Winter TV Watch List: Pamela Anderson Tells Her Own Story, 'Celebrity Jeopardy!' Goes Down to the Wire

Plus a Friday Night Lights reunion and a documentary about a dog who inherits millions of dollars (really) No images? [Click here]( ID=167008;size=700x180;setID=556351;uid={EMAIL}7205747;click=winter_tv_watchlist_top; [TheWrap - SUMMER TV WATCH LIST] Week of January 28– February 3 We’re reaching the point in winter where the days are still extremely short and you’re still trying to find something new to watch (while probably neglecting some older stuff you just haven’t gotten to yet). Making things more difficult is the fact that every week there is tons of new television to watch. This week is no different. Between a “Friday Night Lights” reunion on Apple TV+, a new Pamela Anderson documentary on Netflix and a new mystery series on Freeform in the same mode as “Cruel Summer” and you get the point. (And that’s just the beginning!) Time to start making prioritized lists of what to watch. On with the television! [Premiere of the week] “Dear Edward”Friday, February 3, Apple TV+ [Colin O'Brien and Taylor Schilling in AppleTV+'s Dear Edward] Photo: Apple TV+ Creator Jaston Katims re-teams with his “Friday Night Lights” star Connie Britton for “Dear Edward,” an adaptation of Ann Napolitano’s 2020 bestseller. In “Dear Edward,” newcomer Colin O’Brien stars as Edward Adler, a young sole survivor of a devastating airplane crash. (It was based, in part, on a real-life airline disaster that happened in 2010.) If the trailer is any indication, Edward’s survival will serve as an inspiration to those around him and those who are moved by his story, with Katims trading in the large emotional beats that made his shows “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood” so enormously popular. Taylor Schilling, Amy Forsyth and Brian d’Arcy James co-star in a series that will undoubtedly make audiences weep uncontrollably (in the comfort of their own home, of course). Get the tissues ready! [[TRAILER](] ID=167008;size=300x250;setID=492280;uid={EMAIL}7205747;click=watch-list; [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Celebrity Jeopardy!”Thursday, February 2 at 8 p.m., ABC [Celebrity Jeopardy] Photo: ABC This is the end for the inaugural, Mayim Bialik-hosted primetime spinoff of the legendary gameshow that has already seen celebrities like Patton Oswalt, Simu Lui, Michael Cera, B.J. Novak and Zoë Chao compete. The finalists will be playing for a $1,000,000 donation to the charity of their choice. “The Mindy Project” star Ike Barinholtz and “Star Trek” legend Wil Wheaton will be facing off against a third contestant (either Patton Oswalt, Michael Cera or Brendan Hunt) for a chance at the top prize. [[CLIP](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “True Spirit”Friday, February 3, Netflix [True Spirit] Photo: Netflix Based on a rousing true story of Jessica Watson (played by Teagan Croft), who embarks on an attempt to be the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop, and unassisted around the world, “True Spirit” arrives on Netflix on Feb. 3. She must fight dangerous storms and other obstacles as she traverses the globe in 210 days. The always-great Cliff Curtis plays her coach and Josh Lawson and Anna Paquin play her supporting (if somewhat fretful) parents. “True Spirit,” based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Watson, looks like the kind of inspirational sports drama that will electrify the entire family. [[TRAILER](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Pamela, A Love Story”Tuesday, January 31, Netflix [Pamela A Love Story] Photo: Netflix Ryan White, who directed last year’s terrific Mars rover documentary “Good Night Oppy” (which you can watch right now on Prime Video) and the Netflix true crime docuseries “The Keepers,” turns his attention to another American icon, this one earthlier: Pamela Anderson. After last year’s “Pam & Tommy,” the Hulu original series that turned the theft and distribution of her stole honeymoon sex tape into an amped-up, celebrity-era caper, Anderson decided to tell her own story. She started working on a memoir of sports (said to incorporate narrative passages alongside more abstract writing, including poetry) and a new documentary (co-produced by her son Brandon, who you might remember from the recent revival of MTV series “The Hills”); the two are being released side-by-side. Few have had a wilder, more persistent, more polarizing impact on popular culture and hearing her tell her own story will be eye-opening for sure. [[TRAILER](] ID=167008;size=300x250;setID=492280;uid={EMAIL}7205747;click=watch-list; [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “Friday Night Lights”Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock [friday-night-lights-connie-britton] Photo: NBC With Jason Katims and Connie Britton’s new collaboration “Dear Edward” hitting Apple TV+ this week, why not revisit their original project, the quietly powerful “Friday Night Lights?” The television series, based in part on the 2004 Peter Berg film and the nonfiction book by Buzz Bissinger, is currently streaming on Peacock, Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video and The Roku Channel. The show, miraculously, feels incredibly real, almost documentary-like in its depiction of Texas football and the pressures surrounding it, but it’s also full of heightened emotions and serves as a hard-hitting drama. It’s also one of the most under-appreciated exercises in meta storytelling; when the show went from NBC to DirecTV (with a reduced budget), the coach (played memorably by Kyle Chandler) moves from a top tier high school to a more economically depressed team. These kinds of smart storytelling decisions, which never take away from the central narrative, are just part of what makes “Friday Night Lights” so special. [[WATCH](] [- - -] [Premiere of the week] “The Watchful Eye”Monday, January 30 at 9 p.m., FreeformThis looks like a delicious amalgamation of “Only Murders in the Building” and Freeform’s own breakout hit “Cruel Summer,” where a young girl is recruited to serve as the nanny to an upper-crust Manhattan family. Her mission is to figure out what is really going on with the brood and what really happened to the mother of the family, who just died. But also the nanny is a thief? The trailer is a little complicated but it still seems like good, soapy fun. [[TRAILER](] “Cunk on Earth”Tuesday, January 31, NetflixImagine a more benevolent Ali G or Borat and you’ve got an idea about “Cunk on Earth,” created by “Black Mirror” mastermind Charlie Brooker. This faux documentary is hosted by Philomena Cunk, a dim-witted but curious journalist played by Diane Morgan, who travels around the world, interviewing experts about history’s greatest breakthroughs “while standing near impressive old ruins or inside museums.” Lisa Kudrow, Kumail Nanjiani, Hugh Grant and Tracey Ullman make appearances, alongside real experts. [[TRAILER](] “The Ark”Wednesday, February 1 at 10 p.m., SyfyDean Devlin, who spent much of the 1990s blowing up national monuments in movies like “Independence Day” and “Godzilla,” is back with a new TV series with a somewhat familiar premise: a spaceship bringing colonizers to a new world suffers a cataclysm before reaching the new planet. Now the crew has to figure out how to guide the massive ship without any of the people who were supposed to run it (they’re all dead, you see). They now have to keep themselves alive and also figure out an inherent mystery of what happened to the ship in the first place. Episodes will stream the following day on Peacock. [[TRAILER](] “Gunther’s Millions”Wednesday, February 1, NetflixMaybe the most bizarre Netflix documentary series in recent memory (which is really saying something), “Gunther’s Millions” revolves around the true story of a German shepherd who is awarded millions of dollars when his wealthy owner dies. If that set-up isn’t weird enough, just wait – this series also involves money laundering, a pharmaceutical magnate, a fake pop group and some weird sex cult shenanigans. Is it even a modern documentary without weird sex cult shenanigans? [[TRAILER](] “Freeridge”Thursday, February 2, Netflix“On My Block,” Netflix’s dearly beloved coming-of-age comedic drama, isn’t coming back. (The final episodes debuted back in 2021.) But there is a silver lining! “Freeridge” is a spinoff of the series, this time following a new group of kids in the same neighborhood. But instead of a straight follow-up, it looks like “Freeridge” takes a slightly more heightened approach, adding in a supernatural/horror element in the form of an ancient curse. Quite frankly more TV shows should have curses. That’d really liven things up. [[TRAILER](] [- - -] That does it for this week’s edition of The Wrap’s Winter TV Watch List. If you aren’t a subscriber, you can fix that by [signing up here](. Any suggestions for an upcoming premiere, finale or re-watch? 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