A “How I Met Your Mother” News Blog

Alyson and her husband, Alexis Denisof, went to the 15th Annual Lint Roller Party last week.

Video interviews:


E! Online has an article to go with their video. Us Weekly and Star Magazine also talked to the couple.

Photos are after the jump.

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• Scheduling: December 1 will be a rerun of The Bracket, and a new episode, The Fight, will air on December 8. [If you don't read big spoilers, the network-issued description of the episode is here.] I would guess that since Benefits is reportedly airing in January, Little Minnesota will be moved ahead of it to air on December 15, but we won’t know for another week or so.
• Josh Radnor recently appeared in the November 17 issue of People Magazine:
  
• Video of Josh at Don’t Quit Your Night Job (thanks Ingrid!):
  
  You can read a firsthand account of the event here.
• Cobie Smulders will appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on November 21 (that’s this Friday night - thanks Shermie!). She’s also up for a Gemini Award for Hottest Canadian Female TV Star. You can vote here. Cobie was also interviewed by Lara Spencer of The Insider:
• Neil Patrick Harris is one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Entertainers of the Year. There’s a video interview here, and you can see scans of the article here.
• Neil also hosted the Los Angeles Ovation Awards on Monday, and the Artios Awards a week before that.
• Neil talks about playing Barney in what may or may not be a new interview.
• Jason Segel has been announced as one of the voice actors in the 2010 release Despicable Me.
• Pam Fryman is directing the pilot for a potential new CBS comedy called The Karenskys.
• Auction: Win a set visit and a signed photo of the cast! Auction ends on November 23.
• Those People talk about their experience on the show here, here, and here. They’re talking about filming, so obviously, there are going to be some spoilers for 411.
• Analysis: da_phoenix13 on LiveJournal looks at the significance of games in How I Met Your Mother.

The Alyson Hannigan portion of the update got out of hand lengthwise and will be posted separately.

This post will be updated with more information as it becomes available.

Viewers: 9.84 million. This is a season high, and the highest viewership has been since Ten Sessions. It is also the sixth new episode in a row to have a larger audience than the previous week’s episode.

Adults 18-49: 4.3/10 (Also a season high.)

Adults 18-34: 3.7/10 (Yet another season high.)

Adults 25-54: 4.7/10

Households: 6.0/9

Compared to other networks: HIMYM fell second to DWTS in audience and households, but won its time period in 18-34 and 18-49.

Compared to other CBS comedies: HIMYM is back to improving on The Big Bang Theory’s audience, but Worst Week saw a surge in viewers, so HIMYM was third again. HIMYM was first in 18-34, second in 18-49 and 25-54, and last in households.

CBS spins it:

CBS won Monday in key demographics with its best deliveries since premiere week, led by season high ratings for HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, according to preliminary Nielsen live plus same day ratings for Nov. 17.

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was first in adults 18-34 (3.7/10), tied for first in adults 18-49 (4.3/10, with ABC), second in households (6.0/09), viewers (9.84m) and adults 25-54 (4.7/10).  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER posted season highs in households, viewers, adults 18-49 and adults 18-34.

Sources: PIFeedback, Zap2It, TV by the Numbers, CBS.

Barney’s Blog: Barney Stinson University offers a course on Woo Girls.

LiveJournal is currently down, but when it’s back up you can find HIMYM Style’s posts for the episode here.

Recaps and reviews:

• Television Without Pity
• TV Squad
• Alan Sepinwall
• Zap2It
• The AV Club
• TV Guide

Clips from the episode - try this if you’re outside the United States:

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I’m not even sure which reality show she’s from.

So we’re clear - these people are all being cast because the episode’s script called for a bunch of reality TV stars/tabloid fixtures. It works within the episode, and it’s minor.

HIMYM is not in danger of being cancelled, and I seriously doubt this is network-mandated. CBS is very satisfied with its Monday comedies (with the possible exception of Worst Week), and HIMYM doesn’t need any help in the ratings department. Viewership has been increasing every week since 4.02 aired, and Not A Father’s Day fell just short of netting the most viewers the show has gotten since Ten Sessions.

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Kim Kardashian will also be appearing in episode 4.11, Benefits, in the same context as Those People.

[Source link contains basic information about the episode. For those of you who don't read spoilers of any kind: Yes, the recent casting news has all been somewhat horrifying, but the context in which they're appearing is probably the least heinous use of stuntcasting I've ever seen.]

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Viewers: 9.71 million - once again, up from the previous episode.

Adults 18-49: 4.1/10

Adults 18-34: 3.4/9

Adults 25-54: 4.7/10

Households: 5.9/9

Compared to other networks: Second in its timeslot (behind Dancing with the Stars), but tied with Dancing for first in 18-49, and first in viewers 18-34.

Compared to other CBS comedies: The Big Bang Theory continues to improve - HIMYM was third in viewers, second in 18-49 and 25-54, first in 18-34, and last in households,

CBS spins it:

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was first in adults 18-34 (3.4/10), second in households (5.9/09), viewers (9.71m), adults 25-54 (4.7/10) and adults 18-49 (4.1/10, -0.2 behind ABC).  Compared to last week, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was up +2% in households (from 5.8/09), +4% in adults 25-54 (from 4.5/10), even in adults 18-49 and added +310,000 viewers (from 9.40m, +3%).  HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER matched season highs in households and adults 18-49, posted best delivery of both viewers and adults 25-54 since Sept. 22 (2008-09 season premiere).

Sources: PIFeedback, Zap2It, TV by the Numbers, CBS.

Barney’s Blog presents the Not a Father’s Day FAQ, and NotAFathersDay.com is a real website with a real store.

Episode screencaps are up at black-celebration.net.

Recaps and reviews:

• Television Without Pity
• TV Squad
• Alan Sepinwall
• Zap2It

Clips from the episode - try this if you’re outside the US:

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