clocks to eight minutes each for three: Survivor's 39th (!) season, with an idolatrous twist; new sitcom Sunnyside, starring Kal Penn as a disgraced city councilman; and semi-charming, SUPER-piloty PI/PTSD drama Stumptown. Will any of us keep watching any of these? Can we, when a couple of them already pulled basement-ish ratings? Later, we went Around The Dial with Bissinger doc Buzz, Perfect Harmony, The Challenge, and Below Deck Med before Kim brought us back to Survivor and fans vs. favorites with her Canon presentation. Moriarty's a winner, Ray Lewis is a loser, and we explored not-that-secret identities in Game Time. Behold the giant wooden busts of your panel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kim Reed TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏜 Survivor Lead Topic: ☕️ Stumptown Lead Topic: 🌞 Sunnyside Around The Dial: 🎼 Perfect Harmony Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Survivor S16.E13: If It Smells Like A Rat, Give It Cheese Winner & Loser: 👍 Andrew Scott Winner & Loser: 👎 Ray Lewis Game Time: 🧠 Also Known As NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 270 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 📉 Sunnyside's low ratings 🤯 Dalton Ross's oral history of Erik's blindside 🛍 GQ on Bissinger's shopaholism 🎙 Sweet Smell Of Succession 📺 Sarah's Primetimer author page 📸 We're @extrahotgreat on Instagram

Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through a trio of CBS sitcom pilots, Unbelievable, 30 For 30's "Rodman: For Better Or Worse," and Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. Sarah and Tara take a look at Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail's just-announced Battlestar Galactica reboot and ask: Will Dave Hate This? We take on Mary's Muppetational Extra Credit question. Chris and Joe make the case for Project Runway S02.E09, "Flower Power," to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after talking Emmy Winners and Losers, it's on to a Game Time that tests our knowledge of our Boomer relatives' favourite shows. Grab your favourite footman and join us! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏰 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🥈 Carol's Second Act Around The Dial: 💕 Bob Hearts Abishola Around The Dial: 🦄 The Unicorn Around The Dial: 🧐 Unbelievable Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🔮 Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Battlestar Galactica Extra Credit: 🤑 Flesh-Covered Muppets The Canon: 🏆 Project Runway S02.E09: Flower Power Winner & Loser: 👍 Some people at the Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 Different people at the Emmys Game Time: 🧠 Uncle Billy & Aunt Joan NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 269 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter 👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter 📺 Primetimer 🎶 MASTAS Live! 🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast 📺 Chris at Primetimer 🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight, Are You The One?, and The Challenge, then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Kevin O'Keeffe TOPICS Lead Topic: ⌚️ Undone Around The Dial: 👰 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥇 Are You The One Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Extra Credit: 🤑 A Very Blanky Renovation The Canon: 🏆 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills S01.E09: The Dinner Party From Hell Winner & Loser: 👍 Norman Lear Winner & Loser: 👎 Shane Gillis Game Time: 🧠 What's The Difference NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 268 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 Appointment TV podcast 💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project 🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

It's the show Lance Bass never wanted you to see: A Very Brady Renovation, in which a collection of HGTV stars join forces with the surviving cast of The Brady Bunch to make the real-life Studio City home that served as the Brady house in b-roll look exactly like the Brady Bunch set inside. Who better to join us in discussing all the Who-lebrities involved than Who Weekly? co-host Bobby Finger! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of The Deuce, Part 3 of Money Heist, Ken Burns's latest PBS documentary series Country Music, and Joe Pera Talks With You. Bobby presents the Enlightened episode "The Weekend" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV frogs getting smooched. Grab your sledgehammer and join us! GUESTS 👤 Bobby Finger TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏚 A Very Brady Renovation Around The Dial: 💩 The Deuce Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🗣 Joe Pera Talks With You Extra Credit: 🤑 Missing TV References And Quotes The Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E04: The Weekend Winner & Loser: 👍 Rick Jackson Lead Topic: 👎 Richard Gere Game Time: 🧠 In The Pond NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 267 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter 🙋 The Who Weekly podcast 🎙 The I'm Obsessed With This podcast 🫄 The video Eva Amurri Martino made announcing her third pregnancy 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast

We're not able to record this week so we're treating y'all to a sneak peak at Extra Extra Hot Great, our patrons-only bonus podcast. EEHG 008: Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape) The Jimmy Kimmel-spearheaded, ABC-aired restagings of one classic episode each of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, live in front of a studio audience, delivered one of the network’s highest-rated season wraps in years, and you know what that means: copycats are coming. And we want to get ahead of the trend! For today’s Extra Extra Hot Great, we’re each choosing a classic episode of TV to remake, and casting all the roles with actors working today. EEHG 017: British Crime Story, Series 1 FX announced not long after we recorded a recent EHG main podcast that American Crime Story has finally started moving forward on its third topic: Impeachment, "the story of the Clinton presidency scandal." One of the great things about that franchise is that it provides so much food for thought between seasons, not least (inevitably incorrect) speculation about what it will take on next and with whom in what roles -- so now that that's been taken off the table for the moment, let's talk about what a Union Jack version of the story would look like! TOPICS Lead Topic: 📺 Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape) Lead Topic: 🇬🇧 British Crime Story, Series 1 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 266 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 💂 StoryCast podcast featuring Brink's-Mat Robbery on iTunes

On Becoming A God In Central Florida premiered on Showtime recently, and Floridian Jeb Lund returned to the podcast to discuss its geographic and period accuracy, whether it celebrates or mocks the poor, and all the process-y parts of a pyramid scheme (fine: "multi-level marketing"). We went Around The Dial with 13 Reasons Why, Why Women Kill and Pennyworth, and then we contemplated converting primetime shows into Saturday-morning cartoons, '70s-style, in an Extra Credit from Dave Snyder. After a hilarious (if fatal to felines) Canon submission on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, we declared Netflix a winner, ABC a loser, and Dan Cassino an evil genius as we played a Hallmark Of Quality Game Time. Stock up on giant cans of nacho cheese before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Jeb Lund TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌴 On Becoming A God In Central Florida Around The Dial: 🔪 Why Women Kill Around The Dial: 📼 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth Extra Credit: 🤑 Modern Primetime Cartooning The Canon: 🏆 Garth Merenghi's Darkplace S01.E01: Once Upon A Beginning Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 ABC Game Time: 🧠 Hallmark Of Quality NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 265 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 😴 The Dream podcast 🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast 🦢 Sarah and John Ramos on MSCL 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

HBO's new Danny McBride/Jody Hill sitcom, The Righteous Gemstones, takes aim at megachurch evangelists, but will it make you throw up your hands in praise? Adam Sternbergh returns to discuss it. Around The Dial makes stops at Lodge 49, The Boys, Years And Years, and QB1: Beyond The Lights, before we roll into a Canon presentation on the series premiere of Sherlock, "A Study In Pink." After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all say "¡si!" to a Game Time about TV's non-union Mexican equivalents. Our episode is an awesome episode, and you should listen! GUESTS 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones Around The Dial: 🛖 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys Around The Dial: 📅 Years And Years Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1: Beyond The Lights The Canon: 🏆 Sherlock S01.E01: A Study In Pink Winner & Loser: 👍 St. Elmo's Fire Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends Game Time: 🧠 Non-Union Mexican Equivalent NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 264 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📰 The 1619 Project at the New York Times 📺 Sarah at Primetimer 💍 Decoder Ring's episode on the Johnlock Conspiracy