

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Oct 24, 2018 โข 1h 27min
223: Life After Roseanne On The Conners
The Conners debuted last week, sans its controversial founder -- and Sarah Baker made HER EHG debut to talk about everything from how the show handled "Roseanne"'s death to the healing properties of Goodman and Metcalf to whether we'll keep watching without a possible train-wreck as motivation. We went Around The Dial with The Cool Kids, Get A Room With Carson And Thom, a Camping/Splitting Up Together comparison, and a German Flying Circus before Dylan Garsee hoped an RPDR All Stars episode would get to sashay-you-stay into the Canon. A Midwife won, Marvel lost, and a monstrous game time had us all screaming -- on an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Sarah Baker
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ The Conners
Around The Dial: โบ๏ธ Camping
Around The Dial: ๐ Splitting Up Together
Around The Dial: ๐ The Cool Kids
Around The Dial: ๐ช Get A Room With Carson And Thom
Around The Dial: ๐ช Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus
The Canon: ๐ RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars S02.E05: Revenge Of The Queens
Winner & Loser: ๐ Emerald Fennell
Winner & Loser: ๐ Marvel's Street Team
Game Time: ๐ง Monster Mash
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 223 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ The Conners's ratings
๐ด The official Kominsky Method trailer

Oct 10, 2018 โข 1h 49min
222: Going Through Changes With Big Mouth
Big Mouth has returned to Netflix for a second season of monstrous puberty (and puberty monsters), and Joe Reid is joining us to talk about the various sweaty humiliations that come with it! Around The Dial takes us to America To Me, Maniac, Chuck, and Dave's forcened sampling of Dreamland. Joe proposes the induction of the Friends episode "The One Where Rosita Dies" into the Nonac. Then after we name the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a golden Game Time. Get a textbook to hide your boner and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Joe Reid
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Big Mouth
Around The Dial: ๐บ๐ธ America To Me
Around The Dial: ๐คช Maniac
Around The Dial: ๐ Chuck
Around The Dial: ๐ด Dreamland
The Nonac: ๐คฎ Friends S07.E13: The One Where Rosita Dies
Winner & Loser: ๐ Lance Bass
Winner & Loser: ๐ James Franco
Game Time: ๐ง Slumming It For An Emmy
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 222 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Joe Reid on Twitter
๐ณ Joe on Decider
๐ This Had Oscar Buzz

Oct 3, 2018 โข 1h 31min
221: A Million Little Things: This Is (-n't For) Us
When the most exciting thing about a new show is the moment David T. Cole rechristens it Men Of A Certain Beige, you know you've got problems...but returning guest Jeb Lund soldiered bravely through our grumpy discussion of ABC's attempt to throw This Is Us, Desperate Housewives, and thirtysomething in a blender. We went around the dial with the new Murphy Brown, HBO's Jane Fonda docu, Ken Burns's Prohibition, a plea to reboot Behind The Music, and Dave's French stand-up TV forcening. Jeb hoped we wouldn't declare his House Canon submission dead on arrival before we named Kareem Abdul Jabbar a winner and Weiner a loser, and tossed around a pay-cable pomme frite with an all-HBO Hot Potato. Come for the tasteless puns on "Rutledge"; stay for Sarah saying the phrase "stunt penis" too many times in an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Jeb Lund
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐งโโ๏ธ A Million Little Things
Around The Dial: ๐ฐ Murphy Brown
Around The Dial: ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ Jane Fonda In Five Acts
Around The Dial: ๐ธ Ken Burns's Prohibition
Around The Dial: ๐ธ Behind The Music
Around The Dial: ๐ Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
The Canon: ๐ฉป House S04.E15: House's Head
Winner & Loser: ๐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Winner & Loser: ๐ Matthew Weiner
Game Time: ๐ง HBO-t Potato
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 221 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐คฐ Tara on Bristol Palin's Teen Mom-mery
๐ฉโโ๏ธ The Blotter Presents on Prohibition
๐ธ Behind The Music on YouTube
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Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean
๐ถ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs and sometimes are mean

Sep 26, 2018 โข 2h 4min
220: Saying Aloha To A New Magnum, P.I.
After the successes of its Hawaii Five-0 and MacGyver remakes, CBS has turned west -- way west -- to bring Thomas Magnum to a new generation. Did it work? We invited Stephen J. Skelton and Todd Robert Anderson, co-hosts of the Film Pigs podcast and die-hard fans of the original, to dissect 2018's Magnum P.I. (KEEP YOUR COMMA, GRANDPA). Around The Dial takes us through New Amsterdam (no relation to the one from ten years ago), Netflix's Maniac, The Good Place, and Family Ties. We then go back in time to consider the original Magnum, P.I. with a Canon submission for the two-part Season 3 premiere, "Did You See The Sunrise?" Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to another installment of Backdoor Pilots from our old friend Dan Cassino. Put Zeus and Apollo in their crates and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Stephen J. Skelton
๐ค Todd Robert Anderson
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐บ Magnum P.I. (2018)
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ New Amsterdam (2018)
Around The Dial: ๐คช Maniac
Around The Dial: โญ๏ธ The Good Place
Around The Dial: ๐ก Family Ties
The Canon: ๐ Magnum P.I. (1980) S03.E01 & 02: Did You See The Sunrise?
Winner & Loser: ๐ Marshmallows
Winner & Loser: ๐ Colin Jost and Michael Che
Game Time: ๐ง Back Door Pilots
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 220 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ท Stephen J. Skelton on Twitter
๐ท Todd Robert Anderson on Twitter
๐ฌ The Film Pigs podcast
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โโ๏ธ You're The Worst on Hulu

Sep 19, 2018 โข 1h 32min
219: Saddle Up A New Season Of BoJack Horseman
BoJack Horseman dropped another season last weekend -- along with practically every other streaming show, but this simultaneously hilarious, dirty, and dark animated dramedy is the one we chose to discuss, along with the correct amount of Todd; background hilarity; and spot-on guest casting. We went Around The Dial with Forever, The First, Deutschland 83 and 86, the newest American Horror Story, and a years-in-the-making verdict on whether Dave hated Troy: Fall Of A City, and Adam hoped to declare mission accomplished on his submission of the Alias two-part second-season finale for the Canon. Aaron "Todd" Paul won, the Downey/Burnett household lost, and we went through the stages of TV relationships in a quotable Game Time from Caroline. Don't be a neigh-sayer: give Episode 219 a listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Adam Grosswirth
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ด Bojack Horseman
Around The Dial: โณ Forever
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ The First
Around The Dial: ๐ฉ๐ช Deutschland 83
Around The Dial: ๐ป American Horror Story: Apocalypse
Around The Dial: ๐ Troy: Fall Of A City
The Canon: ๐ Alias S02.E21 & 22: Second Double / The Telling
Winner & Loser: ๐ Aaron Paul
Winner & Loser: ๐ Roma Downey, Mark Burnett, and Tom Arnold
Game Time: ๐ง Love, Relationships, And All That Crap
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 219 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐โโ๏ธ Tara's Sean Penn ranking for Mel Magazine
๐ฃ McElhone tries not to scratch Salmon Penn's eyes out

Sep 12, 2018 โข 1h 10min
218: Getting Into A Pickle With Kidding
Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry have re-teamed, for the first time since Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, on Kidding, the story of a children's TV host dealing with grief; Rolling Stone's Chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returns to talk about it (and not as if he's talking to a bunch of four-year-olds). Around The Dial brings us to Lifetime's stalker thriller You; Season 2 of American Vandal; and The Forger's Masterclass. Alan presents the ER episode "Exodus" for submission into the Canon. Then after identifying the week's Winner and Loser(s), we start a new season of Game Time with Before & After III. Grab your favourite puppet friend and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Alan Sepinwall
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ถ Kidding
Around The Dial: ๐ซต You
Around The Dial: ๐ American Vandal
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ The Forger's Masterclass
The Canon: ๐ ER S04.E15: Exodus
Winner & Loser: ๐ John Legend
Winner & Loser: ๐ Les Moonves
Game Time: ๐ง Before & After III
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 218 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ชจ Alan Sepinwall on Twitter
๐ Alan's books on Amazon
โ๏ธ Episode 1 of The Forger's Masterclass on YouTube
๐ Visit SimpleContacts.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout
๐ซฆ Visit SuperChewer.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout

Sep 5, 2018 โข 1h 48min
217: You Don't Know Jack Ryan
Tom Clancy's foxy CIA nerd is back in John Krasinski form for Amazon's new series, and first-time guests and ATX Festival poohbahs Cait and Emily joined us to talk about its problematic politics, whether the TV-scape needs another Homeland, why Krasinski chose THIS project, and Timothy Hutton's new corporate-douche casting lane. We went Around The Dial with Ozark, Anne With An E, The Big Family Cooking Showdown, Halt & Catch Fire, The Purge, and Paradise PD before taking a ferry to Gay Head for Cory's exasperated submission of a Season 6 Gilmore Girls to the Nonac. New Bachelor Colton won, NBC News lost, and Tara's non-regulation Game Time was music to (some of) our ears. Will Buntsy lose her mind at the Nonac music again? Has Jack Ryan crowned a new William Fichtner? Find out in an explosive new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Caitlin McFarland
๐ค Emily Gipson
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐งจ Jack Ryan
Around The Dial: โฐ๏ธ The Purge
Around The Dial: ๐ Anne With An E
Around The Dial: ๐ Ozark
Around The Dial: โฒ The Big Family Cooking Showdown
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Halt And Catch Fire
Around The Dial: โฑ Paradise Pd
The Nonac: ๐ฉโ๐ง Gilmore Girls S06.E15: A Vineyard Valentine
Winner & Loser: ๐ The Bachelor Colton
Winner & Loser: ๐ NBC News
Game Time: ๐ง Tube Tunes III
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 217 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐บ The ATX Festival
๐ The TV Campfire Podcast
๐ The Blotter
๐ The Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown
๐ผ Austin Anarchy Men's Roller Derby presents Drag Queens Of The Rink

Aug 29, 2018 โข 1h 14min
216: Will You Be Enchanted By Disenchantment?
Matt Groening and a passel of ex-Futurama writers have brought Netflix a new animated sitcom set in a fantastical world with elves and personal demons and the like, but did we find Disenchantment enchanting? Omar Gallaga returns to join our discussion! Around The Dial clicks on Netflix's new teen romcom feature film To All The Boys I've Loved Before; Jerry Seinfeld's automotive chat show Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, and Bravo's Below Deck-iverse. Omar makes the case for Detroiters's "Hark Motors" to be inducted into the Nonac, and then we're Hailing various Chiefs in the presidential Game Time America, The World, And Beyond. Get an Onion Julius and listen in!
GUESTS
๐ค Omar Gallaga
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ช Disenchantment
Around The Dial: ๐ To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee
Around The Dial: ๐ณ Below Deck
The Nonac: ๐คฎ Detroiters S02.E08: Hark Motors
Winner & Loser: ๐ Crafters
Winner & Loser: ๐ Roseanne
Game Time: ๐ง America, The World, And Beyond
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 216 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฒ TechMinuteTexas.com
๐ฐ Money Can't Buy You Podcast

Aug 22, 2018 โข 1h 39min
215: Regarding Better Call Saul's Fourth Season
Better Call Saul came back for its fourth season a few weeks ago, and Will Leitch came back to discuss what's transpired so far: the deliberate pace, the subplots we don't care as much about (sorry, Nacho), the forecast for Mesa Verde's plans for market domination, and what we think becomes of Kim...and of course the provenance of That Letter. We went Around The Dial with Marching Orders, Sharp Objects, Conan's transition away from music and the death throes (?) of late-night, and Babylon Berlin before Will had just one more thing on his Canon presentation for the first real Columbo episode. Who won the numbers game in a high-volume Game Time? Bag up that cast and hop into an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Will Leitch
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โ๏ธ Better Call Saul
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Marching Orders
Around The Dial: ๐จโ๐ฆฐ Conan
Around The Dial: ๐ช Sharp Objects
Around The Dial: ๐ฉ๐ช Babylon Berlin
The Canon: ๐งฅ Columbo S01.E01: Murder By The Book
Winner & Loser: ๐ Niecy Nash
Winner & Loser: ๐ Ian Ziering
Game Time: ๐ง Which Aired More, Vol. II
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 215 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ The Will Leitch Show
๐ซ Will's Tinyletter
๐ช Tara on Sharp Objects at Decider
๐ถ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs
๐งฅ "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

Aug 15, 2018 โข 1h 57min
214: Should You Get Initiated Into Lodge 49?
AMC's newest drama is Lodge 49, the story of a dirtbag ex-surfer mysteriously drawn to a Long Beach fraternal order; does it deserve its Better Call Saul lead-in? Surf fiction fan Adam Sternbergh returns to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Insecure, Babylon Berlin, and HBO's Ben Bradlee doc Newspaperman. Adam makes the case for us to induct Killing Eve's series premiere into the Canon, and then it's up, up and away to a comic book-themed Game Time. Put on your signet ring and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Adam Sternbergh
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ Lodge 49
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Insecure
Around The Dial: ๐ฉ๐ช Babylon Berlin
Around The Dial: ๐ฐ Newspaperman: The Life And Times Of Ben Bradlee
Around The Dial: ๐บ Dave gets a 4K TV
The Canon: ๐ Killing Eve S01.E01: Nice Face
Winner & Loser: ๐ Cord-cutters
Winner & Loser: ๐ Talking Dead
Game Time: ๐ง Pros & Comic-Cons
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Adam Sternbergh on Twitter
๐ The official website for Adam's novel, The Blinds
๐คฌ Tara on I Hate It But I Love It talking Bring It On
๐ Vulture's interview with Killing Eve's costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye