

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Feb 15, 2016 โข 1h 54min
105: Ringing In A New Season Of Better Call Saul
Better Call Saul returns for its second season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about that, plus how much he hates Vinyl and which S2 Fargo should go into the Canon. Liv learned about parasites on Face Off, Sarah talked about American Crime Story's foundation book, and we went around the dial with SNL, The Good Wife, Alyssa Milano's wardrobe issues, and Teresa Giudice's parole tour before Bill Cosby "won" and Michael Skupin lost. Was Game Time Anything? How many times did someone yell "SPAAAAAACE!!"? Only one way to find out: listen to this mint-condition no-creases Extra Hot Great.
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ผ Better Call Saul
None: ๐ Face Off
The Blotter Presents: ๐ช Jeffrey Toobin's The Run Of His Life
Around The Dial: ๐ฉโโ๏ธ The Good Wife
Around The Dial: ๐ธ Vinyl
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ Saturday Night Live
Around The Dial: ๐ชก Project Runway All Stars
The Canon: ๐ Fargo
Winner & Loser: ๐ Bill Cosby
Winner & Loser: ๐ Survivor Michael Skupin
Game Time: ๐ง Is This Anything?: EHG Assist Edition
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 105 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Jeff Drake on Twitter

Feb 8, 2016 โข 54min
104: A Little Taste
Game experts and EHG contributors Trip Payne, David Ellis Dickerson and Rob Hartmann join Dave and Tara for a TV show theme quiz. Oh, the clips are only one and three seconds long. So there's that.
TOPICS
Game Time: ๐ง A Little Taste
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 104 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Feb 1, 2016 โข 2h 5min
103: The People Vs. The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
The old TWoP bullpen is reunited as Pop Culture Happy Hour's own Linda Holmes joins us for a discussion of American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy's dramatization of (this season) the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Where will your panelists fall on the matter of John Travolta and his Robert Shapiro eyebrows?! After Liv's latest report on Face Off, Around The Dial stops at Jane The Virgin, Rehab Addict, Hollywood Game Night, Drunk History, Ken Burns's Prohibition, and an ad from the '80s that maybe should have stayed there. Linda makes her (couch-)explosive case for the induction of the "Honeymoon In Metropolis" episode of Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman into the Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, Game Time revisits the age-old question Is This Anything? Pull on your gloves and your Bruno Magli shoes and listen up!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson
None: ๐ Face Off
Around The Dial: ๐ด Jane The Virgin
Around The Dial: ๐จ Rehab Addict
Around The Dial: โจ Hollywood Game Night
Around The Dial: ๐ฅด Drunk HistoryKen Burns's Prohibition
The Canon: ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman
Winner & Loser: ๐ American Horror Story: Hotel Slenderman
Winner & Loser: ๐ Danielle Staub
Game Time: ๐ง Is This Anything?: Competitive Edition
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 103 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Linda Holmes on Twitter
๐ด Again With This
๐ Hollywood Handbook
๐ธ Pop Culture Happy Hour

Jan 25, 2016 โข 1h 53min
102: The X-Files Returns, And We Want To Believe
As The X-Files gets back on the case, so does our esteemed colleague Eve Batey -- does the show improve after the premiere? What's with the cast not aging? And who greenlighted those super-gross SFX? After Liv (and Ellie) took us through Face Off, The Blotter recommended American Experience's crimey new season, and we went around the dial with Blackish, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Pablo Escobar, enraging insurance ads, and Andre Braugher -- who popped up again in Eve's Canon nom, Homicide: LOTS's "Subway" ep. UNReal won, Second Chance lost, and the Game Time season hung in the balance as the panel Venn-diagrammed actors. Give us a listen while you're hitchhiking to meet your Deep Throat; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ธ The X-Files
The Blotter Presents: ๐ช American Experience
None: ๐ Face Off
Around The Dial: ๐ค Black-ish
Around The Dial: ๐คช Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Around The Dial: ๐บ Liberty Mutual ads
Around The Dial: ๐จ๐ด Narcos
Around The Dial: ๐จ Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Canon: ๐ Homicide: Life On The Street
Winner & Loser: ๐ UnREAL Breeda Wool
Winner & Loser: ๐ The Golden Globes "John Hamm"
Game Time: ๐ง Haven't We Met Before?
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 102 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ Eve Batey on Twitter
๐ SFist.com
๐ฅ Joe at Decider.com
๐ธ Pop Culture Happy Hour
๐ด Again With This

Jan 18, 2016 โข 2h 12min
101: Legends Of Tomorrow...Today!
Our designated Legends Of Tomorrow correspondent John Ramos joins us to bend the very laws of time itself and discuss the series premiere of The CW's Legends Of Tomorrow DAYS before it actually premieres! Also returning? Liv Kwan, our seven-year-old Face Off reporter, with a report on the season premiere. Around The Dial stops at Mercy Street, The Laramie Project, the mytharc episodes of The X-Files, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Second Chance (...but really Almost Human). Erin presents the Mad Men episode "Shut The Door. Have A Seat." to the Canon, and after pausing to identify the week's Winner and Loser, Rob Hartman challenges us with a Game Time straight from the barnyard. If you don't listen now, you'll have regrets in the future! TIME TRAVEL!!!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฆธโโ๏ธ Legends Of Tomorrow
None: ๐ Face Off
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Mercy Street
Around The Dial: ๐ญ The Laramie Project
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ The X-Files
Around The Dial: ๐จ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Around The Dial: ๐ฅผ Second Chance
Around The Dial: ๐ค Almost Human
The Canon: ๐ผ Mad Men
Winner & Loser: ๐ฅ Jessica Jones
Winner & Loser: ๐ช Making A Murderer
Game Time: ๐ Chicken And Egg
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 101 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ฆ John Ramos on Twitter

Jan 11, 2016 โข 1h 35min
100: The Final Count-Downton
Downton Abbey is back for one last spin around the foxhunting course...or something, and Nick's back to discuss the wedding, ageless Daisy, and what will become of Thomas and Lady f'ing Edith. We celebrated a Tiny Triumph, welcomed Smooth Joey Apollo to talk Golden Globes, joined The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth, and went around the dial with Angie Tribeca, Sherlock, American Crime (NOT American Crime Story or, um, Crime Story), Hoarders, and Pickle & Peanut before declaring an unlikely winner and a tardy loser. Will Game Time coin a new phrase? Did Flight Of The Conchords come in for a smooth Canon landing? How many times did we scream "SPAAAACE"? Don't make us blackmail you into listening to an all-new EHG.
GUESTS
๐ค Nick Rheinwald-Jones
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฉ Downton Abbey
Around The Dial: ๐ก The Golden Globes
The Blotter Presents: ๐ซ The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth
Around The Dial: ๐ฎ๐ป Angie Tribeca
Around The Dial: ๐ Sherlock
Around The Dial: ๐บ๐ธ American Crime
Around The Dial: ๐ Hoarders
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Pickle & Peanut
Tiny Triumph: ๐ฅณ In The Guardian
The Canon: ๐ธ Flight Of The Conchords S01.E10: New Fans
Winner & Loser: ๐ Aaron Sorkin
Winner & Loser: ๐ George R.R. Martin
Game Time: ๐ฌ Perfectly Cromulent Words
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 100 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Jan 5, 2016 โข 1h 60min
99: The Bachelor Turns Things Over To Gentle Ben
It's a new year, which means it's time for a new Bachelor, and we've brought our Bachelor correspondent Stephanie Green back to the podcast to discuss the Season 20 premiere (AND TWINNNNNNNS!). We also update you on the most popular team of the Law & Order draft, and return to the topic of Netflix's Making A Murderer to discuss whether it's worse than jazz (uh, in the sense, this time, of more infuriating and upsetting, of course). Around The Dial makes stops at Call The Midwife, Last Tango In Halifax, The Art Of More, and the forthcoming Lucifer. Joe dials in to present his case for inducting Enlightened's "Consider Helen" into the Canon. Finally, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we dig into a Game Time everyone's dying to play. Grab a glass or twelve of champagne and join us!
GUESTS
๐ค Stephanie Green
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐คตโโ๏ธ The Bachelor
Is This Worse Than Jazz?: ๐ท Making A Murderer
The Blotter Presents: ๐จ I Made A List
Around The Dial: ๐ฉ๐ผโโ๏ธ Call The Midwife
Around The Dial: ๐ Last Tango In Halifax
Around The Dial: ๐ผ The Art Of More
Around The Dial: ๐น Lucifer
The Canon: ๐งโโ๏ธ Enlightened S01.E09: Consider Helen
Winner & Loser: ๐ Jane Lynch
Winner & Loser: ๐ Bill Cosby
Game Time: ๐งพ That Eulogy Better Not Show Up On The Bill
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 099 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 14, 2015 โข 2h 2min
98: That Championship Season: The Law & Order Fantasy Draft
Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall kindly subjected himself to our very first Extra Hot Great franchise draft as we all picked from our favorite detectives, ADAs, MEs, and baddies to form Law & Order-verse superteams. Who emerged victorious? That's up to you, and you'll have to listen to know what we mean! After Sarah recommended Netflix's inconveniently timed but still solid Making A Murderer, we went Around The Dial with the Fargo finale, iZombie, 30 For 30, the Globe noms, and a vintage Star Wars ad. Someone's agent won, Eli Gold lost, and we were family for the last Game Time of 2015. Thanks for making it a great year, listeners! Insert your own "should auld acquaintance be my first ex-wife" joke here, and enjoy backseat general-managing another episode of Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค Alan Sepinwall
TOPICS
Lead Topic: โ๏ธ Law & Order Fantasy Draft
Around The Dial: ๐งโโ๏ธ iZombie
Around The Dial: ๐ชต Fargo
Around The Dial: ๐ก The Golden Globes
Around The Dial: ๐ 30 For 30
The Blotter Presents: ๐ช Making A Murderer
The Canon: ๐งช Breaking Bad S05.E14: Ozymandias
Winner & Loser: ๐ Abigail Breslin
Winner & Loser: ๐ Eli Gold
Game Time: ๐ฉโ๐งโ๐ฆ Brother From Another Mothershow
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 098 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Dec 7, 2015 โข 1h 60min
97: Heading Into The Lyons' Den For Empire
Empire has taken its final bow (before coming back in like a Lyon next March), so we've invited Empire correspondents Eve Batey and Mark Blankenship back to tell us what they thought of the season to date. For The Blotter Presents..., Sarah tells us about Investigation Discovery's Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals. Joe shares a recent Tiny Triumph. Around The Dial stops at American Horror Story, The Wiz Live!, The Great Pottery Throw Down, Transparent, Homeland, the Dolly Parton TV movie Coat Of Many Colors, and Fargo, and then Mark presents the series finale of Six Feet Under, "Everyone's Waiting," for submission into The Canon. We crown the week's Winner and Loser, and then Rob Hartmann tests us with his latest Game Time! Hop on your hoverboard and listen!
GUESTS
๐ค Eve Batey
๐ค Mark Blankenship
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฟ Empire
Around The Dial: ๐จ American Horror Story: Hotel
Around The Dial: ๐งโโ๏ธ The Wiz: Live!
Around The Dial: ๐บ The Great Pottery Throw Down
Around The Dial: ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Transparent
Around The Dial: ๐ฝ Homeland
Around The Dial: ๐งฅ Coat Of Many Colours
Around The Dial: ๐ชต Fargo
The Canon: ๐ชฆ Six Feet Under S05.E12: Everybody's Waiting
Winner & Loser: ๐ Sarah Paulson
Winner & Loser: ๐ Ramsay Bolton
Game Time: ๐ค Name Game
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 097 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Nov 23, 2015 โข 1h 25min
96: The Marvel-ous Jessica Jones
Let's get this Joe on the road: with Reid off for the week, we asked esteemed colleagues John and Nick to join us for a discussion of Netflix's Jessica Jones, whether it works as a Veronica McNulty PI show of its own, and who Wil Traval reminds us of. The Blotter Presents scratched your Panettiere itch with an Amanda Knox movie before we went around the dial with bullshit dream-sequisodes, Britcoms, How To Get Away With Murder, nutty Thanksgiving Day programming, and Dave's suggestion for the next TV/comics adaptation. Nick and John tag-teamed a heisty half hour of Brooklyn Nine-Nine for their Canon presentation, and we deemed a couple of farewells Winner and Loser before Tara rolled out a very learned non-regulation Game Time. From all of us Agents Of E.H.G., we're thankful you're listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
๐ค John Ramos
๐ค Nick Rheinwald-Jones
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ฅ Jessica Jones
The Blotter Presents: ๐ Amanda Knox
Around The Dial: ๐ซฅ The Leftovers
Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Catastrophe
Around The Dial: ๐ช The Comeback Kid
Around The Dial: ๐ฆ Thanksgiving TV
The Canon: ๐ป Brooklyn Nine-Nine S02.E04: Halloween II
Winner & Loser: ๐ Gravity Falls
Winner & Loser: ๐ Tyra Banks
Game Time: ๐ TV Is My Friend Who Reads Books To Me That Do Not Exist
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 096 page on ExtraHotGreat.com