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“Ghost Whisperer” (8 p.m., CBS): Comic Jamie Kennedy joins the cast of the spooky drama.

“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” (9 p.m., Cartoon Network): Tough times! War rages on, with shrinking numbers of good guys left to fight for freedom and restore peace. And all happening in a galaxy that definitely isn’t close, close by.

“Star Wars: The Clone Wars” is a very cool weekly cartoon series from Lucasfilm Animation that finds a fresh new style for depicting the struggle of the Jedi and their army of genetically engineered clones against the seemingly indomitable droid army of evil Separatists.

It’s Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, Ahsoka Tano and other Star Wars heroes pitted against the evil Count Dooku, his assassin Asajj Ventress, their master Darth Sidious, the mechanical General Grievous and assorted other villains, with the future of that galaxy far, far away at stake.

This season’s 22-episode saga premieres Friday on Cartoon Network with back-to-back half-hours, beginning at 9 p.m.

First up: Jedi Master Yoda is on a secret mission to forge a treaty with the king of Toydaria when his ship is ambushed by Count Dooku. Then, at 9:30 p.m., a Separatist mystery weapon terrorizes the clone Starfleet.