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NBC is becoming the network of the mockumentary. Having perfected the form in The Office, it will soon boast three comedies in that distinctive style: St. Denis Medical, the transfer of Peacock‘s Office offshoot The Paper (starting Monday), and this amusing send-up of competitive junior-college cheerleading teams. The spirited Jenn Lyon (Claws) gets the star vehicle many have long anticipated as determined Texas coach Courteney Potter. Forced out of her job at the championship Sammy Davis Senior Junior College, Courteney lands at the underdog Heådltston State Junior College in Oklahoma, where she assembles a motley crew whom she’ll try to inspire with her motto, “I can, I will, I must.” Taran Killam (High Potential) costars as her loving spouse, a football coach nursing a longtime head injury, with Kristin Chenoweth as her diminutive nemesis, Tammy Istiny (her surname a short-person’s joke), a former assistant coach who tries in vain not to gloat at her mentor’s misfortune. Think of this as The Bad News Bears with pom-poms.

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