Is it possible that this device is too old, so that it cannot communicate with plex.tv anymore? Important information about Plex for smart TVs after September 30, 2021
i.e. if you clean out the field “List of IP addresses and networks that are allowed without auth” in your server’s preferences and restart the server, can you still use this TV to access its media content?
If not, the TV is too old and cannot fill up the watchlist at all.
I wonder if the “local” watchlist items on that TV will survive a cold boot of the TV.