Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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