Entries from March 2008 ↓

Real-life Sarah Marshalls are getting a lot of attention thanks to the viral campaign for Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Jason Segel’s new movie.

“They’re everywhere, and they’re so annoying,” said Sarah Marshall the Glendora student, who lives three blocks from one of the billboards. Adults called her parents to ask if she was the target of a hate campaign. “I wish they specified that it’s a movie,” she said.

Ad student Sarah Marshall of Fort Worth, Texas, one of 276 Sarah Marshalls on Facebook, said: “I got a lot of e-mails and phone calls asking if my boyfriend and I were OK.”

[LA Times]

In other Jason Segel news: According to Variety, I Love You, Man starts production next week.

According to Spoiler TV, ep 16 (the third one coming up - it’ll follow The Bracket and The Simmons Report) will be called Sandcastles in the Sand.

Spoiler TV’s also got scans from a TV Guide article about where shows were before the strike and where they’re headed now - check it out for some basic info about where Ted is heading this season.

CBS Sports asked the casts of CBS shows for their March Madness picks - most of the HIMYM cast is represented. NPH and Cobie favor UCLA to win, but Alyson and Josh went for North Carolina. [Currently, Neil's trailing CSI:NY's Eddie Cahill by one point, and Alyson's in last.]

CBS Celebrity Picks [Use the link below if you're looking for Cobie's bracket - CBS's link leads to Josh's.]
Neil’s Bracket
Alyson’s Bracket
Cobie’s Bracket
Josh’s Bracket

Ted’s been picked for starpulse.com’s “A Very Special Rose Ceremony: 5 Undesirable TV Bachelors.”

“Ted is the kind of guy who says everything a woman wants to hear, so it all seems perfect at first. Only as she travels down the relationship road with him, she realizes that it’s not her he’s interested in but rather the act of getting married in general.”

More at the source.

A San Francisco artist is basing a weeklong commentary on viral marketing on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall campaign.

The project’s blog can be found here.

[via Defamer and SFist]

Missing all the back entries from Barney’s Blog?

Well, fret no longer.

SpoilerFix has put up some new HIMYM info in the last few days - nothing particularly earthshattering. There’s basic info about the next two episodes, and the vaguest finale spoiler I’ve ever seen.

[SpoilerFix.com]

HIMYM mention on last night’s Letterman:

Episode clips:
-Folliculaphilia [Robin's got it a little bit.]
-Ted’s Two-Minute Date
-Barney’s Fireball

From PI Feedback, these are the ratings for last night’s sitcom block on CBS:

8:00 The Big Bang Theory     5.3/9  3.4/10 8,627,000
8:30 How I Met Your Mother   6.3/10 4.5/12 10,622,000
9:00 Two and a Half Men      8.7/13 5.1/13 14,253,000
9:30 The New Adventures…   6.3/9  3.8/9  9,870,000

First column of numbers: Rating/share for households. Second column: Rating/share in adults 18-49. Third column: Number of viewers.

[Information on rating and share can be found here, at The Futon Critic's ratings FAQ.]

According to Access Hollywood, “Ten Sessions” brought in HIMYM’s highest-ever ratings in the 18-49 demographic - great news, provided the show can maintain some of the stunt-casting bump next week.

8.3 Seconds – That’s All You’ve Got To Make A First Impression