Punch Drunk TV

We're now at that weird time between show seasons. With Summer shows around the corner and most shows coming to an end, what sorta batshit crazy things are we going to be watching over the next month? That is the question.

In the meantime, The Network UpFronts are done and it seems that the Red Wedding has come to Fox. The network almost killed all of their comedies. But at least Stiffler is coming to "Lethal Weapon" ... right?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Clayne Crawford has been replaced by Seann William Scott for Season 3 of "Lethal Weapon." It's unclear what will happen to Riggs in the story, but Scott will come in as a new unruly cop character for Damon Wayans' Murtaugh to team up with.
• Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon will return as Cord and Tish to cover the Royal Wedding on HBO. It's titled "The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!" and will premiere May 19 at 7:30 pm.
• Jordan Peele will executive produce a new 10-episode nazi-hunting series for Amazon called "The Hunt." Set in the 1970s, the series "starts from a vaguely real-world premise—former Nazis living undercover in New York—and quickly gets TV-show-over-the-top with it, suggesting that the "hundreds" of secret Germans are plotting the rise of a "Fourth Reich" in the heart of the Big Apple."
• According to Entertainment Weekly, "Arrested Development's" 16-episode fifth season will be split into two halves, with one premiering May 29 and the other coming by the end of the year.
• Netflix is getting in on the horror anthology trend with a new series, "Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight." According to Variety, Del Toro will serve as executive producer on the series, and reportedly wants to write and direct select "equally sophisticated and horrific" episodes himself; the rest will come from writers and filmmakers personally selected by the director.
• "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." has been renewed for a sixth season. According to AV Club, "the show will return for a 13-episode run next summer, most likely giving viewers a nice gap between the May release of Avengers 4 and the show's season premiere. This way, half of the cast can still be obliterated and then resurrected without undercutting whatever the movie does to pull it off—which we're all guessing involves time travel, right?"
• Batwoman will make her debut in CW's next Superhero crossover event. This will be the first time any of the "Arrow"-related shows will be making a direct connection to the Batman universe.
• According to The Hollywood Reporter, Epix has just ordered 10 episodes of "Pennyworth," a show dedicated to Batman's butler Alfred when he first began working for Bruce Wayne's father. The show will emphasize Alfred's past as a former British SAS officer living in 1960s London, so it will be as far removed from the classic Batman mythology as possible.
• DC Universe announced a new 13-episode live action series for the streaming service based on "Doom Patrol." A press release from Warner Bros. says "Doom Patrol" will be about a team of super-powered people who have all been scarred and traumatized by various tragedies until someone known as The Chief comes along and enlists them in a mission to investigate 'the weirdest phenomena in existence.'"

NOTEWORTHY CANCELLATIONS:Syfy has canceled "The Expanse."CBS: "Kevin Can Wait," "Scorpion," "Superior Donuts" NBC: "Great News," "Rise," "Taken" ABC: "Alex, Inc.," "The Crossing," "Deception," "Designated Survivor," "Quantico," "Kevin (Probably) Saves the World," "Marvel's Inhumans"FOX: "The Exorcist," "Lucifer," "The X-Files" (but there'll be more "Prison Break," apparently?)

ABC also passed on "The Greatest American Hero" reboot. The CW canceled their "Supernatural" spinoff series "The Wayward Sisters." "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" was saved from cancellation by NBC, and Fox has resurrected Tim Allen's "Last Man Standing" after canceling practically all its comedies because "The Roseanne Effect" and ... football?

AARON'S LOSER: "Patrick Melrose"JACK'S LOSERS: "Safe" AARON'S FENCERS: "Evil Genius" and "I'm Dying Up Here"JACK'S FENCERS: "All Night," "Evil Genius," "Patrick Melrose" AARON'S WINNERS: "Dear White People," "Westworld," "Barry" and "Killing Eve"JACK'S WINNERS: "Barry," "Westworld," "The Handmaid's Tale," "Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife" and Little Women"

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Aaron here, I'm back from Budapest and I have stories. Also, Jack and I watched enough shows to talk for two hours ... which was something I was really concerned about. I'm typing this as Jack is ordering Jet Blue pizza. It's 12:30 am. What is life?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Clayne Crawford has been fired from "Lethal Weapon."
• Fox has canceled "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" and "Last Man on Earth."
• Netflix has ordered six more episodes of "Somebody Feed Phil." The new episodes find Phil in Venice, Dublin, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Capetown and New York. All episodes will premiere globally on July 6.
• Adult Swim has ordered SEVENTY MORE EPISODES OF "RICK AND MORTY."
• James Wan is executive producing a "Swamp Thing" TV series for DC's new streaming service, called DC Universe. It will premiere sometime in 2019.
• Martin Scorsese will direct an "SCTV" reunion special for Netflix, which will feature Rick Moranis, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short and Dave Thomas
• Most importantly, Lifetime has greenlit an R. Kelly docu-series and a feature-length movie "aiming to tell the stories of women who have fallen under the toxic spell of the controversial R&B singer, whose alleged abuse of underage black women was detailed in a blockbuster exposé in BuzzFeed last year by music journalist Jim DeRogatis."

AARON'S LOSER: ABC (Because, "Roseanne")JACK'S LOSERS: "Sweetbitter" and "A Little Help with Carol Burnett" AARON'S FENCER: "SNL," "The Rain" and "Cobra Kai"JACK'S FENCERS: "Cobra Kai," "Vida," "The Rain" and "Taskmaster" AARON'S WINNERS: "This is America," "Killing Eve," Last Man on Earth," "Barry" and "Westworld"JACK'S WINNERS: "My House," "Barry" and "Westworld"

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We took a week off and now we're back, a day early! Why? Well, long story short: Aaron's life has been super crazy and he's heading off to Budapest this week for a set visit. Living the high life, or something.

Enough small talk, let's get into it.

THIS WEEK IN TV HISTORY:

• April 30, 1952, Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
• May 2, 1972, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was born
• May 3, 1991, 356th & final episode of CBS second longest running series "Dallas", (2nd only to "Gunsmoke")
• May 4, 2008, Seth MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep "Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012, making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Let's break down all that "Lethal Weapon" drama
• After 3 seasons, "Ash vs Evil Dead" has been canceled by Starz
• Syfy dumps their "Tremors" TV series
• "Double Dare" is returning to Nickelodeon this Summer with 40 new episodes
• For some reason, Netflix is making a "Fast & Furious" animated series

AARON'S LOSER: "Into the Badlands" and "Archer: Danger Island"JACK'S LOSERS: "Archer, Danger Island," "The New Legends of Monkey" and "The Chris Gethard Show" AARON'S FENCER: "AMC's 'Visionaries: James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction"JACK'S FENCERS: "Riverdale," "Taskmaster" and "SKAM Austin" AARON'S WINNERS: "Aggretsuko," "Atlanta," "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas," "Handmaid's Tale," "Ash vs. Evil Dead" and "Westworld"JACK'S WINNERS: "Handmaid's Tale," "Aggretsuko" and "Dirty Computer"

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We took a week off but now we're back ... and badder than ever!

How is it that after one week of not recording, there seems to be even more TV shows we are behind on? Is it even possible to stay up to date on everything when a new show is constantly premiering? Damn, do you remember how shitty TV entertainment used to be before LOST, Mad Men and Breaking Bad? Well, do you?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "The Walking Dead" Season 8 finale brought in 7.9 million viewers — it was the highest rated show of the night, but it was the show's lowest-rated finale since Season 1 — which was watched by 6 million people.
• Carey Elwes and Jake Busey have joined the cast of "Stranger Things" for Season 3. According to Deadline, Elwes will be playing Larry Kline, the mayor of Hawkins, who was described as "A classic, 80's style slick politician. Pathetic and driven only by his own interests. The studio is looking for a male, aged from 40s-60s, to fill the role." Busey will be playing a character named Bruce, who was described as "a morally compromised news reporter in his 50s" who is "outwardly sexist, overweight and bedraggled."
• Idris Elba is going to Netflix. The service has handed out a straight-to-series, eight-episode order for half-hour entry "Turn Up Charlie," an original comedy created by, starring and exec produced by the "Luther" Emmy nominee. According to THR, "Elba will star in the comedy as Charlie, a struggling DJ and eternal bachelor, who is given a final chance at success when he reluctantly becomes a manny to his famous best friend's problem-child daughter."
• Comedy Central confirms that Season 5 of "Broad City" will be its final season. Smart move going out on their terms. And with the recent announcement that Amazon is developing an "A League of Their Own" TV series — with Abbi Jacobson co-writing and executive producing — it looks like she'll be keeping busy. I wonder if Alana is good at sports?
• Nat Geo says Season 3 of its series "Genius" will be about Mary Shelley. Season 2, which is about Pablo Picasso, premieres on Tuesday, the 24th.
• ABC has once again ordered a 13-episode spinoff to "The Goldbergs." It's currently untitled and will be taking place in the '90s.

RECENT RENEWALS & CANCELLATIONS:

• HBO has renewed "Barry" for Season 2.
• CBS renewed "Blue Bloods," "Bull," "Hawaii Five-0," "MacGyver," "NCIS: Los Angeles" and "NCIS: New Orleans."
• Hulu has renewed "I Love You America"
• Sundance has renewed "This Close"
• CBS has taken "Living Biblically" off its lineup, basically canceling the series.
• NBC has taken "Taken" off its schedule, basically canceling the series.
• Netflix has canceled "Seven Seconds" after one season.

AARON'S LOSERS: "Roseanne," "The Last O.G.," "New Girl" and "Siren"JACK'S LOSERS: "Siren," "SNL," "Trading Spaces," "Ballmastrz 9009" and "New Girl" AARON'S FENCERS: "The Walking Dead," "Fear the Walking Dead," "SNL" and "Last Man on Earth"JACK'S FENCER: "Howard's End" AARON'S WINNERS: "Chef's Table: Pastry," "Andre the Giant," "The Circus," "Atlanta," "Hap & Leonard" and "Lost in Space"JACK'S WINNERS: "Last Man On Earth," Barry Killing Eve

SHOWS TO WATCH: "Mercury 13" on Netflix (Friday), "Westworld" on HBO (Sunday), "Into the Badlands" on AMC (Sunday), "The Ice Cream Show" on Viceland (Tuesday), "Archer: Danger Island" on FX (Wednesday), "The Handmaid's Tale" on Hulu (Wednesday), and "Brockmire" on IFC (Wednesday)

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It's been a long week and Jack and Aaron will be taking a week off next week. Just so you know.

Be warned: Aaron had an itchy trigger finger going into this episode. Basically, coffee and whiskey and no sleep and all work make Aaron a grumpy ... oh well, you get it.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "Stranger Things" will be the first Netflix series to get its own maze at Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Hollywood and Singapore this fall.
• FX Networks has ordered the pilot for "Y," based on the post-apocalyptic comic book series "Y: The Last Man"
• Ryan Murphy says Joan Collins will join the cast of "American Horror Story" for Season 8
• Roseanne's ratings dropped 17 percent in its second week, bringing in 15.2 million viewers, as opposed to the adjusted number of 25 million who tuned in for the premiere.
• Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions is making a four-part Lorena Bobbitt docuseries for Amazon.
• Amazon's "Lord of the Rings" TV series will be the most expensive TV show ever. The streaming service is planning on producing at least five seasons and it'll cost around $1 billion dollars to make.
• "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" will end after Season 4. The CW has renewed "Arrow," "Black Lightning," "Legends of Tomorrow," "Dynasty," "The Flash," "Jane the Virgin," "Riverdale," "Supergirl" and "Supernatural."
• The Parents Television Council wants Netflix to hold off on airing Season 2 of "13 Reasons Why" until "experts in the scientific community have determined it to be safe for consumption" by minors.

AARON'S LOSER: "The Crossing" and "Roseanne" JACK'S LOSERS: "Roseanne," "The Dangerous Book For Boys" and "The Crossing" JACK'S FENCERS: "The Last OG" AARON'S WINNERS: "Rapture" The Logic episode, "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Supernatural" Scoobynatural, "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and "Legion" JACK'S WINNERS: "Barry," "Supernatural" and "Legion"

SHOWS COMING UP WORTH WATCHING: Jay-Z on "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" on Friday (Netflix), "Paterno" on Saturday (HBO), "Saturday Night Live" with Chadwick Boseman hosting with Cardi B as the musical talent (NBC), "Howard's End" on Sunday (Starz), "Killing Eve" on Sunday (BBC America), Wrestlemania 34 on Sunday (WWE Network), "New Girl" Season 7 premiere on Tuesday (FOX), "HBO Special: Andre the Giant" on Tuesday (HBO), "CW Special: Harry Potter: A History of Magic" on Wednesday (CW), "The Expanse" on Wednesday (SYFY), "Lost in Space" on Friday (Netflix), "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas" on Friday (HBO)

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It's been a few days since Jack has had anything to drink and he broke that streak in this episode. You've been warned.

On the flipside, Aaron came into the episode already a bit tipsy off of some odd blue drink from FX's "Legion" Chamber Experience going on in Hollywood this weekend. Let's party!

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:

• Donald and Stephen Glover are no longer working on FX's "Deadpool" animated series. After the news hit, Glover released his entire script for the pilot online
• 18 million people tuned into "Roseanne" when it returned to TV on Tuesday. And in a speech in Ohio on Tuesday, which was supposed to be about infrastructure, Donald Trump ended up taking the credit for those ratings.
• Stormy Daniels' 60 Minutes interview brought the show's highest ratings in 10 years — that's 22 million viewers
• Steven Spielberg came out against Netflix movies being nominated for Oscars. If it's released in the TV format, it should be considered a TV movie and only be considered for Emmys. Do we agree?
• Netflix has renewed four unscripted shows: "Queer Eye," the docuseries "Dope," the baking competition series "Nailed It," and the docuseries "The Toys That Made Us"
• Get excited, Jack. John Mulaney will host "SNL" on April 14th.

AARON'S LOSERS: "Game Over Man" and "Alex, Inc."JACK'S LOSERS: "Alex, Inc." and "Splitting Up Together" AARON'S FENCERS: "Requiem," "The Tick," "Silicon Valley" and "Roseanne" Season 10 premiereJACK'S FENCERS: "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee," "Alexa and Katie," "Riverdale" and "Gotham" AARON'S WINNERS: "Roseanne" Season 10, Episode 2, "The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling," "The Terror," "Barry" and"Santa Clarita Diet"JACK'S WINNERS: "Barry," "Roseanne," "Last Man on Earth" and "Trust'

UPCOMING TV SHOWS TO WATCH: "Siren" on Freeform (Thursday), "Series of Unfortunate Events" Season 2 on Netflix (Friday), "Counterpart" Season 1 finale on Starz (Sunday), "Jesus Christ Superstar Live!" on NBC (Sunday), "The Crossing" on ABC (Monday), "Legion" Season 2 premiere on FX (Tuesday), "The Last O.G." on TBS (Tuesday), "The Magicians" Season 3 finale on Wednesday (SYFY), "Will & Grace" Season 9 finale on Thursday (NBC)

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Hey Clinkers. How are you? It's raining in L.A. So ... thoughts and prayers to all the displaced snails ...

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• The "Stranger Things" cast just got huge pay raises. Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, and Caleb McLaughlin all will go from about $30,000 per episode to somewhere between $200,000 and $250,000. Millie Bobby Brown's bump was apparently even bigger, but Deadline doesn't offer specifics. David Harbour and Winona Ryder are making somewhere "north of $300,000" after their own salary bumps. Series regulars Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton are only making between $100,000 and $150,000, which seems low for how important they are to the series, but they both got overshadowed by Joe Keery during season two.
• Kathy Bates will return for Season 8 of "American Horror Story" because, duh. Ryan Murphy revealed at PaleyFest: "Kathy and Sarah Paulson have a lot of great stuff to get to do. So, with Evan Peters, the three of them are the leads this year."
• John Constantine will become a series regular on DC's "Legends of Tomorrow." That is if The CW renews the show for a fourth season.
• NBC has given an extended order for more "Will & Grace" episodes this season. The network already ordered a second season before the reboot's premiere and just ordered a third season (or 11th season, if you're keeping track).
• Jerry O'Connell has been cast as Sheldon's older brother Georgie on "The Big Bang Theory" and will appear in the Season 11 finale
• Netflix has secured the international rights to all of the Monty Python movies as well as many TV series including "Flying Circus." The content will launch in the UK and Canada on Sunday, April 15, and begin streaming in America later this year.

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Woods: Tales of The X Species Volume 1," "X-Files" and "Krypton"JACK'S LOSERS: "Instinct" and "War Games" AARON'S FENCERS: "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," "Station 19" and "On My Block"JACK'S FENCERS: "Krypton," "Darling in the FRANXX," "Genius Junior" and "Gotham" AARON'S WINNERS: "SNL," "The Walking Dead," "Wild Wild Country" and "Last Man On Earth"JACK'S WINNERS: "On My Block," "Last Man On Earth" and Bill Hader ... just, Bill Hader. Put him on EVERY SHOW!

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Hey guys, it's been a rough week. So instead of filling this intro with some sort of witty small talk, we're just going to ask that you head over to iTunes and review/rate the show if you like what you hear. We love you.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• "The Walking Dead's" Season 8 finale and Season 4 premiere of "Fear the Walking Dead" — aka the series' first-ever crossover episode — will hit 750 theaters nationwide on April 15 in what Fathom Events is calling "Survival Sunday"
• Thanks to the success of "The White Queen" and "The White Princess," Starz has put the third installment into production. Based on Philippa Gregory's series of books, the newest series is "The Spanish Princess" which "returns viewers to the world of royal court intrigue as seen uniquely through the perspective of the women, but also sheds light on a previously untold corner of history — the lives of people of color, living and working in 16th century London."
• Hulu is developing a series about the "Satanic Panic" of the late '80s and early '90s. The series is called "Demons," and according to THR, the drama will "revolve around Marilyn Jones, the seductive "patient zero" in the frenzy surrounding satanic ritual abuse, and her husband, Bennett Lewis, a brilliant but manipulative psychiatrist. In success, each season of Demons would explore a twisted crime affected by the couple's dark exploration into the fragile nature of memory and guilt."
• MTV is expanding its "TRL" franchise to add late night and morning editions of the program.
• Nerdist reported on a rumor that FOX may be interested in rebooting "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Of course, it's just a rumor but would this even be a good idea?

QUESTION: After watching "Jessica Jones" and "Daredevil's" sophomore seasons, I have to wonder, Is there a Season 2 curse for Netflix's Marvel shows?

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Pizza Show," "Deception," "American Idol" and "Rise"JACK'S LOSERS: "Nailed It," "The Simpsons" and "American Idol" AARON'S FENCERS: "Nailed It," "For the People" and "The Walking Dead" JACK'S FENCERS: "Deception," "Hate Thy Neighbor" and "Rise" AARON'S WINNERS: "Gotham," "The X-Files" and "Collateral"JACK'S WINNERS: "The Zoo," "For The People" and "Flint Town"

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In Episode 89 of Punch Drunk TV, Jack and Aaron discuss a very important topic: Their rekindled Tori Amos fandoms. Seriously, it's overtaken everything ... but only '90s Tori.

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK:

• Barack and Michelle Obama are in early talks with Netflix to produce a new global series for the platform. The deal is said to be focused on a series that would highlight inspirational stories, not anything to serve as a direct rebuttal to current President Donald Trump or his policies.
• Bronson Pinchot, aka Balki from "Perfect Strangers," has been cast as a recurring character in Netflix's "Sabrina" series. Pinchot will recur as George Hawthorne, "Baxter High's villainous, puritanical principal. He is a constant thorn in Sabrina's side and is always trying to thwart her escapades."
• Disney Jr is working on a new "Rocketeer" animated series. This time, the story will follow Kit: "a young girl who receives a surprise package on her birthday revealing she's next in line to become the Rocketeer, a legendary superhero who has the ability to fly with the help of a rocket-powered jetpack." Assisting Kit with her adventures will be "her gadget-minded best friend, Tesh, and airplane mechanic uncle, Ambrose."
• Jon Favreau has been tapped to write and executive produce a live-action "Star Wars" TV series that'll air exclusively on Disney's yet-to-launch standalone streaming service
• 26.5 million people tuned in to the Oscars on Sunday, making it the lowest rated event in the awards show's history.

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Do the Oscars still matter?

AARON'S LOSERS: "Life Sentence," "The Walking Dead" and "UnREAL"JACK'S LOSERS: "Life Sentence" AARON'S FENCER: "Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and Notorious BIG"JACK'S FENCER: "The Tick" AARON'S WINNERS: "Booze Traveler," "Hap & Leonard," "The X-Files," "Ash vs. Evil Dead" and "Flint Town"JACK'S WINNERS: "Far Cry 5: Inside Eden's Gate," "Flint Town," "Sundays with Alec Baldwin," "Hard Sun" and "Queer Eye"

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In this episode of Punch Drunk TV, Jack and Aaron brawl over Netflix's new food/travel series "Ugly Delicious." Also, Aaron revisits the touching interview he had with Walton Goggins ...

... And finally shares the news that he's going to be a dad. So that's a thing that's going to happen! Weird, huh?

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• "The Walking Dead's" Season 8 midseason premiere, titled "Honor," was the lowest rated since Season 2's midseason premiere, bringing in just 8.3 million viewers.
• Paramount Network delayed the release of "Heathers," due to the Parkland shooting. But the show has also received horrible ratings so it's possible they'll be reshooting the pilot. No release date has been announced, as of yet.
• Lionsgate's newly formed Studio L is developing a Blair Witch Project TV series
• Billy Eichner will star in his first stand up special for Netflix. No release date has been announced but it will be produced later this year.
• Netflix has ordered a weekly talk show hosted by former "Daily Show" correspondent, Hasan Minhaj
• Netflix has set up deals with Production I.G and Bones Inc., two established anime studios behind hits like "Ghost In The Shell" and "My Hero Academia," to help the streaming service bring 30 original anime series to Netflix this year.

AARON'S LOSERS: "The Walking Dead"JACK'S LOSERS: "Living Biblically," "Final Space" and "Ugly Delicious"AARON'S FENCERS: "The Looming Tower," "Core" on Shudder and "Good Girls" JACK'S FENCERS: "Good Girls," "Mute" and "Sanrio Boys" AARON'S WINNERS: "Derren Brown: The Push," "The X-Files" Episode, "Rm9sbG93ZXJz," "Ash vs. Evil Dead," "Ugly Delicious" and "Atlanta" JACK'S WINNERS: "Everything Sucks," "Seven Seconds," "The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale" and "American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace"

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