Californiaaaaaaaaaaa. Here we come! This week, Beth is chatting teen dramas and onscreen sex with actor, comedian and aspiring orgasm expert Helen Duff.

Today Beth is joined by her real-life bestie, Immy. The two discuss friendship, bathing and mental health in two of their favourite shows; Girls and Sex and the City. You'll also be hearing from Immy's pink karaoke microphone which, despite doing little to improve her audio, she insisted on holding the entire time.

How does a superhero deal with loss?  Can you create a perfect world on behalf of someone else? Is a utopia for one always a utopia for all? Today on the show we’re talking to utopian scholar, community organiser and unashamed superhero fan, Ibtisam Ahmed about the big questions in Marvel’s WandaVision.

Are there certain shows you just can’t stop going back to? Comfort TV that you’ll always stick on when you’re feeling down?  For Mercedes Bull, podcaster & Disney obsessive, Once Upon a Time is that show.

From examining grief to talking about love & labia, Fleabag has made Mel and Clancy from The Open House Podcast reflect on a lot of life’s harder questions. This week, they join Beth to discuss their love for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and the life lessons we can all learn from watching Fleabag (season two).

From Kenan and Kel to Moesha, the nineties is often considered to be the ‘Golden Age’ of black sitcoms as TV networks tried to recreate the success of The Cosby Show. But quickly after the new millenium, many of these shows began to disappear and sitcoms centring black lives became close to impossible to find.

In this episode of The TV That Changed Me, Beth speaks to journalist Micha Frazer-Carroll about how rewatching Sister, Sister in lockdown led her to investigate what happened to the black TV shows of her youth.

Links we chatted about 

Sister, Sister is back. In praise of the Nineties black sitcom boom

Credits

Produced by: Beth Watson

Edited by: Beth Watson

Music by: Iora

Find us on the interweb

Micha Frazer-Carroll: @Micha_Frazer on Twitter

Beth Watson: @b.wott on Instagram & @bwatson19 on Twitter 

The TV that Changed Me: @tvchangedme on Instagram & @tvchangedmepod on Twitter

Beth is joined by her brother James to discuss their teenage obsession, Gilmore Girls.

The two dissect small town life, rate Rory's love interests and reflect on how the show brought them together after years of being at odds.

**This episode contains Gilmore Girls spoilers**

Links we chatted about 

‘Why Gilmore Girls endures’ by Saul Austerlitz

Michel Gerard- Gilmore Girls fandom

Credits

Produced by: Beth Watson

Edited by: Beth Watson

Music by: Iora

Find us on the interweb

Beth Watson: @b.wott on Instagram & @bwatson19 on Twitter 

The TV that Changed Me: @tvchangedme on Instagram & @tvchangedmepod on Twitter 

Learn more about the show: thetvthatchangedme.com

The TV that Changed Me is a podcast exploring how television can shape  our lives for the better and also for the worse. Through conversations with comedians, artists and some of her closest pals, writer & reviewer Beth Watson will find out how some of the world's biggest TV shows have made us who we are.