Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

Stephanie Green returns, and immediately regrets it when she finds out what Dave is going to make her watch. TOPICS Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Forcenings Around The Dial: 🎶 Nashville Around The Dial: 💻 The Bold Type Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: ☘️ Father Ted Winner & Loser: 👍 Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker Winner & Loser: 👎 Shark After Dark Game Time: 🧠 Small But Perfectly Formed NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 164 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Stephanie Early Green on Twitter ⚾️ Good Fundies

TV: The Book co-author and Law & Order Fantasy Draft winner Alan Sepinwall is back to talk about Season 7 of Game Of Thrones. Should the show be moving faster, plotwise? Who's going to end up "winning" when all is said and done? Which characters are human memes? And is Ed Sheeran a big baby for deleting his Twitter? After considering these questions, we went Around The Dial with The Challenge, Friends From College, and Ozark before picking off another Canon submission with Justified's "Decoy." Talented (future) parents were our winners, The Biggest Loser was...well, that, and we played with perceptions of opening-credits fame in a hotly contested Game Time. Make sure you pick a rubber mask with holes for your earbuds: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 🗡 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📚 Friends From College Around The Dial: ⛰ Ozark Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 NetflixWinner & Loser: 👎 The Biggest Loser Game Time: 🧠 And WithNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 163 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter

FX fills Fargo's time slot with Snowfall, John Singleton's drama series about the birth of crack, and Nick Rheinwald-Jones joins us to talk about it because he lives in Los Angeles and definitely NOT because he is a crackhead. Sarah explains why she's not a crackpot for thinking cable networks should just leave swear words in movies. Around The Dial takes us through Lifetime's movie Tiny House Of Terror, Younger, GLOW, and Prime Suspect - Tennison. Hannah makes her case for our inducting the series premiere of Catastrophe into The Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a poetic Game Time. Light it up!TOPICSLead Topic: ❄️ Snowfall I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Basic cable needs to start leaving the swears in moviesAround The Dial: 📚 Younger Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW Around The Dial: 🚨 Prime Suspect 1973 Around The Dial: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 Donal LogueWinner & Loser: 👎 Hawaii Five-0 (2010) Game Time: 🧠 Haiku TVNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 162 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Kim Reed joins us for a look at the new season, plus a Cheers Canon and a Dave-hate double dip!TOPICSLead Topic: 🏡 Playing House Will Dave Hate This?: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2020) Will Dave Hate This?: 🦸‍♂️ Watchmen Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge Around The Dial: 📺 Battle Of The Network Stars Around The Dial: 👀 Big Brother Around The Dial: 🎸 Boy Band Around The Dial: 👩‍🎤 GLOW The Canon: 🍻 Cheers Winner & Loser: 👍 The Leftovers Damon LindelofWinner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order True Crime Elizabeth ReaserGame Time: 🧠 These Are The Daves I Know #2NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 161 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter📸 Damon Lindelof on Instagram

ABC adds The Gong Show to its lineup of rebooted game and variety shows, and Jeff Drake joins us as we get out our scorecards to rate the results. Around The Dial clicks to Better Call Saul, Fargo, and 30 For 30, and includes an update on The Previouslies, our upcoming TV awards. Jeff makes the case for the induction of the Barney Miller episode "Hash" to The Canon, and after a creepier-than-usual Loser (and Winner), it's on to a savage Game Time. Peel a banana and listen in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎭 The Gong Show (2017) Around The Dial: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 🌨 Fargo Around The Dial: 🏅 30 For 30 The Canon: 🚨 Barney Miller Winner & Loser: 👍 Bill Cosby's defense attorney Winner & Loser: 👎 Megyn Kelly Today Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones Game Time: 🧠 Ibex Moose Duck Bumblebee NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 160 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

Eve returns to the guest chair to discuss whether TNT can finally Claws its way into the prestige-TV discussion with a dramedy about a nail salon's dirty bidness. We went around the dial with OITNB, The Handmaid's Tale, stupid Bravo tricks, and iZombie before muttering "the horror, the horror" at a Simpsons Canon presentation. Alison Brie won, Bachelor In Paradise lost (big-time, probably forever), and Game Time proved monotony can be fun. You'll be gellin' like a felon with an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 💅 Claws None: 🌃 Saturday Night Live First-time hosts we'd like to seeAround The Dial: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🏖 Invite Only Cabo Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean Around The Dial: 🩳 Orange Is The New Black The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Around The Dial: 🎥 Entourage Alison BrieAround The Dial: 👙 Bachelor In Paradise Game Time: 🧠 Monotone Readings Of Theme Song Lyrics: The GameNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 159 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

As I'm Dying Up Here, the series adaptation of a non-fiction book, premieres on Showtime, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about its portrayal of the L.A. comedy scene in the '70s (and precisely how awful its opening credits sequence actually is). Around the dial stops at The Leftovers, Fear The Walking Dead, Amazon's documentary Long Strange Trip, and a retro surprise from Dave. Omar makes the case for us to induct the Ren & Stimpy episode "Space Madness"/"The Boy Who Cried Rat" into the Canon; and then after a discussion of the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might really make you sick. Get ready to shell out for the two-drink minimum and listen!TOPICSLead Topic: 🎙 I'm Dying Up Here Around The Dial: 🫥 The Leftovers Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ Fear The Walking Dead Around The Dial: 💊 Long Strange Trip Around The Dial: 👀 Exploration showsThe Canon: 😸 The Ren & Stimpy Show Winner & Loser: 👍 Kathy GriffinWinner & Loser: 👎 Real Time With Bill Maher Game Time: 🧠 WebMDTVNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 158 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter

First-time guest Roger Cormier joins the panel to talk about House Of Cards's fifth season, and whether real-life crazer news cycles have made the Underwoods' nutty machinations suffer by comparison. We discussed whether Dave will hate History's upcoming UFO drama Blue Book, then went around the dial with Drag Race, The Americans, Animal Kingdom, and American Gods, and considered The X-Files's "The Field Where I Died" (...of boredom) for The Nonac. The Big Bang Theory won, a very big human lost, and we put on our best announcer voices to pair off presenters in this week's Game Time. Filibuster your commute with an all-new Extra Hot Great!TOPICSLead Topic: ♠️ House Of Cards Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Project Blue Book Around The Dial: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🙏 American Gods The Nonac: 🛸 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👍 The Big Bang Theory Winner & Loser: 👎 Game Of Thrones Thor BjornssonGame Time: 🧠 Bruce Vilanch, Eat Your Heart OutNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 157 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Roger Cormier on Twitter

John Ramos joins us to talk about the third season!TOPICSLead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Around The Dial: 💃 Dirty Dancing (2017) Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Three Girls Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return The Canon: 🤯 Fringe Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Vanessa Bayer, Bobby MoynihanWinner & Loser: 👎 Alex RodriguezGame Time: 🧠 TV Pilot AnnouncementsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 156 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter🐟 What Lies Upstream on YouTube (for rent or purchase)

New guest and certified Canadian Alex Collins sits with the panel for a discussion of Netflix's "gritty" take on Canadian kiddie-lit classic Anne Of Green Gables, and how it fares compared with the Megan Follows classic of yesteryear. We went around the dial with The Mick, a documentary about anxiety, a daytime courtroom show (spoiler: Dave WILL hate this), and Downward Dog's fleas before we came to bury Nate, not to praise him during Alex's Six Feet Under Canon submission. Jessica St. Clair won, the Deadwood movie lost (some more), and Game Time made a (series) run for it as we tried to guess which shows had more episodes. Put a doily on your head and enjoy a brand-new episode of Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 👩‍🦰 Anne With An E Around The Dial: 🐶 Downward Dog Around The Dial: 🍺 The Mick Around The Dial: 💊 It's "Just" Anxiety Around The Dial: ⚖️ Judge Hatchett Around The Dial: 🤑 AdsThe Canon: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 Jessica St. ClairWinner & Loser: 👎 Deadwood Powers BootheGame Time: 🧠 More Episodes!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 155 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Alex Collins on Twitter

With Netflix launching the series sequel to the 2014 film Dear White People, we welcome back Kim Reed to talk about how well the adaptation works. Around The Dial stops at the latest Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Pop's reruns of ER, and Season 3 of Bosch. Kim makes the case for Felicity's "Final Answer" to be inducted into The Canon; then after we name the week's Winner and Losers, we arrive at a deadly Game Time. Dear All People: join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 🎓 Dear White People Around The Dial: 🚨 Brooklyn Nine-Nine Around The Dial: 🩺 ER Around The Dial: 🎷 Bosch The Canon: 👩‍🦱 Felicity Winner & Loser: 👍 Live With Kelly And Ryan Ryan SeacrestWinner & Loser: 👎 PitchSweet/Vicious Game Time: 🧠 This Is The EndNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 154 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Tammy Everts joins us to discuss Hulu's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's all-too-relevant dystopian story, plus Oprah and a Nonac!TOPICSLead Topic: 🧣 The Handmaid's Tale Around The Dial: 🧬 The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Around The Dial: 📔 13 Reasons Why The Nonac: 🪦 Six Feet Under Winner & Loser: 👍 The X-Files Winner & Loser: 👎 The Bachelor Chris SoulesGame Time: 🧠 The One-Second TV Show Theme ChallengeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 153 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Tammy Everts on Twitter

As Better Call Saul returns for its third season, Jeff Drake joins us to discuss the slow-burning premiere (with a few peeks ahead at its showier second episode, shhhh). Around The Dial clicks through the series finale of Switched At Birth, Amazon's under-the-radar spy show Patriot, and American Experience's three-part series, "The Great War." Jeff presents his case for the induction of Monty Python's Flying Circus's series premiere, "Whither Canada?," to the Canon. And after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all learn that some demented maniac (you know you are, Rob Hartmann) has gamified F/M/K. All rise!TOPICSLead Topic: 💼 Better Call Saul Around The Dial: 👶 Switched At Birth Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Patriot Around The Dial: 🌎 American Experience The Canon: 🎪 Monty Python's Flying Circus Winner & Loser: 👍 Hasan Minhaj, The White House Correspondents DinnerWinner & Loser: 👎 Homeland Game Time: 🧠 F/M/K: The GameNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 152 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Our esteemed colleague John returns for an overview of spring TV: the shows we can't wait to see or be reunited with; the shows we SHOULD be psyched about, but aren't; and the shows noooooobody should go anywhere near. We went around the dial with 13 Reasons Why, Tara's favorite show Legion, teen clam enthusiasts, and the end of Review before John Potts went the extra light-year with his Deep Space Nine Canon submission. Senior citizens both won and lost, before a Game Time had us all trying to guess the hearts of IMDb searchers. We're watering the seeds of chang...ing the channel in an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 🌸 Midseason TV RoundupAround The Dial: ✍️ Review Around The Dial: 🦸‍♂️ Legion Around The Dial: 📔 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro TV AdThe Canon: 🛸 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 America's Next Top Model Tyra removes maximum contestant ageWinner & Loser: 👎 Groundlings founder Gary Austin diesGame Time: 🧠 IMDb FirstsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 151 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

RuPaul's Drag Race has packed up all its wigs to move from LogoTV to VH1, and we welcome back our resident expert, Mark Blankenship, to talk about the Season 9 premiere! Around The Dial spins to HBO's documentary Rock And A Hard Place; the 29th season of The Amazing Race; Campus PD'_s and _ER's triumphant returns to syndication; and another TV ad from the internet's deepest bowels. Sarah pitches the Law & Order episode "Performance" for the Canon, and after naming the week's Winner and Loser, an old un-favourite rages back into Game Time. Beat your face and join us, honey!TOPICSLead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 🪨 Rock And A Hard Place Around The Dial: 🌎 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🚨 Campus PD Around The Dial: 🩺 ER The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order Winner & Loser: 👍 True Detective Winner & Loser: 👎 CherGame Time: 🧠 Hot PotatoNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 150 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Our esteemed colleague Chris is back to talk about Iron Fist, a show only he among the panel managed to get more than a couple episodes into -- and what exactly the show's problem is, from bad fights to worse accents. We went around the dial with Catfish, Love, Happy Endings, and a violent vintage cologne ad before Caroline tried to "extract" a Canon victory from us for a Golden Girls episode. RuPaul won, Rita Ora lost, and Rob Hartmann took a letter in this week's Game Time. Kick your shoes off, put on some grimy pajamas, and settle in for an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICS Lead Topic: 👊 Iron Fist Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: ❤️ Love Around The Dial: 😁 Happy Endings Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad Corner The Canon: 🌴 The Golden Girls Winner & Loser: 👍 RuPaul Winner & Loser: 👎 Scientology Game Time: 🧠 TV Typos, Part Tw NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 149 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter

As VH1 and Ice Cube breathe new life into an old game show format with Hip Hop Squares, Allison Lowe Huff returns to discuss whether circle got the square this time around. Around The Dial stops at Feud, Amazon's Ronja The Robber's Daughter, Samurai Jack, and another classic TV promo Dave unearthed from the depths of the internet. Dave then makes his case for The Venture Bros. episode "The Doctor Is Sin" to the Canon, and after identifying the week's Winner and Loser, we toy with a thrilling new Game Time. Top up your cocktail and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🎶 Hip Hop Squares Around The Dial: 🤬 Feud Around The Dial: 🚨 Ronja The Robber's Daughter Around The Dial: 🗡 Samurai Jack Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro TV Promo The Canon: 🧬 The Venture Bros. Winner & Loser: 👍 Hanna Winner & Loser: 👎 Iron Fist Game Time: 🧠 Children Of The Free Market NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 148 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter 🧛‍♂️ Sarah's Buffy season ranking on Vulture

But maybe not Paige? Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk tradecraft, Mad Men, and comedy on TV.TOPICSLead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Americans Around The Dial: 🤫 The Arrangement Around The Dial: 🛋 Crashing (HBO) Around The Dial: 🤣 Mike Birbiglia: Thank God For Jokes Around The Dial: 📜 American Experience Around The Dial: ⏳ Time After Time The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Winner & Loser: 👍 The Celebrity Apprentice Arnold SchwarzeneggerWinner & Loser: 👎 Eyewitness Game Time: 🧠 Spies Like ThemNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 147 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

Eve is back to talk about Big Little Lies, from Kidman's wig to good child actors to what we're hoping happens in the finale. Then Eve shared a Tiny Jane The Virgin triumph before we went around the dial with Homeland, The Good Fight, and First Time Flippers. We trundled "Into The Woods" with a Nonac submission from Buffy, and American Crime Story won...but CBS All Access may have lost us (and everyone else). Did Tara take home the season crown in a rhyme-y Game Time? Stare out the floor-to-ceiling windows of your eight gazillion-dollar Monterey house as you listen to an all-new EHG!TOPICSLead Topic: 🌊 Big Little Lies Tiny Triumph: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Eve predicts time jumpAround The Dial: ⚖️ The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🔨 First Time Flippers Around The Dial: 👀 Homeland The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer Winner & Loser: 👍 The Assassination Of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story Darren Criss cast as Andrew CunananWinner & Loser: 👎 The Good Fight Game Time: 🧠 Rhyming RebootsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 146 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter👟 Law And Order Jog And Dog on Instagram🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

AMC's return to the zombie apocalypse after a midseason hiatus has us bringing Omar back to talk Negan, King Ezekiel, and zombie dismemberment! The Blotter Presents a look at two Texas true crime stories before stops Around The Dial at Humans, Legion, Imposters, and a vintage ad that might choke you up. Omar makes a case for the induction of the Imposters series finale, "Beyond Life And Death," to The Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, names are ALSO the game for Game Time. Wrap a bat in barbed wire and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Southwest Of Salem: The Story Of The San Antonio Four The Blotter Presents: 📚 Tower Around The Dial: 🤖 Humans Around The Dial: 🦸‍♂️ Legion Around The Dial: 🕶 Imposters Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 🏔 Twin Peaks Winner & Loser: 👍 The Crown Michael C. Hall Winner & Loser: 👎 Real Time With Bill Maher Piers Morgan Game Time: 🧠 Name Of Thrones NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 145 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter 🍅 The Vine column at TomatoNation.com

jk, it's 'only' Season 29 -- but will this round of innovations breathe new life into MTV's old warhorse? Kim Reed has thoughts! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Solitary: Inside Red Onion I Am Not A Crackpot: 📺 TV Should Do More Positive Propaganda Around The Dial: 💼 Detroiters Around The Dial: 🪄 The Magicians Around The Dial: 💄 America's Next Top Model Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro Ad The Canon: 🩺 Scrubs Winner & Loser: 👍 Saturday Night Live Winner & Loser: 👎 The White House Correspondents; Dinner Game Time: 🧠 Is This Benson? NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 144 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast

Leah Kwan joins us to talk about The CW's new Archie Comics adaptation!TOPICSLead Topic: 📚 Riverdale The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Investigator The Blotter Presents: 👀 Expedition Unknown Around The Dial: 🏙 30 Rock Around The Dial: 🐴 My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Around The Dial: ❄️ Timber Creek Lodge Around The Dial: 🤑 Retro AdThe Canon: 👶 Catastrophe Winner & Loser: 👍 60 Minutes Winner & Loser: 👎 Today Game Time: 🧠 Two For TwoNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 143 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Leah Ariano on Twitter

Monty Ashley on The Amazing Fugitive, home movies, podcasts, and more! TOPICS Lead Topic: 👀 Hunted The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman The Blotter Presents: 🔪 The Witness Around The Dial: 🕶 Throwing Shade Around The Dial: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 🚨 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Around The Dial: 🤑 Return Of The Retro Ad The Canon: 🎞 Home Movies Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us Winner & Loser: 👎 Desperate Housewives Marc Cherry, Nicolette Sheridan Game Time: 🧠 Just One Letter NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 142 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter 📹 The Villain Edit podcast

Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk about what may be 'The Final Problem' for real.TOPICSLead Topic: 🔎 Sherlock The Blotter Presents: 🏈 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence The Blotter Presents: 😱 Beware The Slenderman Around The Dial: 🌃 Late Night With Seth MeyersSaturday Night Live Around The Dial: 🤣 Netflix comedy specials; FXAround The Dial: 🇬🇧 Foyle's War Around The Dial: 🛶 Frontier The Canon: 😄 Happy Endings Winner & Loser: 👍 SpaceWinner & Loser: 👎 Sherlock Game Time: 🧠 Title TreatmentNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 141 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

It's a new year for EHG, and a new journey for The Bachelor. Jeff Drake returns to talk about the special madness of Corinne, plus we pick our winners and wonder whether watching UnREAL has enhanced our experience of the original. The Blotter Presents caught us up with the Menendezes and OJ, and we debated whether Dave would hate Canadian outlaw period drama Frontier before going around the dial with One Day At A Time's reboot, The Young Pope, Sleepy Hollow, and games we play with Siri on Apple TV. Caroline tried to Psych us out in the Canon; the CW lost and NBC News won; and Game Time put us all to work on the chain gang. Can we steal you for a second -- for an all-new Extra Hot Great?TOPICSLead Topic: 😘 The Bachelor The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing EvidenceThe Killing Season Will Dave Hate This?: 🛶 Frontier Around The Dial: 🇨🇺 One Day At A Time (2017) Around The Dial: 🙏 The Young Pope Around The Dial: 🐎 Sleepy Hollow The Canon: 🤯 Psych Winner & Loser: 👍 The CWWinner & Loser: 👎 Fox NewsGame Time: 🧠 Chain GangNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 140 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake On Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Chris Huff returns for a discussion of The Man In The High Castle -- what works (set design; Smith); what doesn't (Juliana; Joe); and whether we'll finish out the season. The Blotter Presents tipped us to Unsolved Mysteries streaming online, plus the '16 crime shows to marathon over the holidays, before we went around the dial with Rectify, The OA, Fuller House, and Intervention. Chris hoped we'd Just Say Yes to a drugs-are-bad ep of Family Ties for the Canon, and we declared a winner (TV queens) and loser (the County of Kings) before getting on a first-name basis with another Rob Hartmann Game Time. It's the last all-new full-size Extra Hot Great of the year, so dig in! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🇺🇸 The Man In The High Castle The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unsolved Mysteries Around The Dial: 🤔 The OA Around The Dial: 🚨 Rectify Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention The Canon: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Ties Winner & Loser: 👍 RiverdaleStar Trek: Discovery Molly Ringwald, Sonequa Martin-free, Julia Roberts Winner & Loser: 👎 Homeland Game Time: 🧠 First Name Basis (II) NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 139 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Chris Huff on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

TV's most famous cooking competition returns for a new season set in Charleston, South Carolina, so we've brought back our official Top Chef correspondent to talk about the rookies vs. veterans format; the problematic setting; and also, oh right, the food. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot for thinking that TV home buying shows should always end with people actually buying homes. Around The Dial takes us to Divorce, Fleabag, and Pitch, before we consider the submission of the Sopranos episode "Funhouse" to the Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a game that may prove...popular. Choose the right wine pairing and listen! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🍽 Top Chef I Am Not A Crackpot: 🏘 House hunting shows that end without a purchase Around The Dial: 💔 Divorce Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 Fleabag Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch The Canon: 🍝 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: 👍 The Oscars Jimmy Kimmel named host Winner & Loser: 👎 The Celebrity Apprentice Game Time: 🧠 Popular Hits NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 138 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Allison Lowe Huff is back to talk about This Is Us, the lovably imperfect tearjerker that's occupying the Friday Night Lights lane in our hearts. We bid farewell to The Killing Season, wondered how Noel Crane fit into a true-crime classic, and celebrated a Tiny Twitter Triumph involving poo before going around the dial with Gilmore Girls, Below Deck, Search Party, and Westworld. Listener Matthew submitted a rageful Nonac candidate, the HIMYM finale, and we declared satire a winner and sex a loser (for Showtime) before juggling a hilarious Hot Potato Game Time. This is EHG -- an all-new one. Listen now! TOPICS Lead Topic: 😭 This Is Us The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Fatal Vision The Blotter Presents: 🛣 The Killing Season Tiny Triumph: 🏆 Pickle & Peanut Around The Dial: ☕️ Gilmore Girls Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Around The Dial: 🤖 Westworld The Nonac: 👩‍❤️‍👨 How I Met Your Mother Winner & Loser: 👍 Swimming With Sharks Winner & Loser: 👎 Masters Of Sex Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato Primetime Laughs Edition NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 137 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

In anticipation of America's favourite bird-based holiday, we're serving up an all-Canon edition of the podcast, with the focus on episodes taking place around Thanksgiving! Dave presents "Homecoming" (The Incredible Hulk); Sarah presents "The Wheel" (Mad Men); and for the Nonac, Tara offers "Freefall" (ER). Then there's a quick stop to name the week's Winner and Loser before a non-regulation Game Time that's murrrrrrrrrrrder (among other crimes). Load up your plate and listen!TOPICSThe Canon: 🦃 The Incredible Hulk The Nonac: 🚁 ER The Canon: 💼 Mad Men Game Time: 🧠 Mother, May I Sleep With Game Time?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 136 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Eve Batey returns for a comprehensive look at crime TV past and present: Brooklyn 99, The Jinx, foreign-language series, trashy ID shows and even COPS. We went Around The Dial with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Rectify, American Horror Story, and an apology for covering a certain business-reality program. Rosie was the winner, SVU was the loser, Tara tried to smoke out our votes with a High Maintenance Canon pitch, and we all played poet in an IMDb-keyword-haiku Game Time on an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 🔪 Crime Show roundupAround The Dial: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Around The Dial: 🍬 Sweet/Vicious Around The Dial: 📹 American Horror Story: Roanoke Around The Dial: 🚨 Rectify The Canon: 🚬 High Maintenance Winner & Loser: 👍 SMILF Rosie O'DonnellWinner & Loser: 👎 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Game Time: 🧠 Plot Keyword HaikuNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 135 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

On the eve of the election, Omar Gallaga returns to talk about Saturday Night Live's political comedy, Benedict Cumberbatch's hosting début, and each panelist's personal SNL superlatives! The Blotter Presents a brief (and dismissive) look at Lifetime's scripted movie Who Killed JonBenét?. Around The Dial stops at Ancient Aliens, Planet Earth II, The Crown, and People Of Earth! Omar presents the BoJack Horseman episode "Fish Out Of Water" for submission to The Canon, and then after we address the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's in a family way. Set aside 90 minutes (and then...some more time after that) and join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 🌃 Saturday Night Live The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Who Killed JonBenét Around The Dial: 👽 Ancient Aliens Around The Dial: 🌎 Planet Earth II Around The Dial: 🇬🇧 The Crown Around The Dial: 🛸 People Of Earth The Canon: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Winner & Loser: 👍 Major League BaseballWinner & Loser: 👎 Any Given Wednesday With Bill Simmons Bill SimmonsGame Time: 🧠 Showbiz Moms And DadsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 134 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Omar Gallaga on Twitter🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Our esteemed colleague Danny MacEachern is back on Extra Hot Great for a dystopian good time with the newest season of Black Mirror, from obsessive "like"-checking to robot bees and everything in between. Buntsy updated us on future true-crime programming before we went Around The Dial with Jane The Virgin, Halloween on TV, Bull, superheroes, startups, and Negan. Everybody wants something, and Danny wouldn't give up on his Degrassi Junior High Canon submission, plus Nev Schulman actually picked out a half-decent kid name and Sarah's sure NBC's going to lace its Sneakers up wrong. What's the best use of a drone on TV? Why didn't Dave cry at "San Junipero"? And what kind of greasy kid stuff did we get up to in Game Time? Enter the Extra Hot Greatrix with an all-new episode and find out! TOPICS Lead Topic: ⬛️ Black Mirror The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Murder In The Heartland: In Cold Blood Revisited Around The Dial: 🌴 Jane The Virgin Around The Dial: 🦸‍♀️ Supergirl Around The Dial: 🧵 Project Runway: Fashion Startup Around The Dial: 🧟‍♀️ The Walking Dead The Canon: 🇨🇦 Degrassi Junior High Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Winner & Loser: 👎 Sneakers Game Time: 🧠 Kids Stuff NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 133 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter

Get ready for the knock-down, drag-out, final face-off of all our Season 1 Listener Game Time champions, as they battle to be the ultimate champion!TOPICSGame Time: 🧠 Is This Anything? Supertroll EditionNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 132 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Our esteemed colleague Nick Rheinwald-Jones returns to talk Luke Cage, from the acting to the soundtrack to whether the 13-episode season felt like (or should have been) two shorter seasons. After a debate about whether David T. Cole will hate the distaff Magnum, PI and a Blotter review of Netflicumentary Amanda Knox, we went Around The Dial with Pitch, Timeless, Westworld (heard of it), and a Rachael Ray-meets-Look Around You web series from Australia before Nick hummed a few bars of Garfunkel & Oates for the Canon. A bunch of fall series won, Dr. Phil and Steven Avery lost, and Game Time tried to get between us and our Calvins.TOPICSLead Topic: 🗽 Luke Cage Will Dave Hate This?: 🕵️‍♀️ Magnum P.I. (2018) The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Amanda Knox Around The Dial: 🤠 Westworld Around The Dial: ⏳ Timeless Around The Dial: 🌬 Easy Around The Dial: ⚾️ Pitch The Canon: 🎶 Garfunkel & Oates Winner & Loser: 👍 This Is Us Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Phil Game Time: 🧠 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Men WorldNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 131 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Nick Rheinwald-Jones on Twitter

It's the pumpkin-spice latte of autumnal programming overviews! ...Unless you hate those. Eve Batey's back to look at the best, worst, and meh-est of new and returning shows.TOPICSLead Topic: 🍂 Fall 2016 PreviewThe Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenet Ramsey JonBenet RamseyTiny Triumph: 🍑 Narcos Pedro Pascal RTs Tara's piece on himThe Canon: 🤠 Justified Winner & Loser: 👍 The Emmys Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Game Time: 🧠 We're Number 2!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 130 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter🚨 "Narcos Faces Law & Order: SVU In The Battle Of The Crime-Fighting Crushes" on Previously.TV🐦 Pedro Pascal's RT

With the best of RuPaul's girls returning for another chance at the crown on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, Mark Blankenship returns to the podcast to talk about the twists, turns, and tucks! The Blotter Presents a true crime twofer: Sarah's assessment of the latest in JonBenét Ramsey investigations, and a survey of coverage on East Tennessee catfisher Jenelle Potter! Around The Dial stops at Son Of Zorn, the Creative Arts Emmys, an update on how Sarah liked Better Things, and Narcos. Mark makes the case for The Real World's Season 1 episode "Julie In A Homeless Shelter?" to be inducted into the Canon, and then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we get into a Game Time that's double trouble. Zip up your ball gown and listen in!TOPICSLead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars The Blotter Presents: 🔪 JonBenét RamseyAround The Dial: 💪 Son Of Zorn Around The Dial: 👧 Girls Peter Scolari's Emmy winAround The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 🇨🇴 Narcos The Canon: 📹 The Real World Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO; Jim JonesWinner & Loser: 👎 Miss America pageantGame Time: 🧠 My Single My Single Is Dropping Is DroppingNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 129 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter

TWW Marathon Diarist Sarah Hope comes to Extra Hot Great for a West Wing floor fight: our favorite characters and relationships from Aaron Sorkin's turn-of-the-millennium political drama, the Sorkiniest moments, and the stuff that hasn't aged well (paging, um, all those pagers in the premiere). The Blotter Presents watched Marg Helgenberger chow the scenery in a vintage JonBenét TV movie, and we went around the dial with new FX sitcoms, Lethal Weapon, The Night Of, and British teen coming-of-age story My Mad Fat Diary before Sarah H. held her nose and submitted Friday Night Lights's second-season premiere for the Nonac. Empire won, Dr. Drew lost, and tag we were all it for a very close Game Time. How does a bill become an "aw, man"? Find out on an all-new Extra Hot Great.TOPICSLead Topic: 🇺🇸 The West Wing The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Perfect Murder, Perfect Town Around The Dial: 🍑 Atlanta Around The Dial: 🌴 Better Things Around The Dial: 📔 My Mad Fat Diary Around The Dial: 🌃 The Night Of Around The Dial: 🚨 Lethal Weapon The Nonac: 🏈 Friday Night Lights Winner & Loser: 👍 Empire Winner & Loser: 👎 Dr. Drew On Call Game Time: 🧠 TaglinesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 128 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Sarah Hope on Twitter

As Halt And Catch Fire boots up for its third season, Philip Michaels joins us to talk about all the best bits (and bytes) of the first two episodes. The Blotter Presents Sarah's review of MTV's new true crime docuseries Unlocking The Truth, and then we go Around The Dial with stops at Key & Peele, British Premier League soccer on NBC, Ripper Street, and an appropriate vintage Vic-20 ad. Phil presents the Simpsons episode "Last Exit To Springfield" for the Canon, and then after calling out the week's Winner and Loser, we hold our noses through a..."delightful" Game Time. Log in and join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 💾 Halt And Catch Fire The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Unlocking The Truth Around The Dial: 🗝 Key & Peele Around The Dial: ⚽️ British premier league on NBCAround The Dial: 🎩 Ripper Street The Canon: 🍩 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Katy PerryWinner & Loser: 👎 The Nightly Show Amy Schumer; Kurt MetzgerGame Time: 🧠 The Delightful DozenNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 127 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Philip Michaels on Twitter💻 Phil at Tom's Guide🎧 These Are Their Stories podcast

Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley is back to talk about our favorite cartoons for adults in all sorts of categories -- cartoons no kid should ever see (hey, Ren), series that work just as well for adults as for kids (lookin' at you, SpongeBob), the most beautifully drawn (and scored) shows, and much more. The Blotter managed to dig up a crime cartoon, and then we went around the dial with human cartoons on Catfish, Seeso's Take My Wife, the finale of The Great British Baking Show (get the PBS app, y'all!), and Occupied. Did Monty get whammied in his Press Your Luck Canon submission? Did a Criminal Minds star lose(r) the plot? And who's at the top of the podium after Game Time? We've got the line on an all-new Extra Hot Great, so check it out. TOPICS Lead Topic: ✍️ Adult Cartoons round-up The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Crime: The Animated Series Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish Around The Dial: 💍 Take My Wife Around The Dial: 🎂 The Great British Bake Off Around The Dial: 🇳🇴 Occupied The Canon: 📺 Press Your Luck Winner & Loser: 👍 Making A Murderer Brendan Dassey Winner & Loser: 👎 Criminal Minds Thomas Gibson Game Time: 🧠 Gold, Silver, Bronze NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 126 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

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!TOPICSLead 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 GunThe Canon: 🏔 Everwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra MessingGame Time: 🧠 This Smells RankNOTES🗒 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!TOPICSLead Topic: 💫 Star Trek Fantasy DraftAround The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌁 Looking Looking: The MovieAround The Dial: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🐿 Squirrel GirlThe Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 Rita OraWinner & Loser: 👎 The Vampire Diaries Game Time: 🧠 The EHG ConventionNOTES🗒 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!TOPICSLead 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 CoonWinner & Loser: 👎 Roger AilesGame Time: 🧠 More Chicken, More EggNOTES🗒 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!TOPICSLead 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 ApeNOTES🗒 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!TOPICSLead 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 NowGame Time: 🧠 Everyone's A CriticNOTES🗒 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!TOPICSLead 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 AustenGame 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.TOPICSLead 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 PotatoNOTES🗒 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?TOPICSLead 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 SchulmanWinner & Loser: 👎 Damien Game Time: 🧠 Rhymes With ShondaNOTES🗒 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.TOPICSLead Topic: 😎 Summer TV PreviewAround 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 ClimberNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 116 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter

Mark Blankenship brings his charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to a discussion of Ru's latest girls. TOPICSLead 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 DinnerNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 115 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter