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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!

Here’s the promo for Benefits, Monday’s episode (once again, if you don’t already know the premise of the episode, it’s going to be kind of shocking):

The promo for NPH’s episode of SNL this weekend:

And the trailer for Cobie’s upcoming movie The Slammin’ Salmon:

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.

Congratulations to Neil Patrick Harris – he’s been nominated for a Golden Globe for – take a breath – “Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.”

The competition: Piven for Entourage, Blair Underwood for In Treatment, Denis Leary for Recount, and Tom Wilkinson for John Adams.

The Globes will air on Sunday, January 11.

Spoilers after the jump. Nothing particularly earth-shaking, just plot spoilers and info on some recurring characters who should be showing up.

ALSO: Little Minnesota is now 4.11 and Benefits is now 4.12. (Not surprising, since LM is the Christmas ep and we’ve heard before that Benefits is airing in January.)

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While you’re waiting for your dinner, I recommend decorating your place with paper hands and/or turkeys, watching Belly Full of Turkey and Slapsgiving, and drinking Barney’s Thanksgiving cocktail, the Thankstini.

(Dinner, of course, should include the Eriksen seven-layer salad.)

Here’s NPH on Tuesday’s Late Late Show:

UPDATE: E! Online’s Watch With Kristin has Craig Thomas’ response to the news.

How I Met Your Mother star Cobie Smulders and actor Taran Killam are expecting their first child.

Smulders, 26, who plays Robin Scherbatsky on the CBS hit, is due in late spring, Smulders’s rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.

The couple met through a mutual friend, and have worked together on HIMYM.

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Taran Killam played Barney’s coworker Blauman in two episodes (Life Among the Gorillas and The Chain of Screaming). He and Cobie both appeared briefly in an episode of the online series Dr. Miracles:

And in the online short Hobo Heroes – Killam wrote, directed, edited, and starred, and Cobie produced and made a brief appearance:

Thanks so much to everyone who emailed about the news!

NPH will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tomorrow night.

Listings might say it’s Tony Curtis and Megalyn Echikunwoke, but they’ve been moved to Thursday and tomorrow night will be Neil and Betty White.

• 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).