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Friday’s TV Highlights: A pair of pregnancy scares on ‘Ugly Betty’

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This week’s TV Movies


HOME TESTING: Hilda and Betty (Ana Ortiz, left, and America Ferrera) both have pregnancy scares in this new episode of ‘Ugly Betty’ at 9 p.m. on ABC. SERIES

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Medium: In this repeat Allison (Patricia Arquette) and her family try to cope with the outcome of her brain surgery and its effects, which may be permanent (9 p.m. CBS).

Bill Moyers Journal: Historian Howard Zinn, who has chronicled centuries of people’s struggles against oppression and economic exploitation, discusses the voice of today’s people in the shadow of big interests’ outsized influence in Washington (9 p.m. KCET).

NOW on PBS: This new episode visits the Pacific island of Guam, where thousands of U.S. military personnel will be stationed as part of the U.S. and Japanese agreement to realign American forces in the region (10:30 p.m. KCET).

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Yes, Virginia: After a playground bully tells her that Santa Claus does not exist, 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon (voice of Beatrice Miller) wrote to the New York Sun, asking whether St. Nick is real. Her letter attracted the attention of curmudgeonly editor Francis Church (voice of Alfred Molina), who responded with one of the most famous holiday columns of all time, as recalled in this his new animated special. Featuring the voices of Neil Patrick Harris and Jennifer Love Hewitt (8 p.m. CBS).

MOVIES

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Ghost Town: Ricky Gervais has a good showcase for his humor in this 2008 comedy-fantasy, which puts some spins on the concept of a person who can see ghosts (6:15 p.m. Cinemax).

A World Apart: Barbara Hershey won acting honors at the Cannes Film Festival for her powerful performance in this fact-based, politically charged 1988 drama about a South African journalist who finds her family being torn apart by her country’s policy of apartheid after her communist husband (Jeroen Krabbe) is forced to flee Johannesburg to evade arrest. Jodhi May and Nadine Chalmers also star (7 p.m. TCM).

Prancer: This 1989 fantasy tells the story of a little girl (Rebecca Harrell) who is certain that the injured reindeer she found is one of Santa’s. Sam Elliott and Cloris Leachman also star (8 p.m. AMC).

Brokeback Mountain: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal starred in one of 2005’s most-discussed and most-honored films, adapted from an Annie Proulx short story, that details the exceptionally close relationship between two cowboys in 1960s Wyoming (8 p.m. Bravo).

Obsessed: A happily married executive (Idris Elba) becomes the object of affection from a temp worker (Beyoncé Knowles) in this 2009 drama (8:10 p.m. Starz).

SPORTS

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College soccer: NCAA Cup semifinal: Virginia vs. Wake Forest (2 p.m. ESPN2).

Hockey: The Ducks visit the Detroit Red Wings (4:30 p.m. FS Prime).

Pro basketball: The Portland Trail Blazers visit the Cleveland Cavaliers (5 p.m. ESPN); the Orlando Magic visit the Phoenix Suns (7:30 p.m. ESPN); the Minnesota Timberwolves visit the Lakers (7:30 p.m. FSN).

College football: NCAA Division I First semifinal: William & Mary at Villanova (5 p.m. ESPN2).

English Premier League soccer: (4:30 a.m. ESPN2).

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