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124: Where No EHG Has Gone Before: The Star Trek Fantasy Draft Jul 26, 2016

Show notes

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!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 💫 Star Trek Fantasy Draft

Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee

Around The Dial: 🛒 Superstore

Around The Dial: 🌁 Looking Looking: The Movie

Around The Dial: 📹 UnREAL

Around The Dial: 🐿 Squirrel Girl

The Canon: 🚀 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Winner & Loser: 👍 Rita Ora

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Vampire Diaries

Game Time: 🧠 The EHG Convention

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 124 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Maureen Ryan on Twitter

123: Rebooting Mr. Robot Jul 19, 2016

Show notes

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!

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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

122: The Night Of At The EHG Round Table Jul 12, 2016

Show notes

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!

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Lead 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 Coon

Winner & Loser: 👎 Roger Ailes

Game Time: 🧠 More Chicken, More Egg

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 122 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Allison Lowe Huff on Twitter

121: Loading In With Roadies Jun 28, 2016

Show notes

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!

TOPICS

Lead 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 Ape

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 121 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Jeff Drake on Twitter

120: Paying The Piper With Orange Is The New Black Jun 21, 2016

Show notes

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 on the corrections bus for an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🚨 Orange Is The New Black

Around The Dial: 💋 The Girlfriend Experience

Around The Dial: 💄 Skin Wars: Fresh Paint

Around The Dial: 🐝 Full Frontal With Samantha Bee

Around The Dial: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America

Around The Dial: 👯‍♀️ Orphan Black

The Canon: 🍔 Bob's Burgers

Winner & Loser: 👍 Younger

Winner & Loser: 👎 HBO Now

Game Time: 🧠 Everyone's A Critic

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 120 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Monty Ashley on Twitter

119: Tackling O.J.: Made In America Jun 14, 2016

Show notes

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 Winner and Loser, Game Time takes us somewhere no one can year you scream. Get your podcast ready for the run of its life!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏈 O.J.: Made In America

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 Veep

Around The Dial: 🍊 Real Housewives Of Orange County

Around The Dial: 🎭 The Tony Awards

Around The Dial: 🚨 Cop Rock

The Canon: 😃 Happy Endings

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nashville

Winner & Loser: 👎 Fox Sports, Emily Austen

Game Time: 🧠 SPAAAAAACE!

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 119 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Stephanie Green on Twitter

118: UnREAL-ity Television Jun 07, 2016

Show notes

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 Bachelorette's Chad or Prison Break's Dominic? Is Niska our spirit animal? And will non-carnal wifeys Tara and Sarah be getting matching wristtoos? Buy into the fairy tale on an all-new episode of Extra Hot Great.

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Lead Topic: 📹 UnREAL

Around The Dial: 🚨 Angie Tribeca

Around The Dial: 🕵️‍♂️ Archer

Around The Dial: 🌄 Twin Peaks

Around The Dial: 🗽 The Real Housewives Of New York City

Around The Dial: 🤾‍♂️ The Challenge

Around The Dial: ✉️ Letter 44

Around The Dial: 🇺🇸 The Americans

The Canon: 🤖 Humans

Winner & Loser: 👍 The Bachelorette

Winner & Loser: 👎 Prison Break

Game Time: 🧠 Hot Potato

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 118 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 John Ramos on Twitter

117: Saying A Little Prayer For Preacher May 24, 2016

Show notes

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 ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Eve Batey on Twitter

116: The Heat Is On: Summer TV Preview May 17, 2016

Show notes

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'll have to listen to find out, Freckles: it's an all-new SPF 50 Extra Hot Great.

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😎 Summer TV Preview

Around The Dial: 🎣 Catfish

Around The Dial: 🏝 Survivor

Around The Dial: 🔪 Scandal

Around The Dial: 🚨 Happy Valley

The Canon: ✈️ Lost

Winner & Loser: 👍 Sleepy HollowTurn

Winner & Loser: 👎 The Night Manager

Game Time: 🧠 Mountain Climber

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 116 page on ExtraHotGreat.com