586: Clowning Around With It: Welcome To Derry

Extra Hot Great: This Week In TV

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4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

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 -- and Josh Gondelman also returns to accept our apologies before talking about doing gory bits, using your best actors wisely, and the different kinds of tension. We're going Around The Dial with the nineteenth seasons of Married At First Sight and Taskmaster, plus Nightmares & Dreamscapes and The Lowdown, and Tara hopes we have Great News about her Canon pitch. The Pitt wins, various Nobody Wants This actors lose, and we're filling our pillowcases with points in a candy-based Non-Regulation Game Time. Grab a jar of pickles and join us!

GUESTS
👤 Josh Gondelman

TOPICS
Lead Topic: 🤡 It: Welcome To Derry
Around The Dial: 💍 Married At First Sight
Around The Dial: 🤠 The Lowdown
Around The Dial: 💌 Taskmaster
Around The Dial: 😴 Nightmares & Dreamscapes
The Canon: 📰 Great News S02.E05: Night Of The Living Screen
Winner & Loser: 🕳️ The Pitt
Winner & Loser: 😑 Nobody Wants This
Game Time: 🍫 Trick Or Treat Williams

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NOTES
🗒 Full episode notes can be found on this episode's page on our site
👍 Josh Gondelman's comedy special, Positive Reinforcement
🙌 Josh's newsletter, That's Marvelous!
🥱 Nightmares & Dreamscapes E05
🧭 The text of "The Road Virus Heads North"
🔥 The Extra Hot Great Club page
🌀 Hurricane Melissa resource and donation links
📷 Photo: Brooke Palmer / HBO

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0:12.8	This is the Extra Hot Great Podcast, episode 586 for the week of October 27, 2025.
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0:35.6	Yeah, I could eat.
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