Being The Ricardos, Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation MacGruber; Insecure; How To With John Wilson; Dead Asleep; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. John Potts asks us to choose a TV getaway for our next imaginary holiday. Ilan brings us back to the TV-to-movie pipeline with a Canon presentation on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie." Then we name the week's Winner and Loser before closing out with a Game Time that really decks the halls. No need to arrange a multi-cam setup: this podcast is for your ears only!

GUESTS

👤 Tim Grierson

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos

Around The Dial: 🕺 Finding Magic Mike

Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber

Around The Dial: 🧍🏽‍♀️ Insecure

Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson

Around The Dial: 🛌 Dead Asleep

Around The Dial: 🧑‍⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways

The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie

Winner & Loser: 👍 Texas Monthly

Winner & Loser: 👎 Peloton

Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter

🙃 "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter

🤥 "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos"

🗣 Tara's interview with Gloria Calderón Kellett at Decider

🎞 Tim at Screen International

🍈 Tim at Mel

📚 Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie, at The Last Bookshop

🛌 Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence