Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

It's about to be a new year, so what better topic could there be for a Thunderdome than...the new? With that in mind, we've assembled a list of 27 TV people with "new," "neu," or "noo" in their names, and are subjecting them to mortal combat in rounds of three contestants at a time -- standard Thunderdome stuff -- to see which of them will survive into the new year. Grab your newest headphones and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⚡️ New Thunderdome SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 491 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

We are off this week but we bring you three great presents in the form of three Extra Extra Hot Great episodes from the club vault. EEHG 212: Christmastalgia Sequels to The Santa Clause and A Christmas Story have come to TV this week, so we're sharing the holiday programming of yesteryear we want to see reimagined for TV, and how. EEHG 216: Tara Forces Everyone To Watch A Compilation Of TV Commercials From December 1992 What ads were ABC viewers subjected to during an airing of the Olsen twins-starring TV movie To Grandmother's House We Go? Thanks to YouTube, we know, and we're going to talk about them. EEHG 219: Sarah Forces Everyone To Watch The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! We'd just been talking about Snack vs. Chef with Adam on the main podcast, so we were glad he could join us for a look waaaay back at the grandmama of cooking shows, The French Chef. In this episode, filmed in black and white and aired at the end of 1963, Julia Child rants about crappy kitchenware, coughs on stuff, grosses us out with canned ham...but is her usual welcoming, soothing self, full of practical tips for last-minute appetizers (and trying valiantly not to swear on camera). Join us for a fond reminiscence about monoculture public television and midcentury decor, and Happy New Year! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎄 Reimagining Classic Christmas TV Lead Topic: 🤑 December 6, 1992 Commercials Lead Topic: 👩🏻‍🍳 The French Chef S02.E04: Bringing In The New Year! SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 490 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 👼 "It's A Wonderful Plot" at TVTropes.org 🍇 A Claymation Christmas Celebration on DailyMotion.com 🪨 "Christmas In Clay" at Tedium.co 💰 "ABC TV Commercial Breaks - Dec 6th 1992 - Part One" on YouTube 👩🏻‍🍳 Watch The French Chef S02.E04 on Pluto TV (it's free!) 🍴 Watch the show Julia on HBO Max 🎥 Watch the documentary Julia, also on HBO Max

We made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where their imaginations took them in this very special episode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧠 Guest Thought Experiments SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 489 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Do you know what time it is? It's Non-Regulation Game Time, courtesy of our friend Nick Rheinwald-Jones! Get out your No. 2 pencils, because Nick found a vacant high school gym, sat your co-hosts down, and administered The TV SATs. Whose scores will qualify them for consideration at prestigious Hillman College, and who's going to have to settle for Bovine University? Listen to find out! GUESTS 👤 Nick Rheinwald-Jones TOPICS Game Time: 🎓 The TV SATs SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 488 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

For years, you've heard us sing the D.B. Cooper song; now you're going to hear us talk about him. Just because no one knows what actually happened to Dan Cooper after he jumped out of that plane with a bag full of cash doesn't mean TV writers can't speculate about it in their entirely fictional shows. Three shows -- Leverage, Prison Break, and NewsRadio -- had three very different versions of how he could have ended up; we're leaping in to all three with today's very special episode! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job Lead Topic: 🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7 Lead Topic: 🎥 Buntsy's D.B. Cooper Doc Recs Lead Topic: 📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail; S05.E07: The Lam; S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 487 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🪂 Leverage S05.E06: The D.B. Cooper Job on Freevee 🏰 Prison Break S01.E11: And Then There Were 7 on Hulu 📻 NewsRadio S05.E06: Jail on The Roku Channel 📻 NewsRadio S05.E07: The Lam on The Roku Channel 📻 NewsRadio S05.E08: Clash Of The Titans on The Roku Channel 🫵 I Am DB Cooper on Prime Video 👀 Sarah's review of I Am DB Cooper at Best Evidence 🛩️ The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper on Prime Video ✍🏻 Sarah's review of The Mystery Of D.B. Cooper at Primetimer 💸 https://www.primetimer.com/quickhits/the-mystery-of-db-cooper-gives-an-old-case-new-life 🤔 Sarah's review of DB Cooper, Where Are You?! at Best Evidence 🕵🏻‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries S01.E05 on Freevee CLUB-ONLY NOTES 🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To 💬 Get On Our Community Discord

The Crown is back with the first half (or so) of its final season; as it sends off Princess Diana, Heather Cocks joins us to discuss whether the season had to happen at all. Around The Dial takes us through The Real Housewives Of New York, Killing It, the second season of Julia, and the latest episode of Opera Wars, aka The Gilded Age. Heather makes the case for For All Mankind's "Hi Bob" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time you and all your nieces can enjoy. Shoo out any palace mice and listen! GUESTS 👤 Heather Cocks TOPICS Lead Topic: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🏙️ The Real Housewives Of New York City Around The Dial: 🏝️ Love Island: The Game Around The Dial: 🐊 Killin' It Around The Dial: 🍳 Julia Around The Dial: 🎭 The Gilded Age The Canon: 🪐 For All Mankind S01.E07: Hi Bob Winner & Loser: 👍 Big Little Lies Winner & Loser: 👎 Tori Spelling Game Time: ✍🏻 Murder, She Wrote? SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 486 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌤️ The Fug Girls on Bluesky 🦃 Tara's list of the 15 best Thanksgiving sitcom episodes 🚣🏻 The Again With This podcast, soon to start covering Dawson's Creek 🍸 Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan on Substack: Drinks With Broads 📚 Heather Cocks on Bookshop.org 🗺️ Trip-tested true crime at BestEvidence.fyi 📷 Photo: Des Willie / Netflix

Our esteemed colleague Alan Sepinwall is back, mate(y)! An Australian spin-off of an already banal cop-show franchise is maybe not the best use of his time, but we talked about NCIS-franchise stock characters, unmemorable TV for aging parents, and what happens when English actors try to play ugly Americans. Later, we went Around The Dial with The Curse, The O.C., and Murder One before wondering whether God is dead during Mike's The Leftovers Canon presentation. Alex P. Keaton won, Nickelodeon execs lost, and Game Time had us Quantum Leap-ing into TV characters -- all that and more on an all-new Extra Hot Great, oh boy! GUESTS 👤 Alan Sepinwall TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐨 NCIS: Sydney Tiny Triumph: 🌟 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 😱 The Curse Around The Dial: 🍊 The O.C. Around The Dial: 🔪 Murder One The Canon: 🦁 The Leftovers S03.E05: It's A Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt World Winner & Loser: 👍 Still Winner & Loser: 👎 Unnamed Nickelodeon pilot Game Time: ⚛️ Quantum Leaping 2 SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 485 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📚 Pre-order Alan Sepinwall's latest book, Welcome to The O.C.! 😱 Alan's review of The Curse for Rolling Stone 🙀 And Tara's for Cracked 🔪 An entirely different Murder One at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Daniel Asher Smith / Paramount+

AppleTV+'s new dramedy is a series adaptation of the famously unfinished Edith Wharton novel The Buccaneers; Margaret H. Willison joins us to discuss how it compares to the many other current and recently past entires into the thriving genre of corset TV. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight, Beckham, and Get Gotti, with just a little bit more on The Gilded Age than we already discussed in relation to our lead topic. Erin makes the case for the Spaced episode "Gone" to be inducted into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winners and Losers, we ROLE into a returning Game Time! Find a little time to yourself -- a nine-day Atlantic crossing should be plenty -- and join us! GUESTS 👤 Margaret Willison TOPICS Announcement: 📢 Quick Club Plug Lead Topic: 🏴‍☠️ The Buccaneers Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ⚽️ Beckham Around The Dial: 🔫 Get Gotti Around The Dial: 💛 The Gilded Age The Canon: 👽 Spaced S02.E05: Gone Winner & Loser: 🏟️ American Sports Story Winner & Loser: 🌙 After Midnight Game Time: 🎲 Re-Re-Role Playing Game SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 484 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 📸 Margaret H. Willison on Instagram 🍆 Tara on FBoy Island host Nikki Glaser, at Cracked 📺 The Appointment Television podcast 👭 The Two Bossy Dames newsletter 📰 Sarah's Get Gotti review at Best Evidence 📚 John Gotti at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: AppleTV+

Showtime's new limited series, Fellow Travelers, takes us back to the 1950s AND the 1980s via Matt Bomer's closeted Don Draper-esque life and loves -- and the great Joe Reid is back in the guest chair to talk about whether the whole is less than the sum of a few very good parts; what Roy Cohn content might do a better job with midcentury context than this show; and how much sex creates character development. Then we went Around The Dial with Everyone Else Burns, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Paramount+'s Milli Vanilli documentary, and Tara plotted to get a tenth (!) Simpsons episode into the Canon. Seth Rogen's ceramics hobby won, an ex-SNL writer lost, and we piled into the virtual minivan for a road-trippy Game Time. Moisturize your necks: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Joe Reid TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧳 Fellow Travelers Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Everyone Else Burns Around The Dial: 🏚️ The Fall Of The House Of Usher Around The Dial: 🏴‍☠️ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: 🎙️ Milli Vanilli The Canon: 👨‍🦲 The Simpsons S08.E16: Brother From Another Series Winner & Loser: 👍 Seth Rogen Winner & Loser: 👎 Kevin Brennan Game Time: 📍 The Great American TV Road Trip SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 483 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🧳 Joe's review of Fellow Travelers at Primetimer 🌤️ Joe Reid on Bluesky 🏆 This Had Oscar Buzz on Patreon 🎞️ Vulture’s Movie Fantasy League 😆 Tara on the best imported comedies to stream right now at Cracked 🎙️ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon 📷 Photo: Ben Mark Holzberg / SHOWTIME

Bodies is the latest comic book to get a limited series adaptation at Netflix; Devindra Hardawar returns to discuss its many storylines, and timelines! Around The Dial takes us through Savior Complex; RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop; and (speaking of multiple timelines) various different iterations of Alfred Hitchcock on TV. Erin presents the series premiere of Starstruck for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we compete in a Game Time that's all 1s and 0s. Grab your badge and join us! GUESTS 👤 Devindra Hardawar TOPICS Lead Topic: ⏳ Bodies Around The Dial: 😇 Savior Complex Around The Dial: 🦾 RoboDoc: The Creation Of RoboCop Around The Dial: 🔪 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour The Canon: 🤩 Starstruck S01.E01: NYE Winner & Loser: 👍 Coach K Winner & Loser: 👎 SAG-AFTRA Game Time: 🤖 I, Robot SUPPORT THE SHOW 🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more! 🛍️ Shop our merch store! NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 482 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Devindra Hardawar on Twitter ⚖️ "A Missionary On Trial" at The New Yorker 👄 Tara's Big Mouth S07 review 🦾 "'RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop' - Four-Part Docuseries Premieres August 29 on SCREAMBOX" at BloodyDisgusting.com 🎞️ The Film Cast podcast 👨🏾‍💻 Devindra at Engadget 🔪 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents playlist on YouTube 📰 The Best Evidence newsletter 📚 The EHG listener discount at Exhibit B. Books 📷 Photo: Matt Towers / Netflix