FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
7 p.m. WISN We Day An annual event since 2007, this initiative by Free the Children to celebrate youth empowerment across America and Canada gets its first major broadcast-network showcase with this special. World leaders and celebrities address a gathering of youth groups, each of which has pledged to take one global and one local action throughout the year to better the world. Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver and London have been among the occasion’s host cities in past years.
7 p.m. SYFY Defiance In a new episode called “The Awakening,” Nolan, Amanda and Irisa (Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas) search desperately for a way to stop Kindzi (Nichole Galicia), who is now invulnerable, from waking and transporting even more Omec to Earth. Datak (Tony Curran), meanwhile, tries to escape from an Omec death camp, and
Stahma (Jaime Murray) begs Alak (Jesse Rath) to forgive her.
8 p.m. SYFY Killjoys The Company arrests a close friend of the Killjoys, causing tensions on Westerley to boil over, in the season finale, “Escape Velocity.” The explosive situation forces the Killjoys to choose a side at last, as peace in the Quad hangs in the balance. Hannah John-Kamen, Aaron Ashmore and Luke Macfarlane star. 8 p.m. TNT Cold Justice: Sex Crimes In the new episode “And Justice for Flint: Part 2,” as Casey and Alicia continue to work old cases in Michigan, among the most compelling is one involving a young girl whose encounter with someone she met on the Internet takes a nightmarish turn that ends in a chilling assault.
8 p.m. TRAV Mysteries at the Monument In London, host Don Wildman explores a monument to a sterling moment in British sports history that featured a contribution
by a four-legged hero, in the new episode “Pickles Saves the World Cup, Strowger Switch, Rebel Rose.” Also: the tomb of a man whose grudge revolutionized how we communicate, and the National Manassas Battlefield Park, where the outcome of a Civil War battle was dramatically altered by a saboteur hidden in plain sight. 9 p.m. SHOW Maz Jobrani: I’m Not a Terrorist But I’ve Played One on
TV The Iranian-American comic, a mainstay on the hit Saturday morning NPR quiz “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!,” takes on both political and social issues, as well as family material about his kids, in this new comedy special from the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles. Without being heavy-handed, Jobrani excels at using his ethnicity to point out how people from the East and the West have more in common than they may think, despite the international tensions filling headlines every day.