

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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Mar 23, 2022 โข 1h 21min
399: The Listener Game Time Tournament
Do you know what time it is? It's Game Time -- except THIS time, all our Valued Guests were drawn from among our Patreon supporters, and they're playing in a mini-tournament with your co-hosts as their lifelines. Listen to find out who defeats all their opponents and emerges victorious! TOPICSGame Time: ๐ญ Order UpGame Time: ๐ป Tube Tunes IXGame Time: ๐ฌ Describe It To MeGame Time: โฉ Fast JamsNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 399 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฝ The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast๐ฐ The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show on Patreon๐ถ The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast๐ฐ Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs on Patreon

Mar 16, 2022 โข 1h 31min
398: Putting The "No" In Domino Masters
Brittany Luse took a break from co-hosting FCN and HBO Docs Club to talk about FOX's newest silly-competition reality show, Domino Masters -- and we all found lots of reasons you should probably just watch "topples" on YouTube instead, including weak chemistry, weaker jokes, frustrating lack of camera coverage, and drama that doesn't come from the craft. Oh, and: it's about 38 minutes too long. We did better going Around The Dial with Winning Time, Survivor, select Euphoria episodes, Top Chef: Houston, and Fast Foodies, and then Tara drove us around New Jersey for awhile with her Ramy Canon presentation. Fighters won, Baby-Sitters lost, and we were poets and didn't know it during a rhymin', Dave-pointy Game Time. Remind yourself how "GOAL" is spelled and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS๐ค Brittany LuseTOPICSLead Topic: ๐ฅ Domino Masters Around The Dial: ๐ Winning Time Around The Dial: ๐ฟ Survivor Around The Dial: ๐ Euphoria Around The Dial: ๐ฉโ๐ณ Top Chef Around The Dial: ๐ Fast Foodies Lead Topic: ๐ Ramy S01.E07: Ne Me Quitte PasWinner & Loser: ๐ The Good Fight Winner & Loser: ๐ The Baby-Sitters Club Game Time: ๐ง Selective Effective Objective DetectiveNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 398 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฝ Please put koshari in Dave's stomach๐ฆ Brittany Luse on Twitter๐ง The FCN podcast๐ฆ FCN on Twitter๐ธ FCN on Instagram๐น The HBO Docs Club podcast (with Ronald Young Jr.)๐งผ Tara's soaps post at Decider๐ Listen To Sassy Clubโ๏ธ MASTAS: The "America's Damp 40" Season๐ท Photo: Ray Mickshaw / FOX

Mar 9, 2022 โข 51min
397: Should You Stick On The Dropout?
With Sarah unexpectedly out for the week, it's a slimmed-down installment of the podcast (no Canon or Game Time) -- but fortunately Eve Batey is here to bring her expertise in both San Francisco and true crime to join our discussion on The Dropout! Around The Dial takes us through Our Flag Means Death, The Courtship, the Late Night With Seth Meyers Corrections series on YouTube, Vikings: Valhalla, and the latest on 9-1-1: Lone Star. Mlle. Caroline asks us to pick non-canonical middle names for TV characters. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser! Get your blood sugar up with a cookie (or two) and join us!GUESTS๐ค Eve BateyTOPICSLead Topic: ๐ The Dropout Around The Dial: ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Our Flag Means Death Around The Dial: ๐ฉโโค๏ธโ๐จ The Courtship Around The Dial: โจ Late Night With Seth Meyers Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Vikings: Valhalla Around The Dial: ๐ฎ 9-1-1: Lone Star Extra Credit: ๐ค What's Your Middle Name?Winner & Loser: ๐ Nailed It Winner & Loser: ๐ The Big Leap NOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 397 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฆ Eve Batey on Twitterโ๏ธ "The Dropout's Naveen Andrews Saw Sunny Balwani As Lady Macbeth" at Vulture๐ Tara's Jon Hamm interview at GQ.com๐คข "How Seth Meyers Turned Internet Toxicity Into Emmy-Nominated Gold" at VanityFair.com๐ญ East Bay Nosh๐ The Best Evidence newsletter๐ Avenues Dry Goods

Mar 2, 2022 โข 1h 39min
396: Breaking The Law & Order
After almost 12 years, the original Law & Order has been revived at NBC for its 21st season, and superfan Mark Blankenship has returned to The Blankenship Chair to talk about it! Around The Dial takes us through Super Pumped, Love Is Blind, Reacher, Bug Out, and Worst Roommate Ever. Ilan cashes in an Extra Credit to get us to propose our finales for series that ended badly, or didn't really end at all. Carlos makes the case for inducting the series premiere of Mare Of Easttown to The Canon. Then, after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time with two separate, not really equally important rounds. No need to get down to Centre Street: we've brought our latest podcast right to you!GUESTS๐ค Mark BlankenshipTOPICSLead Topic: ๐ฎ๐ปโโ๏ธ Law & Order Around The Dial: ๐งด Super Pumped Around The Dial: ๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ Love Is Blind Around The Dial: ๐ซฑ Reacher Around The Dial: ๐ชณ Bug Out Around The Dial: ๐ณ Worst Roommate Ever Extra Credit: ๐ฌ Re-Sticking The LandingThe Canon: ๐ Mare Of Easttown S01.E01: Miss Lady Hawk HerselfWinner & Loser: ๐ DaveWinner & Loser: ๐ Twitting CelebsGame Time: ๐ง Ignorance Of The Law & Order Is No ExcuseNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 396 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฆ Mark Blankenship on Twitter๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ "Love Is Blind's Creator Answers Our Burning Season-Two Finale Questions" at Vulture๐ด Again With This on Patreon๐บ Primetimer.com๐ชณ Sarah's Bug Out and Worst Roommate Ever reviews at Best Evidenceโ๏ธ The Far From Heaven episode of Quaid In Full

Feb 23, 2022 โข 1h 26min
395: Should You Stick Around For The Endgame?
Two Cents Plus Tax co-host Krystal Farmer came by to talk about The Endgame, an overstuffed and underwhelming procedural that tries to do too much and is assembled from the spare parts of too many early-aughts shows. Why do networks still make shows like this? Do we need The Endgame if we still (seriously!) have The Blacklist? And how is Fedorova writing on the sticky side of Post-Its? We fared better going Around The Dial with Severance, a Married At First Sight update, Creamerie, Inventing Anna, Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and Reacher, and gave TV characters (and hosts) some drugs for Extra Credit. Listener Michael hoped we'd visit Cougar Town with a Canon election before Dickens won, Erika Jayne lost (...again), and we answered the door to a hell of a season-clinching Game Time. No need to blackmail the Homeland Secretary -- an all-new Extra Hot Great is all yours.GUESTS๐ค Krystal FarmerTOPICSLead Topic: ๐คฏ The Endgame Around The Dial: โ๏ธ Severance Around The Dial: ๐ฐโโ๏ธ Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ๐ฅ Creamerie Around The Dial: ๐คทโโ๏ธ Inventing Anna Around The Dial: ๐ค Inside The Mind Of A Con Artist Around The Dial: ๐ฎ 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: ๐ซฑ Reacher The Canon: ๐ Cougar Town S03.E05: A One Story TownWinner & Loser: ๐ Great Expectations Lead Topic: ๐ Erika JayneGame Time: ๐ง Knock-KnockNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 395 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฆ Krystal Farmer on Twitter๐ช The Two Cents Plus Tax podcast๐ฐ The Two Cents Plus Tax Patreon๐ฃ Tara's Adam Scott interview at GQ๐ Tara's Arian Moayed interview, also at GQ๐ Best Evidence on Inventing Anna

Feb 16, 2022 โข 1h 19min
394: Springtime Canon Fodder
We love it when our listeners submit Canon pitches so much that we're considering not one but THREE in this special episode. Will Karen's pitch on The Odd Couple rack up the requisite odd couple of votes? Will Doug Dale's advocacy for Work Of Art: The Next Great Artist move and challenge us? Will we make holiday dreams come true for Dave in Chicago and his case for Pee-wee's Playhouse's 1988 Christmas special? Listen and learn! TOPICSThe Canon: ๐ข The Odd Couple S02.E04: SleepwalkerThe Canon: ๐ผ Work Of Art S01.E02: The Shape Of Things To ComeThe Canon: ๐ Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special 1988NOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 394 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Feb 9, 2022 โข 1h 7min
393: Love Is In The Airwaves
With so much TV either taken up by the Olympics or getting out of their way, we took our own stab at counter-programming: for our last episode before Valentine's Day, we're each forcening each other to watch a TV episode with "love" somewhere in its title. Dave assigns Sarah "The Secret War" from Love, Death + Robots; Sarah challenges Tara to take on the ABC Afterschool Special "It's No Crush, I'm In Love"; and Dave endures the series premiere of Tori & Dean: Inn Love. Following all our reports, it's on to a Non-Regulation Game Time that you might find for sale at a love...shop? Grab your Valentine, or just treat yourself, and listen!
TOPICS
Lead Topic: ๐ค Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War
Lead Topic: ๐ ABC Afterschool Special It's No Crush, I'm In Love
Lead Topic: ๐จ Tori & Dean: Inn Love S01.E01: Dump Everything You Can Dump!
Game Time: ๐ง Channel 69
NOTES
๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 393 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
๐ค Love, Death + Robots S01.E18: The Secret War on Netflix
๐ ABC Afterschool Special: It's No Crush, I'm In Love on YouTube

Feb 2, 2022 โข 1h 28min
392: Taking Out The Trash With Pam & Tommy
Waiting for Impact and Truu Stowray host Dave Holmes stopped by for the first time to talk about Pam & Tommy, Hulu's prestige miniseries about Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee, their whirlwind romance, and the sex tape seen 'round the world. Is the story of Seth Rogen's stiffed (...heh) contractor the real heart of the tale, or is it the Pam/Tommy romance? Is the mid-nineties soundtrack intrusive? And should that penis have talked? We went Around The Dial with Somebody Somewhere, The Real Dirty Dancing, The Museum of Home Video, The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour, We Need To Talk About Cosby, and 9-1-1: Lone Star before marinating in the Zwick-Herskoverse with a Once & Again Canon submission. _Law & Order_s won, Showtime lost, and we married bands and TV shows in a musical Game Time. Look it up on Alta Vista: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.GUESTS๐ค Dave HolmesTOPICSLead Topic: ๐ฉ๐ผโโค๏ธโ๐จ๐ป Pam & Tommy Around The Dial: ๐ Somebody Somewhere Around The Dial: ๐ The Real Dirty Dancing Around The Dial: ๐น Museum of Home Video Around The Dial: โ Match Game / Hollywood Squares Hour Around The Dial: ๐ฅ We Need To Talk About Cosby Around The Dial: ๐ฎ 9-1-1: Lone Star The Canon: ๐ Once & Again S03.E16: Aaron's List Of DreamsWinner & Loser: ๐ Law & Order Winner & Loser: ๐ Black Monday Game Time: ๐ง Music TelevisionNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 392 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ฆ Dave Holmes on Twitter๐ป Waiting For Impact: A Dave Holmes Passion Project๐น Museum Of Home Video on Twitchโ๏ธ Tara's author page at Decider๐ฅ Eve Batey's review of We Need To Talk About Cosby๐ง Quaid In Full on Twitter

Jan 26, 2022 โข 1h 52min
391: Does The Gilded Age Get A Glowing Review?
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes has crossed the ponds -- and crossed to a new network -- to launch his new period drama The Gilded Age; Mark Lisanti returns to discuss whether it will please members of the Felloweship of fans. Around The Dial takes us through American Auto, Abbott Elementary, Ozark, Season 2 of Cheer, Peacemaker, 9-1-1: Lone Star, and a brief mention of Toast Of Tinseltown. Erica S. asks us to invite several TV characters over for dinner and very specific kinds of discussion. Mlle. Caroline pitches "Redemption," the first-season finale of The Mandalorian, for induction into The Canon. Then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's on to a Game Time that brings that Christmas in July feeling to January. Send your servants back downstairs and join us!GUESTS๐ค Mark LisantiTOPICSLead Topic: ๐ก The Gilded Age Around The Dial: ๐ American Auto Around The Dial: ๐ Abbott Elementary Around The Dial: ๐ Ozark Around The Dial: ๐ฃ Cheer Around The Dial: ๐ฆ
Peacemaker Around The Dial: ๐ฎ 9-1-1: Lone Star Around The Dial: ๐ Toast Of Tinseltown Extra Credit: ๐ฅ Mashed Debate-osThe Canon: ๐ The Mandalorian S01.E08: RedemptionWinner & Loser: ๐ Amy SchneiderWinner & Loser: ๐ Maggie Game Time: ๐ง Mark The HallsNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 391 page on ExtraHotGreat.com๐ก "How The Gilded Age's Denรฉe Benton Made Sure Peggy Scott's Story Was Told Right" at Glamour.com๐ฅ Tara's post on The CW's March at Decider๐ฃ Tara's Christina Ricci interview at GQ.com๐ฃ Sarah on Season 2 of Cheer at BestEvidence.fyi

Jan 19, 2022 โข 1h 23min
390: TV Moustache Thunderdome
For this special episode, we have selected 27 very memorable TV mustaches to do battle in our Thunderdome. Listen to find out which of them vanquishes all its opponents!TOPICSLead Topic: ๐ฅธ TV Moustache ThunderdomeNOTES๐ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 390 page on ExtraHotGreat.com


