It seems like finding family-friendly TV programming to watch with your family can be more trouble than it’s worth. But DIRECTV’s offerings make it easy to enjoy satellite TV with your family without leaving your kids and teenagers in the dust.

Check out some of the many channels that provide your home with educational programs and entertainment:

• ABC Family

• Animal Planet

• Discovery Kids

• National Geographic Channel

• Nickelodeon

• The Science Channel

• TV Land

But don’t worry about your kids having to stick to these family TV channels to avoid seeing age inappropriate things on TV. DIRECTV also has parental control settings to allow you to choose what TV programming they can watch.

This six-season prison series chronicles a cell block in Oswald Maximum Security Correctional Facility, but isn’t all yellow-brick road and tin men. In “Oz,” the fourth level of the prison, called Emerald City, is a setting for constant power struggles over drugs and inmate gangs stemming from moneymaking schemes, gambling and hoaxes.

Harrold Perrineau (“Lost”) serves as the show’s wheelchair-bound narrator Augustus Hill in the experimental cell block, all under supervision of Ernie Hudson (“Ghost Busters”) as Warden Leo Glynn.

Watch “Oz” air for the first time in HD outside of HBO on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on The 101 Network, un-cut with no commercials. The 101 Network is available only through DIRECTV.

Relive critically-acclaimed premium movie channels’ original series, experience sell-out concerts and enjoy original DIRECTV programming on The 101 Network.

Simply tune into channel 101 – available only to DIRECTV customers with the purchase of any programming package – and enjoy entire seasons of the following programming:

• “Deadwood:” Go for a wild ride through HBO’s western drama as two newcomers venture into the uncivilized outpost of Deadwood and encounter a number of objectionable characters.

• “The Dan Patrick Show:” Veteran sports journalist Patrick delivers the latest sports news and features players and coaches as guests on his live talk show.

• “Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities:” Follow the Mr. Asia Syndicate in a portrayal of the underground drug war that rocked Australia during the ‘70s and ‘80s in this real-life “Sopranos.”

• “Supreme Court of Comedy:” Stand-up comedians represent litigants in actual disputes while the honorable “Judge” Dom Irrera presides.

• “Oz:” A wheelchair-bound inmate narrates all the action and twists between correction officers and prisoners that occur inside an experimental cell block in a maximum-security prison.

Also be sure to check out sneak peeks and specials from premium movie channels like HBO®, SHOWTIME® and Starz®, which vary by month but have featured “True Blood” and “Entourage” in the past.

Predictions of top-performing NFL rookies like Dez Bryant and Tim Tebow, and the start of pre-season training camps have put football fans into advanced stages of anticipation. However, NFL fans out there can also ready themselves for the upcoming 2010 NFL season by ordering NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ from DIRECTV now.

Check out these reasons to order NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ now:

• Watch every NFL game in HD

• See eight games on one screen with Game Mix

• Enjoy the NFL Network and Red Zone Channel

• Get the package exclusively through DIRECTV

• Catch games on your smart phone, e-reader or computer with NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ To-Go

Order the DIRECTV PREMIER™ package now and get the NFL SUNDAY TICKET™ with 285+ channels and some of the best sports DIRECTV has to offer!

Can’t watch enough sports after the World Cup fever died down? Don’t fret! Remember that DIRECTV is the undisputed leader in sports with the most sports in HD.

One of these DIRECTV sports packages is sure to meet any sports fan’s needs:

• NFL SUNDAY TICKET™: As many as 14 games every Sunday

• NASCAR HotPass™: Driver-dedicated channels and team radios feed

• NCAA ® MEGA MARCH MADNESS: This DIRECTV exclusive has up to 64 tournament games from outside your region

• NHL®  CENTER ICE®: Select Stanley Cup Playoff games

• Fox Soccer Plus: The best international soccer and rugby coverage

Or if you’re passionate about all kinds of sports, check out the DIRECTV SPORTS PACK with more than 30 regional and specialty sports channels. Don’t have DIRECTV? Don’t miss out on any more great sports action and order today!

Whether you were an avid follower of “The L Word” or just a reality show fiend, be sure to catch the series new “The Real L Word” on DIRECTV.

This new SHOWTIME® UNLIMITED series is brought to you by one of the creators of award-winning “The L Word,” Ilene Chaiken. Similarly to its model, “The Real L Word” follows six lesbians working and playing in Los Angeles, uncut and uncensored.

Tune into SHOWTIME® UNLIMITED this summer to watch Jill, a writer who’s engaged to talent rep Nikki, fashion producer Mikey, real estate advisor Rose, special effects artist Whitney, and film and TV development executive Tracy.

Order premium programming from DIRECTV today, including other premium movie channels like HBO® and Cinemax®.

Don’t bother with planning your schedule around where you can catch your favorite team’s game on TV. Get DIRECTV today and follow your non-local team with up to 80 games a week that aren’t available through local cable from the comfort of your own home!

DIRECTV is the undisputed leader in sports, but if you want to become the biggest undisputed MLB fan make sure to also order MLB EXTRA INNINGS® today.

In addition to up to 80 games a week, MLB EXTRA INNINGS® features:

• HD games: Watch as many as 40 games in crisp DIRECTV HD a week

• Game Mix: View up to eight games on a single screen and click on one to watch it full-screen

• Strike Zone Channel: See this highlight reel of plays from around the league three times a day

Also be sure to check out all other DIRECTV sports packages and MLB Network from DIRECTV, which airs live games, highlights, original programming, classic games and baseball events. It’s also available in HD.

Feel at home in the U.S. with available satellite TV programming packages featuring content in your native language and from your native country.

Each of these DIRECTV TV packages include: GEM NET (Channel 2068) with 24-hour, non-commercial programming centered on culture, spirituality and family; MHz Worldview (Channel 2183) with global news and content from international broadcasters in English; and CCTV-9 (Channel 2053) with news and information for a global audience from China’s largest national TV network in an English-language, 24-hour format.

Below are the available packages:

• Brazilian: Four packages with soccer coverage and four of Brazil’s most popular channels.

• Cantonese: Six top Cantonese channels, including TVB through the Jadeworld® package.

• Mandarin: Two packages are available, Jadeworld® with both Cantonese and Mandarin channels, and MandarinDirect® III with just Mandarin channels.

• Filipino: Choose from three packages with TFC and other popular channels with news, talk shows and popular series.

• Greek: Order two of the most popular Greek channels a la carte or choose from two packages.

• Korean: Two available packages offer a variety of channels including news coverage, popular dramas and religious programming.

• Russian: Three packages of classics, political commentary, cartoons and popular TV shows, and a la carte channels give you plenty from which to choose.

• South Asian: Pick from five packages and three a la carte channels that cover Bollywood, spiritual programs, special events, news and sitcoms.

• Vietnamese: All four packages include SBTN, the first American, 24-hour Vietnamese programming network.

Get to know Ricky and Julian – two ex-cons recently out of jail that are just trying to survive and do right in their trailer park in the Canadian mockumentary “Trailer Park Boys.”

Bottle cap-glasses wearing and shopping-cart enthusiast, Bubbles (Mike Smith), serves as the duo’s sidekick. While in between prison sentences, Ricky concentrates on growing and selling drugs, and Julian tries to answer the constant pleas for favors and advice from fellow Sunnyvale Trailer Park residents.

Watch the comedy series’ exclusive U.S. premiere of all seven seasons on DIRECTV Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Network 101 (channel 101).

For more TPB fun, check out all the Ricky-isms in the fan-generated memorable quotes list on IMDb.