Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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

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

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

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

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

For a very special all-'Is This Worse Than Jazz?' installment of the podcast, Dave, Sarah, and Tara invite discussion of their own possibly worse than jazz TV phenomena, and dig into questions submitted by listeners like you, grading them on an appropriately jazzy scale: Rusty Gate The Question Is Zoot Smooth Poison Atonal Omens Of Pain Scat Man Down Barrelhouse Of Horror Boogie Woogie Influenza Slaughterhouse Jive Hateful Freeform Jazz Infernal Tootling The results may...really distress you. (Trigger alert: jazz.)Sarah and The Blotter's apprentice investigator Olivia bring us a City Confidential episode about a murdered jazz musician to determine whether it is worse than jazz. Then Around The Dial stops at Married At First Sight, Netflix's Last Chance U, and another topic-appropriate vintage ad unearthed by Dave. We debate whether Everwood's Season 1 finale 'Home' deserves a spot in the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, it's a non-regulation Game Time that smells a bit...rank. Limber up your trumpeting lips and join us!TOPICSLead Topic: 🎷 Is This Worse Than Jazz?The Blotter Presents: 🔪 City Confidential Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: 🏈 Last Chance U Around The Dial: 🤠 The Sixth GunThe Canon: 🏔 Everwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 👎 Debra MessingGame Time: 🧠 This Smells RankNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 125 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

Trek Week continues on Previously.TV with an all-new Extra Hot Great featuring Maureen "Mo" Ryan and the Star Trek Fantasy Draft! David Snyder kindly shepherded this EHG enterprise (geddit?!) through the lesser science officers, 90210 Borg Queens, and Count Bakula picks the draft entailed. Who will emerge victorious with the very best Trek team*? Stay tuned! But first, go Around The Dial with us for Full Frontal, UnREAL, the Looking movie, Superstore, and a Stranger Squirrel Girl, then see if Mo's Deep Space 9 pick entered the Canon wormhole. Rita Ora won, bloodsuckers lost, and nobody contested a winner-take-all political Game Time. Make some SPAAAAAAAACE!! on your iPod, then listen long and prosper!TOPICSLead Topic: 💫 Star Trek Fantasy DraftAround The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore Around The Dial: 🌁 Looking Looking: The MovieAround The Dial: 📹 UnREAL Around The Dial: 🐿 Squirrel GirlThe Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Winner & Loser: 👍 Rita OraWinner & Loser: 👎 The Vampire Diaries Game Time: 🧠 The EHG ConventionNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 124 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter

As Elliot and the rest of the gang gear up for another season of hacking shenanigans on Mr. Robot, John Ramos returns to the podcast to talk about what went right, and what went otherwise. Around The Dial spins to the series premiere of HBO's Vice Principals, TNT's Animal Kingdom, last week's Emmy nominations, the pleasingly scaled-back Intervention, and Netflix's throwback suspense series Stranger Things. Tara offers up the Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig" for induction into the Canon, and then after naming the week's Winner and Loser, we move on to a Game Time about humble beginnings. Log on and join us! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🤖 Mr. Robot Around The Dial: 🚌 Vice Principals Around The Dial: 🌊 Animal Kingdom Around The Dial: 🏆 The Emmys Around The Dial: 🥃 Intervention Around The Dial: 🧇 Stranger Things The Canon: 🌲 Gravity Falls Winner & Loser: 👍 Keeping Up With The Kardashians Kim Kardashian Winner & Loser: 👎 Scott Baio Game Time: 🧠 Before They Were Famous NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 123 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ramos on Twitter 🌴 The Again With This podcast 🎧 The Mark And Sarah Talk About Songs podcast

Criminal Justice remake The Night Of bowed on HBO this week, and Al Lowe Huff is back to discuss the show, the original, and the importance of casting. The History Channel wondered if DB Cooper's case is Closed? before Tara Flipped Out, Allison joined the Odd Squad, Joe was Shown A Hero, and Sarah went on The Hunt while Dave got tired of being Preached to. Ron pitched Deadwood's second season premiere for the fucking Canon; Carrie Coon won and Roger Ailes lost; and Rob Hartmann bent our minds with another timely Game Time. It's time to open a file on an all-new Extra Hot Great!TOPICSLead Topic: 🌃 The Night Of The Blotter Presents: 🔪 D.B. Cooper: Case Closed? Around The Dial: 🔨 Flipping Out Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♀️ Odd Squad Around The Dial: 🗳 Show Me A Hero Around The Dial: 🐻 The Hunt Around The Dial: 🙏 Preacher The Canon: ⛏ Deadwood Winner & Loser: 👍 Fargo Carrie CoonWinner & Loser: 👎 Roger AilesGame Time: 🧠 More Chicken, More EggNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 122 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

Remember how much you loved Cameron Crowe circa Almost Famous? Showtime must hope you do, because it's airing his new dramedy series about roadies on a rock tour; designated Rock Cop Jeff Drake joins us to talk about where it went right, and wrong. Around The Dial stops at The Jim Gaffigan Show, Game Of Thrones's Season 6 finale, ABC's rebooted Match Game, and Below Deck Mediterranean. Listener Laura submits the Parenthood episode "Just Go Home" for induction into the Canon. Then we name the week's Winner and Loser and wrap things up with a very animated Game Time. Grab your laminate and listen!TOPICSLead Topic: 🎸 Roadies Around The Dial: 🧔‍♂️ The Jim Gaffigan Show Around The Dial: 🪶 Game Of Thrones Around The Dial: 📺 Match Game Around The Dial: ⚓️ Below Deck Mediterranean The Canon: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Parenthood Winner & Loser: 👍 Grace & Frankie Winner & Loser: 👎 Vinyl Game Time: 🧠 Let's Go Grape ApeNOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 121 page on ExtraHotGreat.com🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter