We got Cybill but we won't be getting Martha.

Citing "logistical difficulty" and the "awkwardness of satellite interviews," NBC entertainment president Kevin Reilly defended the network's decision not to provide some sort of interview opportunity during press tour with Martha Stewart, who'll be starring in her own version of "The Apprentice" this fall.

True, Martha can't travel very far with that ankle bracelet of hers, but surely the 48 hours a week she's allowed to work might include a half-hour or so satellitel press conference with reporters, right?

Apparently not.

So a reporter here was reduced to asking Reilly, not Stewart herself, whether she'd be mentioning her stay in "the big house" on "The Apprentice."

(I prefer the phrase "unfortunate incarceration" myself, but we all word our questions differently.)

Though we're assured we'll be able to question Stewart in a few weeks during a teleconference at local affiliates or on a Television Critics Association conference call before the show airs, not having Martha at press tour is like, well, setting the table with your less-than-best china.

We may only be grubby reporters, but we notice these things.