Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

GLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family, Wu Assassins, So You Think You Can Dance, and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek, then declared a dead Confederate a winner, and LiLo's antics a loser, before sampling a rollercoaster of a musical Game Time. Hike up those leotards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 The Family Around The Dial: 🩰 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax Around The Dial: 🥷 Wu Assassins Extra Credit: 🤑 When The Emmys Meet The Tonys The Canon: 🏆 Schitt's Creek S01.E06: Wine And Roses Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan Game Time: 🧠 Would You Care To Try A Sample? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 263 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🚀 Sarah's Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter

Noted romcom fan Mindy Kaling has been tasked by Hulu to bring the world a series adaptation of the 1994 feature film Four Weddings And A Funeral, and noted romcom fan Linda Holmes is joining us to talk about whether this ever should have happened! Around The Dial has us discussing HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, the series finale of Jane The Virgin, and the end (we hope) of Big Little Lies. Linda makes the case for the induction of The Good Place's "Dance Dance Resolution" into the Canon; then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, we move on to a Game Time that soars. Get out of the rain (or hadn't you noticed?) and join us! GUESTS 👤 Linda Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚰️ Four Weddings And A Funeral Around The Dial: ✍️ A Black Lady Sketch Show Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🤥 Big Little Lies The Canon: 🏆 The Good Place S02.E02: Dance Dance Resolution Winner & Loser: 👍 Nico Tortorella (and Auli'i Cravalho) Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris Game Time: 🧠 Pilot Test NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 262 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter ⚰️ Linda's review of Four Weddings And A Funeral at NPR.org 🤼‍♀️ Vulture's coverage of GLOW 🎙 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast 🏝 The Again With This podcast 🦞 Linda's book, Evvie Drake Starts Over 🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour 🎙 Linda on The Maris Review podcast 🎯 Linda on Bullseye ⚾️ Linda on the Effectively Wild podcast 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter 👵🏻 The Gabrielle Carteris tag on Deadline.com

John couldn't make it last week for our Veronica Mars discussion, but he fired a baby's laser-beam eyes at Amazon's latest original, The Boys, which we all quite liked. Does Jack Quaid look more like his famous parents, or like a Bill Heder/Pacey Witter hybrid? How will the show diverge even further from its graphic-novel parent in Season 2? And does Butcher swear more than Buntsy? We went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase and South Side, John's belated take on Veronica Mars S4, Animal Kingdom, and Pennyworth before descending into a boring, disturbing sex fog with Dave's presentation of TNG's "Sub Rosa" for the Nonac. Nickelodeon slime won the space race, Diddy became a Loser, and Dan Cassino merged shows old and new for a Before & After Game Time. Don't get sent to Sandusky for missing this all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 John Ramos TOPICS Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys Around The Dial: 🎪 Sherman's Showcase Around The Dial: 📺 South Side Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth The Nonac: 🤮 Star Trek: The Next Generation S07.E14: Sub Rosa Winner & Loser: 👍 Nickelodeon slime Lead Topic: 👎 P. Diddy Game Time: 🧠 Before & After NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 261 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧡 Tara's Primetimer post on OITNB 🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast 🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer ♣️ Bridge champion John Ramos 🛸 This weird and wonderful Star Trek on a theremin video