Selected Tweets from the Television Critics Association press tour in Beverly Hills, Calif. - and a few additional comments - from Friday, July 27.

• #ABC is here with #Nasvhille. Like the pilot a lot. Love Connie Britton. #TCAs12

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How can you not love Connie Britton?

• Powers Boothe's #Nashville character is "so powerful we had to find somebody named Powers to play him," sez show's producer.

He's scary. So is his character.

• Connie Britton sez her #Nashville character is NOT Reba - although Reba thinks it is. #TCAs12

So do I.

• Hayden Panettiere sez only similarities between her evil #Nashville character and Taylor Swift are age and hair color. Not height.

I like to think of her as Taylor Swift's short, evil twin.

• #ABC prez Paul Lee is here. He's an absolute master at giving the exact same amount of praise to great shows and terrible shows.

It's part of the job.

• Paul Lee "very excited" about Dancing With the Stars" all-stars cast, announced later today. Paul is very excited about everything.

It's part of the job.

• Bristol Palin is a "DWTS" all-star? There goes the whole premise right out the window.

The definition of "all-star" is "someone who has been on the show before."

• Lee sez he expects #ModernFamily season to start on time. He's "optimistic" they'll resolve contract dispute with cast.

And, by the end of the day, the dispute was resolved.

• Lee sez submarine/action show #LastResort tested better among women than men. That's a surprise. Seemed very male-oriented.

• That said, #LastResort pilot was one of my favorites this year. My son and daughters all praised it, too.

It was my favorite pilot of the upcoming fall season.

• "I feel like 'Revenge' has really made soaps cool again," sez #ABC prez Paul Lee. And he's absolutely right. Go soaps!

Just a personal opinion.

• Soaps writer is lobbying Paul Lee to bring back "All My Children" and "One Life to Live." Yeah, good luck with that.

Geez, soap writers are as out of touch as soap fans.

• The "all-stars" from #DancingWithTheStars are here. It's ... underwhelming.

#BristolPalin follows in footsteps of #SarahPalin and #ToddPalin on press tour. They're not desperate for attention or anything.

Clearly, they are desperate for attention.

• #Bristol Palin sez that God provided the opportunity for her to be on #DWTS again. Really.

Don't think God cares who wins a reality show, let alone who's on it.

• This will be 5 reality show appearances for the Palins. They're closing in on the Kardashians.

It's sort of sad.

• "I definitely doesn't think it's our business," #BristolPalin sez of reality TV.

Yes, dear, it is.

"I like gays. I'm not a homophobic, and I'm so sick of people saying that," #BristolPalin sez.

That's an exact quote. And, perhaps, an indictment of whatever schools Palin attended. And nobody actually believes her.

• #PamelaAnderson says she loves the gays. #BristolPalin reiterates her support of "traditional marriage."

Not that Palin has ever actually entered into a traditional marriage. Just single motherhood.

• #BristolPalin insists that if she stayed home in Alaska, "the media" would chase her as much as when she does reality TV. Baloney.

You can't keep going on TV and complaining when people write about you.

• From my friend Tim Goodman: BREAKING: Bristol Palin is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

See? It wasn't just me.

• From my friend Todd VanDerWerff: Bristol Palin describes DWTS as "a fun gig." SHE'S GONE HOLLYWOOD.

Obviously.

• From my BFF Candace Havens: Pamela Anderson looks better than she has in years.

True! Who would've thought?

• Up next -#TheNeighbors, about outer-space aliens who live in New Jersey. It's really weird. Made me laugh & cringe. I dunno.

This is going to be a critical punching bag. I won't hit it too hard.

• Creator sez #TheNeighbors is "about my dysfunctional New Jersey family." The humans, not the aliens.

Well, maybe the aliens.

• #666ParkAvenue is up. The devil (maybe) owns an NYC apartment bldg. I liked the pilot, and I have no idea where this is going.

But I'm curious to see where it ends up.

• Terry O'Quinn's theory about his character on #666ParkAvenue is that he's "a sharecropper on the plantation of evil." That's great!

So maybe he's not the actual devil. Just one of the devil's minions.

• #RebaMcEntire and #LilyTomlin are here for #MalibuCountry. Love both of them. The show is, well, not great.

I'm trying to be nice here.

• #RebaMcEntire would like to play herself in a guest spot on #ABC's #Nashville.

But I thought Connie Britton was player Reba on "Nashville."

• "This probably will be my last project before I go to the Motion Picture Home," sez Lily Tomlin, 72.

Oh, I hope not.

• This season's worst title: #HowToLiveWithYourParents(ForTheRestOfYourLife).

And it's one of the worst shows, too.

• Creator Claudia Lonow sez "How to Live with Your Parents" is based on her real life. I sort of feel sorry for her.

Except she's much more successful and much richer than I am.

• "How to Live" star Brad Garrett wonders why questions aren't about show. Because nobody wants to talk about the show, sadly enough.

You can't handle the truth!

• "Being a divorced woman who lives with her parents is not a selling point," sez Claudia Lonow.

She spends weekends at her boyfriend's house.

• Typo of the day: ABC's list of talent for tonight's party lists cast members from "Don't Touch the B---- In Apartment 23."

Did something happen at that cocktail party last night?

• From my pal Rob Owen: New title for existing #ABC series @Apt23 makes you wonder what happened on set first season. Was HR involved?

Ha!

• The cast of #FamilyTools is really enthusiastic. Somebody has to be.

Critics aren't enthusiastic about their show, for the most part.

• Jimmy Kimmel is here to talk about hosting the Emmys. He has "something special planned."

Like, maybe, a non-boring show?

• Jimmy Kimmel compares himself to "the sad kid sitting outside the house" who is finally invited inside to have a drink.

He's MUCH more successful and MUCH richer than I am.

• "I think Twitter has made it easier to say something stupid in the middle of the night to everyone in the world," Jimmy Kimmel sez

Don't sleep and Tweet. Just say no.

• "So far we have no plans to incorporate Matt [Damon] into any aspect of my life," sez Jimmy Kimmel.

Completely out of context here ...

• From my friend Brad Oswald: Wanna be loved at #TCAs12? Say this: "I did not study in high school or college. That's why I know so much about television."

We love TV.