The It List: 'Adults Adopting Adults' on A&E, 'Pam & Tommy' takes on the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape saga and more pop culture picks for the week.

This week on The It List: A&E's new series, Adults Adopting Adults, takes on adult adoption and all the drama that comes with it, Hulu's Pam & Tommy takes a deeper look at the events surrounding the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape scandal of the late '90s, and the Norwegian romance The Worst Person in the World hits theaters.

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- "The It List" is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. Here are our picks for the week of January 31.

A&E is premiering a new docuseries called "Adults Adopting Adults" The title gets the basic premise out of the way, but there is so much more to cover. And of course, since it's TV, you know there will be plenty of unexpected twists and ample amounts of drama.

- Something to talk to you about. It's called an adult adoption.

- You're asking me to let go of you as my daughter. I can't. I can't. I can't.

- Mom.

- I can't do this.

- Over on Hulu, "Pam & Tommy" is taking us back to the late 90s. When the internet was still young, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were in the middle of a whirlwind romance and people were getting online to see their stolen sex tape.

- What if we sold it someplace nobody could find us? A website.

- A what site?

- It's this thing on the computer. People will order the tape directly from us.

- Wow, you are so hot.

- What the hell is this?

- A new Norwegian film that hit big at the Cannes Film Festival this summer is finally hitting theaters. It's a dark romance, but also apparently a comedy, and stars Renate Reinsve as a young woman trying to make her way through life and love in Oslo.

Come back next week to check out Yahoo's It list.