Desperate Housewives at the party, including Felicity Huffman. All the women from the cast looked amazing, and kept their good humour despite being so very in demand

Marcia Cross at party. In my opinion, Marcia won for most amazingly beautiful person at this event. She's stunning

Terry Hatcher, yes? Desperate Housewives at party 

Jimmy Kimmel 

RM with the cast of "According to Jim", minus Jim, who kept drifting off.  

RM with the cast of "Hot Properties". The woman to the left is a famous Spanish-language tv star. The man to the right, next to me, is from "Sex and the City" 

RM with Kyle MacLaughlin and the cast of his new show.  

RM with a bunch of very good looking people. Rosanna Arquette to the right, very nice lady, invited me over for a photo. The man in the middle, next to me, was a sweetheart, but I've forgotten his name

Gina Davis. She's very, very tall, and almost unbelievably good-looking. Fab suit as well.  

RM and Fred Savage and a very nice gentleman whose name I've forgotten. Fred was one of the nicer people I met there. 

Upfronts, continued

I'm about to post some more photos from the Upfronts. Enjoy!

Dominic Keating on stage 

This is Dominic sticking his tongue out at Linda, who was sitting next to him 

Anthony and Connor on stage, laughing 

John Billingsley, who is such a nice guy. Stayed for the whole party, and when that ended, invited us to the bar. He stayed up until 5am, but I had to crash at 2.30.

John Billingsley 

Dom reacting to Linda's snarky comment 

Connor and Dominic, laughing on stage 

Linda Park 

Connor Trineer 

RM and Dominic Keating, which I asked him to autograph later (thus the writing). Seeing the photo, he said, "I really should smile more."  

Anthony Montgomery at party with RM. Anthony was very sweet, coming to the party despite his travel problems, and even playing a bit of his music for us.

Dominic Keating.

Expo, London

As I'd mentioned, I met several of the members of the cast of Star Trek: Enterprise at this year's London Expo. For fun, I'm posting a few of the photos. Details may follow later when I have more time. Until then, enjoy!

Network TV Upfronts

The Upfronts are a big event held in NYC, where each US television network presents their upcoming fall season to advertisers and the press. Each network holds its own presentation, usually with a lot of splash - there's the presentation first, then a mingling-type event with food, drink, and a chance to meet the stars of their upcoming shows.

I was lucky to be able to attend the presentation from ABC, which was a good one, because they've had a great year, ratings-wise. They talked about their upcoming season (fall, plus planned mid-season replacements) in Avery Fischer Hall, in Lincoln Center. We heard from the heads of various departments and saw long traillers for their new reality, comedy and drama shows. They are really proud of their Extreme Makeover - Home Edition, obviously, as well as Lost, and have additional reality and sci-fi/spooky shows planned for the fall.

As they presented their hits from last year, they had the casts of those shows come out on stage: Lost, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover - Home. The funnest of these was Desperate Housewives, where the writer, who can really sing, came out on stage and did a HUGE, traditional musical number about the show, including chorus boys and the ladies from the show. It was a hoot (when discussing such an over the top spectacle, there is no better word for it than "hoot".)

After the presentations, we went to a tent outdoors at Lincoln Center and got to drink, eat and meet the stars. Thus the photos, below. And yummy apple martinis done in the ABC tv colors.

Out of all the "stars" that I met, the ones that were most memorable for me were Shaun Cassidy, Martin Landau, Fred Savage, Daniel Dae Kim and Dominic Monaghan. Shaun because he was just so nice, despite the fact that I was probably the 4000th fan girl to approach him that evening. He and I actually had a conversation, and he took special care to make sure I was able to get my photo with him. What a sweetheart. Martin because, goodness, he's an actor of such huge stature, yet was so very kind to me. Fred was surprising down-to-earth for someone who'd been such a successful child star. Daniel - I remember him from Enterprise, and we had a nice conversation. Dominic and I played a joke on my friend, H, while H was getting his photo with the cast of Lost. Dominic stole H's camera and hid it, and we had a bit of fun with H.

I also met Rosanna Arquette, William Shatner, James Spader, Candice Burgen, the president of ESPN, some of the cast of Desperate Housewives, the folks from According to Jim, Kyle MacLaughlin, gosh, who else? Um, there was a lot of star power in that room.

It was a lot of fun. After all, I did "Broadcast and Media Management" in my MBA as one of my areas of focus, and my husband is an actor, so this evening, with its combo of the cult of celebrity plus the inner workings of network tv advertising, was a blast.

RM with Martin Landau, of Ed Wood and Space, 1999 fame 

RM with Shaun Cassidy and the cast of the new show he's producing

RM with cast of Lost, including Daniel Dae Kim (formerly of Enterprise) and Dominic Monaghan (LOTR)