During Fox’s first day before critics, new entertainment president Kevin Reilly tied himself in knots trying to speak diplomatically about NBC, despite the fact that the network essentially fired him as their entertainment president back in May.

“I got an anonymous email telling me that (NBC’s new co-chairman of entertainment) Ben Silverman had been offered my job,” said Reilly, who quipped his focus wouldn’t fall on beating fourth-place NBC, though he created their fall schedule just a few months before.

  Fox also announced Tony award-winning actress Cherry Jones would play the latest president on the real-time espionage drama 24, revealing that the production would conserve energy and change practices in an attempt to render its series finale “carbon neutral.”

By running generators and vehicles on biodiesel fuel while purchasing energy from renewable power sources such as windmills and solar cells, 24 honchos hope to add no new carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

I'm hoping this is for real. But as a TCA-seasoned critic, I'm thinking 24 producers could probably help the world a lot more by toning down on the gratuitous violence and torture scenes in their series.

Just a thot.