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What: “Beyond the Glory”

Where: Fox Sports Net, Sunday, 9 p.m.

ESPN has its “SportsCentury” series, and Fox Sports Net now has “Beyond the Glory,” a flashy new one-hour weekly series that makes its debut Sunday with a powerful profile of Deion Sanders.

It will be televised after the Laker-Clipper game. Normally, the time slot will be Sundays at 8 p.m., and beginning Feb. 11, it will be followed at 9 by another new show, “NASCAR Prime Time.”

On Jan. 14, Isiah Thomas will be featured, then comes Warren Moon. Among those in future shows will be Karl Malone, Oksana Baiul, Bill Buckner, Kobe Bryant and Pete Rose.

Fox Sports Net and partner Broadband Sports have hired Mark Angotti and Jonathan Hock as executive producers and brought in film director Ron Shelton as executive consultant. Steve Michaels, 30, son of Al Michaels, is a supervising producer. Angotti’s father, Joe, is a former executive producer of “NBC Nightly News.”

This series easily could become must-see viewing. In the first installment, Sanders talks at length about his previous wild lifestyle, his attempted suicide, and his religious awakening; his journeys from center field to center stage, from baseball to football, from defense to offense, from Prime Time to the Lord’s Player.

Also interviewed are Sander’s mother, his former wife, his current wife, his sister, his pastor, his Pop Warner coach, his college coach, Bobby Bowden, and many others.

While ESPN relies heavily on writers and broadcasters telling stories about the star being profiled, the producers here get it straight from the source.

“My thing was fornication,” Sanders says, “My thing was to have sex with as many women as possible. I didn’t discriminate.”

On his failed suicide attempt in 1997: “I got in that car and drove off that cliff and got to the bottom of that falloff and I was still alive. I was like, ‘Lord, you saved me.’ That was something.”

On finding religion: “You can’t escape the call. The phone is going to keep ringing and ringing and ringing until you answer it. And it’s a collect call. If I were you, I would accept the charges.

“Now it’s going to be tough because you’re changing teams. You’ve been traded from the devil’s team to God’s team.”