Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Eve Batey returns for a comprehensive look at crime TV past and present: Brooklyn 99, The Jinx, foreign-language series, trashy ID shows and even COPS. We went Around The Dial with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rectify, American Horror Story, and an apology for covering a certain business-reality program. Rosie was the winner, SVU was the loser, Tara tried to smoke out our votes with a High Maintenance Canon pitch, and we all played poet in an IMDb-keyword-haiku Game Time on an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔪 Crime Show roundup Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 🍬 Sweet/Vicious Around The Dial: 📹 American Horror Story: Roanoke Around The Dial: 🚨 Rectify The Canon: 🚬 High Maintenance Winner & Loser: 👍 SMILF Rosie O'Donnell Winner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 Plot Keyword Haiku NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 135 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives! The Blotter Presents a brief (and dismissive) look at Lifetime's scripted movie Who Killed JonBenét?. Around The Dial stops at Ancient Aliens, Planet Earth II, The Crown, and People Of Earth! Omar presents the BoJack Horseman episode "Fish Out Of Water" for submission to The Canon, and then after we address the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's in a family way. Set aside 90 minutes (and then...some more time after that) and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌃 Saturday Night Live The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Who Killed JonBenét Around The Dial: 👽 Ancient Aliens Around The Dial: 🌎 Planet Earth II Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 The Crown Around The Dial: 🛸 People Of Earth The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Winner & Loser: 👍 Major League Baseball Winner & Loser: 👎 Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons Bill Simmons Game Time: 🧠 Showbiz Moms And Dads NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 134 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror, from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and everything in between. Buntsy updated us on future true-crime programming before we went Around The Dial with Jane The Virgin, Halloween on TV, Bull, superheroes, startups, and Negan. Everybody wants something, and Danny wouldn't give up on his Degrassi Junior High Canon submission, plus Nev Schulman actually picked out a half-decent kid name and Sarah's sure NBC's going to lace its Sneakers up wrong. What's the best use of a drone on TV? Why didn't Dave cry at "San Junipero"? And what kind of greasy kid stuff did we get up to in Game Time? Enter the Extra Hot Greatrix with an all-new episode and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Murder In The Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Supergirl Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway: Fashion Startup Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead The Canon: 🇨🇦 Degrassi Junior High Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Winner & Loser: 👎 Sneakers Game Time: 🧠 Kids Stuff NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 133 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything? Supertroll Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk Luke Cage, from the acting to the soundtrack to whether the 13-episode season felt like (or should have been) two shorter seasons. After a debate about whether David T. Cole will hate the distaff Magnum, PI and a Blotter review of Netflicumentary Amanda Knox, we went Around The Dial with Pitch, Timeless, Westworld (heard of it), and a Rachael Ray-meets-Look Around You web series from Australia before Nick hummed a few bars of Garfunkel & Oates for the Canon. A bunch of fall series won, Dr. Phil and Steven Avery lost, and Game Time tried to get between us and our Calvins. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🗽 Luke Cage Will Dave Hate This?: 🕵️‍♀️ Magnum P.I. (2018) The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Amanda Knox Around The Dial: 🤠 Westworld Around The Dial: ⏳ Timeless Around The Dial: 🌬 Easy Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch The Canon: 🎶 Garfunkel & Oates Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Phil Game Time: 🧠 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Men World NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 131 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

It's the pumpkin-spice latte of autumnal programming overviews! ...Unless you hate those. Eve Batey's back to look at the best, worst, and meh-est of new and returning shows. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍂 Fall 2016 Preview The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenet Ramsey JonBenet Ramsey Tiny Triumph: 🍑 Narcos Pedro Pascal RTs Tara's piece on him The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Game Time: 🧠 We're Number 2! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 130 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 🚨 "Narcos Faces Law & Order: SVU In The Battle Of The Crime-Fighting Crushes" on Previously.TV 🐦 Pedro Pascal's RT

With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Blotter Presents a true crime twofer: Sarah's assessment of the latest in JonBenét Ramsey investigations, and a survey of coverage on East Tennessee catfisher Jenelle Potter! Around The Dial stops at Son Of Zorn, the Creative Arts Emmys, an update on how Sarah liked Better Things, and Narcos. Mark makes the case for The Real World's Season 1 episode "Julie In A Homeless Shelter?" to be inducted into the Canon, and then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we get into a Game Time that's double trouble. Zip up your ball gown and listen in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenét Ramsey Around The Dial: 💪 Son Of Zorn Around The Dial: 👧 Girls Peter Scolari's Emmy win Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos The Canon: 📹 The Real World Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO; Jim Jones Winner & Loser: 👎 Miss America pageant Game Time: 🧠 My Single My Single Is Dropping Is Dropping NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 129 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorkiniest moments, and the stuff that hasn't aged well (paging, um, all those pagers in the premiere). The Blotter Presents watched Marg Helgenberger chow the scenery in a vintage JonBenét TV movie, and we went around the dial with new FX sitcoms, Lethal Weapon, The Night Of, and British teen coming-of-age story My Mad Fat Diary before Sarah H. held her nose and submitted Friday Night Lights's second-season premiere for the Nonac. Empire won, Dr. Drew lost, and tag we were all it for a very close Game Time. How does a bill become an "aw, man"? Find out on an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The West Wing The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 📔 My Mad Fat Diary Around The Dial: 🌃 The Night Of Around The Dial: 🚨 Lethal Weapon The Nonac: 🏈 Friday Night Lights Winner & Loser: 👍 Empire Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Drew On Call Game Time: 🧠 Taglines NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 128 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Sarah Hope on Twitter

As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's new true crime docuseries Unlocking The Truth, and then we go Around The Dial with stops at Key & Peele, British Premier League soccer on NBC, Ripper Street, and an appropriate vintage Vic-20 ad. Phil presents the Simpsons episode "Last Exit To Springfield" for the Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, we hold our noses through a..."delightful" Game Time. Log in and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unlocking The Truth Around The Dial: 🗝 Key & Peele Around The Dial: ⚽️ British premier league on NBC Around The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Katy Perry Winner & Loser: 👎 The Nightly Show Amy Schumer; Kurt Metzger Game Time: 🧠 The Delightful Dozen NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 127 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Philip Michaels on Twitter 💻 Phil at Tom's Guide 🎧 These Are Their Stories podcast

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well for adults as for kids (lookin' at you, SpongeBob), the most beautifully drawn (and scored) shows, and much more. The Blotter managed to dig up a crime cartoon, and then we went around the dial with human cartoons on Catfish, Seeso's Take My Wife, the finale of The Great British Baking Show (get the PBS app, y'all!), and Occupied. Did Monty get whammied in his Press Your Luck Canon submission? Did a Criminal Minds star lose(r) the plot? And who's at the top of the podium after Game Time? We've got the line on an all-new Extra Hot Great, so check it out. TOPICS Lead Topic: ✍️ Adult Cartoons round-up The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Crime: The Animated Series Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: 💍 Take My Wife Around The Dial: 🎂 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇳🇴 Occupied The Canon: 📺 Press Your Luck Winner & Loser: 👍 Making A Murderer Brendan Dassey Winner & Loser: 👎 Criminal Minds Thomas Gibson Game Time: 🧠 Gold, Silver, Bronze NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 126 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter