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
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
- 🐦 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