Heather Graham, star of "Emily's Reasons Why Not," arrives at ABC's TCA party.    Chris Pizzello / Reuters

It's heavy-hitter afternoon at the (former) house of Merv. Heather Graham arrives, to take questions about her ABC midseason comedy about dating and relationships, "Emily's Reasons Why Not." I am immediately a 14-year-old boy. She is wearing a dark lavender dress, Lycra, scooped out teasingly in the back and strategically in front, and flip-flops. To be on view later at the all-star party, apparently.

"I feel like the show is relatable to anyone and I definitely relate to it," she tells the stunned TV press. Cue the "Sex and the City"-was-an-inspiration quote. "I related to it and I felt that it was the only thing I related to in that way," says Graham of "Sex." "It was a really great thing for women to watch and feel like their struggles were being recorded ... "

She is asked the inevitable "Why are you doing television?" question and also, "Who were you on 'Twin Peaks?'" The session bottoms out around the time someone asks, "And Heather, are you a good listener?"

Afterwards, in the back of the ballroom, I hear Graham say something about yoga before she's whisked away from "the gaggle," as the post-press conference scrums with reporters are called. This one looked like a bee swarm.

4 p.m. - Before the "Commander In Chief" panel, ABC announces that the next go-around of "Dancing with the Stars" will include a weekly 30-minute "results" show, the way "American Idol" does their judging one night and the viewer-voting results the next. This apparently to make up for the controversy that emerged around "Dancing" winner Kelly Monaco, whose victory was greeted with skepticism by the TV press yesterday - and who said to a critic who suggested a dance-off with finalist John O'Hurley: "You want a dance-off? Come on up here; I'll give you a dance-off."

Anyway, let's class things up now. "Commander In Chief." Geena Davis. White House. Created by Rod Lurie, who made "The Contender." Gravitas all around. A few members of the TV press seem to sniff another "West Wing" from Hollywood libs ("Anyone onstage a Republican?" one asks, "Openly?"). But Lurie notes that his woman president is an Independent and that the show will be less wonky than "The West Wing," more about the East Wing of the White House, and the how-to's of state dinners, in addition to politics.

Lurie distances himself from the whole Hollywood Left label by saying that while he's a Democrat he's not exactly thrilled by the party right now, "nor fully with its politics." So sue him for not having more Republicans on his writing staff, it's L.A.

Asked after her politics, Davis says she's right now committed to "the politics of making sure that ABC and Touchstone are very happy."

Then she says she's a Democrat. Should have asked Heather this.