Hard Drive upgrade for secondary external drive

Hi experts,
I have the 300Gb internal drive (#1).
I also have a 650Gb external drive (#2) I use for Time Machine as well as storing other files (overflow).
I'm looking to get a network attached drive (#3) so I can
- access it through my home network
- expand my storage
- use it to backup my internal drive, and my extra file contents in my external drive #2.
Can TM backup my internal drive and external drive(s) (or can I only pick ONE)?
Will I be better buying two MORE external drives? I'm really confused with backing up external drives, and I don't really think I need a RAID solution, just HD crash recovery.
Ideas?

What I really want to do is have a NAS to share stuff so that my TV has access to it, have a bit more space and have backup protection on all my data. This means I would need to reconfigure as such:
existing internal drive (1) essential os, applications (A)
existing external drive (2) work, tv shows, movies (B) (remove TM backups to free space)
new external drive (3) Time Machine backup (to backup A + B)
NAS drive (4) to store tv shows, movies copied manually
I guess the limiting issues is that it doesn't seem like NAS data can get backed up with Time machine so it can only be used as a target. What I mean is I can't use a NAS drive directly because where would ITS backup be?
I thought maybe I could solve my problems with one huge NAS, but that only frees up some space on my existing drive and only gives me a larger backup repository.

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