Friday’s TV highlights

SERIES

Green Lantern: The Animated Series: The superhero makes the leap to TV in this new series (7 p.m. Toon).

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: In this special Veteran’s Day episode, Ty Pennington and Jewel revisit some of the team’s memorable makeovers for military families (8 p.m. ABC).

Kitchen Nightmares: In this new episode, Gordon continues his efforts to turn around the Burger Kitchen in Los Angeles (8 p.m. Fox).

Kitchen Inventors: The premiere of this new product series looks at an ice huggy, a wine balloon and buffet bowl and profiles the largest housewares manufacturer (8:30 p.m. Food).

SPECIALS

Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Todd Carmichael attempts to trek solo and unaided 700 miles across Antarctica to the South Pole in a documentary that was the winner of the best documentary feature award at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood (6 and 9 p.m. National Geographic).

American Humane Association Hero Dog Awards: Humanity’s best friend gets an extra special pat with this award ceremony for the canines that go above and beyond the call of enriching lives by also saving them, risking their own safety for our benefit (8 p.m. Hallmark).

MOVIES

Geek Charming: Sarah Hyland stars in this new comedy as a popular high-school junior who agrees to be the subject of a geeky film student’s (Matt Prokop) latest documentary (8 p.m. Disney).

SPORTS

NASCAR: Sprint Cup: Kobalt Tools 500, Practice (10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. ESPN2).

Soccer: France vs. United States (11:55 a.m. ESPN2).

College basketball: Michigan State vs. North Carolina (4 p.m. ESPN); Loyola Marymount at UCLA (7:30 p.m. FSN).

College football: South Florida at Syracuse (5 p.m. ESPN2).

Hockey: The Vancouver Canucks visit the Ducks (7:30 p.m. FS Prime).