RevolutionSF Newsblast is a look at your week in geekly geekitude with Value Added Smartassery, or VAS.

Saved By Heroes

Heroes will get a second season, NBC announced. I'm looking forward to the sissy-boy hug-fight rematch between Peter Petrelli and Sylar.

Creator Tim Kring told ifmagazine.com that the first-season DVD will include a 72-minute version of the pilot. Kring also says, "There will be toys. We are all over it." Neat! I want Jessica with Transforming Niki action. Except I want her to transform into a motorcycle.

Me So Horn-Rimmed

If you like Horn-Rimmed Glasses on Heroes, you'll love him on Dynasty 20 years ago. Finally, some love for the Carringtons on modern-day television. He's got no glasses, but he totally rocks the feather-back Rick Springfield.

Ways To Miss American Idol

Jan. 21: Battlestar Galactica is on Sundays. And The Dresden Files is new. Might be good. Also Sunday on Sci Fi.

Jan. 22: Heroes returns.

Feb. 7: To make our DVRs angry, Lost moves later to 10 Eastern, 9 Central.

Feb. 21: Jericho returns. Everything still blown up. Or is it?! The Big Mystery stuff is getting to me.

March 3:Robin Hood on BBC America. It's a series! It has merry men! Now we toe-rag Yanks in the Colonies can watch it.

They Have A Plan

Tricia Helfer plays Six on Battlestar Galactica. And she's without clothing in Playboy. I only read that magazine for the articles of clothing that are missing in the pictures of naked women.

Throne Up on TV

A Song of Ice and Fire, George R.R. Martin's humongous fantasy novels that will totally make you swear if you drop one on your foot, are coming to HBO.

The cable channel you have to pay extra for is desperate for something to air since The Sopranos is going off. Obviously they forgot to go film more gross people with their junk hanging out for Real Sex.

The first season will be the first book, A Game of Thrones. Each season will be one book. Go to the RevSF boards and let the impossibly high expectations begin!

Now they should do the superhero series Martin edited, Wild Cards. Come on, HBO! It has a corpse-banging wizard!

Dude!

The Lost people said at a big TV event that they don't want the series to go too long, like Alias and X-Files. Oh snap!

One of the creators, Damon Lindelof, said that 100 episodes would be plenty, "so we never had to do the bad season."

Meanwhile, the producers of Stargate SG-1 said that 17,000 episodes would be plenty, "so we never had to do the bad decade."

Meanwhile, the creators of Day Break said that three episodes would be plenty, "so we never had to do the bad almost a month."

Age Before Beauty

Neal Stephenson's book The Diamond Age: Or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer will be adapted by Sci Fi as a 6-hour miniseries. George Clooney is one of the producers. I think he heard the part about "young lady" and signed up right then.

Stephenson himself will adapt his own book, which leads me to speculate the fearful possibility that Hollywood has discovered that book writers know how to write.

Masters of Our Domain

In other news out of Sci Fi at a recent press tour, one of its upcoming shows is called Revolution. It's a science fiction show. If this show hits, we're squatting on a domain name gold mine! Vive le Revolution!

You Will Believe A Woman Can Type

Gwyneth Paltrow has finally come to her senses and joined the ranks of comic-book movie portrayors. Unfortunately, all that's left for her is Iron Man's secretary, Pepper Potts.

So while Robert Downey is green-screening the fool out of a suit of armor, Oscar-winnin' Gwyneth will type some stuff, then dangle in the grasp of a giant CGI robot. Kind of sets the bar pretty high for all those punk actresses who don't have an Oscar.

John Carter of Mouse

Director Jon Favreau went with Iron Man instead of John Carter of Mars, and now Disney is interested in the rights for a big movie franchise. Pixar might get it, which could be nifty. Or Disney will make some singing, fuzzy Martian toys out of it. Which means there is even less of a chance that sweet Dejah Thoris will be naked Frazetta-style. This makes a little tear fall from my eye.

Oh, wait. That was sweat, thinking about Dejah Thoris, Frazetta-style. Honestly, Frank Frazetta book covers are the reason I never got any homework done, Mom.

With This Ming

Sci Fi says filming begins soon on a season full of live-action Flash Gordon. Robert Halmi Sr. and Jr. are whomping up 22 episodes. Halmi Jr. was executive producer, whatever that means, on Farscape. And about a zillion other things, which makes me think he didn't know what it means either.

But Flash Gordon is fun, dad-gum it. And if this isn't also fun, then I will personally skob some nobs. You hear me, people? Your nobs. Skobbed.