Coming Home To Being The Ricardos

Episode 386,   Dec 22, 2021, 12:00 AM

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

πŸ‘€ Tim Grierson

TOPICS

Lead Topic: 😘 Being The Ricardos

Around The Dial: πŸ•Ί Finding Magic Mike

Around The Dial: 🧨 Macgruber

Around The Dial: πŸ§πŸ½β€β™€οΈ Insecure

Around The Dial: πŸ“ How To With John Wilson

Around The Dial: πŸ›Œ Dead Asleep

Around The Dial: πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Extra Credit: πŸ– TV Getaways

The Canon: πŸ† The Simpsons S04.E06: Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie

Winner & Loser: πŸ‘ Texas Monthly

Winner & Loser: πŸ‘Ž Peloton

Game Time: 🧠 The Caroling Burnett Show II

NOTES

πŸ—’ Full episode notes can be found on the episode 386 page on ExtraHotGreat.com

🐦 Tim Grierson on Twitter

πŸ™ƒ "Aaron Sorkin Defends Being the Ricardos Casting Decisions" at The Hollywood Reporter

πŸ€₯ "What's Fact and What's Fiction in Being The Ricardos"

πŸ—£ Tara's interview with Gloria CalderΓ³n Kellett at Decider

🎞 Tim at Screen International

🍈 Tim at Mel

πŸ“š Tim's book, This Is How You Make A Movie, at The Last Bookshop

πŸ›Œ Sarah's Dead Asleep review at Best Evidence