The It List: Watch the CW's 'Walker' reboot, 'Salt-N-Pepa' get a Lifetime biopic and more pop culture highlights of the week
The It List is Yahoo’s weekly look at the best in pop culture. With the Coronavirus pandemic in mind here are our picks for the week of January 18th.
Walker Season 1 premieres Thursday, Jan. 21 at 8 p.m. on The CW. Jared Padalecki is filling Chuck Norris’s butt-kicking boots this time around.
Salt-N-Pepa premieres Saturday, Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. The group serves as executive producers of the movie which means viewers will get to hear their actual hit songs like “Push It,” “Let’s Talk About Sex,” “Shoop” and many more.
The White Tiger premieres Friday, Jan. 22 on Netflix. With no relation to that other Netflix Tiger series, The White Tiger is one of the streamer’s latest movies in their jam packed 2021 schedule.
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- The It List is Yahoo's weekly look at the best in pop culture. With the Coronavirus pandemic in mind, here are our picks for the week of January 18th.
Reboots come for all shows big and small, and the latest is the '90s Chuck Norris classic "Walker Texas Ranger." This time the CW has redubbed it simply "Walker." Jared Padalecki is filling Norris's butt-kicking boots, although this time around, insane fight scenes seem to be less of a focus, unfortunately. Instead, Padalecki's Walker seems like he'll be trying to uncover the mystery of his wife's death.
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- I can't think about anything else but her.
- I miss her too.
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SINGER: Let me tell you that God's gonna cut you down.
- You're chasing ghosts. She is gone, and there's nothing that you can do.
- Lifetime is back with another biopic. This time they're delving into the life and times of Salt-N-Pepa, the hip hop girl group that paved the way for tons of future acts. The group serves as executive producers of the movie, which means viewers will get to hear their actual hit songs like "Push It," "Let's Talk About Sex," "Shoop," and many more.
- Men keep holding us back.
- If they can make money off of us, we can make money off of us.
- Y'all ready to rock?
- With no relation to that other Netflix tiger series, "The White Tiger" is one of the streamer's latest movies in their jam-packed 2021 schedule. Executive produced by Ava DuVernay and Priyanka Chopra, the film tells a rags to riches story of an Indian servant who escapes poverty to become an entrepreneur. But the path isn't easy, and first he has to get by a rich couple who want to put the blame on him for their terrible accident.
- I would have to become a creature that gets born.
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Only once every generation.
- The white tiger.
- That's what I call myself these days.
- Come back next week to check out Yahoo's It List.
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