Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Mark Blankenship brings his charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to a discussion of Ru's latest girls. TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Wife Around The Dial: 🏨 The Night Manager Around The Dial: 🛩 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 👯‍♀️ Broad City Winner & Loser: 👍 Feud Winner & Loser: 👎 Dateline Game Time: 🧠 Oscar Winner TV Dinner NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 115 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

As Game Of Thrones returns from hiatus, and moves beyond the books, the gang plus Jeff and Nick talked about Jon Snow, Crone Castle, and what's next for the Starks. We went around the dial with Better Call Saul, Valleys Silicon and Happy, Houdini & Doyle, Project Runway All-Stars, and the National Enquirer before putting Angie's 30 Rock Canon submission under a "Black Light." Humans? Heard of 'em (they're winners), whoever has to retitle Live With Someone and Maybe Kelly is a loser, and Rib Hurtmann changed a few things in this week's Game Time. Don't lose us in the tall grass; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪶 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley Around The Dial: 🪄 Houdini & Doyle Around The Dial: 🖥 Silicon Valley Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway All Stars The Canon: 📺 30 Rock Winner & Loser: 👍 Humans Winner & Loser: 👎 Live With Michael And Kelly Game Time: 🧠 TV Typos NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 114 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast

TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Game TIME TO DIE Around The Dial: ⚖️ Confirmation Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍👨 The Outs Around The Dial: 🚔 60 Days In The Canon: 🍷 Brothers & Sisters Winner & Loser: 👍 Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce Winner & Loser: 👎 Horace And Pete Game Time: 🧠 Catch The Here's Butt NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 113 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

Sarah D. Bunting is back from baseballing, and Stephanie Cangro is back to discuss the final season of American Idol, the Idol farewell, and what it all meant to us as a culture. Liv and a sugar high told us about Face Off and My Little Pony, and we went around the dial with Togetherness, true crime, dance shows, try-hards, and a creepy deodorant ad. Was Stephanie's I Love Lucy Canon TOO classic? Should Martin Sheen consider shutting up? And why did Sarah get Rickie Vasquez and a Nats catcher mixed up? Don't wait until after an ad break to find out with an all-new, unpitchy Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 American Idol None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Togetherness Around The Dial: 🔪 The Case Of JonBenet Ramsey Around The Dial: 💃 So You Think You Can Dance Around The Dial: 🏈 American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson The Canon: 💝 I Love Lucy Winner & Loser: 👍 Greek Winner & Loser: 👎 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence Game Time: 🧠 Two For The Price Of One NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 112 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Cangro on Twitter

New guest Daniel MacEachern and returning champion Omar Gallaga join us to talk about an apocalyptic cliffhanger! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🥃 Horace And Pete Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Scandal Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl The Canon: 📹 The Newsroom (Canada) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Blacklist Famke Janssen Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Sterling K. Brown, Cuba Gooding Jr. Game Time: 🧠 Unsung Themes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 111 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

After David T. Cole died, then came back to life as befitting the Easter weekend, Jeff Alexander sat down with the gang to discuss the second season of Daredevil, Joe's issues with Jon Bernthal, why a character based IN NEW YORK CITY can't just be Irish already, and whether any of us will be back for S3. After Liv's candy high took us through Face Off and Buntsy thumbs-upped the original Helter Skelter TV movie, we checked in with Married At First Sight: The First Year, Untucked, the Flash/Supergirl crossover, and The Real O'Neals. The Tick was a winner, the world's first supermodel was a loser, and Tom & Dick & Harry & Jane & Kate & Mary inspired a hotly-contested Game Time -- or, as Sarah's cold would have it, "Gabe Tibe." (Sorry about that, guys.) Did Jeff's mid-Office submission "win" admission to the Nonac? Does Foggy need a haircut? The answers to all these questions, plus something about a bear attack, in an all-new extra-crunchy Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕶 Daredevil None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Helter Skelter Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ⚡️ SupergirlThe Flash Around The Dial: 🏳️‍🌈 The Real O'Neals Around The Dial: 💋 Untucked The Canon: 📑 The Office (US) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Tick (2016) Peter Serafinowicz Winner & Loser: 👎 Janice Dickinson Game Time: 🧠 Tom, Dick, Or Harry; Jane, Kate, Or Mary? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 110 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Alexander on Twitter 🖥 Joe on Decider 🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans. We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off, and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains, Not Safe With Nikki Glaser, the pre-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch, and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick makes the case for the induction of the "4 Days Out" episode of Breaking Bad to the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a starchy Game Time. Go dark (to the rest of the world) and enjoy! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans None: 💄 Face Off Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 House Of Cards The Jazz In The Jazz Club Around The Dial: 👑 Royal Pains Around The Dial: 🦺 Not Safe With Nikki Glaser Around The Dial: 🚨 Bosch The Canon: 🧪 Breaking Bad Winner & Loser: 👍 Game Of Thrones Amy Ryan, Nicole Holofcener, Ian McShane Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends Unauthorized Musical NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 109 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter 🎶 Rachel Bloom on YouTube 🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

House Of Cards dropped its fourth filibuster last Friday, and our esteemed colleague Kim Reed joined the gang to discuss how Frank Underwood and Scandal's Fitz stack up, plus constitutional procedure, hateful heroes, and a listener's possibly crackpot theory that all sitcoms should end after three seasons. We went around the dial with the end of Downton, new Broad City, Intervention, and Late Night With Seth Meyers, and Joe Reid pitched us an all-star Survivor for the Canon. Nancy Drew won, wigs lost, and a cliffhanger-based Game Time had a shocking outcome! ...Probably! Before you shove your TV in front of a train, have a listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 House Of Cards I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Sitcoms Should Be Limited To 3 Seasons None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🎩 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth Meyers Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Broad City Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention The Canon: 🌴 Survivor Winner & Loser: 👍 Nancy Drew Sarah Shahi Winner & Loser: 👎 House Of CardsThe Good Wife Wigs Game Time: 🧠 Cliffhangers NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 108 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 🖥 Joe on Decider

Max defender and periodically ashamed Michigander Stephanie Green returns to talk about the ménage à trois that was the Season 5 premiere of Catfish and whether there's even a point to it anymore (...if ever). Liv takes us through the stages of the latest Gauntlet challenge in her Face Off report; Sarah takes us through American Tragedy, ABC's 2000 miniseries on the O.J. Simpson trial, for The Blotter Presents. Tara and Sarah consider the forthcoming Biblical miniseries Of Kings And Prophets and ask: Will Dave Hate This? Around The Dial stops at Togetherness, Fit To Fat To Fit, Married By Mom And Dad, Love, The Biggest Loser, and The X-Files before Dave In Chicago makes his pitch for That '70s Show's "That '70s Musical" to be inducted into the Nonac. Tara and Joe identify the week's Winner and Loser, and then it's on to a Game Time set in Sarah's very favourite place. Turn off the ringer on your burner phone and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎣 Catfish None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 American Tragedy Will Dave Hate This?: 👑 Of Kings And Prophets Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Togetherness Around The Dial: 🏋️‍♀️ Fit To Fat To Fit Around The Dial: 💍 Married By Mom And Dad Around The Dial: 💞 Love Around The Dial: ⚖️ The Biggest Loser Around The Dial: 🛸 The X-Files The Nonac: 💨 That '70s Show Winner & Loser: 👍 America's Next Top Model Winner & Loser: 👎 American Idol Game Time: 🧠 Spaaaaaaaaace! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 107 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter 🖥 Joe on Decider

The first round of the Extra Hot Great Listener Game Time concludes with the Son Of The Game That Rhymes from Rob Hartmann. Who's the last one to advance to the Hallowed Hall Of Champions round? Find out! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Son Of The Game That Rhymes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 106 page on ExtraHotGreat.com