Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Stephanie Green returns, and immediately regrets it when she finds out what Dave is going to make her watch. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Forcenings Around The Dial: 🎶 Nashville Around The Dial: 💻 The Bold Type Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: ☘️ Father Ted Winner & Loser: 👍 Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker Winner & Loser: 👎 Shark After Dark Game Time: 🧠 Small But Perfectly Formed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 164 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter ⚾️ Good Fundies

TV: The Book co-author and Law & Order Fantasy Draft winner Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Season 7 of Game Of Thrones. Should the show be moving faster, plotwise? Who's going to end up "winning" when all is said and done? Which characters are human memes? And is Ed Sheeran a big baby for deleting his Twitter? After considering these questions, we went Around The Dial with The Challenge, Friends From College, and Ozark before picking off another Canon submission with Justified's "Decoy." Talented (future) parents were our winners, The Biggest Loser was...well, that, and we played with perceptions of opening-credits fame in a hotly contested Game Time. Make sure you pick a rubber mask with holes for your earbuds: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗡 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📚 Friends From College Around The Dial: ⛰ Ozark Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix Winner & Loser: 👎 The Biggest Loser Game Time: 🧠 And With NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 163 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter

FX fills Fargo's time slot with Snowfall, John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and definitely NOT because he is a crackhead. Sarah explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking cable networks should just leave swear words in movies. Around The Dial takes us through Lifetime's movie Tiny House Of Terror, Younger, GLOW, and Prime Suspect - Tennison. Hannah makes her case for our inducting the series premiere of Catastrophe into The Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a poetic Game Time. Light it up! TOPICS Lead Topic: ❄️ Snowfall I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Basic cable needs to start leaving the swears in movies Around The Dial: 📚 Younger Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW Around The Dial: 🚨 Prime Suspect 1973 Around The Dial: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 Donal Logue Winner & Loser: 👎 Hawaii Five-0 (2010) Game Time: 🧠 Haiku TV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 162 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Kim Reed joins us for a look at the new season, plus a Cheers Canon and a Dave-hate double dip! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏡 Playing House Will Dave Hate This?: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2020) Will Dave Hate This?: 🦸‍♂️ Watchmen Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: 📺 Battle Of The Network Stars Around The Dial: 👀 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🎸 Boy Band Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW The Canon: 🍻 Cheers Winner & Loser: 👍 The Leftovers Damon Lindelof Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order True Crime Elizabeth Reaser Game Time: 🧠 These Are The Daves I Know #2 NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 161 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 📸 Damon Lindelof on Instagram

ABC adds The Gong Show to its lineup of rebooted game and variety shows, and Jeff Drake joins us as we get out our scorecards to rate the results. Around The Dial clicks to Better Call Saul, Fargo, and 30 For 30, and includes an update on The Previouslies, our upcoming TV awards. Jeff makes the case for the induction of the Barney Miller episode "Hash" to The Canon, and after a creepier-than-usual Loser (and Winner), it's on to a savage Game Time. Peel a banana and listen in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎭 The Gong Show (2017) Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🌨 Fargo Around The Dial: 🏅 30 For 30 The Canon: 🚨 Barney Miller Winner & Loser: 👍 Bill Cosby's defense attorney Winner & Loser: 👎 Megyn Kelly Today Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones Game Time: 🧠 Ibex Moose Duck Bumblebee NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 160 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Eve returns to the guest chair to discuss whether TNT can finally Claws its way into the prestige-TV discussion with a dramedy about a nail salon's dirty bidness. We went around the dial with OITNB, The Handmaid's Tale, stupid Bravo tricks, and iZombie before muttering "the horror, the horror" at a Simpsons Canon presentation. Alison Brie won, Bachelor In Paradise lost (big-time, probably forever), and Game Time proved monotony can be fun. You'll be gellin' like a felon with an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 💅 Claws None: 🌃 Saturday Night Live First-time hosts we'd like to see Around The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🏖 Invite Only Cabo Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean Around The Dial: 🩳 Orange Is The New Black The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🎥 Entourage Alison Brie Around The Dial: 👙 Bachelor In Paradise Game Time: 🧠 Monotone Readings Of Theme Song Lyrics: The Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 159 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

As I'm Dying Up Here, the series adaptation of a non-fiction book, premieres on Showtime, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about its portrayal of the L.A. comedy scene in the '70s (and precisely how awful its opening credits sequence actually is). Around the dial stops at The Leftovers, Fear The Walking Dead, Amazon's documentary Long Strange Trip, and a retro surprise from Dave. Omar makes the case for us to induct the Ren & Stimpy episode "Space Madness"/"The Boy Who Cried Rat" into the Canon; and then after a discussion of the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might really make you sick. Get ready to shell out for the two-drink minimum and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎙 I'm Dying Up Here Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Fear The Walking Dead Around The Dial: 💊 Long Strange Trip Around The Dial: 👀 Exploration shows The Canon: 😸 The Ren & Stimpy Show Winner & Loser: 👍 Kathy Griffin Winner & Loser: 👎 Real Time With Bill Maher Game Time: 🧠 WebMDTV NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 158 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

First-time guest Roger Cormier joins the panel to talk about House Of Cards's fifth season, and whether real-life crazer news cycles have made the Underwoods' nutty machinations suffer by comparison. We discussed whether Dave will hate History's upcoming UFO drama Blue Book, then went around the dial with Drag Race, The Americans, Animal Kingdom, and American Gods, and considered The X-Files's "The Field Where I Died" (...of boredom) for The Nonac. The Big Bang Theory won, a very big human lost, and we put on our best announcer voices to pair off presenters in this week's Game Time. Filibuster your commute with an all-new Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: ♠️ House Of Cards Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Project Blue Book Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🙏 American Gods The Nonac: 🛸 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👍 The Big Bang Theory Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones Thor Bjornsson Game Time: 🧠 Bruce Vilanch, Eat Your Heart Out NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 157 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Roger Cormier on Twitter

John Ramos joins us to talk about the third season! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Around The Dial: 💃 Dirty Dancing (2017) Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Three Girls Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return The Canon: 🤯 Fringe Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Vanessa Bayer, Bobby Moynihan Winner & Loser: 👎 Alex Rodriguez Game Time: 🧠 TV Pilot Announcements NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 156 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🐟 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

New guest and certified Canadian Alex Collins sits with the panel for a discussion of Netflix's "gritty" take on Canadian kiddie-lit classic Anne Of Green Gables, and how it fares compared with the Megan Follows classic of yesteryear. We went around the dial with The Mick, a documentary about anxiety, a daytime courtroom show (spoiler: Dave WILL hate this), and Downward Dog's fleas before we came to bury Nate, not to praise him during Alex's Six Feet Under Canon submission. Jessica St. Clair won, the Deadwood movie lost (some more), and Game Time made a (series) run for it as we tried to guess which shows had more episodes. Put a doily on your head and enjoy a brand-new episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👩‍🦰 Anne With An E Around The Dial: 🐶 Downward Dog Around The Dial: 🍺 The Mick Around The Dial: 💊 It's "Just" Anxiety Around The Dial: ⚖️ Judge Hatchett Around The Dial: 🤑 Ads The Canon: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 Jessica St. Clair Winner & Loser: 👎 Deadwood Powers Boothe Game Time: 🧠 More Episodes! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 155 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Alex Collins on Twitter