Downton Abbey has been adapted from television series to feature film, and professional movie analysts Joe Reid and Chris Feil of the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast are joining us to talk about it! Around The Dial clicks through a trio of CBS sitcom pilots, Unbelievable, 30 For 30's "Rodman: For Better Or Worse," and Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance. Sarah and Tara take a look at Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail's just-announced Battlestar Galactica reboot and ask: Will Dave Hate This? We take on Mary's Muppetational Extra Credit question. Chris and Joe make the case for Project Runway S02.E09, "Flower Power," to be inducted into the Canon. Then, after talking Emmy Winners and Losers, it's on to a Game Time that tests our knowledge of our Boomer relatives' favourite shows. Grab your favourite footman and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Joe Reid

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏰 Downton Abbey

Around The Dial: 🥈 Carol's Second Act

Around The Dial: 💕 Bob Hearts Abishola

Around The Dial: 🦄 The Unicorn

Around The Dial: 🧐 Unbelievable

Around The Dial: 🏀 30 For 30

Around The Dial: 🔮 Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance

Will Dave Hate This?: 😡 Battlestar Galactica

Extra Credit: 🤑 Flesh-Covered Muppets

The Canon: 🏆 Project Runway S02.E09: Flower Power

Winner & Loser: 👍 Some people at the Emmys

Winner & Loser: 👎 Different people at the Emmys

Game Time: 🧠 Uncle Billy & Aunt Joan

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 269 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Joe Reid on Twitter

👰‍♂️ Chris Feil on Twitter

📺 Primetimer

🎶 MASTAS Live!

🐝 The This Had Oscar Buzz podcast

📺 Chris at Primetimer

🍿 Chris at The Film Experience

Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight, Are You The One?, and The Challenge, then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

SHOW TOPICS

• Undone
• Married At First Sight
• Are You The One
• The Challenge
• Tiny Triumph
• Extra Credit: A Very Blanky Renovation
• The Canon: RHOBH S01.E09: The Dinner Party From Hell 
• Winner and Loser of the Week
• Game Time: What's The Difference

SHOW NOTES

• Appointment TV podcast
• Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project
• Quaid In Full podcast
• Photo: Amazon Studios

DISCUSSION

Talk about this episode on its dedicated page on ExtraHotGreat.com

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Reviewers love Undone, Amazon's half-hour rotoscoped drama about time travel and mental illness -- did the panel agree? Should the show be animated, or live-action? Does it need a second season? And is this the San Antonio Kevin recognizes from his youth? We went around the dial with prestige fare like Married At First Sight, Are You The One?, and The Challenge, then Brady Renovation-ed other legendary TV exteriors for an Extra Credit before Tara shared a Tiny Triumph. Then Kevin put a legendary reality-show dinner party from the first season of The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills up for the Canon. Norman Lear was a winner, Shane Gillis was a loser (and SNL got a conspiracy theory...and another one), and we tried not to count ourselves out of a very numerical Game Time. Reading (minds) is fundamental on an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Kevin O'Keeffe

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⌚️ Undone

Around The Dial: 👰 Married At First Sight

Around The Dial: 🥇 Are You The One

Around The Dial: 🗿 The Challenge

Tiny Triumph: 🎉

Extra Credit: 🤑 A Very Blanky Renovation

The Canon: 🏆 The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills S01.E09: The Dinner Party From Hell

Winner & Loser: 👍 Norman Lear

Winner & Loser: 👎 Shane Gillis

Game Time: 🧠 What's The Difference

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 268 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

📺 Appointment TV podcast

💄 Kevin's Drag Race Rewind project

🚀 Quaid In Full podcast

It's the show Lance Bass never wanted you to see: A Very Brady Renovation, in which a collection of HGTV stars join forces with the surviving cast of The Brady Bunch to make the real-life Studio City home that served as the Brady house in b-roll look exactly like the Brady Bunch set inside. Who better to join us in discussing all the Who-lebrities involved than Who Weekly? co-host Bobby Finger! Around The Dial takes us through Season 3 of The Deuce, Part 3 of Money Heist, Ken Burns's latest PBS documentary series Country Music, and Joe Pera Talks With You. Bobby presents the Enlightened episode "The Weekend" for induction into the Canon; then we name the week's Winner and Loser and move on to a Game Time about TV frogs getting smooched. Grab your sledgehammer and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Bobby Finger

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🏚 A Very Brady Renovation

Around The Dial: 💩 The Deuce

Around The Dial: 💶 Money Heist

Around The Dial: 🤠 Ken Burns's Country Music

Around The Dial: 🗣 Joe Pera Talks With You

Extra Credit: 🤑 Missing TV References And Quotes

The Canon: 🏆 Enlightened S01.E04: The Weekend

Winner & Loser: 👍 Rick Jackson

Lead Topic: 👎 Richard Gere

Game Time: 🧠 In The Pond

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 267 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Bobby Finger on Twitter

🙋 The Who Weekly podcast

🎙 The I'm Obsessed With This podcast

🫄 The video Eva Amurri Martino made announcing her third pregnancy

🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast

We're not able to record this week so we're treating y'all to a sneak peak at Extra Extra Hot Great, our patrons-only bonus podcast.

The Jimmy Kimmel-spearheaded, ABC-aired restagings of one classic episode each of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, live in front of a studio audience, delivered one of the network’s highest-rated season wraps in years, and you know what that means: copycats are coming. And we want to get ahead of the trend! For today’s Extra Extra Hot Great, we’re each choosing a classic episode of TV to remake, and casting all the roles with actors working today.

FX announced not long after we recorded a recent EHG main podcast that American Crime Story has finally started moving forward on its third topic: Impeachment, "the story of the Clinton presidency scandal." One of the great things about that franchise is that it provides so much food for thought between seasons, not least (inevitably incorrect) speculation about what it will take on next and with whom in what roles -- so now that that's been taken off the table for the moment, let's talk about what a Union Jack version of the story would look like!

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 📺 Making More Live Remakes, Live (On Tape)

Lead Topic: 🇬🇧 British Crime Story, Series 1

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 266 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

💂 StoryCast podcast featuring Brink's-Mat Robbery on iTunes

On Becoming A God In Central Florida premiered on Showtime recently, and Floridian Jeb Lund returned to the podcast to discuss its geographic and period accuracy, whether it celebrates or mocks the poor, and all the process-y parts of a pyramid scheme (fine: "multi-level marketing"). We went Around The Dial with 13 Reasons Why, Why Women Kill and Pennyworth, and then we contemplated converting primetime shows into Saturday-morning cartoons, '70s-style, in an Extra Credit from Dave Snyder. After a hilarious (if fatal to felines) Canon submission on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, we declared Netflix a winner, ABC a loser, and Dan Cassino an evil genius as we played a Hallmark Of Quality Game Time. Stock up on giant cans of nacho cheese before you listen to an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Jeb Lund

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🌴 On Becoming A God In Central Florida

Around The Dial: 🔪 Why Women Kill

Around The Dial: 📼 13 Reasons Why

Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth

Extra Credit: 🤑 Modern Primetime Cartooning

The Canon: 🏆 Garth Merenghi's Darkplace S01.E01: Once Upon A Beginning

Winner & Loser: 👍 Netflix

Winner & Loser: 👎 ABC

Game Time: 🧠 Hallmark Of Quality

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 265 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

😴 The Dream podcast

🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast

🦢 Sarah and John Ramos on MSCL

🎄 Dave And Jeb Aren't Mean

HBO's new Danny McBride/Jody Hill sitcom, The Righteous Gemstones, takes aim at megachurch evangelists, but will it make you throw up your hands in praise? Adam Sternbergh returns to discuss it. Around The Dial makes stops at Lodge 49, The Boys, Years And Years, and QB1: Beyond The Lights, before we roll into a Canon presentation on the series premiere of Sherlock, "A Study In Pink." After naming the week's Winner and Loser, we all say "¡si!" to a Game Time about TV's non-union Mexican equivalents. Our episode is an awesome episode, and you should listen!

GUESTS

👤 Adam Sternbergh

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⛪️ The Righteous Gemstones

Around The Dial: 🛖 Lodge 49

Around The Dial: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys

Around The Dial: 📅 Years And Years

Around The Dial: 🏈 QB1: Beyond The Lights

The Canon: 🏆 Sherlock S01.E01: A Study In Pink

Winner & Loser: 👍 St. Elmo's Fire

Winner & Loser: 👎 Friends

Game Time: 🧠 Non-Union Mexican Equivalent

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 264 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Adam Sternbergh on Twitter

📰 The 1619 Project at the New York Times

📺 Sarah at Primetimer

💍 Decoder Ring's episode on the Johnlock Conspiracy

GLOW returned to Netflix for its third season last weekend, and Adam Grosswirth returned to EHG to discuss the action's move to Vegas, the realism of a long run, whether a more serious tone worked, and where a possible Season 4 can go from here. We went Around The Dial with The Family, Wu Assassins, So You Think You Can Dance, and Last Tango In Halifax before Erica challenged us to create Tony-winning musical episodes from TV shows of yore. We got out the paddles for a Canon submission from Sean on Schitt's Creek, then declared a dead Confederate a winner, and LiLo's antics a loser, before sampling a rollercoaster of a musical Game Time. Hike up those leotards and join us for an all-new Extra Hot Great.

GUESTS

👤 Adam Grosswirth

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🤼‍♀️ GLOW

Around The Dial: 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 The Family

Around The Dial: 🩰 So You Think You Can Dance

Around The Dial: 💃 Last Tango In Halifax

Around The Dial: 🥷 Wu Assassins

Extra Credit: 🤑 When The Emmys Meet The Tonys

The Canon: 🏆 Schitt's Creek S01.E06: Wine And Roses

Winner & Loser: 👍 HBO

Lead Topic: 👎 Lindsay Lohan

Game Time: 🧠 Would You Care To Try A Sample?

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 263 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🚀 Sarah's Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter

Noted romcom fan Mindy Kaling has been tasked by Hulu to bring the world a series adaptation of the 1994 feature film Four Weddings And A Funeral, and noted romcom fan Linda Holmes is joining us to talk about whether this ever should have happened! Around The Dial has us discussing HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show, the series finale of Jane The Virgin, and the end (we hope) of Big Little Lies. Linda makes the case for the induction of The Good Place's "Dance Dance Resolution" into the Canon; then after naming the week's Winner(s) and Loser, we move on to a Game Time that soars. Get out of the rain (or hadn't you noticed?) and join us!

GUESTS

👤 Linda Holmes

TOPICS

Lead Topic: ⚰️ Four Weddings And A Funeral

Around The Dial: ✍️ A Black Lady Sketch Show

Around The Dial: 👧🏻 Jane The Virgin

Around The Dial: 🤥 Big Little Lies

The Canon: 🏆 The Good Place S02.E02: Dance Dance Resolution

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nico Tortorella (and Auli'i Cravalho)

Winner & Loser: 👎 Gabrielle Carteris

Game Time: 🧠 Pilot Test

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 262 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Linda Holmes on Twitter

⚰️ Linda's review of Four Weddings And A Funeral at NPR.org

🤼‍♀️ Vulture's coverage of GLOW

🎙 The Sweet Smell Of Succession podcast

🏝 The Again With This podcast

🦞 Linda's book, Evvie Drake Starts Over

🍸 Pop Culture Happy Hour

🎙 Linda on The Maris Review podcast

🎯 Linda on Bullseye

⚾️ Linda on the Effectively Wild podcast

🚀 The Quaid In Full podcast on Twitter

👵🏻 The Gabrielle Carteris tag on Deadline.com

John couldn't make it last week for our Veronica Mars discussion, but he fired a baby's laser-beam eyes at Amazon's latest original, The Boys, which we all quite liked. Does Jack Quaid look more like his famous parents, or like a Bill Heder/Pacey Witter hybrid? How will the show diverge even further from its graphic-novel parent in Season 2? And does Butcher swear more than Buntsy? We went Around The Dial with Sherman's Showcase and South Side, John's belated take on Veronica Mars S4, Animal Kingdom, and Pennyworth before descending into a boring, disturbing sex fog with Dave's presentation of TNG's "Sub Rosa" for the Nonac. Nickelodeon slime won the space race, Diddy became a Loser, and Dan Cassino merged shows old and new for a Before & After Game Time. Don't get sent to Sandusky for missing this all-new Extra Hot Great!

GUESTS

👤 John Ramos

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 🦸🏻‍♂️ The Boys

Around The Dial: 🎪 Sherman's Showcase

Around The Dial: 📺 South Side

Around The Dial: 🕵🏻‍♀️ Veronica Mars

Around The Dial: 🦁 Animal Kingdom

Around The Dial: 🪙 Pennyworth

The Nonac: 🤮 Star Trek: The Next Generation S07.E14: Sub Rosa

Winner & Loser: 👍 Nickelodeon slime

Lead Topic: 👎 P. Diddy

Game Time: 🧠 Before & After

NOTES

🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 261 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🧡 Tara's Primetimer post on OITNB

🎙 Tara and Dave Chen's Succession podcast

🦁 Sarah's Animal Kingdom power rankings at Primetimer

♣️ Bridge champion John Ramos

🛸 This weird and wonderful Star Trek on a theremin video