Dear newsletter subscribers,

I hope your weekend is going well. Today is the final day of TCA in Los Angeles, and now my 13th day in a row of sitting in a hotel ballroom and reporting on television—such as with this news I broke about The Amazing Race. All that’s made possible in part by your support and subscription.

So, thank you! And now let’s get to this week’s premiere, which range from the TV debut of an Oscar-nominated documentary to a brand-new reality competition. So, let's start with those two shows.

The Oscar-nominated documentary The Cave premieres on TV this weekend (National Geographic Channel, Saturday, Jan. 25, at 9). It Dr. Amani Ballour and her team, who work to help people in Syria and "doing their jobs in a way that would be unthinkable in the oppressively patriarchal culture that exists above," according to NatGeo's description. They also "contend with daily bombardments, chronic supply shortages and the ever-present threat of chemical attacks."