Sep 19, 2026 · 58 min · 13 segments
RAANAP: False TV Preview Rob Cesternino (@robcesternino) and Akiva Wienerkur (@keev26) need a podcast and every week, Rob and Akiva spin a wheel of listener-submitted podcast ideas, and whatever the…
Rob CesterninoHost
Akiva WienerkurHostSo I'll start describing some of these.
Feel free to chime in if you have commentary in the meantime.
But let's just get all of these on the board and then we can start making our picks.
So first off on NBC, we have The Substitute Teacher starring Ben Schwartz as struggling actor Danny Rosen, who has spent 15 years waiting for his big break.
Hmm.
Hmm.
This seems not like a big deal at first until Dandy discovers a cryptic message in the copy of The Great Gatsby that Mr. Garrett left behind, leading him to team up with science teacher and a trio of students to try to solve what happens to Mr. Garrett.
Wow, I thought it was going to be a comedy for a second, Rob.
Yeah, I feel like the genre would help us also.
Okay, so this is like a comedy slash mystery.
60 minutes? This is a 30-minute show.
Okay.
Hmm.
Okay.
Next on Fox, we have a game show, maybe familiar to you.
It is called Boggle.
Boggle.
The classic word game becomes a larger than life primetime competition where teams race to find hidden words inside a massive grid of letters.
Hosted by Colin Quinn, three teams begin each episode competing to build the longest words from a field of giant letter cubes with the winning team each week scoring $50,000 to share amongst themselves.
Hmm.
So I'll start describing some of these.
Feel free to chime in if you have commentary in the meantime.
But let's just get all of these on the board and then we can start making our picks.
So first off on NBC, we have The Substitute Teacher starring Ben Schwartz as struggling actor Danny Rosen, who has spent 15 years waiting for his big break.
Hmm.
Hmm.
This seems not like a big deal at first until Dandy discovers a cryptic message in the copy of The Great Gatsby that Mr. Garrett left behind, leading him to team up with science teacher and a trio of students to try to solve what happens to Mr. Garrett.
Wow, I thought it was going to be a comedy for a second, Rob.
Yeah, I feel like the genre would help us also.
Okay, so this is like a comedy slash mystery.
60 minutes? This is a 30-minute show.
Okay.
Hmm.
Okay.
Next on Fox, we have a game show, maybe familiar to you.
It is called Boggle.
Boggle.
The classic word game becomes a larger than life primetime competition where teams race to find hidden words inside a massive grid of letters.
Hosted by Colin Quinn, three teams begin each episode competing to build the longest words from a field of giant letter cubes with the winning team each week scoring $50,000 to share amongst themselves.
Hmm.
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