It's Tuesday, so what better night to premiere a show called "Friday Night Lights"? Yeah, we think it's a pretty boneheaded move on NBC's part, but the networks seem terrified to schedule anything of real quality on Friday nights because they think people don't watch TV on Friday nights. Have they ever considered the notion that people don't watch as much TV on Friday nights because there isn't anything GOOD ON? "The Ghost Whisperer"? Come on! (Of course, that will change slightly this Friday with the premiere of "Battlestar Gallactica." But we'll talk more about that later.)

And so we have the premiere of a show called "Friday Night Lights" at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday. We hope the more inattentive viewers out there don't assume the title refers to air date because word on the street is the show is pretty good, even for those who couldn't give a rat's ass about high school football (um, like us). The show is based on the book, and the movie that was based on the book, and the pilot was written and directed by Peter Berg, who also directed the movie (but didn't write the book. You got all that?). The setting has been moved from the 1980s to the present, and Kyle Chandler stars as the new coach to a high school football team in Texas; (you might remember him as the guy who got blown up on "Grey's Anatomy" last season, or as the matinee idol in Peter Jackson's "King Kong"). Maybe it'll turn out to be a huge hit and the network will feel confident enough to move it to Fridays where it belongs (or, on the flip side, if it's a total flop they might move it over there to try and bury it). We've watched a few scenes, and the only thing that has us worried is the totally unnecessary shaky-cam. Seriously, when will the TV industry stop employing cameramen with palsy? Because there's really no other reason for all the shaky camera work we're subjected to on a nightly basis.

Also worth watching tonight is the season premiere of "Veronica Mars" at 9 p.m. on the CW. (Man, we hate typing "the CW;" what a stupid name for a network.) We just finished watching the entire second season of "Veronica Mars;" it took us about two weeks, and we have to admit, we were a little disappointed. There was just too much going on; the central mystery flew off into so many different directions, many of which were total red herrings, or just left unresolved, that we had a hard time keeping up--and we were watching episodes back-to-back! We can't imagine what a chore it would have been to try and keep up with the story while being interrupted by weeks of re-runs.

We wanted to watch the online preview of the first episode, but it's on MSN and we didn't want to sully our computer with the required software download, so we're going into this season completely blind. Last season Veronica was accepted into Stanford (wasn't she? Or was that another plotline that was brushed over?), but we can't imagine them moving the show from Neptune to Palo Alto, so we're assuming Veronica and all her friends (and enemies) will pull a "90210" and a "Buffy" and end up going to a college that's just a stone's throw away from town. After all, the show relies a lot on Veronica's interaction with her father, and he's not about to take a job as on-campus security just to be near his daughter...at least, we hope not.