Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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 👤 Stephen J. Skelton 👤 Todd Robert Anderson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌺 Magnum P.I. (2018) Around The Dial: 🏥 New Amsterdam (2018) Around The Dial: 🤪 Maniac Around The Dial: ⭐️ The Good Place Around The Dial: 🏡 Family Ties The Canon: 🏆 Magnum P.I. (1980) S03.E01 & 02: Did You See The Sunrise? Winner & Loser: 👍 Marshmallows Winner & Loser: 👎 Colin Jost and Michael Che Game Time: 🧠 Back Door Pilots NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 220 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐷 Stephen J. Skelton on Twitter 🐷 Todd Robert Anderson on Twitter 🎬 The Film Pigs podcast 🙅‍♀️ You're The Worst on Hulu

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 👤 Adam Grosswirth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: ⏳ Forever Around The Dial: 🥇 The First Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Deutschland 83 Around The Dial: 👻 American Horror Story: Apocalypse Around The Dial: 🏛 Troy: Fall Of A City The Canon: 🏆 Alias S02.E21 & 22: Second Double / The Telling Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Paul Winner & Loser: 👎 Roma Downey, Mark Burnett, and Tom Arnold Game Time: 🧠 Love, Relationships, And All That Crap NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 219 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏄‍♂️ Tara's Sean Penn ranking for Mel Magazine 🍣 McElhone tries not to scratch Salmon Penn's eyes out

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 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 👶 Kidding Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🍆 American Vandal Around The Dial: ✍️ The Forger's Masterclass The Canon: 🏆 ER S04.E15: Exodus Winner & Loser: 👍 John Legend Winner & Loser: 👎 Les Moonves Game Time: 🧠 Before & After III NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 218 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪨 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter 📚 Alan's books on Amazon ✍️ Episode 1 of The Forger's Masterclass on YouTube 👁 Visit SimpleContacts.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout 🫦 Visit SuperChewer.com/EXTRA and enter promo code EXTRA at checkout

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 👤 Caitlin McFarland 👤 Emily Gipson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧨 Jack Ryan Around The Dial: ⚰️ The Purge Around The Dial: 🍁 Anne With An E Around The Dial: 🏔 Ozark Around The Dial: ⏲ The Big Family Cooking Showdown Around The Dial: 🔥 Halt And Catch Fire Around The Dial: ⛱ Paradise Pd The Nonac: 👩‍👧 Gilmore Girls S06.E15: A Vineyard Valentine Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelor Colton Winner & Loser: 👎 NBC News Game Time: 🧠 Tube Tunes III NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 217 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📺 The ATX Festival 🏕 The TV Campfire Podcast 🔎 The Blotter 😖 The Guardian rips a strip off Cooking Showdown 🛼 Austin Anarchy Men's Roller Derby presents Drag Queens Of The Rink

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 👤 Omar Gallaga TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪄 Disenchantment Around The Dial: 💙 To All The Boys I've Loved Before Around The Dial: ☕️ Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck The Nonac: 🤮 Detroiters S02.E08: Hark Motors Winner & Loser: 👍 Crafters Winner & Loser: 👎 Roseanne Game Time: 🧠 America, The World, And Beyond NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 216 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📲 TechMinuteTexas.com 💰 Money Can't Buy You Podcast

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 👤 Will Leitch TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🥁 Marching Orders Around The Dial: 👨‍🦰 Conan Around The Dial: 🔪 Sharp Objects Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin The Canon: 🧥 Columbo S01.E01: Murder By The Book Winner & Loser: 👍 Niecy Nash Winner & Loser: 👎 Ian Ziering Game Time: 🧠 Which Aired More, Vol. II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 215 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🏈 The Will Leitch Show 📫 Will's Tinyletter 🔪 Tara on Sharp Objects at Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 🧥 "Murder By The Book" on YouTube

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 👤 Adam Sternbergh TOPICS Lead Topic: 🛖 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 😥 Insecure Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin Around The Dial: 📰 Newspaperman: The Life And Times Of Ben Bradlee Around The Dial: 📺 Dave gets a 4K TV The Canon: 🏆 Killing Eve S01.E01: Nice Face Winner & Loser: 👍 Cord-cutters Winner & Loser: 👎 Talking Dead Game Time: 🧠 Pros & Comic-Cons NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 214 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter 📕 The official website for Adam's novel, The Blinds 🤬 Tara on I Hate It But I Love It talking Bring It On 👗 Vulture's interview with Killing Eve's costume designer, Phoebe de Gaye

What's not to love about a crafting competition show hosted by Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman? Wellll, Linda Holmes and the regulars could think of a few things, but our nitpicks stem almost entirely from liking the show and wanting it to be its best, punniest self. We talk host bits, judging inconsistencies, the comparison of apples to macrame, and there's even Sarah's obligatory semi-annual reference to Work Of Art. We go Around The Dial with Queer Eye, Kids Baking Championship, The Bletchley Circle: Mission Burrito (...okay, it's actually "San Francisco," but we like Dave's name better), and Trial & Error before Linda serves a warrant for inducting Brooklyn Nine-Nine into The Canon. Deadwood won (maybe; we'll see), networks' lip service to survivors and equal pay lost, and we entered the valley of the shadow of unbelievable/y crappy shows with Dan Cassino's Trough TV Game Time. Glue-gun those earbuds in: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Linda Holmes TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧵 Making It Around The Dial: 🌈 Queer Eye Around The Dial: 🥧 Kids Baking Championship Around The Dial: 🌁 The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Around The Dial: 👩‍⚖️ Trial & Error The Canon: 🏆 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S05.E12: Safe House Winner & Loser: 👍 Deadwood Hoopleheads Winner & Loser: 👎 AMC, CBS, and Netflix Game Time: 🧠 Trough TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 213 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🔐 Lucy Mangan on TBC: SF 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

Hulu's latest original series, Castle Rock, is inspired by the works of Stephen King -- but is the resulting series Stephen Kingdom Hearts? Deadspin editor, Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean co-host, and spouse of a Maine native David Roth makes his début to talk about it! Around The Dial spins to Seven Year Switch, Bosch, Last Chance U, and a vintage ad from Stephen King's past. David makes a pitch for us to induct the Law & Order: SVU episode "Wildlife" into The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we continue talking names in a Game Time all about TV characters' monikers. Grab some Wonder Bread and join us! GUESTS 👤 David Roth TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏰 Castle Rock Around The Dial: 👩‍❤️‍👨 Seven Year Switch Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Bosch Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🏆 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S10.E07: Wildlife Winner & Loser: 👍 Supergirl Winner & Loser: 👎 Fans of The Brady Bunch Game Time: 🧠 A Rose By Any Other Name NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 212 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🍊 Orange Is The New Black at Vulture 🎅 David Roth on Twitter ⚾️ David Roth at Deadspin 😵 The Deadcast 🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean 🚨 The Blotter 🦨 Tara discussing "Wildlife" on These Are Their Stories 🗣 Pacific Standard's oral history of "Wildlife"

Rebooting a show hosted by original Spock with the new Spock may have seemed...logical, but the summer-weight EHG panel didn't think much of the new In Search Of, which is perhaps a casualty of the internet, and definitely suffers from not committing to its crackpot premises. At least we got to make an American Movie reference about the premiere? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dr. Pimple Popper, an HBO doc on Robin Williams, and Ancient Aliens before Liz presented a fourth-season Frasier farce for the Canon. Jesus won, UnREAL lost (we think?), and Dan Cassino gave new meaning to the term "sibling rivalry" in a family-friendly Game Time. So loosen up those polygraph straps and get comfy with an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕵️ In Search Of (2018) Around The Dial: 🧴 Dr. Pimple Popper Around The Dial: 🤯 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind Around The Dial: 🛸 Ancient Aliens The Canon: 🏆 Frasier S04.E18: Ham Radio Winner & Loser: 👍 John Legend Winner & Loser: 👎 UnREAL Game Time: 🧠 All In The Family NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 211 page on ExtraHotGreat.com