Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Bill Frost TV for January 6th, 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: You could sponsor it if you then get out Phil
- 0:05Speaker 1: no sponsor, no spot here.
- 0:07Speaker 2: He is Bill Frost. He is a writerer for the
- 0:10Speaker 2: City Weekly. He is also a podcaster that's called tv
- 0:15Speaker 2: tan is the podcast, and he's a musician. The band
- 0:18Speaker 2: is Magna Vega. And you can find most stuff that
- 0:21Speaker 2: you need about Bill Frost ware at Bill Frost dot tv.
- 0:25Speaker 3: And uh yeah, I want to apologize to the tens
- 0:27Speaker 3: of listeners of tv tan podcast. We've had a very
- 0:30Speaker 3: sporadic schedule over the holidays, but the holiday we'll be.
- 0:33Speaker 4: Back on track next week. Sure for our season twelve
- 0:36Speaker 4: premiere wow oh yeah.
- 0:39Speaker 5: Uh.
- 0:40Speaker 3: Actually a couple of things that premiered while we were gone,
- 0:42Speaker 3: Animal Control, the new season with Joel McHale, Funny Show
- 0:45Speaker 3: on Fox.
- 0:46Speaker 6: I feel like I'm the only person watching it.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Though, Oh no, we've made it to season three, so
- 0:51Speaker 3: somebody's you know, it's doing okay. But also the premiere
- 0:53Speaker 3: of Dennis Leary's Going Dutch, which exactly not as bad
- 0:59Speaker 3: as the promos make.
- 0:59Speaker 2: It the description and the promos, I just go what.
- 1:02Speaker 3: It's much better than the promos make it out to be.
- 1:05Speaker 3: It's still not great. It's probably not gonna last beyond
- 1:09Speaker 3: a season. But it's not that bad.
- 1:11Speaker 6: I'd like Dennis Leary to have something.
- 1:12Speaker 4: Yeah, and Danny Pooty too, and Danny Pody. Yeah. Also
- 1:15Speaker 4: a new uh kunk on Life Filling.
- 1:19Speaker 6: I watched it.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh, last night Mayfair Witches Somebody and I'm
- 1:27Speaker 3: sorry and Rice's Mayfair Witches premiered on AMC.
- 1:32Speaker 4: So there's stuff, new stuff already over.
- 1:35Speaker 6: The over the holiday.
- 1:36Speaker 1: I finished the interview with The Vampire season two and
- 1:39Speaker 1: boy it was great.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Yeah, so good. Uh.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Coming up tomorrow a brand new series on Fox called
- 1:45Speaker 3: Doc starring Molly Parker.
- 1:48Speaker 6: I want nothing to do with this.
- 1:49Speaker 2: I like Molly Parker, don't care. But she's just playing
- 1:54Speaker 2: a doctor.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, she's a It's a medical drama about
- 1:58Speaker 3: a physician who has a traumatic brain injury and she
- 2:02Speaker 3: loses about eight years or so worth of memories.
- 2:05Speaker 7: Why want to watch that?
- 2:07Speaker 6: I just there's just nothing there, nothing there.
- 2:09Speaker 4: And it's based on a true story, so she's trying to.
- 2:14Speaker 2: I didn't know that.
- 2:15Speaker 7: Yeah, I thought, what.
- 2:18Speaker 5: Because I've seen the ads for it where she's like, oh,
- 2:20Speaker 5: there's my loving husband and he's like we got divorced
- 2:22Speaker 5: A long time ago.
- 2:26Speaker 7: That's kind of interesting.
- 2:27Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.
- 2:28Speaker 3: On Wednesday on ABC, the much talked about Abbott Elementary
- 2:32Speaker 3: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia crossover episode on ABC that
- 2:38Speaker 3: the crossover will continue sometime later this year with the
- 2:40Speaker 3: new season of It's Always setting in Philadelphia and a
- 2:44Speaker 3: new a new sitcom on ABC following it called Shifting Gears.
- 2:48Speaker 7: It's Tim Allen, so bad, so bad.
- 2:51Speaker 3: But you know, I said the same thing about going Dutch,
- 2:53Speaker 3: but but Tim Allen is no Dennis laugh.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, right.
- 3:00Speaker 3: We got a he's plays a uh he's the widowed
- 3:04Speaker 3: owner of a classic car restoration stop shop. And of
- 3:09Speaker 3: course yeah and uh, but then a strange daughter played
- 3:12Speaker 3: by Kat Denning's and her teen children are back in
- 3:16Speaker 3: the back in his life.
- 3:20Speaker 6: Children apparently.
- 3:21Speaker 3: Yeah, she's thirty eight, so she could it could happen.
- 3:27Speaker 3: And also in here are Sean William Scott and Jenna Elfman.
- 3:32Speaker 3: So the cast is good.
- 3:33Speaker 6: Good cast, but they have to work with Tim Allen.
- 3:36Speaker 4: I've heard. That's not.
- 3:39Speaker 3: On Thursday on Netflix, a new series directed by Peter
- 3:44Speaker 3: Berg of Friday Night Lights and various other things. It's
- 3:47Speaker 3: called American Prime Evil. This looks really good. Yeah, it's
- 3:51Speaker 3: a western. It sounds like, uh, you know, there was
- 3:53Speaker 3: a prime evil sci fi series, a British one like
- 3:57Speaker 3: long time agoin Long Yeah.
- 3:59Speaker 4: So this is not a sci fi series. This is
- 4:01Speaker 4: a western starring Betty Gilpin.
- 4:04Speaker 3: Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitchen has set in eighteen fifty seven.
- 4:08Speaker 3: Is basically trying to survive on on the.
- 4:11Speaker 2: You know, she's trying to go through the Waffnatch Mountains
- 4:16Speaker 2: and beset with Native tribes and and very angry Mormons
- 4:21Speaker 2: and dysentery.
- 4:24Speaker 4: You have died of dysentery. Gilpin is great.
- 4:26Speaker 2: If you ever swear that series where she played the nun, yeah,
- 4:30Speaker 2: she was good.
- 4:31Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
- 4:31Speaker 3: Also in here are Shay Wigham. That's all I need
- 4:34Speaker 3: to say. Shay Wigham. He's great. That's on Thursday on Netflix.
- 4:38Speaker 3: Also on Thursday, I knew yet another cops on It's
- 4:43Speaker 3: on Call on Prime Video. This is another Dick Wolf procedural,
- 4:49Speaker 3: but now he's going into streaming. Eric Lasal Laurie Laughlin
- 4:54Speaker 3: are the cops on Call. And it's a film sort
- 4:59Speaker 3: of cinem I'm a Veritelly style like you're there, You're
- 5:04Speaker 3: on the call.
- 5:04Speaker 4: And no.
- 5:06Speaker 3: Also new John Wells procedural. It's like nineteen ninety all
- 5:10Speaker 3: over again.
- 5:11Speaker 2: He's the guy behind Er, right Er.
- 5:13Speaker 4: And Shameless and so many things. No.
- 5:16Speaker 3: Wiley stars as an overworked er doctor in the Pit,
- 5:20Speaker 3: but he was on the Er. That is p I
- 5:23Speaker 3: T T. This is Er, but it's in Pittsburgh. The
- 5:28Speaker 3: name the Pit.
- 5:29Speaker 6: Also the show I Want Nothing to.
- 5:30Speaker 3: Do, Yeah, and going all the way to Sunday. If
- 5:35Speaker 3: you haven't had your fill of awards shows yet.
- 5:37Speaker 7: We've only had one the season.
- 5:40Speaker 3: It is the season, The twenty twenty five Critics Choice
- 5:44Speaker 3: Awards on E and Peacock, hosted by Chelsea Handler.
- 5:47Speaker 2: Oh, she hasn't been around for a while.
- 5:50Speaker 3: I think she's She might have hosted the last couple
- 5:53Speaker 3: of ones. I think it was on the c W.
- 5:56Speaker 3: Now now it's on E in the Peacock, all right,
- 5:59Speaker 3: all right, and uh that's that's kind of it for
- 6:01Speaker 3: new stuff this week. But uh, show I'm really enjoying
- 6:04Speaker 3: right now is The Agency on Paramount Plus. Yeah, with
- 6:09Speaker 3: Michael Fastpender. It's a spy series and it's a if
- 6:15Speaker 3: you want that hyper political wonky if you miss Homeland.
- 6:21Speaker 4: Okay, okay, that's it's kind of kind of a show
- 6:23Speaker 4: for you like that.
- 6:25Speaker 3: And this new series the premiered, uh I believe it
- 6:28Speaker 3: was last week Laid on Peacocks.
- 6:31Speaker 6: I really enjoyed that.
- 6:32Speaker 4: Yeah, and what's her name from Girls?
- 6:35Speaker 3: Zoshia Mammot really funny, she's really good.
- 6:41Speaker 1: The whole cast is terrific. Yeah, and it's a funny premise. Yeah,
- 6:45Speaker 1: it's like nice cliffhanger too. Yeah.
- 6:48Speaker 3: A woman finds out that all of her previous boyfriends
- 6:50Speaker 3: are dying in the order she dated them. Yes, and also, uh,
- 7:00Speaker 3: mirred third season. I didn't know they were doing a
- 7:02Speaker 3: third season of The Head is sort of a it's
- 7:05Speaker 3: on Max. It's a it's an environmental thriller, but you know,
- 7:12Speaker 3: the planet's going to hell.
- 7:14Speaker 7: And maybe we can documentary.
- 7:16Speaker 4: Yeah, well it could be.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Yeah, called The Head the head so much about a toilet, No,
- 7:21Speaker 2: no hit the Head.
- 7:23Speaker 3: There are toilets in it, but it's not about that.
- 7:26Speaker 3: And a show that I really enjoy and I don't
- 7:28Speaker 3: think anyone else does. The Rig premiered last week, season
- 7:31Speaker 3: two on Prime Video. Yeah. It's a it's a British
- 7:35Speaker 3: Scottish something production. It's about an oil wood rig crew
- 7:40Speaker 3: who discovers something on the ocean floor. There's something alien,
- 7:46Speaker 3: something's happening down there. So it's called where and where
- 7:49Speaker 3: do you find? This is on prime video and there's
- 7:53Speaker 3: either an alien president's on the ocean, presidence on the
- 7:56Speaker 3: ocean floor, or it's something that's been there for you know, centuries.
- 8:01Speaker 2: I'll tell you, I'm getting really bored with silos, so
- 8:03Speaker 2: maybe yeah.
- 8:04Speaker 5: But like for for oil shows, I'm liking Landman, though I.
- 8:08Speaker 4: Know Billy Bob does Billy Bob and.
- 8:10Speaker 7: His ass off so good.
- 8:13Speaker 2: And and Ali Larder is really good.
- 8:15Speaker 7: And she drives me, but she's great, but she is great.
- 8:20Speaker 4: Come on, Mother of the Year.
- 8:21Speaker 5: I watched that show with my husband and I said,
- 8:25Speaker 5: I can't even list all of the things.
- 8:27Speaker 7: I hate about this character. There are too many she made.
- 8:34Speaker 6: I finished Squid Game season two.
- 8:37Speaker 2: I've been enjoying it.
- 8:39Speaker 6: I'm enjoying it.
- 8:40Speaker 4: I've seen a lot of complaints about it.
- 8:41Speaker 2: I don't know why it's I think people are complaining
- 8:45Speaker 2: because it's it's very much like the first one. I
- 8:48Speaker 2: mean it's but at the same time, it's not. They
- 8:50Speaker 2: put they put some subtleties in it.
- 8:52Speaker 6: You know, there's well, I mean, wait until you get
- 8:53Speaker 6: till have you finished it?
- 8:55Speaker 2: No, I'm only wait till you get till the end.
- 8:57Speaker 3: Yeah, because it's in a kickoff, filmed the second and
- 9:01Speaker 3: third seasons back to back, so the third season will
- 9:03Speaker 3: will be premiering later this year, not three years from now.
- 9:07Speaker 1: And your list of it's well, let's see that. It's
- 9:12Speaker 1: not a number, it's just your opinion the best TV.
- 9:15Speaker 7: Do you want to go through those since we have
- 9:17Speaker 7: real quick?
- 9:18Speaker 2: Yeah, Penguin on HBO.
- 9:20Speaker 7: Colin Farrell won for that Last.
- 9:22Speaker 2: Night Fallout, which there'll be another one of those ones. Yes,
- 9:27Speaker 2: Agatha all Along, which I have not seen, Enjoyable English Teacher,
- 9:32Speaker 2: which is which is really good, very funny. Yeah, say
- 9:35Speaker 2: nothing difficult to watch, but it is the troubles yep,
- 9:40Speaker 2: sure is true. Detective Night Country which and I know
- 9:44Speaker 2: you guys liked it. I did not care for that season.
- 9:46Speaker 2: This didn't do much for me. Interior Chinatown on Hulu,
- 9:50Speaker 2: which I need to start ye. Also new end of
- 9:54Speaker 2: note in twenty twenty four after Midnight.
- 9:57Speaker 6: Taylor Tomlinson just bringing it.
- 10:00Speaker 2: Bad Monkey, which was excellent, Clipped which is good. Fantas Fantas, Fantasmas,
- 10:08Speaker 2: Fantasmas it's a Julio Torres.
- 10:11Speaker 4: If you saw Losis Spooky's.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, the franchise Funny Woman Grotesquery, which I
- 10:18Speaker 2: watched and quite liked, pretty bleak, high potential, chaos land Man,
- 10:24Speaker 2: a Man on the Inside, mister and Missus Smith. Oh
- 10:26Speaker 2: that was excellent.
- 10:27Speaker 4: Yes, I forgot about that. That one Prime video?
- 10:29Speaker 2: Yeah, which are the Is there gonna be another one
- 10:32Speaker 2: of those?
- 10:32Speaker 4: Yes?
- 10:33Speaker 2: Okay, Palm Royal Showgun which.
- 10:36Speaker 7: That won a bunch of awards.
- 10:37Speaker 2: Sonny, uh sweet pea tea cup and uh ted.
- 10:44Speaker 1: Ted one is actually surprisingly very funny, funny.
- 10:48Speaker 4: Yeah, actually better than the movies.
- 10:51Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely all right, and a couple of those shows,
- 10:54Speaker 3: about three or four of those shows have since been canceled.
- 10:57Speaker 4: Yeah, so they were still good. It just couldn't go on,
- 11:01Speaker 4: just couldn't go on.
- 11:02Speaker 6: How do we top?
- 11:03Speaker 3: All right?
- 11:03Speaker 2: That's Bill Frost. You can read that column in more detail,
- 11:07Speaker 2: plus other things a City Weekly, his podcast TV can
- 11:11Speaker 2: and look around you'll see Magda Vega playing somewhere somewhere.
- 11:14Speaker 4: Yeah, Bill Frost dot TV, thank you very much,