View the gallery I don't understand why people need to attend upfronts for Hulu when they are on a show that just simply happens to be ON Hulu, but no one asks me these things, and god knows I am always happy when celebrities leave the house. [Photos:
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View the gallery As usual, the dress code for this looks like, "none of these people are exactly sure what to wear to this party." [Photos: Getty]
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View the gallery All hail the unexpected return of The Carrie Diaries! Between that and Hart of Dixie, The CW is thoughtfully keeping our fugcapping racket in business. However, the network also has a show about Mary, Queen of Scots, called Reign; some weird looking alien-human yada-yada called
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View the gallery I know this is sacrilege, but y'all, I was really super bored by the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. clip from upfronts. The Once Upon A Time spinoff even looked better, and that -- while potentially legitimately okay in some aspects -- involves a
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View the gallery We need to talk about the FOX shows. Well, I haven't watched the comedy clips yet, but the dramas... I can't tell if they're a steaming pile of awful or secretly so hate-watchably amazing that it becomes love-watching. Almost
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View the gallery If NBC had canceled Parenthood or Parks and Rec for any of the shows on display at upfronts, I would have GONE INSANE FROM RAGE. The Michael J. Fox comedy might be okay, maybe; the others seem resoundingly average, if not bad. The Blacklist is basically James
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View the gallery Chloe Sevigny being on TV has been the best thing ever, because there are so many varied events for that genre that she otherwise wouldn't bother with, and THAT always means a trove of interesting things. Yes, one of the women who helped inspire this
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View the gallery So, they had a red carpet -- complete with fans! -- at the E! upfronts, and yet Giuliana and Seacrest were walking the carpet rather than working it. I can't deal with that level of self-reflexiveness. [Photo: Getty and WENN]
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View the gallery I've always wondered why Lucy Liu isn't a bigger deal. She's SO PRETTY, and she doesn't age, ever, and she's usually adds a welcome spark to any show she joins (like Dirty Sexy Money, or Southland, or
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View the gallery Listen. We may say a lot of things about Zoe Hart's habit of practicing medicine in formal shorts, or about our theory that Lemon Breeland walked through a warp hole in 1940 and decided to stay in rural Alabama because of all the amazing advances
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View the gallery These Upfronts are REALLY making my life easier. Thank you, Networks, for giving us material -- both for this space, and for my DVR. That being said, this particular Upfront wasn't as extensively photographically chronicled as the others. Maybe the photogs on Upfronts duty are really
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