With Alexandra Breckenridge (Photo: Matt Sayles, AP).

As we move into the dog days of summer, the networks are starting to rev up their promotional machines for the new fall season. The official website for Adam’s new vehicle, The Ex List is starting to fill out bios and such and has posted a new “Behind the Scenes” clip about the show that features our Adam. The early buzz seems to be largely favorable following the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour, which wrapped up last week. The best rundown of The Ex List session we’ve found is from a posting by Will Harris over at Bullz-Eye.com.

Excerpt from the TCA recap after the jump.

The show focuses on a woman who explores all of her past relationships after a psychic tells her she’s already dated her future husband, so it’s equal parts “High Fidelity” (if Rob Gordon was a woman) and “My Name Is Earl” (since, as the title suggests, she does indeed have a list of her exes), but there’s a twist: the psychic says she only has a year to find this man. This begs a rather obvious question, namely, “What happens if the show gets a second season?” Granted, it’s not something that’s been an issue for a lot of CBS’s freshman series in recent years, but, still, it’s a valid query.

“There’s a plan,” Ruggiero assured us, “and it’s a good one, and it does not involve any sort of trickery or, you know, bull. It will be in real time and…there’s a plan. There’s a fix.”

Still, there was a follow-up to be asked: if this goes on for several years and she goes through all the exes over all those years, when does it go from her being popular to her being a slut?

“Well, I wanted her to start as a slut,” replied Ruggiero, “so I figure we’re just going to keep going. No, actually…”

“What’s a slut?” asked Elizabeth Reaser, star of the show (and former “Grey’s Anatomy” cast member). “I mean, who’s to say? How does one define that? Sorry, this is your question. I’m just curious. It’s sort of relative.”

“It’s relative,” admitted Ruggiero. “Yeah, my father has a very different definition than, I’m sure, other people might. But, no, it’s a good point. I think that one of the things with the show is it’s not just someone that she’s dated, so it is also people that she was romantically involved with. In the pilot, they talk about what constitutes romantic involvement. I have been romantically involved with some people that might not necessarily agree with that assessment, and I would tell them. Perhaps Adam (Rothenberg, cast member), who’s, like, ‘I’ve never met her,’ and I’m, like, ‘But we were in love! You meant something to me, man!’ But yeah, so it’s people that she was romantically involved with. So it could be the kid in sixth grade that she had a crush on and they passed notes and he gave her a rose on Valentine’s Day, but they never, like, did it. But even if she did, it wouldn’t make her a slut. A woman explores all of her past relationships after a psychic tells her she’s already dated her future husband.”

With Breckenridge, Diane Ruggiero and Elizabeth Reaser.

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