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Friday’s TV highlights

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SERIES

School Pride: Each week, the new series’ “spirit team” and celebrity guests descend on a run-down school and transform the entire campus into a showpiece designed to inspire its staff, students and the community at large. Up first, a middle school in Compton (8 p.m. NBC).

Smallville: As the series logs its 200th episode, Lois (Erica Durance) talks Clark (Tom Welling) into attending their five-year high school reunion, but she’s miffed when no one there remembers the five days she spent as a student in this new episode (8 p.m. KTLA).

Giuliana & Bill: In the series premiere the couple decide that having a family should be their top priority (8 p.m. E!).

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The Good Guys: Dan (Bradley Whitford) is forced to go into hiding after he is framed for the kidnapping of an ex-governor’s son (Ethan Suplee) whom he and his former partner (Gary Cole) rescued 25 years ago (9 p.m. Fox).

Teach: Tony Danza: Tony’s busy schedule — which includes helping the football team with band practice on top of his classroom duties — gets even more crowded when the Philadelphia mayor asks him to host a charity show in this new episode (10 p.m. A&E).

Sanctuary: Ravi (Shaker Paleja) rushes an unconscious Will (Robin Dunne) to the Mumbai Sanctuary, while Kate (Agam Darshi) frantically tries to alert Dharavi officials to tsunamis headed their way in the third-season premiere (10 p.m. Syfy).

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura: As a new season opens, Jesse Ventura storms Congress in a determined bid to find out whether the U.S. government is conducting biowarfare experiments in the season premiere of this unscripted series (10 p.m. Tru).

SPORTS

College football: Cincinnati at Louisville (5 p.m. ESPN).

Baseball: AL Playoffs: The New York Yankees visit the Texas Rangers (5 p.m. TBS).

Pro hockey: The Atlanta Thrashers visit the Ducks (7 p.m. FS Prime); the Vancouver Canucks visit the Kings (7:30 p.m. FSN).

Soccer: Club Deportivo Chivas USA visit the Seattle Sounders FC (8 p.m. ESPN2).

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