On TV this Wednesday: The Abbott Elementary cast appears on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, the #OneChicago block is back from break and Star Wars: The Bad Batch returns for Season 2. Here are 12 programs to keep on your radar; all times are Eastern. (Also check out our weekly TVLine-Up of premieres and finales, plus our monthly streaming guide.)
The seven-part docuseries chronicles the rise and fall of financier Bernie Madoff, who orchestrated one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in Wall Street history.
Season 2 premiere (first two episodes): The Bad Batch continue their journey navigating the Empire after the fall of the Republic.
Also streaming Wednesday: New episodes of Netflix’s The Circle, Freevee’s Leverage: Redemption, and Disney+’s National Treasure: Edge of History and Willow.
Special night: It’s Abbott Elementary Night, with contestants Janelle James, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Chris Perfetti. (The Conners and Goldbergs return next week.)
Charles and Nellie help an elderly patient and her developmentally disabled grandson; Will treats a high school swimmer with a heart condition. (New hire!)
The first of five primetime specials (airing weekly through Wednesday, Feb. 1) welcomes back former contestants for “a shot at redemption.”
Series premiere (two hours): Sixteen celebrities — including 7th Heaven‘s Beverly Mitchell, Zoey 101‘s Jamie Lynn Spears, RHOA‘s Kenya Moore and blink-and-you-missed-him White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci — “try to survive” an array of demanding training exercises. (Watch trailer.)
Melissa and Janine’s classrooms go head-to-head in a Read-a-Thon; Jacob and Gregory attempt to get their student podcasting club off the ground.
Pryma’s case comes to an explosive end, with Kidd and Carver’s lives in danger. (What are NBC’s best- and worst-rated shows?; Get Violet scoop.)
Season 4 premiere (two hours): Host Phil Keoghan welcomes to Catalina Island 12 new crew members, who are immediately tasked with old boat moorings.
Marina begin working with a hunky contractor (played by CSI: Miami‘s Eddie Cibrian); Connor involves Denise in his scheme to impress a new woman.
Jenny and Cassie try to intervene when Gigi finds herself at the mercy of a twisted local family. (Get First Look at A Million Little Things‘ final season.)
Intelligence teams with an old friend of Ruzek’s to investigate a series of brutal home invasions. (Get scoop.)
