Big excitement this morning at UPN's portion of the press tour: Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are in the house, here to promote the sitcom they've created for UPN, "All of Us."

UPN's not been shy about telling people that the show's premise is based on the couple's experiences helping to raise Smith's son from a previous marriage, but Overbrook's favorite son nevertheless seems a little taken aback when the very first question he's asked is how his ex-wife feels about the show.

Apparently movie critics are more diplomatic than we are.

He gets his sea legs quickly, though, pointing out that the series is only "loosely based" on his home life and that his ex "just suggested that we keep it loose."

"You'll never see a looser show," promises Betsy Borns, the couple's co-creator and the show's chief writer.

Or tighter security. Not since CBS spirited the very first set of "Survivor" contestants out a back door following their press conference a few years ago has it been this hard to do follow-up interviews with those on the stage. I get maybe 30 seconds with Jada afterward. The crowd around Will is too deep to risk wading in just to ask him, as a reporter from the Inquirer already has, why he's left Philadelphia off his bio, but Jada's chatting away happily about the show and why she took it to UPN when a Laker-sized guy I take for a bodyguard barks, "Step back," in a tone that suggests my Sony microcassette recorder is looking like a deadly weapon.

Admittedly, this happens all the time with personal publicists -- the bane of every entertainment reporter's existence -- but if this guy's not private security, then he's wasting his life at the gym. Moments later, the power couple are whisked backstage and through the hallway to a waiting elevator.

And then it's back to the real UPN, the one with a new series called "The Mullets," in which Loni Anderson plays the mother of two guys whose one distinguishing characteristic is that they favor a hairstyle that even Billy Ray Cyrus has finally abandoned.

They'll be premiering that one on Sept. 11, folks. Right after "WWE Smackdown!" Because, as CBS/UPN honcho Les Moonves, put it, "There clearly will be a lot of news coverage on that night [of the second-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks]. We don't think the average viewer turns to UPN for news."

Or, of course, for much of anything else.