Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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: 🧠 A Little Taste NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 104 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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: 🏈 American Crime Story The People Vs. O.J. Simpson None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🔨 Rehab Addict Around The Dial: ✨ Hollywood Game Night Around The Dial: 🥴 Drunk HistoryKen Burns's Prohibition The Canon: 🦸‍♂️ Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman Winner & Loser: 👍 American Horror Story: Hotel Slenderman Winner & Loser: 👎 Danielle Staub Game Time: 🧠 Is This Anything?: Competitive Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 103 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter 🌴 Again With This 😎 Hollywood Handbook 🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour

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: 🛸 The X-Files The Blotter Presents: 🔪 American Experience None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🖤 Black-ish Around The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 📺 Liberty Mutual ads Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos Around The Dial: 🚨 Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Canon: 🚊 Homicide: Life On The Street Winner & Loser: 👍 UnREAL Breeda Wool Winner & Loser: 👎 The Golden Globes "John Hamm" Game Time: 🧠 Haven't We Met Before? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 102 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter 🌉 SFist.com 🖥 Joe at Decider.com 🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour 🌴 Again With This

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: 🦸‍♀️ Legends Of Tomorrow None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🏥 Mercy Street Around The Dial: 🎭 The Laramie Project Around The Dial: 👽 The X-Files Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Around The Dial: 🥼 Second Chance Around The Dial: 🤖 Almost Human The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Winner & Loser: 🥃 Jessica Jones Winner & Loser: 🔪 Making A Murderer Game Time: 🐔 Chicken And Egg NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 101 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

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 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎩 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🟡 The Golden Globes The Blotter Presents: 🔫 The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth Around The Dial: 👮🏻 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🔎 Sherlock Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Crime Around The Dial: 🗑 Hoarders Around The Dial: 🥒 Pickle & Peanut Tiny Triumph: 🥳 In The Guardian The Canon: 🎸 Flight Of The Conchords S01.E10: New Fans Winner & Loser: 👍 Aaron Sorkin Winner & Loser: 👎 George R.R. Martin Game Time: 💬 Perfectly Cromulent Words NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 100 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 👤 Stephanie Green TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤵‍♂️ The Bachelor Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 🎷 Making A Murderer The Blotter Presents: 🚨 I Made A List Around The Dial: 👩🏼‍⚕️ Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax Around The Dial: 🖼 The Art Of More Around The Dial: 👹 Lucifer The Canon: 🧘‍♀️ Enlightened S01.E09: Consider Helen Winner & Loser: 👍 Jane Lynch Winner & Loser: 👎 Bill Cosby Game Time: 🧾 That Eulogy Better Not Show Up On The Bill NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 099 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚖️ Law & Order Fantasy Draft Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 🪵 Fargo Around The Dial: 🟡 The Golden Globes Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30 The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Making A Murderer The Canon: 🧪 Breaking Bad S05.E14: Ozymandias Winner & Loser: 👍 Abigail Breslin Winner & Loser: 👎 Eli Gold Game Time: 👩‍👧‍👦 Brother From Another Mothershow NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 098 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 👤 Eve Batey 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 💿 Empire Around The Dial: 🏨 American Horror Story: Hotel Around The Dial: 🧙‍♀️ The Wiz: Live! Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down Around The Dial: 🏳️‍⚧️ Transparent Around The Dial: 🗽 Homeland Around The Dial: 🧥 Coat Of Many Colours Around The Dial: 🪵 Fargo The Canon: 🪦 Six Feet Under S05.E12: Everybody's Waiting Winner & Loser: 👍 Sarah Paulson Winner & Loser: 👎 Ramsay Bolton Game Time: 👤 Name Game NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 097 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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 👤 John Ramos 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Lead Topic: 🥃 Jessica Jones The Blotter Presents: 🍝 Amanda Knox Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers Around The Dial: 💥 Catastrophe Around The Dial: 🪃 The Comeback Kid Around The Dial: 🦃 Thanksgiving TV The Canon: 👻 Brooklyn Nine-Nine S02.E04: Halloween II Winner & Loser: 👍 Gravity Falls Winner & Loser: 👎 Tyra Banks Game Time: 📚 TV Is My Friend Who Reads Books To Me That Do Not Exist NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 096 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Tim Gunn gets another chance at shoring up his fan base with Project Runway: Junior, the shrunk-down version of the fashion competition, and Stephanie Cangro returns to talk about it! Around The Dial stops at Peep Show, London Spy, The Man In The High Castle, How To Get Away With Murder, MasterChef Junior, Into The Badlands, and W/ Bob & David. Stephanie makes her case for the induction to The Canon of the West Wing episode "The Indians In The Lobby." Then after a quick consideration of the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a sequel to one of our most math-intensive Game Times ever. Put away your pinking shears and listen! GUESTS 👤 Stephanie Cangro TOPICS Lead Topic: 🩳 Project Runway Junior Around The Dial: 👀 Peep Show Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ London Spy Around The Dial: 🏰 The Man In The High Castle Around The Dial: 🔪 How To Get Away With Murder Around The Dial: 👩‍🍳 Masterchef Junior Around The Dial: 🤯 Into The Badlands Around The Dial: 🐛 W/ Bob And David The Canon: 🏛 The West Wing S03.E08: The Indians in the Lobby Winner & Loser: 👍 DJ Arch Jnr Winner & Loser: 👎 Rob Lowe Game Time: 🧗‍♀️ Return Of The Mountain Climber NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 095 page on ExtraHotGreat.com