Frakkin' Great Spring For Geek TV...

The final season of Battlestar Galactica exploded onto Sky One last night with a wonderful mix of cyclon civil war, religious mumbo-jumbo, madness, sexual tension, conspiracies, intrigue and thrilling action. Looks like it's going to one hell of a ride as the "rag-tag fleet" heads towards Earth!

Then next Thursday, season two of Heroes launches, which I'm quite jazzed about - although reviews of, at least, the early episodes filtering over from the States were less than glowing; so we'll have to wait and see.

But then it's sometimes difficult to judge a series by its early episodes. Just look at Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. After a lacklustre pilot, this show reinvigorated itself into "must watch TV" here at the new HeroPress Towers!

Both Summer Glau, as the harsh, soul-less guardian Terminator known as Cameron, and Lena Headey, as Sarah Connor, have grabbed their roles with gusto and helped make this a truly original piece of sci-fi entertainment.

The short - nine-episode - season comes to a head on Thursday, but I really hope this returns for more of the same.

Another short run show at the start of this year was Lost, which certainly gave us more (partial) answers in those eight episodes than we were expecting, but also threw up a bigger cloud of questions to baffle, confuse and delight loyal fans.

Of course, not everything the American networks pump out is as good as these programmes: Flash Gordon proved to be a criminal waste of a franchise while the Bionic Woman came across as a bargain-basement remake, with little - even the beautiful Michelle Ryan - to recommend it.

The new spy series Chuck had more excitement and action in its first episode than a whole season of the Bionic Woman, where her major powers seemed to be lame-ass jumping about and battling against poorly written scripts.

Chuck, on the other hand, is shaping up to be an interesting show - helping to prove that geek love can embrace a variety of genres from espionage to comedy (the superb Big Bang Theory) and quirky romance (the sublime, Tim Burtonesque Pushing Daisies, which I just adore... even if ITV have already screwed it up by dropping one episode out of the run because of international football).

Of course, we shouldn't overlook our homegrown UK geek fare - Torchwood (which really took off this year) and Doctor Who (which promises great things, as always). Even the second series of Primeval was pretty good (even if Hannah Spearritt kept her trousers on all the time) and has earned itself another year of life.

It's a shame the weather's getting better because there are so many reasons to stay in, glued to the television!