Even on television, every party must come to an end

As “upfronts” madness came to an end Thursday in New York, we did our best to sweep up any lingering tidbits. A full report is at calendarlive.com/tvupfront. But here are some excerpts:

Dis du jour

“ ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ ‘Everybody Hates Chris.’ White man out, black man in. See how it works?” -- Chris Rock on Thursday, touting his new UPN comedy

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Party Watch: Only-as-Old-as-You-Feel Edition

The CBS party at the Village Green in lush Central Park didn’t quite capture the network’s new “skew young” strategy. There was the actor who, before he grew up, played Doogie Howser, M.D. There was the Fonz (who, coincidentally, will play a doctor next season). There was Dharma, who’ll soon be in a “Bridget Jones”-type role. But the multitude of ad-buyers was a different matter -- hundreds upon hundreds of black-suited, stiletto-heeled ad types, most in their 20s and 30s, who had wended their way from the CBS presentation to the party through the streets of Manhattan and the walkways of Central Park. The cavalcade itself was an attraction on the balmy day -- a cellphone-talking, lip-gloss-applying, BlackBerrying horde. Couples in horse-drawn carriages gaped. Bicycle messengers screeched to a halt.

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Sightings

Henry Winkler of the new CBS comedy “Out of Practice,” schmoozing

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This report was written by Times staff writer Shawn Hubler, with dispatches from Matea Gold, Maria Elena Fernandez and Amy Wallace in New York.