On Monday, January 12, several DGA Director-members attended a cocktail reception hosted by the Guild for the nation's television reviewers and journalists during their annual Television Critics Association (TCA) convention at the Universal Hilton Hotel in Universal City, California.

The purpose of the informal gathering was to help to enhance the recognition of the role of directors in episodic television by giving the television critics an opportunity to put faces to names they had only seen in credits, while giving the directors the opportunity to let the opinion-makers know who they are, what they do, and why they are so important to the making of the shows the TCA members write about.

Following remarks about the nature of television directing by Director David Nutter, the television helmers mingled with the television critics, many of whom took the opportunity to engage in informal interviews.