NBC has announced plans to stream premieres of several of its new season's lineup on the Internet, via the ad-happy HD video-player Hulu. Important in a "Long live the new flesh" Videodrome/new media kind of way, unimportant since the episodes will be the season openers of Chuck, Lipstick Jungle, and Life.

And, lest anyone mericfully forgets its existence, NBC's newest causality of Ben Silverman, the re-imagined Knight Rider, will also be debuting online.

So is this news? Technically. NBC already streams most of their shows (but not as a first-look sort of thing) on their website. But there are several shows that would have been a way better fit for a YA-friendly site like Hulu than these duds:

The Office: Along with 30 Rock, the Steve Carrel and John Krasinski combo would be a perfect fit for the watch-anytime-anywhere Hulu, especially since most people plan on watching The Office during office hours anyway. Like life imitating art, but life being way less funny and devoid of Rainn Wilson.

Heroes: The peacock station is already screening the wish-fulfillment series online for re-consumption over at NBC.com. Branching out the franchise to Hulu would show audiences that the station is serious about the show, and won't allow for another disaster like the first half of season two.

Battlestar Galactica: Nerds spend all their time on the computer. Nerds love Battlestar more than they love their neckbeards. Problem solved. Though with rumors that the new season won't start up again till next April, sci-fi geeks everywhere have a long Starbuck-less drought ahead of them.