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 wee...
Jun 28, 2016•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 121
Orange Is The New Black Season 4 dropped over the weekend, and Monty joined the panel to talk pacing, mental illness, casting churn, and dark turns. We went around the dial with The Girlfriend Experience, a Skin Wars spinoff ("skin-off"?), Samantha Bee, OJ, and series that should know when to end before they start. After we got juiced with a Bob's Burgers Canon submission, Younger won, a Game Of Thrones bastard (and viewers) lost, and hilariously passionate user reviews dictated Game Time. Get o...
Jun 21, 2016•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 120
Just when you thought you were O.J.ed out after American Crime Story, ESPN presents O.J.: Made In America, and we bring true crime aficionada Stephanie Green back to talk about the first episode! Around The Dial spins through Veep, The Real Housewives Of Orange County, the Tony Awards, Cop Rock, and another very culturally sensitive ad of yesteryear. Stephanie makes her case for the Happy Endings episode "The Shershow Redemption" to be inducted into The Canon, and then after crowning the week's ...
Jun 14, 2016•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 119
UnREAL is back for Season 2, and so is our esteemed colleague John Ramos, who joins the panel for a discussion of Hollywood truisms, miscasting, and whether the show is using Craig Bierko correctly. We went around the dial with Angie Tribeca, The Challenge, RHONYC, comics we had TV hopes for (now dashed), and the "high"lights of 1991 TV, before John brought an episode of Humans (heard of 'em?) to the Canon and we played a Nick Rheinwald-Jones Hot Potato Game Time. Who's more of a winner: The Bac...
Jun 07, 2016•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 118
Eve Batey returns, but will it be to worship AMC's new drama Preacher, or to condemn it to Hell? TOPICS Lead Topic: 🙏 Preacher The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Missing: Dial Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🎶 Empire Around The Dial: 🩺 Grey's Anatomy Around The Dial: 🚨 60 Days In The Canon: 🏥 ER Winner & Loser: 👍 Catfish Nev Schulman Winner & Loser: 👎 Damien Game Time: 🧠 Rhymes With Shonda NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 117 page on ExtraHotGre...
May 24, 2016•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 117
As the "regular season" wraps up -- is that even a thing anymore? -- the gang plus Kim looks ahead to the new crop of shows, old favorites, and what we can't wait to watch...or boot off the season-pass list. Catfish, The Americans, Survivor, Scandal, and the now-weekly plug for Happy Valley took us Around The Dial before we got Lost in Kim's bold Canon submission, and declared the colonies and America our winner and loser. But who won Joe Reid's yodelicious Game Time? Where are we, really? You'l...
May 17, 2016•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 116
Mark Blankenship brings his charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to a discussion of Ru's latest girls. TOPICS Lead Topic: 💄 RuPaul's Drag Race Around The Dial: 💼 The Good Wife Around The Dial: 🏨 The Night Manager Around The Dial: 🛩 The Amazing Race Around The Dial: 🤾♂️ The Challenge The Canon: 👯♀️ Broad City Winner & Loser: 👍 Feud Winner & Loser: 👎 Dateline Game Time: 🧠 Oscar Winner TV Dinner NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 115 page on ExtraHotGreat....
May 10, 2016•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 115
As Game Of Thrones returns from hiatus, and moves beyond the books, the gang plus Jeff and Nick talked about Jon Snow, Crone Castle, and what's next for the Starks. We went around the dial with Better Call Saul , Valleys Silicon and Happy , Houdini & Doyle , Project Runway All-Stars , and the National Enquirer before putting Angie's 30 Rock Canon submission under a "Black Light." Humans ? Heard of 'em (they're winners), whoever has to retitle Live With Someone and Maybe Kelly is a loser, and...
Apr 26, 2016•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 114
TOPICS Lead Topic: 🕳 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt None: 💄 Face Off The Blotter Presents: 🔪 Game TIME TO DIE Around The Dial: ⚖️ Confirmation Around The Dial: 🧟♀️ iZombie Around The Dial: 👨❤️👨 The Outs Around The Dial: 🚔 60 Days In The Canon: 🍷 Brothers & Sisters Winner & Loser: 👍 Girlfriends' Guide To Divorce Winner & Loser: 👎 Horace And Pete Game Time: 🧠 Catch The Here's Butt NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 113 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 John Ram...
Apr 19, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 113
Sarah D. Bunting is back from baseballing, and Stephanie Cangro is back to discuss the final season of American Idol , the Idol farewell, and what it all meant to us as a culture. Liv and a sugar high told us about Face Off and My Little Pony , and we went around the dial with Togetherness , true crime, dance shows, try-hards, and a creepy deodorant ad. Was Stephanie's I Love Lucy Canon TOO classic? Should Martin Sheen consider shutting up? And why did Sarah get Rickie Vasquez and a Nats catcher...
Apr 12, 2016•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 112
New guest Daniel MacEachern and returning champion Omar Gallaga join us to talk about an apocalyptic cliffhanger! TOPICS Lead Topic: 🧟♀️ The Walking Dead None: 💄 Face Off Around The Dial: 👶 Call The Midwife Around The Dial: 🥃 Horace And Pete Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Scandal Around The Dial: 🎸 Vinyl The Canon: 📹 The Newsroom (Canada) Winner & Loser: 👍 The Blacklist Famke Janssen Winner & Loser: 👎 The Emmys Sterling K. Brown, Cuba Gooding Jr. Game Time: 🧠 Unsung Themes NOTES 🗒 Full...
Apr 05, 2016•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 111
After David T. Cole died, then came back to life as befitting the Easter weekend, Jeff Alexander sat down with the gang to discuss the second season of Daredevil , Joe's issues with Jon Bernthal, why a character based IN NEW YORK CITY can't just be Irish already, and whether any of us will be back for S3. After Liv's candy high took us through Face Off and Buntsy thumbs-upped the original Helter Skelter TV movie, we checked in with Married At First Sight: The First Year , Untucked , the Flash/Su...
Mar 29, 2016•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 110
Tradecraft enthusiast Nick Rheinwald-Jones creeps back onto the podcast under cover of night to talk about the Season 4 premiere of The Americans . We break with tradition to let Dave interview Liv about the latest episode of Face Off , and ponder whether the jazz at the jazz club in House Of Cards is worse than jazz. Around The Dial stops at Royal Pains , Not Safe With Nikki Glaser , the pre- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend YouTube clips of Rachel Bloom, Bosch , and another racist TV ad from the '80s. Nick...
Mar 15, 2016•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 109
House Of Cards dropped its fourth filibuster last Friday, and our esteemed colleague Kim Reed joined the gang to discuss how Frank Underwood and Scandal 's Fitz stack up, plus constitutional procedure, hateful heroes, and a listener's possibly crackpot theory that all sitcoms should end after three seasons. We went around the dial with the end of Downton , new Broad City , Intervention , and Late Night With Seth Meyers , and Joe Reid pitched us an all-star Survivor for the Canon. Nancy Drew won,...
Mar 07, 2016•1 hr 52 min•Ep. 108
Max defender and periodically ashamed Michigander Stephanie Green returns to talk about the ménage à trois that was the Season 5 premiere of Catfish and whether there's even a point to it anymore (...if ever). Liv takes us through the stages of the latest Gauntlet challenge in her Face Off report; Sarah takes us through American Tragedy , ABC's 2000 miniseries on the O.J. Simpson trial, for The Blotter Presents. Tara and Sarah consider the forthcoming Biblical miniseries Of Kings And Prophets an...
Feb 29, 2016•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 107
The first round of the Extra Hot Great Listener Game Time concludes with the Son Of The Game That Rhymes from Rob Hartmann. Who's the last one to advance to the Hallowed Hall Of Champions round? Find out! TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 Son Of The Game That Rhymes NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 106 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
Feb 22, 2016•37 min•Ep. 106
Better Call Saul returns for its second season, and Jeff Drake is back to talk about that, plus how much he hates Vinyl and which S2 Fargo should go into the Canon. Liv learned about parasites on Face Off , Sarah talked about American Crime Story 's foundation book, and we went around the dial with SNL , The Good Wife , Alyssa Milano's wardrobe issues, and Teresa Giudice's parole tour before Bill Cosby "won" and Michael Skupin lost. Was Game Time Anything? How many times did someone yell "SPAAAA...
Feb 15, 2016•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 105
Game experts and EHG contributors Trip Payne, David Ellis Dickerson and Rob Hartmann join Dave and Tara for a TV show theme quiz. Oh, the clips are only one and three seconds long. So there's that. TOPICS Game Time: 🧠 A Little Taste NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 104 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
Feb 08, 2016•54 min•Ep. 104
The old TWoP bullpen is reunited as Pop Culture Happy Hour's own Linda Holmes joins us for a discussion of American Crime Story , Ryan Murphy's dramatization of (this season) the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Where will your panelists fall on the matter of John Travolta and his Robert Shapiro eyebrows?! After Liv's latest report on Face Off , Around The Dial stops at Jane The Virgin , Rehab Addict , Hollywood Game Night , Drunk History , Ken Burns's Prohibition , and an ad from the '80s that maybe ...
Feb 01, 2016•2 hr 5 min•Ep. 103
As The X-Files gets back on the case, so does our esteemed colleague Eve Batey -- does the show improve after the premiere? What's with the cast not aging? And who greenlighted those super-gross SFX? After Liv (and Ellie) took us through Face Off , The Blotter recommended American Experience 's crimey new season, and we went around the dial with Blackish , Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , Pablo Escobar, enraging insurance ads, and Andre Braugher -- who popped up again in Eve's Canon nom, Homicide: LOTS 's ...
Jan 25, 2016•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 102
Our designated Legends Of Tomorrow correspondent John Ramos joins us to bend the very laws of time itself and discuss the series premiere of The CW's Legends Of Tomorrow DAYS before it actually premieres! Also returning? Liv Kwan, our seven-year-old Face Off reporter, with a report on the season premiere. Around The Dial stops at Mercy Street , The Laramie Project , the mytharc episodes of The X-Files , Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , and Second Chance (...but really Almost Human ). Erin...
Jan 18, 2016•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 101
Downton Abbey is back for one last spin around the foxhunting course...or something, and Nick's back to discuss the wedding, ageless Daisy, and what will become of Thomas and Lady f'ing Edith. We celebrated a Tiny Triumph, welcomed Smooth Joey Apollo to talk Golden Globes, joined The Hunt For John Wilkes Booth , and went around the dial with Angie Tribeca , Sherlock , American Crime (NOT American Crime Story or, um, Crime Story ), Hoarders , and Pickle & Peanut before declaring an unlikely w...
Jan 11, 2016•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 100
It's a new year, which means it's time for a new Bachelor , and we've brought our Bachelor correspondent Stephanie Green back to the podcast to discuss the Season 20 premiere (AND TWINNNNNNNS!). We also update you on the most popular team of the Law & Order draft, and return to the topic of Netflix's Making A Murderer to discuss whether it's worse than jazz (uh, in the sense, this time, of more infuriating and upsetting, of course). Around The Dial makes stops at Call The Midwife , Last Tang...
Jan 05, 2016•2 hr•Ep. 99
Hitfix's Alan Sepinwall kindly subjected himself to our very first Extra Hot Great franchise draft as we all picked from our favorite detectives, ADAs, MEs, and baddies to form Law & Order -verse superteams. Who emerged victorious? That's up to you, and you'll have to listen to know what we mean! After Sarah recommended Netflix's inconveniently timed but still solid Making A Murderer , we went Around The Dial with the Fargo finale, iZombie , 30 For 30 , the Globe noms, and a vintage Star War...
Dec 14, 2015•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 98
Empire has taken its final bow (before coming back in like a Lyon next March), so we've invited Empire correspondents Eve Batey and Mark Blankenship back to tell us what they thought of the season to date. For The Blotter Presents..., Sarah tells us about Investigation Discovery's Barbara Walters Presents American Scandals . Joe shares a recent Tiny Triumph. Around The Dial stops at American Horror Story , The Wiz Live! , The Great Pottery Throw Down , Transparent , Homeland , the Dolly Parton T...
Dec 07, 2015•2 hr•Ep. 97
Let's get this Joe on the road: with Reid off for the week, we asked esteemed colleagues John and Nick to join us for a discussion of Netflix's Jessica Jones , whether it works as a Veronica McNulty PI show of its own, and who Wil Traval reminds us of. The Blotter Presents scratched your Panettiere itch with an Amanda Knox movie before we went around the dial with bullshit dream-sequisodes, Britcoms, How To Get Away With Murder , nutty Thanksgiving Day programming, and Dave's suggestion for the ...
Nov 23, 2015•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 96
Tim Gunn gets another chance at shoring up his fan base with Project Runway: Junior , the shrunk-down version of the fashion competition, and Stephanie Cangro returns to talk about it! Around The Dial stops at Peep Show , London Spy , The Man In The High Castle , How To Get Away With Murder , MasterChef Junior , Into The Badlands , and W/ Bob & David . Stephanie makes her case for the induction to The Canon of the West Wing episode "The Indians In The Lobby." Then after a quick consideration...
Nov 16, 2015•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 95
Our esteemed colleague Monty Ashley covers most of the comic-book shows on Previously.TV , and he's back to talk about superhero TV from Arrow to, er, Zagents of SHIELD . We wrapped Project Project Greenlight , recommended Maura Murray materials in The Blotter Presents, and went around the dial with ballet, buried treasure, Survivor 's eternal allure, Aussie TV recs, and Cheese of Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends . Monty made his pitch to put an It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia episode in th...
Nov 09, 2015•1 hr 54 min•Ep. 94
With Ash Vs. Evil Dead premiering on Starz and iZombie well into a strong second season on The CW, we felt it was time to bring back horror/comedy/horror-comedy fan (and iZombie correspondent) Eve Batey for a discussion of both. Liv delivers her final Face Off report on Season 9, and all of us share our thoughts on the season finale of Project Greenlight ...until next week when we talk about The Leisure Class , the movie it spawned. Around The Dial stops at Nashville , Crazy Ex-Girlfriend , Scre...
Nov 02, 2015•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 93
Does CBS's new Supergirl soar or splat? Jeff Alexander, who'll be covering the show for Previously.TV all season, returns to the podcast to join us in a discussion about the pilot. Liv gives us her thoughts on the season's penultimate Face Off before the rest of us chew over the season's penultimate Project Greenlight . (TOO SOON!) The Blotter Presents takes us through the high points of The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case before Around The Dial stops at Arranged and Married At First Sight: The First ...
Oct 26, 2015•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 92
