Jan. 27 – Feb. 4
Top picks to watch & more!
Buffy's back, Jason Segel's a shrink & Ryan Seacrest's scary nanny tale
Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to TV in 'Wolf Pack.'
All times Eastern.
FRIDAY, Jan. 27
Wolf Pack
Buffy's back! Kinda. A teenage boy and girl find their lives changed forever when a raging California wildfire awakens a terrifying supernatural creature. The new series stars Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle Gellar, plus Rodrigo Santoro, Armani Jackson and Bella Shepard (Paramount+).
You People
Jonah Hill, David Duchovny, Nia Long, Rhea Pearlman, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, Eddie Murphy and Elliott Gould star in this new comedy flick about culture clashes and intergenerational differences between a new couple and their families (Netflix).
Shrinking
A grieving therapist (Jason Segel) starts to break the rules when he tells his clients exactly what he's thinking, making tumultuous changes in their lives as well as his own. With Harrison Ford and Jessica Williams (Apple TV+).
SATURDAY, Jan. 28
Frozen Planet II
Brrrrrrrrr! Venture into some of the Earth's coldest, most remote places in this sequel series to the original, more than a decade ago, to observe (and learn from) the amazing species that live and thrive there. Narrated, of course, by David Attenborough, the "voice" of BBC nature docs…who else? (8 p.m., BBC America and AMC+).
NOW HEAR THIS
The sweet, soulful, socially conscious sound of one of America's most celebrated singer-songwriters travels through time in Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits Live in 1976 (Mercury). The remastered release, available on vinyl and CD and originally recorded in Amsterdam, features more than 20 tracks, including performance of "What's Going On," "Save the Children," "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" and "It Takes Two."
The iconic poet of a generation is now 81, but his music is still going strong in Bob Dylan's Fragments (Sony). The five-disc collection from the acclaimed Dylan Bootleg Series features songs-in-progress and other tracks that were eventually recorded for his mid-career masterpiece, Time Out of Mind, including "Make You Feel My Love."
SUNDAY, Jan. 29
Fire Country
Is it getting hot in here? Or is it just this new drama series, starring Seal Team's Max Thierot as a hunky young ex-con seeking redemption (and early release) by joining a prison firefighting program in Northern California? (10 p.m., CBS).
MONDAY, Jan. 30
Watchful Eye
Ryan Seacrest is one of the producers of this new series about a young woman (Mariel Molino) who takes a job as a nanny for an affluent family, soon discovering that everyone in the building has dark secrets and ulterior motives (9 p.m., Freeform)
Bake It Till You Make It
Contestants enter their cakes in one of the biggest events on the competitive-cooking calendar, Atlanta's Ultimate Sugar Show (9 p.m., Food Network).
TUESDAY, Jan. 31
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Everything stars somewhere, and this insightful four-part documentary series recounts the origins of the bold and revolutionary musical format that became a cultural phenomenon, featuring interviews with rap icons Chuck D, Ice-T, Run DMC, will.i.am, Cypress Hill and many more (check listings, PBS).
Pamela: A Love Story
New documentary humanizes Pamela Anderson, above, who became one entertainment world's most famous blonde bombshells—the actress, model and Baywatch star whose marriage to rock drummer Tommy Lee didn't last…but their stolen sex tape sure did (Netflix).
BRING IT HOME
They're young, they're in love and they eat people. The acclaimed Bones And All (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment) is a road movie, a love story and a tale of two young outcasts (Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell) on the move for their next meal, served extremely rare. Who's hungry?
THURSDAY, Feb. 2
The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
Second season of the dramatic/comedy series about the Black experience begins tonight, with Gabrielle Union, Chance the Rapper, Leslie Odom Jr., Anthony Anderson, Holly Robinson Peete, Maury Povich and more (Disney +)
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
The hit movie comes to streaming tonight, starring Angela Bassett, left, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, and emotional flashback scenes with the late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman (Disney+).
18 ½
New Watergate-themed real-life dramedy—a companion of sorts to the limited series Gaslit—follows a young woman (Willa Fitzgerald) in the Nixon White House who tries to leak the president's notoriously incriminating tape to a reporter. With Bruce Campbell as Nixon, plus Richard Kind, Jon Cryer and John Magaro (5:11 p.m., Starz).
The Reading
New thriller produced by Lee Daniels stars Mo'Nique Hicks as a recent widow who stirs up an evil spirit with her book about her family's loss (BET+).
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