Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
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Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Join Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole and their valued guests each week for discussion of what's new on TV plus our hall of fame roundtable segment called The Canon, listen as we appoint Winners and Losers Of The Week and of course our ultra competitive TV trivia quiz: Game Time.
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538 episodis
618: Interview With The Vampire Rocks Out
Interview With The Vampire returns with a tonally shifted, maximalist third season — and Caroline Framke also returns to talk about the show’s new POV...
617: In Soviet Russia Star City Space Shows You
While the counter-history of For All Mankind was going on, what counter-historical events were occurring in parallel in the U.S.S.R.? The spinoff Star...
616: Issuing A Silver Alert For The Boroughs
The Stranger Things team (among others) is back with a similar “a community of X bands together against a supernatural force” story in The Boroughs, w...
615: Having Fun Out Of The Sun For The Summer TV Preview
The last of the Emmy-begging shows are nearly behind us, which means it’s time to look ahead to what has historically been TV’s silliest season: summe...
614: Listener Game Time Returns
You hear us play Game Time, but only the bravest few dare attempt it themselves. Laura, Mike, and Rob face off in a trio of Game Times, one written by...
613: Lake Diving, Squid Battling, And Avocado Peeling
Two past and future EHG guests and one listener are showcased in this special episode. First, the good: Mlle. Caroline's pitch for the fourth episode...
612: Sitting Center Court For Running Point
Krystal Farmer helps us keep turning EHG into a hoops pod by coming back to talk about Running Point's second season: why it works, what it (perhaps w...
611: Is Beef Season A Prime Cut?
Beef has returned with more than twice the beefs (or beeves, if you will); Phillip Maciak has also returned to talk about whether it still sizzles. Ar...
610: Does The Audacity Have Any Of Its Own?
Alas, our planned guest Devindra Hardawar couldn't join us after all -- but we forged ahead with our discussion of The Audacity, whose all-star cast d...
609: Studying The Testaments
With its series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale a major awards success for Hulu, the logical next step is an adaptation of its sequel novel, The Tes...
608: Is For All Mankind Getting Old?
For All Mankind, aka "Space Show," may be laboring under 15 tons of old-age makeup -- but the panel, and guest David J. Roth, are here for it. Maybe i...
606: Giving The Gift Of 1980 Commercials
This is an un-vaulting of EEHG 388. Haaaaappy holidays! Return with us now to December 3, 1980 -- and all the utterly of-their-time commercials (and b...
606: Staying Up For The Late Shift
This is an un-vaulting of EEHG 376. For this year's special This Week In TV History episode, we're journeying back to 1996 for February sweeps -- spec...
605: Is Rooster A Cock-A-Doodle Doo Or A Cock-A-Doodle Don't?
The third Bill Lawrence show to début or return in 2026 Q1 is Rooster, loosely "What if Carl Hiaasen had a daughter he needed to help through her divo...
604: Investigating R.J. Decker
R.J. Decker is a photojournalist-turned-private investigator who originated in a novel by Carl Hiaasen. Is he more than just the network-TV version of...
603: A Little More Conversation About Paradise
Paradise is back for a whole new season of [major spoiler redacted]. After we made guest Alyson Lewis cram 11 episodes in a week, is she mad at us, or...
602: Did We Love Love Story?
The latest true-life story from the Ryan Murphy factory is Love Story, all about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. Was our 90s nostalgia power...
601: Did The 'Burbs Make Us Stir-Crazy?
Peacock counter-programmed the Super Bowl with a series adaptation of the 1989 horror comedy The 'Burbs. Horror expert Matt Monagle makes his EHG débu...
600: Going Backstage With The Muppet Show
The Muppet Show returns with a one-off episode starring Sabrina Carpenter; Muppetry expert Adam Grosswirth returns to discuss it, including whether th...
599: Sharing Our Recollections About Memory Of A Killer
Fox's new drama Memory Of A Killer, about a hitman in denial about his serious memory loss, stars Patrick Dempsey, so naturally we had to invite Dan C...
598: Should You Enroll In Starfleet Academy?
The Star Trek universe goes teen drama -- and, for once, does it in the/a future instead of the pre-TOS "past." Since it's a Trek property, Andrew ret...
597: Charting A New Season Of The Pitt
The Pitt returns to take viewers through another remarkably busy day in the ER at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. What is there to celebrate in the...
596: Would You Rather IV: Would You Dan Rather?
For our latest game of Would You Rather?, we asked past guests, friends, and listeners to challenge us with brand-new TV-related scenarios. They came...
595: The TV Superhero Bracket
For this special episode, we're returning to the bracket format, but slimmed down for just your three co-hosts: we made up an Elite Eight of TV superh...
594: Gone Fishing With John
We are off this week for EHG Prime but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 330: Gone Fishing With John
We aren't sure about J M...
593: Soft Rye, Snorkel Parkas, And The Most Important Person Ever To Hail From Toledo
For this special episode, we ponder three Canon pitches from listeners like you. Did we give The West Wing's "Evidence Of Things Not Seen" a standing...
592: Mullendash III
In what has become one of our most diabolical annual traditions, we're playing Mullendash again. This year, our guest contestants are: Stephen Falk, w...
591: 2025 Guest Thought Experiments
Once again again, we made some of our Valued Guests stick around after their tapings and muse about TV in our version of a What If? Find out where the...
590: Did Our Latest Meal At The Bear Give Us Gas?
We are off this week for EHG Prime but present you with this EHG Club unlock of EEHG 360: Did Our Latest Meal At The Bear Give Us Gas?
T...
589: Did We Find The Beauty In The Beast In Me?
A Manhattan real estate scion is believed to have killed his first wife in The Beast In Me, the new entirely fictional Netflix thriller series that is...
588: Are We Of One Mind About Pluribus?
Vince Gilligan returns to the prestige airwaves with Pluribus, an apocalyptic Rhea Seehorn vehicle that's getting uniformly great reviews -- and Jeff...
587: Did We Love I Love LA?
Bottoms star and co-writer Rachel Sennott has created a new sitcom star vehicle, I Love L.A., for HBO, all about the world of Zoomer influencers. How...
586: Clowning Around With It: Welcome To Derry
TV returns to the King-verse with HBO's It: Welcome To Derry, a prequel (or side...show?) of sorts for various characters from Stephen King's It -- an...
585: Did Boston Blue Knock Our Sox Off?
Blue Bloods is dead, but its spirit lives on (along with however many actors don't have anything better to do) in Boston Blue, CBS's new Beantown-set...
584: Breaking Down The Chair Company
Tim Robinson is back with The Chair Company, a cringe-com with a mystery (or is it??) at its center, and Variety's Alison Herman is also back to talk...
583: Having A Grave Discussion About Monster: The Ed Gein Story
The fourth season of Monster, Netflix's true crime anthology, concerns itself with Wisconsin serial killer (or was he? (he probably was)) Ed Gein, pla...
582: Is Chad Powers A Winner?
Pretend we made a witty "third and taking-too-long" pun, because that's what we -- and guest Kim "Best Thing" Reed -- thought about Glen Powell vehicl...
581: Giving You The Lowdown On The Lowdown
Reservation Dogs creator Sterlin Harjo has reunited with his S03 guest star Ethan Hawke for The Lowdown, a shaggy Tulsa neo-noir. Should you put it hi...
580: Is It Time To Hit Snooze On The Morning Show?
The Morning Show is back to bring us its version of 2024. Can any of us possibly be ready to go back there? Maybe not, but we don't have the strength...
579: Putting Out The Paper
Will Leitch, sportswriter and newspaper journalist, is back to talk about The Office-verse sitcom The Paper -- and whether you should bother with the...