"We‘re writing this season like it‘s the end." So says How I Met Your Mother co-creator CraigThomas, and it therefore seems fitting to begin the show‘s eighth year with alook back at the show‘s legacy thus far: HowI Met Your Mother has been, in many ways, the last great multi-camera sitcom.It‘s somehow managed to blend the plot intricacies, absurdity and callback humor of Arrested Development with the broad appeal of Friends, and its characters have consistentlyevolved along the way.The show‘s fan base is divided almost evenly between thoseeagerly awaiting an answer to who the mother is and those who consider the show‘sflashback premise an afterthought, but in this (potentially) last season, thecentral mystery‘s stakes have been raised. It was revealed last season that TedMosby will meet his wife at Barney and Robin‘s wedding: now three central characters‘past future lives hang in the balance. Read more »

The summer of love is over: as elder Ted explains to the kids, there are no good stories about everything going right -- it‘s time to skip ahead to an Autumn full of breakups. The trouble starts when Barney tries to get Quinn to sign an all-encompassing, thoroughly unrealistic prenup; the idea of renegotiating relationship terms spreads throughout the group, and romantic disagreement shenanigans ensue. Read more »

Tonight‘s episode focuses on the exhausted Lily and Marshall attempting to find a new nanny. This puts them at odds with Barney, who is banging all nannies in the area in celebration of Bangtoberfest, his newest made up sex holiday. When prospective nannies realize that Lily and Marshall are friends with the duplicitous Barney, they bolt. Read more »

Marshall and Lily once again take center stage tonight, as they decide who in the group is worthy to be baby Marvin‘s godparent. The search for a godparent begins when Marshall and Lily confront their own mortality, realizing that they haven‘t made arrangements for Marvin in the event of their death; this brings out the gang‘s competitive streak. Read more »

Willow and Oz are going to be together again. How I Met Your Mother, which stars Buffy witch Alyson Hannigan, will feature an awesome Buffy reunion when Seth Green guest stars in an episode later this season.  Read more »

With the eye of Hurricane Sandy set to hit the east coast within the next few hours and almost a million people already without power, the storm has affected tonight‘s broadcast television schedule. Read more »

After a few weeks off, How I Met Your Mother finally returns to its tumultuous autumn of relationship status changes: while Ted faces pressure from Victoria to commit more fully, Barney adopts a new canine wingman named "Brover." Read more »

Barney has always been the group‘s resident horn-dog, shamelessly manipulating ditsy bimbos for his own personal ends. It‘s been a refreshing surprise, then, to see Robin equal him in shameless appetite with a fawning simpleton of her own, a "bad boy chef" named Nick--score one for both egalitarianism and Eros. Tonight, however, her unbalanced relationship reaches its logical conclusion. Read more »

The People‘s Choice Award nominations for 2013 have been revealed, and oddly enough, the People‘s Choices have very little in common with actual ratings.  Read more »

Things will be legen...wait for it...dary for another year on CBS. After some tough negotiations, Deadline has confirmed that the network has secured a deal to bring How I Met Your Mother back for a ninth season.  Read more »

Heat up your Kraft dinner, because How I Met Your Mother is about to go super-Canadian. The show‘s February 4 episode will be one great big pile of Canadian guest star French fries smothered in gravy and cheese curd. Sure, that sounds disgusting, but apparently it‘s something they enjoy north of the border. Read more »

CBS has finally confirmed that How I Met Your Mother will be back next year for its ninth season, but that‘s not all. It will also be the last one.  Read more »

Robin Sparkles is one of my favorite things TV has done in the last decade. When How I Met Your Mother first decided that tough-as-nails Robin Scherbatsky was a teenage pop star in Canada in the ‘90s, it was a stroke of genius.  Read more »

It‘s been no secret that host Jeff Probst has wanted CBS to air a celebrity edition of Survivor. And while it‘s still a dream of his, he may be one step close to making it a reality now that a high-profile sitcom star has expressed serious interest in taking part. Read more »

When history looks back at the 2012-2013 TV season, it might be considered the year the sitcom died. Sure, there are massive hits like The Big Bang Theory that are getting monstrous ratings and Emmy-winning favorites like Modern Family, but those victories only underscore the many, many defeats the genre has suffered.  Read more »

Buddy Bites is back to give you bite sized news of the week. Two movie stars are heading to television and two existing TV actors are trying out new or revisiting earlier roles. Lets get to it.First up, Kathy Bates will be joining the third season of American Horror Story according to TVLine. Bates will play the best friend of series mainstay Jessica Lange‘s character. Eventually, however, she becomes her enemy. Read more »

It‘s March, which can only mean one thing: March Madness! Here at BuddyTV, we‘re all about pop culture instead of NCAA tournaments. But we do love brackets. So instead of pitting your favorite college basketball teams against each other, we‘re pitting your favorite TV buddies in a death match to determine the ultimate favorite TV duo!  Read more »

Following The CW and FOX, CBS has now revealed their season finale dates for spring 2013. Read more »

The Buddy Battles continue, this time with a pair of pals who solve mysteries facing off against another pair of pals involved in one of the longest parental stories of all time. That‘s right, Ted and Marshall from How I Met Your Mother are going head-to-head with Shawn and Gus from Psych. Read more »

The first round of the Buddy Battles was intense, with many battles coming right down to the wire. With our semifinal bracket decided, it‘s finally time to see who gets into the finals for the chance to become BuddyTV‘s favorite duo! Read more »

NBC was hoping and praying that the return of The Voice (and, to a lesser extent, Revolution) would save its recent ratings woes, and it looks like those prayers have been answered.  Read more »

It‘s March, the month that enters like a lion but exits like a lamb. As the weather improves (marginally) and we plan our green wardrobes for St. Patty‘s Day, there‘s another important March tradition: March Madness! Here at BuddyTV, we care more about TV than we do about NCAA brackets. That‘s why last week we announced we‘d be running Buddy Battles throughout the month of March.  Read more »

We‘re only weeks away from being able to watch the season finales of our favorite TV shows. To get us to tune in, CBS has released the storylines for their spring 2013 finales, including The Good Wife, Two and a Half Men, NCIS and Elementary. And many of them are bringing in famous guest stars like Hilary Duff, Black Sabbath, Marilu Henner and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to spice things up and bring in more viewers. Which shows will they be guest starring on? And which season-enders are sure to leave us with huge cliffhangers? Read on to find out all the details. Read more »

The May sweeps period is at its peak this week, characterized by the major network upfronts. Primetime schedules and new programming are being announced in style, so be sure to check out BuddyTV News for the latest in TV along with video extras and expert commentary.Meanwhile, our TV engagement standings are nearly identical to those of the previous week, save for a small shuffle between How I Met Your Mother and Castle. Read more »

The moment eight years in the making finally came on the How I Met Your Mother season 8 finale. We met the Mother.Well, I suppose technically the title refers to how Ted met the Mother, which still has happened. But who cares, because we got to see her!  Read more »

CBS revealed its schedule for next season, and it‘s very comedy-heavy with four new sitcoms and an extra hour on Thursday to compete with NBC.  Read more »

For the first time in the history of How I Met Your Mother, someone is joining the gang. Following her brief cameo at the end of the season 8 finale as the Mother, Cristin Milioti has been instantly promoted to series regular for the show‘s ninth and final season.  Read more »