
‘Rise’ debuts, but you’ve seen it before
Rise, NBC’s new high school drama, premieres tonight at 10 Eastern. It’s Friday Night Lights meets Glee, writes Ed Week‘s Mark Walsh. A high school teacher in a small, Rust Belt town takes over the drama program and changes the school musical from Grease to Spring Awakening. The principal is not pleased because “Spring Awakening” includes themes of suicide, teen sex and pregnancy, abortion, homosexuality, and obscenities. He orders a production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” b