Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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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  1. 11h ago

    Ducking And Covering With Line Of Fire

    We’re thrilled Santiago Melli-Huber could return to discuss the inter-agency copaganda — and, to be fair, the realistic sibling interactions — of Line Of Fire, a puzzle-box-ish network procedural full of cop tropes, unrealistic travel times, and actors we had trouble reconciling with relatively likable characters. We went Around The Dial with Best Of The Best, Dropout content, and Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story before Sarah bellied up to the Canon with a pitch for Drunk History. The Savant won, Taylor Frankie Paul lost, and Game Time was so on-brand with its acting-through-the-generations concept that it took nearly a generation to complete. Pocket an origami swan and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great! GUESTS👤 Santiago Melli-Huber TOPICSLead Topic: 🔫 Line Of Fire Around The Dial: 🕺 Best Of The Best Around The Dial: 👵🏻 Matlock (2024) Around The Dial: 🍚 Game Changer Around The Dial: 🪓 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story The Canon: 🥴 Drunk History S05.E07: Drunk MysteryWinner & Loser: 🪦 The Savant Winner & Loser: 🤦‍♀️ Taylor Frankie PaulGame Time: 🍼 Return Of The TV Nepo Babies 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📱 Ridiculous large iPhone text🦋 Follow Santiago Melli-Huber on Bluesky🎙️ Mari Cohn and Dolly Parton Tribute Night at The Edge💄 The Listen To Sassy Club🪓 Sarah's Monster: Lizzie review at Best Evidence🏦 Make a withdrawal from (or deposit in!) the EHG Mutual Aid Vault📷 Photo: Spencer Pazer / NBC

    Ducking And Covering With Line Of Fire

  2. 1d ago • Subscribers Only

    X: Space: 1999 Comes For Us All

    For the supporter perk series “Three Of These” for 2026, we’re looking at three different British Sci-fi TV shows of the 1970s. Our series wraps up for the year with Space: 1999 and its (and TV history's) spoogiest episode called "Space Brain". Marvel at Martin Landau keeping his moon base staff safe from the scourge of space-based semen! React in horror as people are turned into silly string-festooned grey potatoes! Stare in wonder and awe at sci-fi’s most baffling sleeve! It's all here and it's coming for you! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-430/

    X: Space: 1999 Comes For Us All

  3. 5d ago • Subscribers Only

    X: Screaming About The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza

    Adult Swim’s new 12-minute live-action sketch show The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza puts its titular star in such situations as “sentenced for manslaughter by a very strange judge” and “marooned at a weird co-worker’s dinner party”; we tell you if it’s scary good or just scary good. After delivering judgment on the last TWO episodes’ Ask Ask EHG questions, we tackle your latest Qs for us, like which skills we could contribute to a very useless emergency response team and what a show called Only Creatures In The Building would be about. Sarah pitches a memorable Degrassi slogan to the Tiny Catchphrase Canon. Then, after naming the week’s Not Quite Winners and Losers, we’re imagining how various TV relatives would fare on Family Feud. Sit down with your Asian wife and enjoy our latest episode together! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-429/

    X: Screaming About The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza

  4. Sep 16

    High Value Target Misses The Mark

    The great Josh Gondelman returns to discuss the not-so-great High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam, a tiresome limited series on TNT starring Joel Kinnaman as a CIA analyst/non-credible nerd and Tom Berenger as his crusty veteran dad. We’re talking about who it’s for (crusty veteran dads, lbr), why you wouldn’t just read John Nixon’s book, and whether other series have unpacked this era’s baggage more efficiently. We went Around The Dial with Coin From Accounts, Reggie Dinkins, and OJ Unseen before Dave wondered if the first-thought ring recharging on Lanterns is Worse Than Jazz?, and we contemplated a meta game-changer episode of Game Game Changer for the Canon. Point Break won, Entourage lost, and we sharpened our No. 2 pencils for an analogy-forward Game Time from Seth. We’re not in Kansas anymore either — it’s an all-new EHG! GUESTS👤 Josh Gondelman TOPICSLead Topic: 🎯 High Value Target: The Hunt For Saddam Around The Dial: 🦮 Colin From Accounts Around The Dial: 🏈 The Fall And Rise Of Reggie Dinkins Around The Dial: 🍊 OJ Unseen: Exploitation Of Evil Is This Worse Than Jazz?: 💍 The Lantern From LanternsThe Canon: 🏰 Game Changer S07.E11: SamalamadingdongWinner & Loser: 🏄‍♂️ Point Break Winner & Loser: 😡 Entourage creator Doug EllinLead Topic: 🧠 All About The D 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 Josh Gondelman, including his tour schedule📰 Josh's newsletter, That's Marvelous🕵🏻‍♂️ "Not My Job: We Quiz A Retired CIA Analyst On Briefs (The Underwear)" from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me🌴 Again With This Club🍊 Sarah's review of OJ Unseen at Best Evidence📷 Photo: TNT CLUB-ONLY NOTES🔥 EHG Club Perk Links & How-To💬 Get On Our Community Discord

    High Value Target Misses The Mark

  5. Sep 11 • Subscribers Only

    X: Watching The Sexes Battle In Anything You Can Do

    After Dr. Calhoun stumbled across the Canadian game show Anything You Can Do one random night, naturally he had to know what we would think of it, which is how we came to the October 7, 1971 episode: listen to find out how the guys’ team fared against the ladies’ team in contests of football uniform donning, backpack filling, and more. Ask EHG suggests switching Christophers from Gilmore Girls and The Sopranos, asks our favorite birds, and more. Dan Cassino pitches the paternoster lift from Babylon Berlin for induction into the Tiny Production Design Canon. We bring three game show-themed Not Quite Top 11 Lists to the table. Stephanie puts Back To The Frontier up on the Green Screen. Finally, we close out with an Extra Credit Non-Regulation Game Time that tests our panelsts’ talent for guessing which TV episode titles belong to Grey’s Anatomy, All Creatures Great And Small (1978-1990), or both. Put on your Adidas and listen! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-428/

    X: Watching The Sexes Battle In Anything You Can Do

  6. Sep 9

    Ferrying You To Widow's Bay

    We are off this week for Labor Day but present an episode from inside the Club vault. AppleTV’s newest dramedy pairs The Heat screenwriter Katie Dippold with Matthew Rhys as the beleaguered mayor of a dying island town; we tell you whether you should book your stay at the creepy local inn. Ask EHG invites us to share, among other things, which current show desperately needs a zombie apocalypse and the words we find aesthetically pleasing. Sarah pitches Omar Little’s first rendition of “The Farmer In The Dell” from The Wire for the Tiny Whistling Canon. We name the week’s Not Quite Winners And Losers. Finally, we end on our picks for the Sky Mall gifts our favorite TV characters most need to receive. Settle in to your table at The Salty Whale and join us! TOPICSAnnouncement: 📢 Ask & Answer Ask EHG Without DiscordLead Topic: 🧙‍♀️ Widow's Bay Ask EHG: 🇨🇦 Canadian GladiatorsTiny Canon: 😗 The Wire S01.E05: The PagerWinner & Loser: 👶 Nick OffermanWinner & Loser: ✍️ Friends writersWinner & Loser: 🩳 Michael BeachWinner & Loser: 🐻‍❄️ Lost producersWinner & Loser: 👦🏻 Adolescence Winner & Loser: 😤 Aimee Lou WoodExtra Credit: ✈️ SkyMalledMini: 😚 Whistling (Oct 2011) 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🎺 "What's Jazz Doing In A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms?" on YouTube😙 "Omar Comin'" on YouTube🙊 "Lost Actor Harold Perrineau Says Former Co-Star Still Won't Talk To Him" at IGN [subscription required]✈️ SkyMall📷 Photo: Apple

    Ferrying You To Widow's Bay

  7. Sep 4 • Subscribers Only

    X: Answering The Mayday Call

    Are we on the same wavelength as Apple's new movie Mayday, which sees Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh defector-thrillering across late-'80s "Russia"? If you're stuck in a remote cabin this long weekend, you could do worse! You Asked EHG about Dairy Queen treats and ten-dollar tats before Hayden Haymaker staked her hopes on a Buffy Tiny Canon pitch. We offered our Not Quite Winners and Losers of this week, and David T. Cole wondered if a game-show house is really a home in the Extra Credit. Submerge yourself in a barrel of beet booze and join us! EPISODE NOTES https://extrahotgreat.com/eehg-427/

    X: Answering The Mayday Call

  8. Sep 2

    The Extra Hot Great Fall 2026 TV Preview

    Labor Day is nearly here, and with it the unofficial start of fall. With dozens of new shows premiering or returning, which are we actually planning to watch…and planning even harder to avoid? Eve Batey returns so that we can all share our picks and P.U.s. Eve presents the Widow’s Bay episode “Your Baggage” for induction into The Canon. Then, after we name the week’s Winner and Loser, we close with a Ted-y bear of a Non-Regulation Game Time. Take a break from burning your dead leaves to listen! GUESTS👤 Eve Batey TOPICSLead Topic: 🍂 Fall TV PreviewThe Canon: ⛽️ Widow's Bay S01.E08: Your BaggageWinner & Loser: ⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Winner & Loser: 📡 CNNGame Time: 🔪 Ted Like Me 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🦋 Eve Batey on Bluesky‼️ “The Cozy-Looking Sweaters In ‘Reds,’ Ranked” at Defector📰 The Vanity Fair Daily newsletter🌁 Eve’s piece on Under Story at the San Francisco Chronicle [subscription required]👶 Sarah’s review of Baby Doe at Best Evidence [subscription required]🖼️ “CNN Apologizes For Mistakenly Airing Photo Of Dolly Parton Impersonator In Report On Late Singer” at Variety

    The Extra Hot Great Fall 2026 TV Preview
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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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    Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    572
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    Explicit
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    Through Methods Inc.

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