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Alyson Hannigan announced today that she had her baby last Tuesday (which also happened to be Alyson’s 35th birthday). She and Alexis named the baby Satyana Denisof. If the Internet is to be believed, Satyana is Sanskrit.

The name Satyana comes from two Sanskrit roots: sat, which means truth or being, and also refers to action aligned or suffused with spirit; and yana, which means vehicle. So “satyana” means a vehicle for action infused with the grace of spirit.

The announcement at People.com.

The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (best known to you as the people behind the Emmys) hosted An Evening with How I Met Your Mother last Tuesday, featuring a panel discussion with the cast and producers. The big news of the night: Cobie Smulders showed up wearing an engagement ring and confirmed that she is marrying Taran Killam.

Steve Olson (production designer, with three Emmy wins for HIMYM), Pamela Fryman (executive producer and director of most episodes), Suzy Mamann Greenberg (co-executive producer), Josh Radnor, Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders, Academy CEO John Shaffner, and Jason Segel.

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• Laura Prepon (of That 70s Show and October Road) has signed on for five episodes (likely starting with 4.17). Information about her appearance can be found here. [Thanks to Kayla for the news!]
• Mike from Midwesterner’s Guide to Living in New York City interviewed Josh Radnor - you can read it here.
• There’s now a red-band trailer for I Love You, Man. The official, HQ version is here, but the age-verification system isn’t perfect (I couldn’t get to the trailer) so you might need to check it out on YouTube instead:
  
• Post-SNL wrap-up: Entertainment Weekly has posted a previously unpublished interview with NPH, Hulu uploaded the digital short and Whopper Virgins sketch, Anthony Rapp reacts, SNL saw its best ratings since the election (and better ratings than anything last season), and here’s another pre-show interview, this time with Access Hollywood:
  
• The only HIMYM “news” to come out of the CBS press tour is that Sarah Chalke probably isn’t coming back.
• Two new Dr. Horrible shirts, but NPH says there currently aren’t any plans for a sequel.
• Bob Saget, aka Future Ted, is suing David Bernstein over his movie Farce of the Penguins, which also featured Alyson Hannigan.

Remember, Neil Patrick Harris is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight.

• CBS has posted a video of the Benefits guest stars talking about…well, they’re mostly just talking about themselves. Some episode clips, but nothing that wasn’t in the Watch With Kristin set of videos.
• How Josh Radnor spent his winter vacation: At Ben Lee’s wedding in India.
• Alyson Hannigan in the January issue of American Airlines inflight magazine.
• Behind the scenes at the TV Guide cover shoot.
• Neil on Anytime with Bob Kushell:
  
• MTV’s been interviewing Neil (and musical guest Taylor Swift) at SNL all week - you can read their coverage and see videos here, here, and here, where he talks about the Golden Globes.
• Jason was a presenter at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Thursday night.

“Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star Jason Segel tried to play it cool. “Brad Pitt and Angelina showed up, and you think you don’t care,” he told MTV News. “But you totally care! You get a tingle.”

You can watch the whole show here.

A second roundup will follow later tonight or possibly in the morning, with Jason Segel at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Neil’s pre-SNL press, and a bunch of other stuff.

• Spoilers first: Watch With Kristin has a bunch of clips from Benefits.
• Apparently Jason Segel is the Barney of the bunch? There have been a bunch of reports about him and Drew Barrymore (and video of them doing karaoke), and this week he’s been linked to Rashida Jones and Evan Rachel Wood.
• The official site for I Love You, Man is up.
• Paparazzi time! Neil at the airport, Alyson out for dinner, Alyson leaving a cafe (the first link has a video), and Jason at a Lakers game with Jack Black.
• That American Pie 4 rumor has surfaced again.
• This week’s OK Magazine contains an item on Josh Radnor and Lindsay Price, whom he’s reportedly been dating for a few months. (This isn’t the first time they’ve been linked - Us Weekly mentioned it back in November, around the time this was in People.) Lindsay Price is on Lipstick Jungle, but you might remember her better from the Season Three episode Spoiler Alert:

  

• Starpulse will be interviewing Josh sometime soon - if you have any questions to suggest, post them here. The interview has already taken place - it’ll be posted next week.
• There are some new photos from Cobie’s upcoming movie The Slammin’  Salmon here.
• The Art Directors Guild announced the nominations for their 2008 awards (which will take place in February) - HIMYM’s production designed Steve Olson was nominated for the episode Miracles. (Olson has won five Guild awards, none of which were for HIMYM, though his work on the show has been nominated every season. He also has three Emmys - one per season - for his work on HIMYM.)

From The Hollywood Reporter:

After months of renegotiations, Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Cobie Smulders, Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan recently inked new deals with producing studio 20th Century Fox TV that will bring their salaries up to $90,000-$120,000 per episode.

On average, that’s between two and three times what they made before — a big raise, especially given that Radnor, Segel and Smulders were virtually unknown before they were cast. Still, it’s lower than the pay for the ensembles of other comedies at similar points in their runs, like NBC’s “The Office.”

The new pacts, retroactive to the beginning of this season, the show’s fourth, also add an extra year to the five actors’ original seven-year contracts.

There’s more in the original article to put the whole thing in context. [Charlie Sheen, for the record, makes something like $800K per episode on Two and a Half Men.]

Thanks to Tina for sending this in!

Well, you skip one week and all of a sudden you realize you haven’t done a news roundup in a month. Here goes:

• The previously-announced Lifetime syndication run starts on January 5, according to these five ads.
• Neil Patrick Harris is hosting Saturday Night Live on January 10.
• The cast is on the cover of TV Guide this week and got a six-page photo spread in this week’s Entertainment Weekly (scans later today).
• Minor spoilers: Us Weekly has photos of Jason with some of the guest stars from Benefits.
• The show: Cracked the top 20 in viewers last week, was the ninth most-pirated show last week, and, this season, has seen the second-largest gain in viewers 18-49 on network TV.
• Jason Segel: The trailer for I Love You, Man premiered (and the movie’s world premiere will kick off the SXSW Film Festival in March), he maybe hooked up with Drew Barrymore, and he got a fansite.
• Cobie Smulders: The Slammin’ Salmon will premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, and hopefully someday we’ll get to see it in theaters. In the meantime, everything we have on it is right here.
• Alyson Hannigan: Adorably went shopping with Tom Lenk, nominated for Wired’s Sexiest Geeks of 2008.
• Neil Patrick Harris: Prop 8: The Musical, Please Don’t Bomb Nobody This Holiday, reacted to his Golden Globes nomination, and presented at the VGAs (and did some interviews). As always, NeilPatrickHarris-Fan is way better than I am at keeping up with this guy.

• 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).

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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[What can I say? The show took a week off and so did I. A lot of you are waiting on emails right now - you'll get a response this weekend!]

• Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel don’t want you to vote. [Thanks to Jack Attack.]
  
• Industry business: Some information about the studio’s efforts to promote the show for local-market syndication, and an article about CBS
• NPH faced the dunk tank on Ellen on Tuesday - for every celebrity dunked, Microsoft gave $10,000 to  Ellen for the Cure. Other NPH things I don’t have any video or photos for: He was at the premiere of a Criss Angel/Cirque du Soleil show tonight, and apparently he dressed as a British magistrate for the Playboy Halloween party.
• Alyson Hannigan walks! Holds a bag!
• Someone, somewhere wants to bring the original cast back for another theatrical installment of American Pie.
• NPH on Proposition 8 and the holidays.
• TIME calls Dr. Horrible one of the best inventions of 2008.
• The full video of Neil talking about Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard is up on YouTube.
• Photos of Neil at the unveiling of Harry Houdini’s renovated star on the Walk of Fame: