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If you’ve been paying attention to the storylines of Ron Moore’s new “Battlestar Galactica”, you sorta knew this was coming. Sooner or later, you knew Ron Moore was going to stop pussyfootin’ around and just come out and say it: He thinks the Iraqi Terrorists in Iraq that are blowing up men, women, children out for Sunday shopping are heroes, and that the American occupation, along with the Iraqi cops and government officials trying to keep their country from being torn apart, are villains.

Goddamn, will you look at that? Those Hollywood nitwits finally acknowledged Fox’s “24″ after 5 of the best seasons any show has ever had. No doubt “24’s” Season 5, which featured a Not-Bush Bush President going down in flames, was the reason why Hollywood finally acknowledged the action-adventure series. Before it was just about Muslim terrorists, but it’s not until “24″ targeted its own country’s President that Hollywood took notice. I don’t know whether to snicker at Hollywood’s so obvious anti-Bush agenda or be proud of “24″ for winning.

“Prison Break” is back, biotches!!!

The premiere opens with some mysterious figures in a smoky room running down names of the escapees. Some notes: They mention that Not-Hilary Hilary is now the President and Michael is named the prison break mastermind. It appears The Conspiracy is going to sic the bespeckled man after the Prison Break Gang.

I can’t believe what an idiot I’ve been for missing out on all three seasons of HBO’s insanely good “Deadwood”. This mistake was doubly irritating, in hindsight, as I’ve always loved Westerns. I guess the reason why I never bothered with “Deadwood” was all the hype about the show being yet another revitionist Western, which is not all bad in spurts, but over the course of a season can get pretty damn boring. But daaaaaaamn, is “Deadwood” friggin good or is it goddamn good? I’m going with both.

The more previews I see for the new FOX show “Vanished” the more it looks like total shit to me. They keep trying to sell it different ways, but I get the feeling the pilot is going to pull in some of the lowest ratings of the year for pilots. FOX isn’t just hyping the hell out of the show, but they’re slotting it behind their big guns, notably their new mammoth hit “Prison Break”.

I can’t stand TV Teens. You know what I’m talking about — those mouthy, rebellious, always-knows-what-to-say teens that only TV writers can think off because it’s the most creative (i.e. most unrealistic) version of a teen they can come up with. The daughter character in the new Sci Fi Channel “Eureka” is — tada — the consummate TV Teen. Mouthy, rebellious, and disrepectful to her father. If you don’t want to slap this little bitch’s teeth out of her mouth after an hour of the “Eureka” pilot, then you’re the writers who dreamt her up in the first place. Either that, or you’re a teen yourself, and you wish you could be as annoying and always-ready-with-a-comeback like her.

With the movie franchise hobbling on its last leg (”Trinity” was a disaster in almost ever respects), the Powers That Be made the most sensible decision (didn’t they?) and transplanted their franchise into TV form. So “Blade: The Series” was born. On basic cable network Spike TV, no less. With original “Blade” star Wesley Snipes spending his days in Romania making crappy direct-to-video action movies, the franchise producer, David Goyer, has tapped rapper Sticky Fingaz (no kidding, this is his name) as the new Blade. He’s a younger, shorter, but just as black, version of Blade. Well, at least they didn’t make Blade white, so that’s something.

This isn’t news news, but I just ran across it today, so it’s news to me. As we all know, Jack Bauer got shanghaied (literally!) at the end of Season 5 when Chinese agents snatched him and tossed him into a cargo container, and the last we saw of Jack he was being taken to China via a large cargo ship. And so everyone thought Season 6 would of course be set in China. Well guess again, kiddos!

Here’s a great idea for a primetime network TV show — “Heroes”, about a group of seemingly normal people who discover that they have some sort of “super DNA” that gives them superpowers. Basically they’re mutants, and they band together to save the world. Ali Larter, Adrian Pasdar, and Milo Ventimiglia are part of the cast.

“I don’t know things that I’m supposed to know, but I do know things that I’m not supposed to know,” says John Doe (Dominic Purcell) to a hotdog vendor 12 minutes into the pilot episode of “John Doe”. Hey, we’ve all been there, right? Well, probably not. Premiering on Fox TV in 2002, I remember “John Doe” being a pretty high-profile series, but it never really went anywhere. The show was axed after Year 1, leaving fans wondering what the secret behind John Doe’s ability to know everything in the world except, as he relates to the hot dog vendor, everything he’s supposed to know, such as his name or anything about his past, a mystery. (The producers actually spoiled this sometime ago at a convention; keep reading for it at the end of this review.)