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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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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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626: Coming Of Age At Sterling Point
4d ago01:17:34Tap to summarizeExtra Extra Hot Great music-on-TV correspondent Kari Race is back to discuss Sterling Point, in which Manhattan rich kids head to a wifi-free island in Canada to uncover secrets, draw love triangles, and make out with their friends’ moms. The panel was divided on whether it was charming and sweet, or unrealistic and annoying; see if we think it’ll make you smile, or just feel old. We went Around The Dial with Unacceptable, Heartstopper: Forever, and the BBC’s Jared Leto investigation, and Dave asserted that a seventh-season X-Filesepisode was ass. Task won, Wonder Man lost, and Game Time turned X-Files guest-star deaths into blind items. Grab a handful of illegally stored acorns and join us.GUESTS👤 Kari RaceTOPICSLead Topic: 👉 Sterling Point Around The Dial: 🫨 Unacceptable Around The Dial: 💕 Heartstopper Around The Dial: 😬 Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret The Nonac: 🔫 The X-Files S07.E13: First Person ShooterWinner & Loser: 👮🏻♂️ Task Winner & Loser: 🤷♂️ Wonder Man Game Time: 👽 The Ex-FilesSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🎧 Kari Race's Hey Remember the 80s podcast🛬 Tara's "Why Can't TV Finales Stick a Landing" piece at GQ😬 Sarah's review of JL:HDS at Best Evidence✉️ Mo Ryan's "Jared Leto And Hollywood's Open Secrets" essay at NYT🧯 Mo Ryan's Burn It Down at Exhibit B. Books📰 Last week's guest Tim Grierson's profile of Wonder Man star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II for the L.A. Times📷 Photo: Prime Video
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625: Did We Go Mad For Furious?
2w ago01:30:54Tap to summarizeNew Girl creator and The Dropout adapter Elizabeth Meriwether is back on TV with Furious, VERY loosely adapted from the 1987 erotic thriller Black Widow. Were we mad about watching it? Tim Grierson returns to join the discussion. Around The Dial takes us through Married At First Sight S20, The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience, and The Westies. Tara pitches the Documentary Now! two-parter “Soldier Of Illusion” for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, it’s on to a nomenclatural Game Time. Pour some vodka into your water bottle (we don’t judge) and join us!GUESTS👤 Tim GriersonTOPICSAnnouncement: 🌡️ New Club Milestones HitLead Topic: 💉 Furious Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight Around The Dial: ⚾️ The Lonely Island Presents The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience Around The Dial: 🧭 The Westies The Canon: 🏔️ Documentary Now! S04.E01 & E02: Soldier Of IllusionWinner & Loser: 🚔 On Patrol: Live Winner & Loser: 🗯️ Mary Beth BaroneGame Time: 👯♂️ Name & NameSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Tim Grierson on Bluesky🌴 Again With This Club🗣️ The L.A. Times, where Tim’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II interview will be published in August🎞️ Richard Roeper’s review of The Westies at Roger Ebert🔥 The EHG FAQ, including information on the Mutual Aid Vault🤑 “July 27, 1986 commercials” on YouTube, which we’ll be discussing on EEHG this week🎧 List of Dear Media shows📷 Photo: Disney
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624: Teed Off At The Hawk
3w ago01:20:36Tap to summarizeWill Leitch is back for a very sportsy episode, as we contemplate Will Ferrell’s new golf sitcom, The Hawk — as well as when Ferrell got in a rut and how he could get out, why the universe thinks we need TWO golf shows right now, and what the show could have done to avoid wasting talented co-stars (“been a movie instead” is probably the answer). We went Around The Dial with The Five Star Weekend, Breaking Bad, and High Potentialbefore Sarah teed up a first-season Sports Night for Canon consideration. The New Yorker won, Big Bang Theorylost, and we waded into the ever-proliferating recap-podcast water hazard for Game Time. Crank the speakers on your golf cart and have a listen!GUESTS👤 Will LeitchTOPICSAnnouncement: 🧑💼 Salesperson Draft ResultsLead Topic: ⛳️ The Hawk Around The Dial: 🗓️ The Five-Star Weekend Around The Dial: 👨🏻🔬 Breaking Bad Around The Dial: High Potential The Canon: 🥌 Sports Night S01.E16: SallyWinner & Loser: 🌲 Paige WilliamsWinner & Loser: 🙄 Jim ParsonsGame Time: 🎧 Leave It To The ProfessionalsSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📕 Get Will Leitch's book, Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride, in paperback🏌️♂️ Talking about Stick in EEHG 357🤑 The second Commercial Pitchman Draft from EHG 622💄 Listen To Sassy Club🧠 Our original discussion of High Potential in EHG 528📚 Speaking of paperbacks, they're on sale at Exhibit B. Books📷 Photo: Colleen E. Hayes / Netflix
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623: Are We Ready To Homestead At The New Little House On The Prairie?
4w ago01:20:43Tap to summarizeLittle House On The Prairie has been one in a series of historical memoirs and a TV series that premiered in 1974, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more adaptations: Kim Reed, possibly the world’s biggest franchise fan (or at least the biggest in our acquaintance) returns to talk about Netflix’s new version, which has already been renewed for a second season. Around The Dial takes us through The Other Bennet Sister, Big Brother S28, House Of The Dragon, Squatters, and Human Vapor. Tara pitches the Mad About You episode “Bedfellows” for induction into the Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, it’s on to a Game Time with an extensive bibliography. Grab a peppermint stick and listen!GUESTS👤 Kim ReedTOPICSAnnouncement: 🤷♀️ Non-Announcement AnnouncementLead Topic: 🌾 Little House On The Prairie (2026) Around The Dial: 👒 The Other Bennet Sister Around The Dial: 👁️ Big Brother Around The Dial: 🐲 House Of The Dragon Around The Dial: 🏚️ Squatters Around The Dial: 🧖♂️ Human Vapor The Canon: 🏥 Mad About You S02.E03: BedfellowsWinner & Loser: Task Winner & Loser: ✈️ Kristin CavallariGame Time: 📖 Hey! It's That Author!SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Kim Reed on Bluesky🌴 The Again With This Club🏚️ Sarah on Squatters🫱🏻🫲🏽 Information on the EHG Mutual Aid Vault at our FAQ📷 Photo: Eric Zachanowich / Netflix
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622: Commercial Pitchman Draft II
Jul 801:17:21Tap to summarizeThough it’s never been easier to avoid commercials if that’s what you prefer, some do deserve applause. That’s why we’ve assembled to choose our favorite TV commercial characters in product categories from fast food to hard drinks to drugstores and beyond. We also stay on-theme with a pitch for the Tiny Catchy Commercial Jingle With Punchable Child Canon AND a Non-Regulation Game Time all about the stars who’ve used their celebrity to promote everything from worthy non-profits to hands-free toilet cleaners. We’ll be right back after these messages!TOPICSLead Topic: 🤑 Commercial Pitchman Draft IITiny Canon: 🥊 Game Time: 🗯️ Talk Isn't CheapSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site📊 Vote for your favorite commercial pitch lineup🔥 Commercial Pitchman Draft in EEHG 098🐑 "Volkswagen Tiguan - Commercial: Sheep 'Break Free' (2022; 0:30)" on YouTube😴 "Nathan Lane 1990 NyQuil Commercial" on YouTube🌴 Again With Again With This💄 The Listen To Sassy Club🥣 "Quaker Ready To Serve Oatmeal Commercial 1987 With Timmy" on YouTube
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621: Is Deep Space Nine's Baseball Episode A Home Run?
Jul 101:29:26Tap to summarizeLarra submitted a late-season DS9 about baseball — in which bunting figures heavily! — for this month’s Forcening, so we stepped up to the plate for Worf homers, MLB nepo casting, and practicing strike-three calls. Ask EHG invited us to write our own Drunk History eps and set Emily Gilmore up on dates, and Tara hung a funny hat a Simpsons Tiny Canon pitch; then we named Not Quite 11 tennis episodes and show-title dog names, just in time to go back to school with TV’s most important academic administrators. Raise the roof; raise it — for an all-new episode of EEHG!TOPICSForcening Pool: ⚾️ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine S07.E04 Take Me Out To The HolosuiteAsk EHG: 😤 TV families on Family FeudTiny Canon: 👒 The Simpsons S04.E07: Marge Gets A JobNot Quite Top 11: 🐕 Show Titles You Can Use As Dog Names With Dave's PermissionNot Quite Top 11: 🎾 Tennis Episodes To Send You Into The US Open Finals This WeekendNot Quite Top 11: 🧢 Other Baseball EpisodesExtra Credit: 🧑🏽🏫 Important TV PrincipalsMini: 🏈 The Most Electrifying Quiz In Sports Entertainment SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🥎 Buddy coaching a lesbian softball team on Kids In The Hall🕊️ How Curb saved a guy from prison🍎 EEHG 065 on bad TV teachers📷 Photo: Paramount Television
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620: Cashing Out Of Million Dollar Nannies
Jun 2401:17:13Tap to summarizeWho better than EEHG’s Green Screen correspondent Stephanie Early Green to discuss Freeform’s new reality show about the super-rich Snugli set — Million Dollar Nannies. Sarah actually didn’t hate the show in theory, but in practice, we found the premise non-credible, the nannies suspect skills-wise, and the richie clients were the Forbes 400 equivalent of Vrbo text art. We left the mysteries of Daddy Moke behind to go Around The Dial with Sugar‘s second season, Ludwig, and a From marathon update before Stephanie climbed into the Canon-pitch cockpit with an episode of Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal. Simon Says won, Project Runway lost, and Monty hoped we’d score Alfred E. Neuman points in Game Time. Shred those NDAs and hop in the designer pram for an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Stephanie GreenTOPICSLead Topic: 🍾 Million Dollar Nannies Around The Dial: 🍭 Sugar Around The Dial: 🧩 Ludwig Around The Dial: 🚧 From The Canon: ✈️ The Rehearsal S02.E03: Pilot's CodeWinner & Loser: 💬 Simon SaysWinner & Loser: 👗 Project Runway Game Time: 😜 What, Me Query?SUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site💚 More from Stephanie Early Green at her website🍬 EEHG 291 on Sugar's first season⛴️ Tara's burning questions about Widow's Bay S02 for GQ🛣️ EEHG 415 on From's series premiere🛹 Sarah's Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator review at Best Evidence📷 Photo: DisneyCLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord
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619: Making The Grade With Never Change!
Jun 1701:08:03Tap to summarizeA whole passel of alt-comedy superstars got together to make a comedy feature for Hulu about the class of 2008 having to redo the last two weeks of their senior year. Should they…maybe not have bothered? Brandi Brown returns to discuss it (and we hope will return again after we made her endure this). Around The Dial takes us through Miss You, Love You; Office Romance; a viral video of the cast of The Gilded Age pausing a shoot to celebrate the Knicks winning the NBA championship; Carl The Collector; and Mad Men. Sarah pitches the Law & Order episode “Everybody’s Favorite Bagman” for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, we close on a Sorkin-ass Game Time. Put your senior high school yearbook away and listen!GUESTS👤 Brandi BrownTOPICSLead Topic: 🎓 Never Change! Around The Dial: 💖 Miss You, Love You Around The Dial: 📌 Office Romance Around The Dial: 🏀 The Gilded Age Around The Dial: 🦝 Carl The Collector Around The Dial: 🥃 Mad Men The Canon: ⚖️ Law & Order S01.E06: Everybody's Favorite BagmanWinner & Loser: 🔫 Stephen FalkWinner & Loser: 🍷 Milania GiudiceGame Time: 🍄🟫 Sorkin-Ass NamesSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Brandi Brown on Bluesky💥 "Widow’s Bay Creator Tells All After Explosive Finale" by Tara at Daily Beast🏀 The cast of The Gilded Age reacts to the news of the Knicks winning the NBA championship📆 Brandi's imminent standup dates📚 The #majorcase sale at Exhibit B. Books📷 Disney / Brett Roedel
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618: Interview With The Vampire Rocks Out
Jun 1001:30:11Tap to summarizeInterview With The Vampire returns with a tonally shifted, maximalist third season — and Caroline Framke also returns to talk about the show’s new POV character, in-universe songcraft, when scenery-chewing works, and how vampires’ greatest trick was convincing the world they don’t exist. We went Around The Dial with Not Suitable For Work, Love Island UK, Gardener’s World, and Michael Jackson: The Verdict, and we wondered Will Dave Hate This? about an upcoming The Littlest Hobo remake; Tara may have had an anxiety dream about her Canon pitch for a fifth-season Hacks episode; and La Brea won (for once), while short-sighted executives lost (as usual). And heaven COULDN’T wait for another iteration of Dan Cassino’s faith-based-TV Game Time. Stage-dive into an all-new Extra Hot Great!GUESTS👤 Caroline FramkeTOPICSLead Topic: 🎸 Interview With The Vampire Around The Dial: 🤬 Not Suitable For Work Around The Dial: 🏝️ Love Island UK Around The Dial: 🪴 Gardener's World Around The Dial: ✨ Michael Jackson: The Verdict Will Dave Hate This?: 🐶 The Littlest Hobo The Canon: 🍷 Hacks S05.E07: MontecitoWinner & Loser: 🕳️ La Brea Winner & Loser: 👯 Brothers & Sisters Game Time: 🙏 Thou Shalt Guess The Title, Book IISUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🎥 Caroline Framke goes behind the scenes with reality-TV producers for Bustle☘️ Tara's interview with Kate O'Flynn at The Daily Beast😬 Sarah's Michael Jackson: The Verdict review at Best Evidence🐕 Maybe Tomorrow by Terry Bush📷 Photo: Frank W. Ockenfels III / AMC
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617: In Soviet Russia Star City Space Shows You
Jun 301:19:40Tap to summarizeWhile the counter-history of For All Mankind was going on, what counter-historical events were occurring in parallel in the U.S.S.R.? The spinoff Star City is here to dramatize it, and new guest Sophie Brookover is here to say whether it’s a “da” or a “net.” Around The Dial takes us to Make That Movie, The Tower, Deli Boys S02, and Instadocs. Wendy pitches the Designing Women episode “How Great Thou Art” for induction into The Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Winner and Loser, it’s on to a bookish Game Time about big- and small-screen adaptations. Find any of the many listening devices hidden in your home and join us!GUESTS👤 Sophie BrookoverTOPICSAnnouncement: 🏳️🌈 Pride Month Gift ExchangeLead Topic: 🚀 Star City Around The Dial: 🎥 Make That Movie Around The Dial: 🏢 The Tower Around The Dial: 🥪 Deli Boys Around The Dial: 📹 Instadocs The Canon: ⛪️ Designing Women S02.E20: How Great Thou ArtWinner & Loser: 👍 Anna KendrickWinner & Loser: 🦆 Jorge R. GutierrezGame Time: 📚 Screen SizesSUPPORT THE SHOW🔥 Join the EHG Club for bonus episodes, no ads, community Discord and more!🎧 Subscribe to EHG on Apple Podcasts for bonus episodes and no ads!🛍️ Shop our merch store!NOTES🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site🦋 Sophie Brookover on Bluesky👯♀️ The Two Bossy Dames newsletter🏳️🌈 Pride Month gift exchange information and signup👀 "Why You Should Be Watching Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed" at GQ🛎️ Downton Abbey on the Telly Visions podcast📺 "9 Shows For '80s And '90s PBS And Masterpiece Kids" at Two Bossy Dames📹 Sarah's Instadocs review at Best Evidence🕰️ Sarah's Woman Of The Hour review at Best Evidence🚪 Anthony Bourdain in Narnia at An Archive Of Our Own📷 Photo: AppleCLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord
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