Los Angeles, July 27-29 - The Television Critics Association tour we told you about earlier saved the best for last. Well, not necessarily the best - we’ll leave that determination to those critics - but certainly the networks with the most talked-about stars ended the TCA schmooze-fest with a glitzy bang.

ABC toasted the press on Wednesday at West Hollywood gay bar The Abbey. Perhaps the choice of venue was a nod to the popularity of the network’s blockbuster hit, "Desperate Housewives", among gay viewers. Anyway, the whole cast was there, Eva Longoria showing off her guy, San Antonio Spurs’ basketball player Tony Parker. He’s tall; she’s not. James Denton brought his wife, Erin, who gave birth to their second child only a few months ago. No doubt she wanted to keep an eye on her man in a gay bar.

We’re sure that Abbey regulars would have been delighted to see hunky Patrick Dempsey, star of the hit "Grey’s Anatomy", in their midst, and unaccompanied by his wife. Sarah Michelle Gellar let her hubby, Freddie Prinze, Jr., loose at the ABC bash too. Disappointingly absent were most of the hotties from the hit show "Lost". Dominic Monaghan and Maggie Grace roamed around, but the the others were reportedly already in Hawaii shooting the next season.

On Friday, the Fox Network took over the Santa Monica pier to drool all over the TV critics. Fox’s hottest stars from "The O.C." were out in force - newly single Mischa Barton came solo; real-life couple Adam Brody and Rachel Bilson worked the party separately. Despite living nearby, "Stacked" star Pamela Anderson did not work the party at all; she showed up, posed for photos, chatted briefly with TV reporters, then turned around and left, and headed to a different, non-network party.