Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

The latest British Commonwealth addition to HBOMax's library is the BAFTA-nominated Frayed, and Christina Tucker joins us to discuss whether its riches-to-rags protagonist is as compelling as the world its star-creator, Sarah Kendall, has built around her. Around The Dial takes us through Immigration Nation, Coroner, Desert Hearts (now streaming on Showtime!), the Happy Endings Zoom reunion, and a brief re-plug for Taskmaster now that it's come over to The CW. Francoise uses her Extra Credit to ask us about TV series that revolve around the wrong protagonist, and who would have been the right one. Tara presents the Feud episode "And The Winner Is… (The Oscars Of 1963)" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new Game Time season with a game that takes us deep into the history of various stars' TV careers. Pour yourself a glass of Moet (how you pronounce it is no concern of ours) and listen!GUESTS👤 Christina TuckerTOPICSLead Topic: 🇦🇺 Frayed Around The Dial: 🛂 Immigration Nation Around The Dial: 💀 Coroner Around The Dial: 💞 Desert Hearts Around The Dial: 😄 Happy Endings The reunionAround The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster Extra Credit: 🤑 Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are On TVThe Canon: 🤬 Feud S01.E05: And The Winner Is... (The Oscars Of 1963)Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelorette Tayshia Adams, Clare CrawleyWinner & Loser: 👎 The Simpsons Harry ShearerGame Time: 🧠 Humble BeginningsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 314 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Christina Tucker on Twitter🎧 Christina's podcast, Unfriendly Black Hotties😍 The Google Images tab for Coroner co-star Éric Bruneau🇦🇺 Tara's review of Frayed at Primetimer😄 The Happy Endings reunion🎶 Mark And Sarah QUIZ About Songs🎙 The Deadline report on Harry Shearer with the VERY bad photo of him

Apparently TBS is not just for "very funny" shows anymore, as we learned from the premiere of Lost Resort, a new series with the bones of a reality show and the shredded guts of untreated trauma. The Verge's TV and film critic Joshua Rivera joins us to discuss what entertainment value its producers think the show has, and whether they are right. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight; Hannibal; Twin Peaks: The Return; and Last Chance U. Joshua presents Watchmen's "This Extraordinary Being" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time seething with personal animosity. Limber up all your ecstatic dance muscles and join us!GUESTS👤 Joshua RiveraTOPICSLead Topic: 🙏 Lost Resort Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🍽 Hannibal Around The Dial: 🏔 Twin Peaks: The Return Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U The Canon: 🦸‍♀️ Watchmen Winner & Loser: 👍 NetflixWinner & Loser: 👎 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Game Time: 🧠 Enemies: A Hate StoryNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 313 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Joshua Rivera on Twitter🎶 Tara's review of Maxxx at Primetimer💻 Joshua at The Verge🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter🎧 Citations Needed Episode 115: How The Pentagon & CIA Sponsor American Mythmaking

The But Why Tho? podcast's Kate Sánchez is here to help the panel figure out why Killer Camp -- the CW's horror-trope competitive-reality show -- and others like it don't quite work. Is it because horror-movie tropes and American-summer-camp tropes clash (especially as embodied by a bunch of British nationals)? Is it that an organic timeline for solving the mystery isn't possible on a network show? Is it the annoying host? We gathered around our own figurative campfire to go Around The Dial with P-Valley, The Dog House UK, Cursed, Junior Bake Off, Doom Patrol, and Harley Quinn before Kate schooled us on anime and TV's most melodramatic guitar string in her Given Canon submission. Crime documentaries won, hockey commentary lost, and we went through the ringer with character's who've done the same in a season-defining Game Time. Finish up those lanyards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kate SánchezTOPICSLead Topic: 🔪 Killer Camp Around The Dial: 👙 P-Valley Around The Dial: 🐶 The Dog House UK Around The Dial: ⚔️ Cursed Around The Dial: 🧁 Junior Bake Off Around The Dial: 🤖 Doom Patrol Around The Dial: 🏏 Harley Quinn The Canon: 🎶 Given Winner & Loser: 👍 30 For 30 The '86 MetsWinner & Loser: 👍 Godfather Of Harlem Winner & Loser: 👎 Jeremy RoenickWinner & Loser: 👎 Kermit's weird new voiceGame Time: 🧠 Adverse ConditionsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 312 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kate Sánchez on Twitter💻 "'This Was Abuse': The Fall Of A CBS Showrunner" at VanityFair.com⚔️ Kate's review of Cursed at ButWhyTho.com🎧 The Blotter Presents podcast

When is a movie fair game as a topic on a TV topic? When it premieres on a streaming service, of course! First-time guest Alanna Bennett takes a break from writing Roswell, New Mexico to join us to talk about the latest Lonely Island Classic. Around The Dial takes us through Little Voice, the original 1985 CBC miniseries adaptation of Anne Of Green Gables, Cheers, Close Enough, and the HAHA Awards. Listener Jenni pitches The Good Wife's "Hitting The Fan" for induction into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that might earn us tenure. Reapply your sunscreen and join us!GUESTS👤 Alanna BennettTOPICSLead Topic: 🌵 Palm Springs Around The Dial: 🎙 Little Voice Around The Dial: 👩‍🦰 Anne Of Green Gables Around The Dial: 🍻 Cheers Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough Around The Dial: 🤣 The HAHA AwardsThe Canon: ⚖️ The Good Wife Winner & Loser: 👍 The Weakest Link Jane LynchWinner & Loser: 👎 QuibiGame Time: 🧠 It's All AcademicNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 311 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Alanna Bennett on Twitter🎙 Tara's Little Voice review at Collider🏳️‍🌈 Pilot Viruet on queer joy at TVGuide.com🏪 Vogue.com's report on The People's Bodega📸 The People's Bodega NYC on Instagram💰 The People's Bodega NYC on PayPal🛸 The CW's Roswell, New Mexico🎧 Quaid In Full👨‍👩‍👧 Close Enough scene🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

Esteemed recent guests Stephanie Green, Dan Cassino, and Richard Lawson each picked out an episode for your three panelists to watch for Episode 310's Forcening. First into the breach was David T. Cole, ordered by Stephanie to watch a fourth-season Real Housewives Of Potomac episode involving purse-smacking, (alleged) sausage-sucking, and how long after the stated start time one should arrive at a party -- and we also discussed the underwhelming interior-design narratives of so-called rich people. Next up was Buntsy's foray into Dan's "what if Shakespeare, but a laugh-tracked sitcom" mission for her, Upstart Crow's episode on the writing of Hamlet and the (convenient?) murder of Christopher Marlowe. Was her admiration for the propmaster's novelty-Tudor-London-keychain work enough to win her over, or is the show for those Columbia professors who always got to the art-house movie late and spent the whole time laughing performatively at the jokes? Lastly, Richard told Tara to dive into Outer Banks and its punchable-face-of-voice-over protagonist. Is a shipwreck mystery the right plot for a teen show? And does that matter if all the "teens" look 28? Grab a butter knife and cut into an all-new Extra Hot Great. TOPICSLead Topic: 🤬 The Real Housewives Of Potomac S04.E06: Sex, Lies, and Butter KnivesLead Topic: 🪶 Upstart Crow S03.E02: Wild Laughter In The Throat Of DeathLead Topic: 🛥 Outer Banks S01.E01: PilotNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 310 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell play enthusiastic but perhaps slightly self-deluded aspiring Icelandic pop stars in Netflix's new film Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga, so who better than Eurovision devotee Mark Blankenship to join us to talk about it? Around The Dial takes us to Search Party, Hot Mess House, Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels, Unsolved Mysteries, and Outcry. Dave Lost Wages uses his Extra Credit to have us add a family member to a stale TV family. Mark presents the Dinosaurs series finale, "Changing Nature," for induction to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a Game Time that really Sporcles. Climb into your aerial harness and join us! GUESTS 👤 Mark Blankenship TOPICS Lead Topic: 🏆 Eurovision Song Contest: The Story Of Fire Saga Around The Dial: 🔍 Search Party Around The Dial: 🏚 Hot Mess House Around The Dial: 🌴 Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Unsolved Mysteries Around The Dial: 🏈 Outcry Extra Credit: 🤑 Welcome Cousin Oliver The Canon: 🦎 Dinosaurs Winner & Loser: 👍 Last Chance U Colin Kaepernick Winner & Loser: 👎 Council Of Dads Game Time: 🧠 Nobody Knows You NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 309 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Mark Blankenship on Twitter 🎶 Francesco Gabbani, "Occidentali's Karma" 🦅 Conchita Wurst, "Rise Like A Phoenix" 🪀 Netta, "Toy" 🙏 Lordi, "Hard Rock Hallelujah" 🧹 Cas Aarssen's Clutterbug test 💍 Stephanie Green's story "Fourteen Meals" in The New Ohio Review ⚡️ The Flashpaper 🕵️‍♂️ Sarah on the Unsolved Mysteries revival at Primetimer

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson returns to the pod for the first time since Mark 1 to talk about an equally old-timey take on a beloved character: HBO's dark take on Perry Mason before he became the gold standard of TV defense attorneys. Is this imagining of his life before Raymond Burr canonical? Did we need to see that level of post-violence gore? And does EVERY cell of this show's being hate the LAPD? (Not that we're complaining about that.) Then we went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase, Legendary, Taste The Nation, and Lenox Hill, and Richard announced Tara's upcoming Forcening before humming a few bars of "La Vie En Ro" in his Sopranos Canon presentation. Jharrel Jerome won, Chris D'Elia lost, and the players got very animated during a Dan Cassino Game Time. Pass the time during a home marcel wave with this all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Richard Lawson TOPICS Lead Topic: 🔍 Perry Mason (2020) Around The Dial: 🕺 Sherman's Showcase Around The Dial: 💄 Legendary Around The Dial: 🍽 Taste The Nation Around The Dial: 🩺 Lenox Hill The Canon: 🍝 The Sopranos Winner & Loser: 👍 Jharrel Jerome Winner & Loser: 👎 Chris D'Elia Game Time: 🧠 Simpsons Did It NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 308 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Richard Lawson on Twitter 💻 Richard at VanityFair.com 🕺 The Sherman's Showcase Black History Month Spectacular ❤️‍🔥 Tara's Floor Is Lava review at Primetimer 📖 Richard's novel All We Can Do Is Wait at Penguin Random House 🎧 The Quaid In Full podcast

Production Note: Dave did a bad copy-paste in his notes and credited the wrong Dave in Game Time. Dave is a bad Dave. Dave LARSON is not a bad Dave, he is a good Dave and the author of Viva Lost Wages!Apparently unsatisfied by dominating the world of scripted film, Ryan Reynolds has branched out into alternative TV programming by creating a new ABC game show called Don't, hosted by Adam Scott. Will "Don't" also be our advice on whether you should watch it? Frequent Game Time writer Dan Cassino joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Netflix's latest dopey game show, Floor Is Lava; Top Chef All-Stars L.A.; and an I Am Not A Crackpot rant from Sarah regarding plotlines about bad and learning drivers. John Horner uses his Extra Credit to have us imagine TV characters from unusual careers trying to interview for jobs in the straight world. Dan presents the Father Brown episode "The Passing Bell" for induction into The Nonac. We name the week's Winner and Loser, and then we take a gamble on the latest Game Time. DON'T let your attention wander for a second!GUESTS👤 Dan CassinoTOPICSLead Topic: 🚫 Don't Around The Dial: ❤️‍🔥 Floor Is Lava Around The Dial: 🍽 Top Chef: All-Stars I Am Not A Crackpot: 🚘 Subplots about bad/learning drivers should be forbiddenExtra Credit: 🤑 TV Character Job InterviewsThe Nonac: 🙏 Father Brown Winner & Loser: 👍 The Simpsons Winner & Loser: 👍 Insecure Winner & Loser: 👎 QuibiGame Time: 🧠 Viva Lost WagesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 307 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Dan Cassino on Twitter⚔️ Tara's Crossing Swords review at Primetimer🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show🌴 A Very Special 90210 Book at Abrams Books🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs 191 with Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors

Stephanie Early Green returns to talk about Trackers, the 2019 South African "thriller" that Cinemax has imported. Unfortunately, the only place it led the EHG panel was Dullsville, despite big game, gun battles, and the apparent love child of Christian Bale and Randall Batinkoff...but we did talk about the "COVID programming trough" that's rapidly approaching for all TV fans. Later, we went Around The Dial with Love Life, Married At First Sight Australia, Please Like Me, 13 Reasons Why's final season, and Disney Gallery Colon The Mandalorian; then we wondered what themed episode titles would look like for series that don't already have them in David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit. Did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend sing successfully for its Canon supper? Who's smashing the Iron Throne on HBOMax, and what police (shows) got defunded? And who was attuned to Sad Hulk's rewrites of legendary TV theme songs during Game Time? Stare into the middle distance as you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Stephanie GreenTOPICSLead Topic: 🚨 Trackers Around The Dial: 💕 Love Life Around The Dial: 🇦🇺 Married At First Sight: Australia Around The Dial: 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨 Please Like Me Around The Dial: 📓 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🐭 Disney Gallery Extra Credit: 🤑 The One Where The Titles Have A ThemeThe Canon: 🤪 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Winner & Loser: 👍 Looney Tunes Cartoons Winner & Loser: 👎 Cops Winner & Loser: 👎 Live PD Winner & Loser: 👎 L.A.'s Finest Game Time: 🧠 Songs In The Key Of HulkNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 306 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter👩‍🍳 Tara's post on homemaking Amys at Primetimer📖 The New Ohio Review🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show

The announcement that Donald Trump was creating a new branch of the military called the Space Force was swiftly followed by the announcement that Greg Daniels and Steve Carell, the creator and star of The Office, would re-team on Space Force, a sitcom about said branch. Should that have occurred? Now that the first season has dropped on Netflix, John Ramos has returned to discuss the matter. Around The Dial takes us through AMC's ITV import Quiz, Season 2 of Ramy on Hulu, Netflix's docuseries Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, and the new Starz drama Hightown. Tara wastes no time in pitching the three-week-old What We Do In The Shadows episode "On The Run" to The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's the sequel to a Game Time that sings. Put on your moon-print fatigues and join us!GUESTS👤 John RamosTOPICSLead Topic: 🚀 Space Force Around The Dial: 💷 Quiz Around The Dial: 🏡 Ramy Around The Dial: 🏝 Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich Around The Dial: 🚨 Hightown The Canon: 🧛‍♂️ What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👍 Dishmantled Winner & Loser: 👎 Glee Heather Morris, Lea MichelleGame Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & Garfunkel 2: The GarfunkelingNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 305 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 John Ramos on Twitter🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show💷 Tara's Quiz review on Primetimer🔪 The Blotter Presents podcast🌴 Again With Again With This on Patreon🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Sinéad O'Connor's "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"💻 "Cops Are Always The Main Characters" by Kathryn VanArendonk at Vulture

We're welcoming Vanity Fair TV critic Sonia Soraiya to the guest chair to talk about the shorter, neater, Julia-Roberts-less-but-still-better second season of Amazon's Homecoming -- from sensible episode lengths to overacting extras to how TV has conditioned us to react to mystery shows. We went Around The Dial with Mrs. America, Run, Nadiya's Time To Eat, and a rare successful Zoom episode from Mystic Quest, before listener John rolled a 20-sided die on getting Community's D&D episode into the Canon. Vampires won, Skeet Ulrich lost, and one was the winningest number in a Pointless-inspired Game Time. Slap on a fake tattoo before you forget, and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Sonia SaraiyaTOPICSLead Topic: 🫐 Homecoming Around The Dial: 🙋‍♀️ Mrs. America Around The Dial: 🚆 Run Around The Dial: 🍽 Nadiya's Time To Eat Around The Dial: 🎮 Mythic Quest The Canon: 🎲 Community Winner & Loser: 👍 What We Do In The Shadows Winner & Loser: 👎 Riverdale Skeet UlrichGame Time: 🧠 Lowest Of The LowNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 304 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Sonia Saraiya on Twitter🙋‍♀️ Sonia's Mrs. America review at VanityFair.com🫐 Tara's Homecoming review at Primetimer💻 Sonia at VanityFair.com🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast

Fox is welcoming summer with a very silly American Gladiators take on tag -- yes, the playground game -- so who better than Daniel MacEachern, veteran of our Holey Moley episode last year, to join us to discuss it? Around The Dial clicks through Snowpiercer, Katy Keene, Call The Midwife (CW: there are clips and you will cry), The Last Dance, Killing Eve, and a preview of Holey Moley's Season 2 premiere. Mary uses her Extra Credit to ask us which TV role permanently ruined an actor for us. We consider the induction of Big Mouth's "I Survived Jessi's Bat Mitzvah" into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that lives to serve. Race up a wall if you have to, but listen! GUESTS 👤 Daniel MacEachern TOPICS Lead Topic: 👉 Ultimate Tag Around The Dial: 🚆 Snowpiercer Around The Dial: 🏙 Katy Keene Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🏀 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 🔪 Killing Eve Around The Dial: ⛳️ Holey Moley Extra Credit: 🤑 Who Stank Up The Actor? The Canon: 😵 Big Mouth Winner & Loser: 👍 The Mandalorian Timothy Olyphant Winner & Loser: 👎 Brian Austin Green Game Time: 🧠 Butlerfield Earth NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 303 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter 👉 Tara's Ultimate Tag review at Primetimer 💻 Kai Power Tools 🚆 Tara's Snowpiercer review at Primetimer 🎙 Tara's Rich Sommer interview at Primetimer 🪨 CBC.ca's coverage of Newfoundland and Labrador 🫧 Sarah and Joe on the history of soap operas, also at Primetimer

We hope Bobby Krut agrees to come BACK to Extra Hot Great after putting him through the unrelenting barrage of anguish that is HBO's latest limited series, I Know This Much Is True. Sure, the acting is good; yeah, it's impressive that Mark Ruffalo plays twins; not one of us is planning to keep watching, because there's never a break or a moment of levity, and even Dave's ice-cream-fixins-bar metaphor made us sad. Our trip Around The Dial made us MAD, mostly -- Tara was disgusted with Regular Heroes, Sarah was disappointed in American Experience's Dubya-sode, and Dave was not a crackpot about The Good Fight's failure to understand electricity -- but at least Bobby brought in the Antenna TV Comfort Blanket roster to cheer us up. Jeff's Extra Credit saw us rewriting well-regarded series finales with How I Met Your Mother-style bungling, before we headed to the polls for Bobby's Canon submission, NewsRadio's "President" episode. Guy Fieri won (for once), Lori Loughlin lost (again), and the competition got feverish during Game Time. Give yourselves a hand for listening to an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS👤 Robert KrutTOPICSLead Topic: 😭 I Know This Much Is True Around The Dial: 📦 Regular Heroes Around The Dial: 🏙 Diff'rent Strokes Around The Dial: ✏️ The Facts Of Life Around The Dial: 🏡 Gimme A Break Around The Dial: 👨‍🏫 Head Of The Class Around The Dial: ⏲ The Hogan Family Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 American Experience I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Good Fight Extra Credit: 🤑 Defeat From The Jaws Of VictoryThe Canon: 📻 NewsRadio S03.E01: PresidentWinner & Loser: 👍 Guy FieriWinner & Loser: 👎 Lori LoughlinGame Time: 🧠 Merry MaladiesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 302 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Robert Krut on Twitter🌴 The Again With This podcast💻 Robert Krut's website🔪 The Best Evidence newsletter

Hollywood, the latest product of Ryan Murphy's Netflix deal, has hit the streaming service. What did we think about his ahistorical take on marginalized voices in the film industry? Kevin O'Keeffe joins us to discuss! Around The Dial clicks through Betty, Never Have I Ever, The Circle Brasil, and Masterpiece's new procedural Baptiste. Erica uses her Extra Credit to get us to pitch new Big Mouth transfer students and the Hormone Monsters they'll bring with them. Kevin pitches The O.C.'s "The Rainy Day Women" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we kick off a new season of Game Time with a quiz that tests our knowledge of shows' 300th episodes. Jerk yourself a soda and join us!GUESTS👤 Kevin O'KeeffeTOPICSLead Topic: 🎥 Hollywood Around The Dial: 🛹 Betty Around The Dial: 😍 Never Have I Ever Around The Dial: 🇧🇷 The Circle Brasil Around The Dial: 🇳🇱 Baptiste Extra Credit: 🤑 Hormone Monsters For Everyone!The Canon: 🍊 The O.C. Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 The Last Dance Game Time: 🧠 First And 300NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 301 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kevin O'Keeffe on Twitter💰 Tara on Good Girls🍹 Kiki With Kevin🔪 The Blotter Presents

Captain America and Lady Mary did their best, but Allison and the rest of the panel still found legal procedural Defending Jacob guilty of crappy pacing in the second degree; aggravated TV tropes; and felony possession of moody blue gels with intent to distribute. Were the regulars able to get Al into a diversion program before she felt obliged to finish the season? We also went Around The Dial with Vida, Arde Madrid, and The Last Dance, before Dave trotted out a solution to the problems with Devs. Dan Cassino's Extra Credit tasked us with growing some goateed evil twins to spice up our favorite shows, and Elenore brought us back to a '90s kind of world with her Living Single Canon submission. Re-casting ("alleged") felons won, nudity lost (but also kind of won?), and we kicked up our heels with Tara's Tube Tunes 6 Game Time. Got a garage door to scrub? Pass the time with an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Allison Lowe HuffTOPICSLead Topic: 👩‍⚖️ Defending Jacob Around The Dial: 🍺 Vida Around The Dial: 🇪🇸 Arde Madrid Around The Dial: 💃 The Last Dance Around The Dial: 💾 Devs Extra Credit: 😈 The Upside Of Evil TwinsThe Canon: 🏆 Living Single S01.E06: Great ExpectationsWinner & Loser: 👍 Solid properties subtracting leadsWinner & Loser: 👎 Sacramento reporter Melinda MezaGame Time: 📻 Tube Tunes VINOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 300 page on ExtraHotGreat.com⚖️ "By the Content of Cousin Pam's Character" on Seven Scribes🍻 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on Vida💋 Tara's Vanity Fair kiss-off of the Will & Grace re-finale🇪🇸 Al's Arde Madrid write-up on MHz Choice💩 The Diarrhea Song by Michael Scott 🍆 KCRA goes full frontal📷 Photo: Apple

In an absence of series premieres any of us could manage to get excited about, Dave came up with a new format: the ABCs of TV! With our beloved Joe Reid, we go around the horn, each naming an important TV person, show, feature, or just THING about TV that matches up with each letter of the alphabet. Then, it's on to a Game Time made for cuffing season. Did any of our letter picks line up with yours? Listen and find out!GUESTS👤 Joe ReidTOPICSLead Topic: 🔤 The ABCs of TVGame Time: 🧠 The Story Of UsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 299 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter🔫 The A-Team M-24 Assault Rifle toy🤬 The Wire's "Fuck" scene⚖️ Tara on the Better Call Saul finale🕸 Primetimer.com🐝 This Had Oscar Buzz🎶 MASTAS on Dubious Heroes

Dan Rogge bought a ticket for our latest episode on HBO's Run, a "comedy thriller" about college sweethearts trying to reunite. Does the pleasure of watching Merritt Wever and Archie Punjabi at work outweigh the credibility issues? Do phones in the Run-verse never need charging? And is Rich Sommer TV's worst husband? We super-sized Around The Dial with stops at The Baker And The Beauty, Bosch, The Good Fight, Sesame Street, Money Heist, The Valhalla Murders, Devs, and Picard. And we chased that with a Sean double: first, whether he's a crackpot for thinking streaming services should offer a single-storyline watching option; and then his Canon pitch for the virulently catchy America's Next Top Model episode, "Game." Amy Schumer won, Lori Loughlin lost, and the melody lingered on in a musical Game Time. Grab your show-branded airhorn; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Dan RoggeTOPICSLead Topic: 🏃 Run Around The Dial: 🥊 The Good Fight Around The Dial: 🍪 The Baker And The Beauty Around The Dial: 🚸 Sesame Street Around The Dial: 🌆 Bosch Around The Dial: 🔪 The Valhalla Murders Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🫖 Star Trek: Picard I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 The Canon: 🏆 America's Next Top Model S17.E08: GameWinner & Loser: 👍 Amy SchumerLead Topic: 👎 Lori LoughlinGame Time: 🧠 Royalties ROINOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 298 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🥊 Angelica Jade Bastién on The Good Fight's premiere🍪 Tara's Primetimer piece on The Baker And The Beauty🧛 Tara's Vanity Fair piece on What We Do In The Shadows Season 2🩸 The Blotter Presents👩‍🎨 Monica! The Podcast

Just a few short weeks after we tested our knowledge of Quibi titles in Game Time, Quibi is taking center stage: the platform has launched, and we have selected a total of eight of its 24 launch titles to discuss with returning guest Adam Sternbergh! For his Extra Credit topic, John C. challenges us to reimagine single-camera comedies as multi-cams. Adam makes the case for our inducting Cheer's series premiere, "God Blessed Texas," into the Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that's a little objectionable. Settle in for the long haul and join us!GUESTS👤 Adam SternberghTOPICSLead Topic: 🏚 Murder House Flip Lead Topic: 🍽 Dishmantled Lead Topic: 🤬 I Promise Lead Topic: ⚖️ Chrissy's Court Lead Topic: 🕳 Memory Hole Lead Topic: 🤸 Flipped Lead Topic: 🎰 Gayme Show Lead Topic: ⛔️ Most Dangerous Game Extra Credit: 🤑 Should Have Been Filmed In Front Of A Live Studio AudienceThe Canon: 🏆 Cheer S01.E01: God Blessed TexasWinner & Loser: 👍 Craig Conover converted his pillow company to make PPEWinner & Loser: 👎 Ellen DeGeneresGame Time: 🧠 Objectionable PeopleNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 297 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter📱 Tara on Quibi at Primetimer🚓 Tara on Brooklyn Nine-Nine (new!), also at Primetimer🍑 Sarah on Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project, ALSO at Primetimer

One half of the GFY brain trust, Heather Cocks, came back to discuss Amazon's Project Runway with a big-budget twist: Making The Cut. As much as we love Naomi Campbell's sugar-free approach to, well, life, the panel agreed that Making The Cut has some structural problems (too long; dumb Tim 'n' Heidi "friend dates"), and too tight a focus on NOT being a sewing competition. Will any of us keep watching? You'll find out before we decide whether Emily Is Not A Crackpot for wanting period shows to air period commercials. We'll go Around The Dial with Call The Midwife content warning, the return of One Day At A Time, Barry, homemade Lego Masters spinoffs, Top Chef, and a Better Call Saul sound drop; later, we'll feel relieved that the Sherlock episode we all THOUGHT Erica presented as a Canon contender is actually for the Nonac. Kate McKinnon won, celebrity quarantine-busters lost, and Game Time stretched those family ties (sha la la laaaaa). Tick tock: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Heather CocksTOPICSLead Topic: 🧵 Making The Cut I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Period shows should air period commercialsAround The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 📆 One Day At A Time (2017) Around The Dial: 🥷 Barry Around The Dial: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 🧑‍🍳 Top Chef: All-Stars Around The Dial: ⚖️ Better Call Saul The Nonac: 🤮 Sherlock S04.E03: The Final ProblemWinner & Loser: 👍 Kate McKinnonWinner & Loser: 👎 Celebrity quarantine-bustersGame Time: 🧠 Family TiesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 296 page on ExtraHotGreat.com📆 Tara's Primetimer piece on One Day At A Time🍆 Tara's Primetimer piece on Black Monday's male nudity🫅 Pre-order Heather Cocks's and Jessica Morgan's The Heir Affair🩸 The Blotter Presents🐯 Buntsy on Tiger King for Primetimer

Some shows -- your 30 Rocks, your Simpsonses -- get pitched to the Canon all the time. So for this special all-Canon episode, we reached into our mailbag and chose user submissions for shows that had never been pitched before. Dan Cassino challenged us to battle with Foyle's War; Caroline opened the door for The Haunting Of Hill House; and Jeff put all his eggs in a Baskets. Then, befitting an episode that started in World War II, Dave shocked Sarah and Tara with a Teutonic non-regulation Game Time. Hit up the buffet for some desserts and join us!TOPICSThe Canon: 🏆 Foyle's War S04.E04 Casualties Of WarThe Canon: 🏆 The Haunting Of Hill House S01.E06: Two StormsThe Canon: 🏆 Baskets S01.E04: Easter In BakersfieldGame Time: 🧠 German To The SituationNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 295 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Appointment Television's Margaret H. Willison put a marshmallow on a stick to talk about Hulu's Little Fires Everywhere, and whether THIS is the real "vanity-free performance" on Reese Witherspoon's recent résumé, plus Kerry Washington's interesting choices as Mia; the production's unwavering commitment to 1997-ness; and whether the male Dawson's Creek lead we'd have bought in the Bill role is actually Dawson himself. Tara refused to be labeled a crackpot for thinking Mike Schur's upcoming philosoph...omedy? book is going to join its "humorous"-essay brethren in sucking, and then we went Around The Dial with Black Monday, The Bachelor, Work In Progress, Please Like Me, an Evil Lunch Bunch concept, Project Runway, and an Amazing Stories update. Margaret couldn't help but wonder if a second-season Sex & The City would make it into the Canon, and after Laura Benanti was a winner and most TV productions were quarantined losers, the Game Time question was Quibi Or Not Quibi?. This all-new Extra Hot Great's got dial-up; listen now!GUESTS👤 Margaret WillisonTOPICSLead Topic: 🔥 Little Fires Everywhere I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Mike Schur's book will suckAround The Dial: 📈 Black Monday Around The Dial: 🤵‍♂️ The Bachelor Around The Dial: 🗂 Work In Progress Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 👗 Project Runway Around The Dial: 😲 Amazing Stories The Canon: 🏆 Sex & The City S02.E07: The Chicken DanceWinner & Loser: 👍 Laura BenantiLead Topic: 👎 Productions in quarantineGame Time: 🧠 Quibi Or Not Quibi?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 294 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Margaret H. Willison on Twitter📕 Pre-order A Very Special 90210 Book! Still not a bit!🌴 Again With Again With This📺 The Appointment Television! podcast👩‍👧 Tara's Primetimer piece on Mom

Apple TV+ has brought Amazing Stories, the less-nihilistic take on The Twilight Zone, back for all the '80s kids, though confusingly premiered this anthology series with only one episode. Mark Lisanti joins us to talk about the fishiness of this rollout strategy, and whether "The Cellar" was a compelling enough episode to get anyone back to watch more. Around The Dial takes us through For Life; a roundup of the series premieres on FX (and FX on Hulu): Devs, Breeders, and Dave; Jersey Shore: Family Vacation; and Season 3 of Babylon Berlin. Mark presents the "Hamm On Toast" episode of Toast Of London for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all sit a spell for this week's Game Time. Make yourself a bathtub gin and tonic and join us!GUESTS👤 Mark LisantiTOPICSLead Topic: 😲 Amazing Stories Around The Dial: 🛟 For Life Around The Dial: 🧑‍💻 Devs Around The Dial: 🐩 Breeders Around The Dial: 🤬 Dave Around The Dial: 🏄 Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Around The Dial: 🇩🇪 Babylon Berlin The Canon: 🏆 Toast Of London S03.E03: Hamm On ToastWinner & Loser: 👍 Casting agents for The BridesWinner & Loser: 👎 RuPaul's Drag Race Sherry PieGame Time: 🧠 Letter FlipNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 293 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Mark Lisanti on Twitter🩸 The Blotter Presents🍞 The Clem Fandango supercut

AMC already had a perfectly good Charlie Kaufman-esque property, but the network went with Dispatches From Elsewhere over Lodge 49 -- and while it's kind of Sarah's dream to fall into an alternate-reality scavenger hunt, first-time guest Dave Chen felt like the show would be more fun to "play" than to watch. Is it too twee? Too slow? Too divorced from the reality of non-celebrities? Or do the excellent cast and the In Search Of… graphics make it all worthwhile? Then we went Around The Dial with Love Is Blind, The Outsider, Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant, A French Village, and second-rate American TV in East Africa before Dave Cole declared transparent computer screens NOT the wave of the future. Dave Chen tried to give the Canon a bear hug by submitting the first-season finale of Succession for the Canon. Trebek won, disgracios lost (again), and IMDb throuples tested our wits during Game Time. Don't miss this dispatch from your podcast app; it's an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS 👤 Dave Chen TOPICS Lead Topic: 📬 Dispatches From Elsewhere Around The Dial: 🙈 Love Is Blind Around The Dial: 🍃 The Outsider Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 🇫🇷 A French Village Around The Dial: 🌍 TV in East Africa I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Transparent Computer Screens The Canon: 🏆 Succession S01.E10: Nobody Is Ever Missing Winner & Loser: 👍 Alex Trebek Winner & Loser: 👎 Disgracios Game Time: 🧠 They Get Around NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 292 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Dave Chen on Twitter 🧐 Culturally Relevant with David Chen 🤠 Decoding Westworld 🎈 Tara on Party Of Five at Primetimer ⚖️ Sarah on The Trials Of Gabriel Fernandez at Primetimer 👃 The Sweet Smell of Succession

As Better Call Saul returns for its fifth and almost final season, superfan Will Leitch joins us to check in on Jimmy, Kim, Nacho, Mike, and of course, good old black-and-white Gene. Dave explains why he is not a crackpot to feel infuriated by the current Chili's TV ad campaign. We ponder David Ellis Dickerson's Extra Credit question about which TV shows should go to an all-nude format. Will presents (heh) Party Down's "Steve Guttenberg's Birthday" for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to a Game Time that really sings. Fire up your complimentary burner phone and listen!GUESTS👤 Will LeitchTOPICSLead Topic: ⚖️ Better Call Saul I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Chili's ads are maddeningExtra Credit: 🤑 NCIS Oh Calcutta!The Canon: 🏆 Party Down S02.E05: Steve Guttenberg's BirthdayGame Time: 🧠 The Man From Simon & GarfunkelNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 291 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Will Leitch on Twitter📩 Will's newsletter👨‍💻 Will's blog

To keep you in content while Dave and Tara go on vacation, we're forcening each other to watch TV episodes! Dave forcens Tara to watch what happens when a zombie virus ravages the Smurf village. Tara forcens Sarah to journey to Satellite Beach, FL as its high school re-mounts Annie Get Your Gun on Encore!. And Sarah forcens Dave to tag along with Josh in the series premiere of Netflix's Daybreak. How did each of us take it? Listen and find out!TOPICSLead Topic: 💙 The Smurfs S01.E27: The Purple SmurfLead Topic: 🎭 Encore! S01.E05: Annie Get Your GunLead Topic: 🌅 Daybreak S01.E01: Josh vs. the Apocalypse: Part 1NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 290 page on ExtraHotGreat.com👿 The Purple Smurfs🎭 Encore!'s 'Annie Get Your Gun'🌅 The series premiere of Daybreak

Will Arnett has followed his ex-wife Amy Poehler into the field of highly meta reality show hosting with his gig on Fox's Lego Masters, and American dad (and therefore Lego Master) Jim Durr has returned to discuss the season kickoff! Around The Dial takes us through The CW's Katy Keene; Free Solo on Disney+; a roundup of titles on CBS All Access: Picard, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and Interrogation; and Dave's latest favorite local ad. Dave is also in the hot (ejector) seat in presenting The Prisoner's "Many Happy Returns" for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a pun safari in this week's Non-Regulation Game Time. Careful where you step as you join us for the latest episode!GUESTS👤 Jim DurrTOPICSLead Topic: 🧱 Lego Masters Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Katy Keene Around The Dial: 🗻 Free Solo Around The Dial: 🪐 Star Trek: Picard Around The Dial: 🌎 Star Trek: The Animated Series Around The Dial: 🔦 Interrogation Around The Dial: 🏷 Dave's latest local ad obsessionThe Canon: 🏆 The Prisoner S01.E07: Many Happy ReturnsWinner & Loser: 👍 Jerry HarrisWinner & Loser: 👎 Y: The Last Man Game Time: 🧠 Kenya Believe These Punny TV Titles?NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 289 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jim Durr on Twitter🌴 Again With This on Patreon🩸 The Blotter Presents

Even though Eve and Sarah D. spend most weekdays thinking about the true crime that's worth your time for their newsletter, they still didn't know much about the Mobbed-up McDonald's Monopoly-game fraud case that's at the center of HBO's McMillions. Will this docuseries join the scam-umentary pantheon alongside The Dropout and The Imposter? Is Doug Mathews the write-in presidential candidate we need now? And why aren't off-camera docu directors ever mic'd properly? After we considered those questions, we went Around The Dial with BoJack Horseman, The Outsider and other HBO Sunday-night offerings, the end of The Good Place, and Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet. Eve screened an episode of Home Movies for the Canon; then Tim Robinson won and Terry Crews lost, before we filled in the blanks -- in pen! -- in a history-making Game Time. Grab a light meter and go undercover for an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Eve BateyTOPICSLead Topic: 🍔 Mcmillions Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: 😶 Curb Your Enthusiasm Around The Dial: 😦 The Outsider Around The Dial: 😇 The Good Place Around The Dial: 🧚🏻‍♀️ Mythic Quest The Canon: 🏆 Home Movies S04.E01: Everyone's Entitled To My OpinionWinner & Loser: 👍 Tim RobinsonWinner & Loser: 👎 Terry CrewsGame Time: 🧠 TV CrosswordNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 288 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🍟 The Daily Beast post on the case🍟 Margaret Lyons's review for the NYT☕️ The documentary about the McDonald's hot-coffee lawsuit🍟 Dr. Marcia Chatelain's Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America📙 Tara on Citations Needed🐴 Tara's BoJack review for VF🔪 Sarah on Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer on Primetimer

CBS All Access has chased Star Trek: Discovery with Picard, picking up with everyone's favourite retired Starfleet admiral as he...well, to be honest, he's probably not going to be spending much time tending to his French vineyard. What is he getting up to? Maureen Ryan joins us to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through The Goop Lab, Shrill, The Expanse, Veronica Mars, and Flack. We discuss whether Doctor Who's "Heaven Sent" should be inducted into The Canon, and then it's on to a Game Time that will leave you starry-eyed. Cozy up with a beloved pit bull and listen!GUESTS👤 Mo RyanTOPICSLead Topic: 🪐 Star Trek: Picard Around The Dial: 🧫 The Goop Lab Around The Dial: 😱 Shrill Around The Dial: 🌌 The Expanse Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars Around The Dial: 📨 Flack The Canon: 🏆 Doctor Who S09.E11: Heaven SentWinner & Loser: 👍 Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens Winner & Loser: 👎 The BBCGame Time: 🧠 All StarsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 287 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter👩‍💻 MoRyan.com📏 danilo's Twitter thread on "Measure Of A Man"☕️ Tara's Horny Viewer's Guide to Stumptown at Primetimer🩸 The Blotter Presents

Apple TV+'s Little America premiered last week, and Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall returned to talk about the heartwarming, but not treacly, anthology series about "the lives of immigrants in the United States." We talked about the casting, our favorite episodes, and why it reminded Sarah of High Maintenance before going Around The Dial with Avenue 5, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Sex Education, and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. Alan tried to get a second-season episode of The Americans' passport stamped at the border of the Canon; then Peacock won (CHUNG CHUNG) and a bunch of dead shows lost before we all got sick with a slash-fiction-based Game Time. Admire the sprinkler system on an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Alan SepinwallTOPICSLead Topic: 🇺🇸 Little America Around The Dial: 🛰 Avenue 5 Around The Dial: 🚑 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: 🍑 Sex Education Around The Dial: 👸 Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens The Canon: 🏆 The Americans S02.E09: Martial EagleWinner & Loser: 👍 PeacockWinner & Loser: 👎 Dead showsGame Time: 🧠 Slash FictionNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 286 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🪨 Alan's review of Little America for Rolling Stone🇺🇸 The Little America creative team talks about there being no politics in Season 2📒 The Original Little America series at Epic Magazine🚑 Tara on 9-1-1: Lone Star and Medical Police-esque spoof shows for Primetimer 🪨 Alan's review of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens

When we decided to cover Freeform's remake of Fox's iconic teen soap Party Of Five, there was one obvious choice of guest: Meredith Smith, recent submitter of a Canon presentation on the original series. After discussing Freeform's devastating take on five new lovable orphans, Around The Dial takes us through Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Grand Designs, and Cheer. Meredith goes back into the Canon fray with the Murder, She Wrote episode "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time to sink your teeth into. Gather all your siblings and listen!GUESTS👤 Meredith SmithTOPICSLead Topic: 🍽 Party Of Five (2020) Around The Dial: 🎧 Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist Around The Dial: 🏡 Grand Designs Around The Dial: 📣 Cheer The Canon: 🔪 Murder, She Wrote Winner & Loser: 👍 Saved By The Bell (2020) Winner & Loser: 👎 Grey's Anatomy Game Time: 🧠 TV DinnersNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 285 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Meredith Smith on Twitter📺 Primetimer🎧 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

The BBC rolled out Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula on New Year's Day; we Yanks endured it over the weekend, and Nick and the panel agree that this grimly joyless take on a careworn narrative needs SOMETHING. A modern-day setting, maybe? Mini bottle eps on every famous personage the Count has eaten? But it just seems like the creators didn't really want to be there...and as a result, we didn't either. Going Around The Dial is more fun, with looks at Dare Me, You, Magic For Humans, Spinning Out, and Dave's tips for pepping up a Frasier rewatch. Then Nick returns us to the cemetery with his Nonac presentation on Buffy's fifth-season premiere. Killing Eve won, Witcher what-about-ers lost, and Steal Meals were flyin' in a very meta Game Time. Stake your claim to 2020's first all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Nick Rheinwald-JonesTOPICSLead Topic: 🧛‍♂️ Dracula (2013) Around The Dial: 😝 Dare Me Around The Dial: 🫵 You Around The Dial: 🪄 Magic For Humans Around The Dial: 😵‍💫 Spinning Out Around The Dial: 📻 Frasier The Nonac: 🤮 Buffy The Vampire Slayer S05.E01: Buffy vs. DraculaWinner & Loser: 👍 Killing Eve Winner & Loser: 👎 The Witcher Game Time: 🧠 Televisual PursuitNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 284 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🧛‍♂️ Did British viewers stick around after Night 1 of Dracula?📝 Tara's top 10 eps of the decade on Culturally Relevant📄 Sarah on why to watch Surviving R Kelly Pt. 2: The Reckoning🎭 Nick Rheinwald-Jones's Safehouse '82📍 Nick's The Pod

Happy New Year! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great! See you next week for a new episode.EEHG 023: The Post-Buffy The Vampire Slayer Power Rankings In the years since BtVS seemed to dominate the cultural conversation -- and our TWoP forums -- some of the main cast have gone on to bigger and better things; others have gone on…Dr. Phil, with disastrous results. In today's Extra Extra Hot Great, we're ranking the top ten cast members listed on the IMDb, plus Joss Whedon, to see who's chosen and who's cancelled based on what they've done since the show ended in 2003.EEHG 028: Measure Twice, Cut Once In an era when there is, by any reasonable assessment, rather a lot of TV, we tend always to be grateful when a new show doesn't give us more than we would care to handle -- when episodes aren't too long; when a season doesn't feel like it's been overstuffed. The reason we appreciate that is because there are so many shows that we like, but that do impose themselves excessively on our time.TOPICSLead Topic: ⚰️ Buffy The Vampire Slayer Power RankingsLead Topic: 🫃🏻 Overstuffed TV ShowsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 283 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Merry Christmas! We're off for the holidays so we've released two of our Patreon episodes from Extra Extra Hot Great!EEHG 014: Podcast Like It’s 1999 We're hopping in our time machines to imagine what an EHG main episode might look like…in 1999. It's all sequels and prequels in scripted content these days and hey, we're no different, so: What's the main topic on the podcast in a 1999 episode? What is everyone talking about for Around The Dial? What would we put up for the Canon, and who's Winning and Losing? And how the hell are we going to watch that new episode of Twin Peaks when our VCR crapped out and Netflix is decades away?EEHG 030: EHG 1969 Is Extra Hot Groovy Previously, we imagined what an EHG would have looked like in 1999. Today, we're going back even further — to 1969. It was a big year in the news, and we're probably all well sick of retrospectives on Manson and the moon landing…but what was going on in TV-land in these fractured United States? We'll each propose main topics for a 1969 podcast; our Around The Dial, Canon, and Winner/Loser candidates; and possible celebrity guests.TOPICSLead Topic: 🎮 EHG in 1999Lead Topic: ✌️ EHG in 1969NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 282 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

It's the most wonderful time of the year...if your very favourite thing is oppressively jolly holiday programming! We asked you, our listeners, to help us choose which piece of brand-new 2019 holiday content we would cover this year, and you delivered unto us the Lifetime original movie Mistletoe & Menorahs. Joining us to discuss it in a wild departure from their usual gig discussing the films of the Hallmark network are David J. Roth and Jeb Lund! Around The Dial clicks through FX's new adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Back To Life, the new season of CNBC's The Profit, The Expanse, and the season (and possibly series) finale of HBO's Watchmen. Lauren uses her Extra Credit to make us all benevolent TV dictators and bestow upon us the power to take a show that's Not For Us and make it meet our specific needs. Tara presents for Nonac induction the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode "It's A Totally Happening Life." Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with a curious backstory. Take a break from all your a-wassailing and join us!GUESTS👤 David Roth👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 🕎 Mistletoe & Menorahs Around The Dial: 🤶 A Christmas Carol Around The Dial: 🛟 Back To Life Around The Dial: 💸 The Profit Around The Dial: 🌌 The Expanse Around The Dial: ⌚️ Watchmen Extra Credit: 🤑 Benevolent TV DictatorThe Nonac: 🤮 Beverly Hills, 90210 S03.E16: It's A Totally Happening LifeWinner & Loser: 👍 The Brothers ScottWinner & Loser: 👎 Dan SpiloGame Time: 🧠 Bizarre BackstoryNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 281 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 David J. Roth on Twitter🐦 Jeb Lund on Twitter🎄 The Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean podcast🎄 DAJAM on Patreon⏰ The Culturally Relevant podcast🎳 UnDeadspin on Twitter📰 James Poniewozik on Dan Spilo at the New York Times🏴‍☠️ Andy Dehnart on Spilo at Vulture🩸 The Blotter Presents

How did Netflix think it would get away with a stinker like V Wars in the age of peak TV? We ponder that question with returning guest Monty, and we investigate the ingredients in a C-minus Syfy show (which this basically is) and wonder whether the show has, well, enough vampires (spoiler: nope). We go Around The Dial with Servant, Mad About You 2019, Making It, Ex On The Beach, and Toast Of London before rebooting dark characters in sunny-genred shows for an Extra Credit. Monty went over the top (as it were) for his Blackadder series finale Canon submission. Non-fiction cheerleaders won, Baby Yoda lost (sort of), and we seconded a motion for Part 2 of a previous Game Time. Keep hacking -- it's a bloody great new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Monty AshleyTOPICSLead Topic: 🧛 V Wars Around The Dial: 🍽 Servant Around The Dial: 💕 Mad About You Around The Dial: 🔨 Making It Around The Dial: 🌊 Ex On The Beach Around The Dial: 🍞 Toast Of London Extra Credit: 🤑 Shiny De-bootThe Canon: 🏆 Blackadder S04.E06: GoodbyeeeWinner & Loser: 👍 Cheer Lead Topic: 👎 Disney's failure to figure out the Baby Yoda toy supply chainGame Time: 🧠 Second Second Most EpisodesNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 280 page on ExtraHotGreat.com😖 Ian Somerhalder is kind of a creeper?🐍 On Blackadder's final scene🎄 OUR Dave on Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean🌴 The series finale of Beverly Hills, 90210 on Again With This🔪 The Blotter Presents🎨 Yes, Work Of Art actually existed🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

In this episode, we dig in on some of the Canons submitted by you, our beloved listeners! First, we consider Doug Dale's case for Are You The One?'s eighth-season premiere, "Come One, Come All"; Meredith confronts us with the Party Of Five episode "The Intervention"; then Tara pitches Mom's "Spaghetti Sauce And A Dumpster Fire." Which -- if any! -- make it into our TV Hall Of Fame? Join us and find out!TOPICSThe Canon: 🏆 Are You The One S08.E01: Come One, Come AllThe Canon: 🏆 Party Of Five S03.E20: The InterventionThe Canon: 🏆 Mom S05.E18: Spaghetti Sauce And A Dumpster FireNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 279 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

At Extra Hot Great, holiday time means non-regulation episodes -- like a supersized round of Would You Rather? with Blankenship Chair creator Mark Blankenship. The four of us confront identity-crisis-causing brainteasers from each other and you listeners, including terrible live musicals, an eternity with Noah Benson, chyron font battles, Friends-giving episodes, Ken Burns's Raisins, secret Scientologists, Alec Baldwin, theme songs at the dentist, early Law & Order face-offs, and who's going to avenge Buntsy's death onscreen. How would YOU choose in these Would You Rathers -- or COULD you choose? Pepsi-Challenge yourself to find out in Extra Hot Great 278.GUESTS👤 Mark BlankenshipTOPICSLead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: Panel RoundLead Topic: 🤔 Would You Rather: EHG Assist RoundNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 278 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

The Crown has returned for Season 3 with new actors in all the key roles, and who better to talk about it than semi-professional royal watchers Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan of Go Fug Yourself? Around The Dial takes us through Dollface, All Rise, Evil, and Harlots. Sarah makes the case for American Crime Story S02.E04, titled "House By The Lake," to The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser. Get all your mates from the polo team over to the house and join us!GUESTS👤 Heather Cocks👤 Jessica MorganTOPICSLead Topic: 👑 The Crown Around The Dial: 🪆 Dollface Around The Dial: ⚖️ All Rise Around The Dial: 😈 Evil Around The Dial: 👠 Harlots The Canon: 🏆 American Crime Story S02.E04: House By The LakeWinner & Loser: 👍 Clive OwenWinner & Loser: 👎 David HuntNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 277 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Heather & Jessica on Twitter👗 Go Fug Yourself👸 Heather & Jessica's latest novel, The Royal We

Disney+ finally launched earlier this week, so we thought we'd talk The Mandalorian with Adam Grosswirth. How does the show fit into the Star Wars universe -- and should it bother? Is it hiding Pedro Pascal's light under a mask bushel? And was a certain very cute puppet perhaps pandering to longtime franchise fans? Later, we went Around The Dial with High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Encore, Back To Life, a POV on Bill Nye, and two Dark shows, and Adam hoped his and Eleanor's joint Grey's Anatomy presentation for the Canon wouldn't bomb. A League Of Their Own won, Don Cherry (finally) lost, and we trod the boards in a theatrical Game Time (yes, Sarah "actually got some points"). Don't take your masks off: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Adam GrosswirthTOPICSLead Topic: 👾 The Mandalorian Around The Dial: 🎭 High School Musical: The Musical The Series Around The Dial: 🎭 Encore! Around The Dial: 🛟 Back To Life Around The Dial: 🧪 Bill Nye The Science Guy Around The Dial: 🔮 The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Around The Dial: 🧱 His Dark Materials The Canon: 🏆 Grey's Anatomy S02.E17: As We Know ItWinner & Loser: 👍 A League Of Their Own Lead Topic: 👎 Don CherryGame Time: 🧠 Jazz HandsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 276 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🎬 You Must Remember This🌴 Again With This🎶 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs

Apple TV+ is first to market in this month's battle of the brand-new streaming services, and Slate's TV critic Willa Paskin is joining us to talk about it -- starting with its fanciest new series, The Morning Show, but also touching on See, For All Mankind, and Dickinson. Sarah stars in an abbreviated Around The Dial to talk about the season finale of The Great British Bake Off. Then it's on to a discussion of whether American Vandal S01.E05, "Premature Theories," should be inducted into The Canon. After naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to the return of a Game Time classic. Grab your coffee and Red Bull and listen! GUESTS👤 Willa PaskinTOPICSLead Topic: 🌅 The Morning Show Lead Topic: 👁 See Lead Topic: 🌕 For All Mankind Lead Topic: ✍️ Dickinson Around The Dial: 🍰 The Great British Bake Off The Canon: 🏆 American Vandal S01.E05: Premature TheoriesWinner & Loser: 👍 Julia GarnerWinner & Loser: 👎 Gina TorresGame Time: 🧠 The Day After Before And AfterNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 275 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Willa Paskin on Twitter✍️ Willa on Slate💍 Willa's podcast, Decoder Ring🚀 The Season 1 Finale of the Quaid In Full podcast

Mrs. Fletcher gives Kathryn Hahn a star turn as a divorced empty-nester trying to find herself (sexily!), and we're thrilled that star critic Maureen Ryan could return to discuss it with us -- whether we liked it, where it should have ended, and when we can expect this "limited series" to turn into another past-its-sell-by regular series. We went Around The Dial with BoJack Horseman, Lucifer, Netflix cancellation shenanigans, Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant, and Silicon Valley, and then Tara filed a motion to admit a second-season episode of The Good Fight to the Canon. Lizzo won (some more), the Game Of Thrones showrunners lost (for once), and there were no points for second place in a very challenging Game Time. Pack up that minivan: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great. GUESTS 👤 Mo Ryan TOPICS Lead Topic: 👠 Mrs. Fletcher Around The Dial: 🐴 Bojack Horseman Around The Dial: 🥎 Netflix Moneyballing Around The Dial: 😈 Lucifer Around The Dial: 🤰 Teen Mom: Young & Pregnant Around The Dial: 💻 Silicon Valley The Canon: 🏆 The Good Fight S02.E12: Day 485 Winner & Loser: 👍 Lizzo Winner & Loser: 👎 David Benioff and D.B. Weiss Game Time: 🧠 Second-Most Episodes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 274 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🌴 Again With This 🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast 🪞 The Through The Looking Glass podcast and more at Mo Ryan's website 🏆 Submit your Canons!

HBO has imported Sky Atlantic's miniseries Catherine The Great -- starring seasoned queen portrayer Helen Mirren -- and first-time guest Karen Geier is Russian (sorry) to join us for a discussion all about it! Around The Dial takes us through Living With Yourself, Modern Love, The Politician, Buzz, Survivor, the latest in Ken Burns, and HBO's highly anticipated take on Watchmen! Karen presents the "Interlude" episode of The Righteous Gemstones for induction into The Canon. Then it's on to the week's Winner and Loser, and a non-regulation Game Time that's the mother you never had and the sister everybody would want...or that's just about guest stars playing characters' relatives on TV. Saddle up your sturdiest steed and join us! GUESTS 👤 Karen Geier TOPICS Lead Topic: 🐴 Catherine The Great Around The Dial: 🫵 Living With Yourself Around The Dial: ❤️ Modern Love Around The Dial: 🗳 The Politician Around The Dial: 🏜 Survivor Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: ⌚️ Watchmen The Canon: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones S01.E05: Interlude Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Jane Fonda and Sam Waterston Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris Game Time: 🧠 It's All Relative NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 273 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Karen Geier on Twitter 👻 The On Belief podcast 👻 On Belief on Patreon 😢 The On Grief podcast 😢 On Grief on Patreon 🎙 KarenGeier.com ❤️ Maureen Ryan's Modern Love review at NYTimes.com 🏝 Again With This 🏝 Again With This on Patreon 🎶 MASTAS on Patreon ⌚️ James Poniewozik's Watchmen review

We're so glad our esteemed colleague and Breaking Bad 101 author Alan Sepinwall could join us to talk about El Camino, the Breaking Bad sequel on Netflix that starts just minutes after the finale ended. Did we think it was necessary and/or satisfying? Were the fan-service elements welcome, or distracting? And which other characters should get their own post-BB films? Later, we went Around The Dial with Dynasty, Riverdale's Luke Perry tribute episode, Lodge 49, Private Lives Of The Windsors, and an objection from Dave to breathy cover-song TV themes (and the ending of Press, kind of), before Alan warmed up a second-season Leftovers episode as his Canon submission. Holey Moley won, a FOX affiliate (and racist sports teams) lost, and we sprang into action (verbs) for Game Time with the season hanging in the balance. An all-new Extra Hot Great: that's church, yo.GUESTS👤 Alan SepinwallTOPICSLead Topic: 🚘 El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Around The Dial: 🕶 Dynasty (2017) Around The Dial: 🧑‍🦰 Riverdale Around The Dial: 🍺 Lodge 49 Around The Dial: 👑 Private Lives Of The Windsors Around The Dial: 🎞 Get Shorty I Am Not A Crackpot: 🤪 Breathy slowed-down cover songs as TV themesAround The Dial: 🗞 Press The Canon: 🫥 The Leftovers Winner & Loser: 👍 Holey Moley Winner & Loser: 👎 California Fox affiliate using chyron "Braves Scalped?"Game Time: 🧠 The Verb Is The WordNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 272 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Alan Sepinwall on Twitter🌆 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast🎥 Quaid In Full

PBS's Masterpiece has premiered the British miniseries Press, a tale of warring London newspapers, and we've brought a former newspaper reporter, Daniel MacEachern, back to the podcast to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through Evil, Big Mouth, and Cash Cab, before we each pitch our own Fosse/Verdon-style limited series based on a real person's life (and possibly a specific biography). Danny presents The Grinder's "Grinder v. Grinder" for induction into the Canon. Then we're on to naming the week's Winner and Loser, and finishing up with a Game Time that might sound a little familiar. Put down any newspaper you might be reading and listen to us instead!GUESTS👤 Daniel MacEachernTOPICSLead Topic: 📰 Press Around The Dial: 👿 Evil Around The Dial: 👄 Big Mouth Around The Dial: 🚕 Cash Cab Extra Credit: 🤑 Small Screen / Larger Than LifeThe Canon: 🏆 The Grinder S01.E13: Grinder v. GrinderWinner & Loser: 👍 Rachel MaddowLead Topic: 👎 Lindsay LohanGame Time: 🧠 Familiar SituationsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 271 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Daniel MacEachern on Twitter🏸 David Roth, Laura Wagner, and Kelsey McKinney's Deadspin report on TheMaven's Sports Illustrated takeover👄 Big Mouth co-creator Andrew Goldberg apologized for the show's description of pansexuality🕳 Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs ranks "Live Through This"🚀 Quaid In Full's episode on Dennis Quaid's Baretta episode🏞 The Amazonian Expedition That Nearly Killed Theodore Roosevelt

We couldn't decide which headline show to cover for EHG 270, so we set our shot clocks to eight minutes each for three: Survivor's 39th (!) season, with an idolatrous twist; new sitcom Sunnyside, starring Kal Penn as a disgraced city councilman; and semi-charming, SUPER-piloty PI/PTSD drama Stumptown. Will any of us keep watching any of these? Can we, when a couple of them already pulled basement-ish ratings? Later, we went Around The Dial with Bissinger doc Buzz, Perfect Harmony, The Challenge, and Below Deck Med before Kim brought us back to Survivor and fans vs. favorites with her Canon presentation. Moriarty's a winner, Ray Lewis is a loser, and we explored not-that-secret identities in Game Time. Behold the giant wooden busts of your panel: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSLead Topic: 🏜 Survivor Lead Topic: ☕️ Stumptown Lead Topic: 🌞 Sunnyside Around The Dial: 🎼 Perfect Harmony Around The Dial: 🐝 Buzz Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Around The Dial: 🛳 Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 🏆 Survivor S16.E13: If It Smells Like A Rat, Give It CheeseWinner & Loser: 👍 Andrew ScottWinner & Loser: 👎 Ray LewisGame Time: 🧠 Also Known AsNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 270 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Kim Reed on Twitter📉 Sunnyside's low ratings🤯 Dalton Ross's oral history of Erik's blindside🛍 GQ on Bissinger's shopaholism🎙 Sweet Smell Of Succession📺 Sarah's Primetimer author page📸 We're @extrahotgreat on Instagram

Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through a trio of CBS sitcom pilots, Unbelievable, 30 For 30's "Rodman: For Better Or Worse," and Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. Sarah and Tara take a look at Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail's just-announced Battlestar Galactica reboot and ask: Will Dave Hate This? We take on Mary's Muppetational Extra Credit question. Chris and Joe make the case for Project Runway S02.E09, "Flower Power," to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after talking Emmy Winners and Losers, it's on to a Game Time that tests our knowledge of our Boomer relatives' favourite shows. Grab your favourite footman and join us!GUESTS👤 Joe ReidTOPICSLead Topic: 🏰 Downton Abbey Around The Dial: 🥈 Carol's Second Act Around The Dial: 💕 Bob Hearts Abishola Around The Dial: 🦄 The Unicorn Around The Dial: 🧐 Unbelievable Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30 Around The Dial: 🔮 Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Battlestar Galactica Extra Credit: 🤑 Flesh-Covered MuppetsThe Canon: 🏆 Project Runway S02.E09: Flower PowerWinner & Loser: 👍 Some people at the EmmysWinner & Loser: 👎 Different people at the EmmysGame Time: 🧠 Uncle Billy & Aunt JoanNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 269 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter📺 Primetimer🎶 MASTAS Live!🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast📺 Chris at Primetimer🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight, Are You The One?, and The Challenge, then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Kevin O'KeeffeTOPICSLead Topic: ⌚️ Undone Around The Dial: 👰 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🥇 Are You The One Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Extra Credit: 🤑 A Very Blanky RenovationThe Canon: 🏆 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills S01.E09: The Dinner Party From HellWinner & Loser: 👍 Norman LearWinner & Loser: 👎 Shane GillisGame Time: 🧠 What's The DifferenceNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 268 page on ExtraHotGreat.com📺 Appointment TV podcast💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

It's the show Lance Bass never wanted you to see: A Very Brady Renovation, in which a collection of HGTV stars join forces with the surviving cast of The Brady Bunch to make the real-life Studio City home that served as the Brady house in b-roll look exactly like the Brady Bunch set inside. Who better to join us in discussing all the Who-lebrities involved than Who Weekly? co-host Bobby Finger! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of The Deuce, Part 3 of Money Heist, Ken Burns's latest PBS documentary series Country Music, and Joe Pera Talks With You. Bobby presents the Enlightened episode "The Weekend" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV frogs getting smooched. Grab your sledgehammer and join us!GUESTS👤 Bobby FingerTOPICSLead Topic: 🏚 A Very Brady Renovation Around The Dial: 💩 The Deuce Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music Around The Dial: 🗣 Joe Pera Talks With You Extra Credit: 🤑 Missing TV References And QuotesThe Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E04: The WeekendWinner & Loser: 👍 Rick JacksonLead Topic: 👎 Richard GereGame Time: 🧠 In The PondNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 267 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter🙋 The Who Weekly podcast🎙 The I'm Obsessed With This podcast🫄 The video Eva Amurri Martino made announcing her third pregnancy🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast

We're not able to record this week so we're treating y'all to a sneak peak at Extra Extra Hot Great, our patrons-only bonus podcast.EEHG 008: Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape) The Jimmy Kimmel-spearheaded, ABC-aired restagings of one classic episode each of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, live in front of a studio audience, delivered one of the network’s highest-rated season wraps in years, and you know what that means: copycats are coming. And we want to get ahead of the trend! For today’s Extra Extra Hot Great, we’re each choosing a classic episode of TV to remake, and casting all the roles with actors working today.EEHG 017: British Crime Story, Series 1 FX announced not long after we recorded a recent EHG main podcast that American Crime Story has finally started moving forward on its third topic: Impeachment, "the story of the Clinton presidency scandal." One of the great things about that franchise is that it provides so much food for thought between seasons, not least (inevitably incorrect) speculation about what it will take on next and with whom in what roles -- so now that that's been taken off the table for the moment, let's talk about what a Union Jack version of the story would look like!TOPICSLead Topic: 📺 Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape)Lead Topic: 🇬🇧 British Crime Story, Series 1 NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 266 page on ExtraHotGreat.com💂 StoryCast podcast featuring Brink's-Mat Robbery on iTunes

On Becoming A God In Central Florida premiered on Showtime recently, and Floridian Jeb Lund returned to the podcast to discuss its geographic and period accuracy, whether it celebrates or mocks the poor, and all the process-y parts of a pyramid scheme (fine: "multi-level marketing"). We went Around The Dial with 13 Reasons Why, Why Women Kill and Pennyworth, and then we contemplated converting primetime shows into Saturday-morning cartoons, '70s-style, in an Extra Credit from Dave Snyder. After a hilarious (if fatal to felines) Canon submission on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, we declared Netflix a winner, ABC a loser, and Dan Cassino an evil genius as we played a Hallmark Of Quality Game Time. Stock up on giant cans of nacho cheese before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS👤 Jeb LundTOPICSLead Topic: 🌴 On Becoming A God In Central Florida Around The Dial: 🔪 Why Women Kill Around The Dial: 📼 13 Reasons Why Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth Extra Credit: 🤑 Modern Primetime CartooningThe Canon: 🏆 Garth Merenghi's Darkplace S01.E01: Once Upon A BeginningWinner & Loser: 👍 NetflixWinner & Loser: 👎 ABCGame Time: 🧠 Hallmark Of QualityNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 265 page on ExtraHotGreat.com😴 The Dream podcast🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast🦢 Sarah and John Ramos on MSCL🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean