• Trailer for 4.09:
  
• Cobie Smulders on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson:
  
• Alyson Hannigan walks, carries drinks. There are also HQ versions of the rest of the Lint Roller Party photos available here.
• Jason Segel’s upcoming movie, I Love You, Man has had its release moved from January 16 to March 20.
• The 2008 World Magic Awards, which Neil Patrick Harris hosted a while back, will air this Wednesday on MyNetworkTV. The LA Stage Blog posted a photo of Neil at the recent Ovation Awards.
• Bob Saget’s new sitcom may never see the light of day now that Media Rights Capital has lost control over the CW’s Sunday night lineup.
• Photos of one of Those People on set, including one shot with Jason Segel and his attractive new haircut.
• Variety’s 2008 Comedy Impact Report includes a profile on Jason Segel and one on Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
• Fun with numbers: Based on data from tvbythenumbers.com, last week HIMYM was the third most-watched half-hour comedy on network TV (behind Two and a Half Men and Worst Week). It had the second-best 18-49 numbers (behind Men, and tied with The Office) and the second-best 18-34 numbers (behind The Office, tied with 30 Rock).

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

-Theodore Roosevelt, April 15, 1906

After months of pain and horror, good has finally triumphed over evil, and our global crisis is, at last, finally over.

That’s right: Jason Segel cut his hair.

This is evident both in the photos from 410 that were posted last night and in fan encounter photos on ohnotheydidnt. [Given that those photos were taken on the 9th, this is somewhat old news, but hey - I'm on vacation, and a haircut's a haircut.]

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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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