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My 1st TCA event's in the books, and although I only attended for 2 days there's quite a bit to flesh out. An amalgam of marketing and pomp, TCA is a show; celebs from the A- to the C-list are everywhere. I'm just not sure how beneficial it is for nets to coordinate their participation, particularly when so few trenchant questions are asked of them (the most popular: how did you study for the role?). And only the meekest and most shallow of TV critics (I hope) would spin their reviews positively because Dustin Hoffman or Nicole Kidman attended TCA. For US Weekly readers: Hoffman was funny, and sincere and Kidman is impossibly beautiful in person. She made the alluring Julia Louis-Dreyfus look average. The TCA parties are enjoyable, often high-end affairs, but I wonder about the related ROI here as well. It seems ad execs and/or writers and producers would make for better targets. TCA does, however, proffer helpful insight into what to look from various channels, and in some cases informs on...