For a fourth-place network, NBC has a funny way of dominating the news as I get ready for the start of the
Television Critics Association press tour. The day before the summer tour six months ago,
Ben Silverman announced he was quitting. (Later, his successor Angela Bromstad inadvertently gave us a lot of laughs
when she suggested "I think that this has always been Ben's plan" to leave with the network doing much worse than when he arrived.)
And, of course, as critics like me were getting ready to go home and pack for today's start of the winter tour, news broke that
NBC might be moving Jay Leno back to late night. (The picture above is Leno in disguise as a reporter for NBC's exec session at the summer '08 tour.)
So I've been a little too preoccupied to pen an update to my traditional
guide to press tour, which means if you don't know the drill by now, you'll have to go read the old version.
For practical purposes, I'll be doing a lot of blogging and/or
tweeting (depending on time, mood, etc.) about the sessions that I'm attending. Sometimes, I'll be saving material for a story down the road, or otherwise occupied doing a one-on-one interview, or busy writing reviews of the many, many shows that are (as always) inconveniently debuting during the winter tour. So I can only write as much as I can write.
And, as always, my actual blogging about what's airing on TV is going to suffer while I'm in California. If I've seen a show in advance (like "Chuck" or "Friday Night Lights" or the "How I Met Your Mother" 100th episode), I'll be writing something about it to go up after the episode ends. But for a lot of shows, you may have to wait a while, or just accept that, say, the ABC Wednesday comedies are going to be skipped for a week. I'm limited by time, time zone, and by the speed of the hotel's internet connection. So as with most things press tour, we'll be playing things by ear.
I'll be flying for a good chunk of today, then attending visits to the sets of "FlashForward" and "Community," so don't expect a lot out of me until CBS' day at the hotel begins tomorrow.
See you on the wrong coast...
Back in Jersey, and I was so exhausted from the end of press tour that I neglected to post my press tour wrap-up column, which talks about how much of press tour was dominated by the still not quite ended Conan/Jay mess. 
Before yesterday's latest turn in the Conan O'Brien mess, I wrote a notebook column on some press tour developments and anecdotes, which is now up on NJ.com. 
Sorry for the short notice, but I'm going to be live-blogging the final "Lost" press tour panel, which is starting... now...
The biggest news of the day at press tour - unless you count Bradley Whitford's Ron Swanson mustache - was Simon Cowell announcing his departure from "American Idol" after this season to launch "The X Factor" in America.
Over at NJ.com, I run through Fox's schedule for today at press tour. Should hopefully be a less intense day than the Leno-palooza was yesterday.
Over at NJ.com, I have a longer take on the NBC executive press tour session and the big mess with Jay, Conan and company.
Over at NJ.com, I have my first real TCA-related post of this press tour up, in which I preview the NBC executive session later today and worry that it's not going to live up to the bloodbath we're all hyping it into.
For a fourth-place network, NBC has a funny way of dominating the news as I get ready for the start of the Television Critics Association press tour. The day before the summer tour six months ago, Ben Silverman announced he was quitting. (Later, his successor Angela Bromstad inadvertently gave us a lot of laughs when she suggested "I think that this has always been Ben's plan" to leave with the network doing much worse than when he arrived.) 
