Entertainment Weekly
July 27, 2007
TCA PRESS TOUR: ABC's XYZs
By Jennifer Armstrong
The alphabet network's giddy glimpses into ''Men in Trees,'' ''Kyle XY,'' and the problematic ''Grey's Anatomy'' spinoff, ''Private Practice,'' brought TV's two-week summer press tour to a close
At the last day of press tour, punch-drunk reporters combined with equally spastic ABC actors to lead to at least two unexpectedly chipper panels (thanks, Christopher Titus!). While no breaking industry news surfaced, each panel still provided some noteworthy nuggets about what's ahead for Kyle XY, Addison Montgomery, and post-feminist gender relations (yes, really). Herewith, the greatest hits from press tour's dying day.
Big ... um, Something
The Big Shots boys — Michael Vartan, Christopher Titus, Joshua Malina, and Dylan McDermott — made the very last session of this long and winding TCA tour more than bearable with their generous helpings of pretty blue eyes, mussy hair, and well-tended stubble. Oh, and their genuinely quick-witted banter, which revealed, among other things, that the show — one of those post-Sex and the City cocktails-and-relationships dramedies (but with men!) — was originally titled Big Dicks, which, natch, didn't pass muster with the net. Titus also shared, apropos of mostly nothing, that he ''lost 20 pounds in my divorce because that's what a soul weighs.'' And Malina quipped that one of the most important lessons they learned shooting the pilot is that Titus ''has a giant head. If you don't block the scene correctly, none of us can be seen.'' Should these guys get a spot on the writing staff, or is this stuff is just funnier when you've been locked in a conference room with television critics for 11 days?
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