Friday’s TV highlights

SERIES

School Pride: In the season finale, parents, teachers and students try to restore the crumbling Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies, an arts school in need of a makeover (8 p.m. NBC).

Modern Marvels: The new episode “Dogs” takes a fascinating look inside the canine body and brain and the ways in which humans have harnessed dogs’ natural instincts and their ability to learn complex tasks (9 p.m. History).

SPECIALS

TV’s Funniest Holiday Moments: A Paley Center for Media Special: This new special revisits 30 laughable clips from holiday specials and series’ holiday episodes (8 p.m. Fox).

30 Holiday Decorating Hits & Misses: This new special airs at just the right time for those who are ready to start putting up their holiday decorations (8 p.m. HGTV).

MOVIES

The Road: Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, this 2009 melodrama casts Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smith-McPhee as a father and son in search of others who have survived an apocalypse (8 p.m. Showtime).

Enchanted: If Disney’s princesses were to come to life, the composite undoubtedly would be like Amy Adams’ character in this 2007 comedy-fantasy about a cartoon beauty who runs afoul of a prince’s (James Marsden) stepmother (Susan Sarandon), who sends her into the real world (Manhattan, specifically), where she meets an attorney (Patrick Dempsey) who may turn out to be the man of her dreams (9 p.m. NBC).

SPORTS

College football: Louisville at Rutgers (8 a.m. ESPN2); Auburn at Alabama (11:30 a.m. CBS); Colorado at Nebraska (12:30 p.m. ABC); UCLA at Arizona State (12:30 p.m. FS Prime); Arizona at Oregon (4 p.m. ESPN); Boise State at Nevada (7:15 p.m. ESPN).

Hockey: The Chicago Blackhawks visit the Ducks (1 p.m. FSN).

Basketball: The Lakers visit the Utah Jazz (6 p.m. KCAL); the Clippers visit the Phoenix Suns (6 p.m. FS Prime).