Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions submitted by listeners like you, grading them on an appropriately jazzy scale: Rusty Gate The Question Is Zoot Smooth Poison Atonal Omens Of Pain Scat Man Down Barrelhouse Of Horror Boogie Woogie Influenza Slaughterhouse Jive Hateful Freeform Jazz Infernal Tootling The results may...really distress you. (Trigger alert: jazz.) Sarah and The Blotter's apprentice investigator Olivia bring us a City Confidential episode about a murdered jazz musician to determine whether it is worse than jazz. Then Around The Dial stops at Married At First Sight, Netflix's Last Chance U, and another topic-appropriate vintage ad unearthed by Dave. We debate whether Everwood's Season 1 finale 'Home' deserves a spot in the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a non-regulation Game Time that smells a bit...rank. Limber up your trumpeting lips and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎷 Is This Worse Than Jazz? The Blotter Presents: 🔪 City Confidential Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤠 The Sixth Gun The Canon: 🏔 Everwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra Messing Game Time: 🧠 This Smells Rank NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 125 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Trek Week continues on Previously.TV with an all-new Extra Hot Great featuring Maureen "Mo" Ryan and the Star Trek Fantasy Draft! David Snyder kindly shepherded this EHG enterprise (geddit?!) through the lesser science officers, 90210 Borg Queens, and Count Bakula picks the draft entailed. Who will emerge victorious with the very best Trek team*? Stay tuned! But first, go Around The Dial with us for Full Frontal, UnREAL, the Looking movie, Superstore, and a Stranger Squirrel Girl, then see if Mo's Deep Space 9 pick entered the Canon wormhole. Rita Ora won, bloodsuckers lost, and nobody contested a winner-take-all political Game Time. Make some SPAAAAAAAACE!! on your iPod, then listen long and prosper! TOPICS Lead Topic: 💫 Star Trek Fantasy Draft Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌁 Looking Looking: The Movie Around The Dial: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🐿 Squirrel Girl The Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 Rita Ora Winner & Loser: 👎 The Vampire Diaries Game Time: 🧠 The EHG Convention NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 124 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter

As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around The Dial spins to the series premiere of HBO's Vice Principals, TNT's Animal Kingdom, last week's Emmy nominations, the pleasingly scaled-back Intervention, and Netflix's throwback suspense series Stranger Things. Tara offers up the Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we move on to a Game Time about humble beginnings. Log on and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤖 Mr. Robot Around The Dial: 🚌 Vice Principals Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🏆 The Emmys Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things The Canon: 🌲 Gravity Falls Winner & Loser: 👍 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Kim Kardashian Winner & Loser: 👎 Scott Baio Game Time: 🧠 Before They Were Famous NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 123 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Criminal Justice remake The Night Of bowed on HBO this week, and Al Lowe Huff is back to discuss the show, the original, and the importance of casting. The History Channel wondered if DB Cooper's case is Closed? before Tara Flipped Out, Allison joined the Odd Squad, Joe was Shown A Hero, and Sarah went on The Hunt while Dave got tired of being Preached to. Ron pitched Deadwood's second season premiere for the fucking Canon; Carrie Coon won and Roger Ailes lost; and Rob Hartmann bent our minds with another timely Game Time. It's time to open a file on an all-new Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🌃 The Night Of The Blotter Presents: 🔪 D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? Around The Dial: 🔨 Flipping Out Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ Odd Squad Around The Dial: 🗳 Show Me A Hero Around The Dial: 🐻 The Hunt Around The Dial: 🙏 Preacher The Canon: ⛏ Deadwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Fargo Carrie Coon Winner & Loser: 👎 Roger Ailes Game Time: 🧠 More Chicken, More Egg NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 122 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Remember how much you loved Cameron Crowe circa Almost Famous? Showtime must hope you do, because it's airing his new dramedy series about roadies on a rock tour; designated Rock Cop Jeff Drake joins us to talk about where it went right, and wrong. Around The Dial stops at The Jim Gaffigan Show, Game Of Thrones's Season 6 finale, ABC's rebooted Match Game, and Below Deck Mediterranean. Listener Laura submits the Parenthood episode "Just Go Home" for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and wrap things up with a very animated Game Time. Grab your laminate and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎸 Roadies Around The Dial: 🧔‍♂️ The Jim Gaffigan Show Around The Dial: 🪶 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📺 Match Game Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parenthood Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Winner & Loser: 👎 Vinyl Game Time: 🧠 Let's Go Grape Ape NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 121 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Orange Is The New Black Season 4 dropped over the weekend, and Monty joined the panel to talk pacing, mental illness, casting churn, and dark turns. We went around the dial with The Girlfriend Experience, a Skin Wars spinoff ("skin-off"?), Samantha Bee, OJ, and series that should know when to end before they start. After we got juiced with a Bob's Burgers Canon submission, Younger won, a Game Of Thrones bastard (and viewers) lost, and hilariously passionate user reviews dictated Game Time. Get on the corrections bus for an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🚨 Orange Is The New Black Around The Dial: 💋 The Girlfriend Experience Around The Dial: 💄 Skin Wars: Fresh Paint Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Orphan Black The Canon: 🍔 Bob's Burgers Winner & Loser: 👍 Younger Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Now Game Time: 🧠 Everyone's A Critic NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 120 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

Just when you thought you were O.J.ed out after American Crime Story, ESPN presents O.J.: Made In America, and we bring true crime aficionada Stephanie Green back to talk about the first episode! Around The Dial spins through Veep, The Real Housewives Of Orange County, the Tony Awards, Cop Rock, and another very culturally sensitive ad of yesteryear. Stephanie makes her case for the Happy Endings episode "The Shershow Redemption" to be inducted into The Canon, and then after crowning the week's Winner and Loser, Game Time takes us somewhere no one can year you scream. Get your podcast ready for the run of its life! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Veep Around The Dial: 🍊 Real Housewives Of Orange County Around The Dial: 🎭 The Tony Awards Around The Dial: 🚨 Cop Rock The Canon: 😃 Happy Endings Winner & Loser: 👍 Nashville Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Sports, Emily Austen Game Time: 🧠 SPAAAAAACE! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 119 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter

UnREAL is back for Season 2, and so is our esteemed colleague John Ramos, who joins the panel for a discussion of Hollywood truisms, miscasting, and whether the show is using Craig Bierko correctly. We went around the dial with Angie Tribeca, The Challenge, RHONYC, comics we had TV hopes for (now dashed), and the "high"lights of 1991 TV, before John brought an episode of Humans (heard of 'em?) to the Canon and we played a Nick Rheinwald-Jones Hot Potato Game Time. Who's more of a winner: The Bachelorette's Chad or Prison Break's Dominic? Is Niska our spirit animal? And will non-carnal wifeys Tara and Sarah be getting matching wristtoos? Buy into the fairy tale on an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Archer Around The Dial: 🌄 Twin Peaks Around The Dial: 🗽 The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: ✉️ Letter 44 Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans The Canon: 🤖 Humans Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelorette Winner & Loser: 👎 Prison Break Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 118 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

Eve Batey returns, but will it be to worship AMC's new drama Preacher, or to condemn it to Hell? TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Preacher The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Missing: Dial Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🎶 Empire Around The Dial: 🩺 Grey's Anatomy Around The Dial: 🚨 60 Days In The Canon: 🏥 ER Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Nev Schulman Winner & Loser: 👎 Damien Game Time: 🧠 Rhymes With Shonda NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 117 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

As the "regular season" wraps up -- is that even a thing anymore? -- the gang plus Kim looks ahead to the new crop of shows, old favorites, and what we can't wait to watch...or boot off the season-pass list. Catfish, The Americans, Survivor, Scandal, and the now-weekly plug for Happy Valley took us Around The Dial before we got Lost in Kim's bold Canon submission, and declared the colonies and America our winner and loser. But who won Joe Reid's yodelicious Game Time? Where are we, really? You'll have to listen to find out, Freckles: it's an all-new SPF 50 Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Preview Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: 🏝 Survivor Around The Dial: 🔪 Scandal Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley The Canon: ✈️ Lost Winner & Loser: 👍 Sleepy HollowTurn Winner & Loser: 👎 The Night Manager Game Time: 🧠 Mountain Climber NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 116 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter