Aug 3 2010 01:43 AM ET

Press Tour Roundup: Seven things I learned during Fox's big day

fox_shows_tcaImage Credit: Running Wilde: Brian Bowen Smith/FOX; Raising Hope: Matthias Clamer/FOX; American Dad: FOX* The Gourmet Chocolate Pretzel Balls that Fox force-fed me at the start of the day contained 500 calories and 25 grams of fat. In related news, I’m a big fat cow and it’s all Fox’s fault.

* Honesty isn’t dead in Hollywood. “I have no idea if this is a good idea for a network show,” said creator Kyle Killen of his ambitious (and terrific) soap Lone Star. “If it’s a failure, it’s going to be a spectacular failure.” Killen sold the show as Dallas without the cheese. “We hope to go a couple of seasons before we have hair-pulling cat fights.”

* Lone Star (and Pretty Little Liars) hottie Bryce Johnson can fill out a short-sleeved, purple and plaid Ben Sherman buttondown like nobody’s business.

* The hilarious panel for the new Will Arnett-Keri Russell comedy Running Wilde gives me hope that the show will get better. I’m also encouraged by news that the pilot is being partially reshot to “hopefully make it easier to connect with,” says exec producer Mitch Hurwitz.

* Keri Russell still does her own laundry—even when on location. Reason No. 12,345,987 that I adore her.

* No one is safe from American Dad—not even Santa Claus. The series will air what sounds like the bloodiest Christmas special in TV history next season. The episode’s writer, Erik Durbin, says he set out to make it as “bloody and cool as 300.”

* Cloris Leachman has officially lost her mind—and we love it! During the session for her new comedy Raising Hope, the slippers-clad comedy legend insisted that reporters stand up when asking a question, ordered costar Garret Dillahunt to move her chair to the other side of the stage mid-Q&A, and dropped more than one F-bomb. She also had some harsh words for It Girl Betty White: “I’m so sick of Betty White,” she deadpanned. “Never liked her.” (Additional reporting by Vlada Gelman)

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  • cat

    i’m excited for running wilde! i love me some will arnett! :]

    • G$Bmore

      When will people stop using the phrase “love me some”? It makes one sound completely ignorant.

      • who cares

        i love me some grammar police

      • Lola

        As does making snotty comments on an entertainment website.

      • Karen

        and “G$” doesn’t?

      • diggity

        When will people stop misusing the word ignorant? It makes them sound like pretentious a holes.

      • USA

        especially when they use it incorrectly. 8 out of 10 people who use the word ignorant don’t even know what it means.

      • AJ

        Thank you diggity. “Ignorant” is misused more than “ironic”. Isn’t that ironic? No, but people think it is…

      • GEEZ

        G$Bmore, get a life.

    • ThatDUDE

      He used ignorant correctly you ignorant people. I mean seriously, “love me some” doesn’t make sense, he called the person ignorant, meaning “lacking knowledge or training” which is what the word means. Seriously, you people are f*cking retards.

      • S Palin

        I hate when people use the word “retard”. Can’t we go back to the old days and call them “mongoloid”?

      • rea

        Is it really ignorant for a colmnist who writes about pop culture to knowingly use grammatically incorrect slang?

      • Steph

        @Rea: Nailed it on the head.

  • Bee

    love keri russell and excited for running wilde. and definitelyyy looking forward to lone star. although it definitely does totally seem like a cable show rather than a network show. still, hope it does well. even if just so i can see adrianne palicki on my TV again.

  • Flyer

    My husband and I were really happy tonight when at the end of “The Good Guys” there was an announcement that new episodes would return in September. We LOVE the show, but with our luck, we were very concerned that it wouldn’t get a pick-up for fall. However it looks like it did! Yay! (However, it’s moving to Friday nights. Boo! But hey, we’ll take what we can get.)

    • Sara

      I was disappointed about Fridays as well. I’m a bigger fan of the show than my husband is, but he stayed to watch it last night with me and giggled the whole way through. After the commercials for next season, I turned to him and asked “So, is that Sarah Connor’s timeslot, or Dollhouse’s?” He was a Sarah Connor fan, I preferred Dollhouse. *sigh* At least Matt Nix is involved, maybe they can move it to USA if Fox kills it.

      • WyldeMac45

        The show hasn’t been picked up. The promo was misleading, they are just burning off the remaining season one episodes in the fall. There is only like 4 more episodes and the ratings where so bad they just moved it to another night where they didn’t have anymore programming to finish it out.

  • Becca

    I just learnt 0 new things from this report. Most of this is irrelevant facts that anyone could make-up, even without going to the tour.

    Ausiello you are a fat cow so stop complaining about it and maybe try to something.

    • tamara

      So true. I have no idea what any of these shows is about. But instead I know that Keri Russell does her own laundry. Great…
      Thanks, Mike.

    • Lola

      I was quite disappointed to see that the link above was not a hot pic of Bryce filling out a shirt, but instead a link to a website for said shirt. I resent unwittingly aiding in this man’s bid to get free shirts!

  • Rach

    I saw the American Dad Christmas special at Comic Con. It was definitely bloody!

    • Steve

      Same here! While I’m not a fan of the show, there were quite a few LOL moments during the program. Oh yes, there will be blood…

  • Joe R

    How about a picture of Bryce Johnson filling out that shirt??

  • Alen

    this whole article contained no information, except that ausiello is super gay, and I already knew that.

  • Al

    I hate these Ausiello articles. His blind items, his spoilers, his oooh ohh ohh i know something juicy! He never tells us ANYTHING. How does he get away with this?? Why do people read his freakin articles?

    • CC

      Why are you reading it then?????

      • Sinatra the third

        that’s the oldest comment….not even remotely funny anymore.

  • Scott

    Uh, wasn’t the best part of Dallas the cheese?

  • jape

    I agree. its like he gets paid for almost nothing. he would be more at home at US weekly or something.

  • Becca

    yay @ all the Ausiello hate. Finally some people who see the truth. (PS I don’t dislike Ausiello personally I just hope he starts stepping his game up)

    • bruno

      oh, i personally dislike him. you know how many interviews from comic con i’ve had to avoid because it’s aushole on the other side??! seriously EW, you sent this little weasel to do all the “reporting”. thanks. so. much.

  • George

    Love Cloris Leachman!

  • Peter

    I learned that Cloris Leachman hates Betty White

    • Diva

      She really doesn’t. She’s doing a movie with her

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  • Alan

    Love me some is stupid people!

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