The cop show is TV staple, yet despite its abundant selection of women in jeopardy, it's taken awhile for Lifetime to get one on the air.

Now suddenly, it has two. "The Protector" with Ally Walker and Tisha Campbell-Martin is pretty lame. But happily "Against the Wall" (Lifetime, 10 tonight) is better. Not fantastic, but solid and promising.

It starts with the star. Rachel Carpani plays Abby Kowalkski, a Chicago cop from a family of cops. She wants a promotion and a faster ticket to becoming a homicide detective; she discovers that the only way there is through a position in Internal Affairs, the division that investigates other cops. This does not please her dad (Treat Williams), and two of her three brothers (Brandon Quinn, James Thomas and Steve Byers); one is mostly supportive. Her only refuge is her mother, played by Kathy Baker. Abby also has a pregnant partner played by Marissa Ramirez.

My mother, an educator, believes teachers are born, not made.

"Beyond the Blackboard" (CBS, 9 tonight) is the sweet, inspiring, and yes, a little sappy story of a young woman born to be a teacher and the challenges she faces on her first job that turn her into a better one.

Emily VanCamp plays Stacey Bess, a young woman who always wanted to teach; her calling was interrupted when she got pregnant in high school and married. We meet her later as the young mother of two with a loving husband. She's finished her education and is looking for her first teaching job. The school board's personnel director (Timothy Busfield) has just the spot for her and she can start right away; it's teaching homeless children at a special school created because the itinerant children can't register at typical schools. (A law has since passed changing that.)

George of Cary is yesterday's winner of the "Simon and Simon" DVD. What a great way to start the day.

You can have that feeling too. Today we've got the complete second season of "Everwood," an unsung family show starring Treat Williams that aired on The WB. If you've never seen it, don't think treacly, think nuanced.

Williams plays Dr. Andy Brown, a recent widower, who moves with his two children to Everwood, Colorado for a new start. This 6-disc collection of 22 episodes takes up the story in the second year, where Andy finds he can love again (Marcia Cross!) and his son Ephram (Gregory Smith) falls for an older girl. Meanwhile, Emphram's friend Amy falls into a depression after the death of her boyfriend and then, falls for the wrong guy.

The extras are few, just some unaired scenes.

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