...and more of those NBC blues.

You know your Tour day is going badly when:

-- You just picked up a midseason series called "Windfall," an ensemble drama about 20 lottery winners. And, although critics actually seem interested in it, the actors involved do not.

Parrilla

To wit: This morning, we were expecting series star Luke Perry to show up, but had to settle for his co-worker Jacklyn Desantis, who appeared to be nodding off in her chair. Which was onstage.

Her co-star Lana Parrilla had a look on her face that made a person wonder if she had stepped in something a Great Dane had left behind. Meanwhile, "Windfall's" Alice Greczyn got caught in this unfortunate exchange with a reporter:

Greczyn

"I'd like to know how analogous this is to getting your big break in Hollywood, winning the lottery."

"I'm sorry," she said, "what was that word?"

"Analagous. It means, 'like.'"

-- You know your Tour day is going badly when Ming-Na, who made her career on "E.R." and co-helms "Inconceivable" with Jonathan Cake, has her lips pursed defensively as her show's executive producer yammers on and on because nobody is asking them, or late cast addition Angie Harmon, any questions.

And when the questions finally get rolling, they concern Cake's role in the ABC miniseries "Empire, " which wasn't great TV, but was a lot more fun to look at than "Inconceivable." You know she knows this doesn't bode well.

Capshaw

-- You know your Tour day is going badly when you have Jessica Capshaw playing a former fat woman on the midseason series "Thick and Thin," and know she'll never get fat. What's the point, beyond ensuring that the people who would relate to her pseudo-struggles most, i.e. actual fat people, won't watch? That would be something you come to realize too late in the game.

And Lorne Michaels, executive producer and legendary "Saturday Night Live" head honcho, is on the panel, yet nobody has anything to ask of him. Not. A. Thing.

And the show's creator and executive producer, Paula Pell, feels she needs to address the male journalists in the room as "cutie" to keep our attention. The last time these guys were called "cutie," they were in diapers. Sadly, the tactic worked.

-- Finally, you know your Tour day is going badly when you hope that the mid-afternoon snack has a "Book of Daniel" theme, offering an assortment of mind-erasing pills. But it's smoothies and frozen bananas, which makes you wish you had bought "Arrested Development" two seasons ago instead of going with "Whoopi."

If you can relate to any of these situations, then your name must be Jeff Zucker. And you have every right to thank heaven that NBC's turn at Press Tour is nearly finished. Believe you me, the rest of us are.