It’s finales and upfronts time, so there’s a whole lot for Jason and Joel to talk about, even as a massive thunderstorm raged outside of Joel’s window, making her network speeds completely inconsistent. But we soldiered through and talked about all the news:

We started with America’s Got Talent and its new judge, Howard Stern. [...]

Joel did not watch American Idol like he promised last week, so Jason had every right to call him names. They did, however talk about a certain singing show that ended this week, along with a whole bunch of TV-related stuff:

We started with The Voice finale, and how it became more about Christina Aguilera [...]

Jason and Joel are joined this week by friend of the ‘cast Will Harris of The AV Club and elsewhere, and we start things by asking him about his favorite Random Roles interviews… mainly because he’s done a lot of them lately. We then go on to talk about the stories of the week:

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Jason and Joel start the festivities by talking about how Jason can watch shows at double speed, the use of the DVR fast forward button as an editor (which Salon discussed this week) and the dilemma of adding cable/satellite boxes around the house, especially when all of your TVs can handle HD programming. Then [...]

Right before we clicked the mics on for this week’s podcast, we learned about the death of TV legend Dick Clark, so we spent the first 20 minutes or so talking about Dick and our memories of American Bandstand. We also discussed his legacy in the business (Pyramid, the AMAs, Bloopers, etc., etc.) and how [...]

Because he dared to challenge us on our “decline of the recap” discussion a couple of weeks ago, we decided to bring old friend Mike Moody of Screenpunk.net and Badass Digest to come on and talk about why he still thinks the recap is a great read… when it’s done right. We also [...]

Joel cheated on AFT a bit when he appeared on the TVx3 Podcast, and he was fighting a nasty chest cold, but he and Jason still took on the TV stories of the week with gusto:

We talked about the season premiere of The Killing and how it basically picked up where season one [...]

This week had some interesting TV news (and non-TV news, namely the Trayvon Martin case), but for the most part the week has been Mad Men, Mad Men and more Mad Men, and that’s what we lead off with:

We talk about the Mad Men season 5 premiere and wonder if the critics lathered praise [...]

We never think we’re going to talk for an hour and a half, but we end up doing it anyway, mainly because we’re both so damned talkative. Anyway, lots of stuff to talk about this week, so the 90 minutes is justified:

We talk about CBS’ renewals, and why we don’t talk about procedurals on [...]

After Joel had some “issues” last week, we’re back and talking about more fun and games from the world of TV:

It feels like there’s so much more pilot news than there used to be, right? Or is it more pilots? We wonder why networks (besides CBS) are holding out for their development season to [...]