This week brings a lot of television titles to store shelves — a lot of cool stuff that can, may, and will suck up a lot of your time if you give it half a chance. That is the one thing about TV on DVD, as great as it is to have available at your fingertips, when you find a good show you will find it difficult to stop after one or two episodes. Before you know it, it is 3:00 in the morning, you're wired from the televised excellence, and you need to get up at 6:00 for work. I tell you, it's a hard life. That doesn't even get into the movies that are arriving this week.

The top choice for this week is one of those prime TV-on-DVD releases. It is a series that was on the bubble when the 2006-7 season came to a close. I am thankful it's getting another season, although it did have satisfactory closure had it fallen under the network ax. Although I am curious about its time slot for the new season. It is being moved to Friday nights at 10:00. It seems as if they want it to fail now. I always found it curious how networks mistreat some of their shows and work hard to protect others. I doubt I will ever understand it.

The prime cut for this week is Friday Night Lights: The First Season. The series can trace its origins back to the real life story of the Odessa-Permion Panthers in 1988, immortalized in the 1991 novel, Friday Night Lights. In 2004, director Peter Berg adapted that story to the big screen. In 2006 Berg adapted the story again to the small screen. It was updated to the present day, its location was changed, and the characters' names were changed. The resulting adaptation far exceeds that of the quite good film which starred Billy Bob Thornton and Lucas Black. The television series stars Kyle Chandler as the coach, and a talented ensemble cast of adult and student characters.

Simply put, Friday Night Lights is one of the best shows on television. It delivers on so many levels, offering up action, drama, comedy, and heart with impressive production, fantastic acting, and wonderful writing. The show brings the personal visual style that Berg used in the film to a more expansive television landscape. We go inside the lives, loves, problems of the kids and the parents involved. You cannot help but feel for them as they find their way through life, the good and the bad.