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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:
  
  

  

  

  

You guys, I will be so glad when Monday’s episode airs and I can stop treating every scrap of information about the episode like it’s a major spoiler. But since it hasn’t aired yet: Two batches of links! The first batch contains no Shelter Island spoilers.

• Jamie-Lynn Sigler has signed on to play Jillian in 4.08. Spoiler level: Nothing new for those of you who read yesterday’s post, nothing major for those of you who didn’t. He just does the whole “Sigler will play Jillian, who is…” thing, and it’s a) not entirely correct, so far as I know, and b) not very spoilery at all.
  
• Greg Malins is making a pilot for ABC.
• Jason Segel will be on Live with Regis and Kelly on October 27. [Thanks to Shermie for the tip.]
• Sarah Chalke will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on October 22.
• A self-employed prestidigitator [look it up] named Neil Harris contributed to No on 8. [Proposition 8 would undo California's legalization of gay marriage.]
• Auction! A TiVo HD, signed by Neil Patrick Harris [and some other celebrities from Stand Up To Cancer, which is what the auction is for]. It comes with a year’s subscription to TiVo.
• Alyson Hannigan and Alexis Denisof get stalked by paparazzi in Santa Monica.
• TV Week interviewed the co-chairs of Twentieth Century Fox [the studio that produces HIMYM] - mostly industry stuff, with a few mentions of the show and how the studio feels about it.

And everything in the second batch contains some degree of spoiler for the episode:

• Watch With Kristin analyzes the various relationships on the show. Quotes from the cast and some spoilers for 4.05, 4.07 and 4.08, but none of them are new.
• Zap2It was on set when they filmed 4.05. So was IGN! Both have a lot of quotes from Josh and Sarah, as well as some new information.
• Also on set: The LA Times, who did a piece on Pam Fryman. Quotes from some of the cast, some minor new information about the episode.

Starting in fall 2010, you’ll be able to see HIMYM reruns on Lifetime - they outbid FX, TBS, ABC Family, and Comedy Central, ultimately offering what Variety is calling “the second biggest license fee ever ponied up by a cable network for a sitcom in the first cycle.”

[Variety, The Hollywood Reporter]

Going rapid-fire with this, because six posts in a day is ridiculous enough as it is:

• More syndication talk for those who find it interesting, more analysis than new information.
• BuddyTV visited the set.
• Bid on a walk-on role on the show, along with the chance to meet the cast and get some signed goodies.
• SheKnows interviews Neil Patrick Harris.
• Interview with Nicholas Stoller that clarifies the relationship [or lack thereof] between Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Five Year Engagement, and Get Him to the Greek, plus a Muppet mention.
• Great video of the cast at last week’s CBS premiere party. [Thanks to Meg!]

• Although Twentieth Century Fox will continue to make syndication deals over the next few months, the major markets are taken care of. [Variety]
• If you’ll be home Friday morning, prepare yourself for a lot of TV watching - Neil’s going to be on Ellen, and Alyson’s on Bonnie Hunt’s new talk show.
• There’s a new trailer out for the upcoming game Saints Row 2 - it showcases the game’s celebrity voice actors, including Neil Patrick Harris. [Kotaku]
• Neil might be the narrator for Disney World’s Candlelight Processional for a few shows in early December.
• The A.V. Club interviewed Neil.