320: Zooming In On Home-Shot Reality TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV
4.7 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Reality-TV vet Andy Dehnart has seen a LOT of unscripted crap in his decades in the field, so we're glad he brought his expertise to our discussion of this unprecedented time in the genre's history: the home-shot, socially-distanced versions/spin-offs of some of our old "favorites," plus some new DIY unscripted stuff tailored to pandemic "set" safety. We talked about the challenges facing reality competitions in the Zoom-show era, then drilled down on a few specific shows like Dr. Pimple Popper: Before The Pop, Ghosted: Love Gone Missing, Design At Your Door, and Amy Schumer Learns To Cook. What works for these shows and what doesn't? What innovations -- or filler-busters -- should they keep when quarantine's over? Later, we went Around The Dial with Challenger: The Final Flight, Get Organized With The Home Edit, 16 And Recovering, and The Great Pottery Throw Down, and Tara shared a Tiny Tessitoriumph. We petitioned a reality-competition court to overthrow legendary injustices in the day's Extra Credit, and Andy argued to OUR jury that the first-season Survivor finale acquitted itself well enough to join the Canon. Sam Elliott won, the English language lost, and every night is Saturday night at Game Time. Set up that ring light: it's an all-new Extra Hot Great.
GUESTS
TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🩺 Dr. Pimple Popper: Before The Pop
Lead Topic: 👣 My Feet Are Killing Me: First Steps
Lead Topic: 👻 Ghosted: Love Gone Missing
Lead Topic: 🗝 Love After Lockup
Lead Topic: 🪞 Design At Your Door
Lead Topic: 🥘 Amy Schumer Learns To Cook
Tiny Triumph: 🎉 Holey Moley Joe Tessitore tweet
Around The Dial: 📚 Get Organized With The Home Edit
Around The Dial: 💊 16 And Recovering
Around The Dial: 🏺 The Great Pottery Throw Down
Around The Dial: 🚀 Challenger: The Final Flight
Extra Credit: 🤑 The People’s Appellate Court
The Canon: 🏝 Survivor
Winner & Loser: 👍 Family Guy Sam Elliott
Winner & Loser: 👎 CBS All Access rebranding as Paramount Plus
Game Time: 🧠 Ready For Primetime Players
NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 320 page on ExtraHotGreat.com
🐦 Joe Tessitore tweets at Tara
⚾️ Defector
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| 0:00.0 | I just can't wait to see what you guys have done. |
| 0:02.9 | It turned out better than we thought it would. |
| 0:06.1 | We think you're going to be amazed. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm so pumped. |
| 0:08.4 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:10.0 | Isn't it amazing? |
| 0:11.6 | Do you love it? |
| 0:12.3 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 0:13.7 | I know, I know. |
| 0:14.8 | But there's more. |
| 0:20.6 | This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 320 for the week of September 14th, 2020. |
| 0:32.9 | I am Package from Walmart, David T. Cole, and I'm here today with Airbnb text art, Sarah DeBunting. |
| 0:40.3 | Live, Laugh, love. |
| 0:41.8 | Foot shower, Tara Ariano. |
| 0:43.9 | It's not pervy if a doctor tells you to. |
| 0:46.1 | And ringlight sent by the producers, Andy Dennert. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm here to expose all of your flaws. |
| 0:56.7 | Welcome to Extra Hot Great for another week. |
| 1:00.1 | We have a very exciting roundup. |
| 1:03.2 | And, well, I've talked about Hot Mess House. |
| 1:06.2 | I've mentioned Amy Schumer learns to cook. |
| 1:08.9 | Now we're in kind of a self-shot reality show boom with both |
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