So many stars, so little time...

It finally happened: I overdosed on television stars today. Well, almost.

The setting was an outdoor garden at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for what was called the "NBC All-Star Party." It was a surreal co-mingling of people who normally would not travel in the same circles. That's because the party had NBC prime-time stars mixed with anchors and hosts from NBC News and NBC Sports, personalities from reality shows on Bravo, and stars of shows on the USA Network.
At one point, model-reality show star Janice Dickerson was standing just feet away from where MSNBC news personality Keith Olberman was giving interviews. If you looked to your right, in the same frame were NFL analyst John Madden and one of the scary blondes from "Real Housewives of Orange County" - the real scary one who bought her daughter a car so she could control her.

So it was quite a gathering and I worked it like nobody's business interviewing Seth Myers of "Saturday Night Live," Alfre Woodard, Kyle Chandler ("Friday Night Lights"), Hayden Panettiere and Milo Venttimigila of "Heroes," Anthony Anderson who just joined the cast of "Law & Order," Christian Slater who stars with Alfre in the new show "My Own Worst Enemy," Selma Blair and Molly Shannon who co-star in the new comedy "Kath & Kim," Cristian de la Fuente of "Dancing With the Stars" who now co-stars on USA network's "In Plain Sight," Zachary Levi of "Chuck," Debra Messing, Hart Bochner, and Chris Diamantopoulos who star in "The Starter Wife," and "The Office" co-stars Melora Hardin and Oscar Nunez.

This was in the span of about 2.5 hours and I basically staggered out of the hotel giving up opportunities to talk to some of the other folks who were there including Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, soap star Deidre Hall, Jeff Lewis of "Flipping Out," Masi Oka and Greg Grunberg of "Heroes," Jeff Goldblum, and David Gregory and Chris Matthews of NBC News.

Some of those people I have done interviews with in the past year so I skipped them. I profiled James Roday of "Psych" just last week and while I didn't need to interview him again, we did chat for a few minutes and he was happy with the piece. It's better than him walking up to me, smacking me across the head and saying :'You bastard! That article was crap!'"

These interviews will appear on the blog and in my Daily News column "News Lite." Tomorrow is the final day of TCA press tour. I'll post some items from there.