About this episode
Being The Ricardos , Aaron Sorkin's latest project as a big-screen writer-director is...also very much a small-screen project, so we are claiming it. Look, it's about TV (specifically, the stars and making of I Love Lucy ) and it's kind of on TV (members can stream it for free on Amazon Prime Video), so IT COUNTS. Anyway: joining us for the discussion is actual film critic Tim Grierson! Around The Dial takes us through film-to-TV adaptation Finding Magic Mike ; TV-to-film-back-to-TV adaptation MacGruber ; Insecure ; How To With John Wilson ; Dead Asleep ; and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . John Potts asks us to choose a TV getaway for our next imaginary holiday. Ilan brings us back to the TV-to-movie pipeline with a Canon presentation on The Simpsons episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie." Then we name the week's Winner and Loser before closing out with a Game Time that really decks the halls. No need to arrange a multi-cam setup: this podcast is for your ears only! GUESTS 👤 Tim Grierson TOPICS Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos Around The Dial: 🕺 Finding Magic Mike Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber Around The Dial: 🧍🏽♀️ Insecure Around The Dial: 📐 How To With John Wilson Around The Dial: 🛌 Dead Asleep Around The Dial: 🧑⚖️ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Extra Credit: 🏖 TV Getaways The Canon: 🏆 The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie Winner & Loser: 👍 Texas Monthly Winner & Loser: 👎 Peloton Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II NOTES 🗒 Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com 🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter 🙃 "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter 🤥 "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos " 🗣 Tara's interview with Gloria Calderón Kellett at Decider 🎞 Tim at Screen International 🍈 Tim at Mel 📚 Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie , at The Last Bookshop 🛌 Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence