Chris O'Donnell, right, teams up with a mentally imbalanced attorney (Adam Goldberg) in the series "Head Cases."    Sam Urdank / Fox

Fox arrives at TCA and immediately fills the back of the ballroom with 18-34-year-old furniture. Lounge sofas, throw pillows, chairs dressed in white. OK, so maybe the (former) House of Merv skews old.

They're giving stuff away, these kids at Fox. "Family Guy" merchandise, copies of "Kitchen Confidential" by chef Anthony Bourdain. That's because "Kitchen Confidential" is also the sitcom Fox is putting behind "Arrested Development" this fall.

Sorry, not sitcom -- single camera comedy. Series executive producer Darren Star, who brought "Sex and the City" to air and therefore knows everything there is to know about network comedy, gets asked the "what's the state of network comedy" question. Also, what does he think of "Desperate Housewives" being nominated for an Emmy in the comedy category?

"I really haven't watched it that much," says Star, which sounds kind of like what other writers types were saying around the time "Sex and The City" was getting big. " ... I just wished we had sold 'Melrose Place' as a comedy."

In "Head Cases," the next panel, Chris O'Donnell plays a corporate
lawyer who has a breakdown and gets hooked up on an outpatient-buddy
basis with a low-rent lawyer guy played by Adam Goldberg.

On the panel, cast member Krista Allen -- helping us out because HBO prefers not to reveal that they actually cancel shows, instead piping somber music onto one of their platform channels -- tells us that "Unscripted" was indeed cancelled.

O'Donnell, asked what he's doing here, on a comedy called "Head Cases" for Fox, says: "This fell in my lap. Quality is quality." Hey, can I get my parking validated with that answer?

It's an hourlong show, with dramatic elements, from two guys who worked under David E. Kelly. O'Donnell and Goldberg meet cute after O'Donnell's stay at a "wellness center" while dealing with emotional problems. On the outside, they join forces as lawyers. Goldberg handles most of the big comedy. "And, not to try to be too many things at once, we're also going to be telling compelling legal stories which stand on their own in a procedural sort of way," says exec producer/creator Bill Chais.