Quincy Smith, the president of CBS Interactive, is discussing the company’s Web strategies. He notes that Britney Spears’ March appearance on “How I Met Your Mother” registered about four million impressions online. Her appearance this week has added another three million views so far. The logical conclusion of Mr. Smith’s team: “Ask Britney to appear on every show we have!” (source)

Next week is the season three finale, “Miracles”, airs Monday at 8:30 eastern.

First, How I Met Your Mother is returning next week!  It will return next Monday (March 17th) with a new episode “No Tomorrow” and their MySpace page has a sneak peak.

Secondly, We will be having a range of guest stars this season including Britney Spears and Sarah Chalke (from Scrubs).  For all the low down head over to Have-You-Met-Ted.com

I can’t wait!

It looks like we may have some new How I Met Your Mother episodes in our near future. The New York Times is reporting that the writers strike has ended and does a good job of running through the various shows that may or may not have new episodes coming up soon. As you can see from the image above we are on the list of shows that are scheduled for more episodes. It’s about time if you ask me!

[Thanks Cora and Jack for sending in this tip]

Dec 11, 2007 3:26 PM
Letter to the Fans from the Producers

LETTER TO THE FANS

Hello HIMYM fans. Motherheads? Howsiers? What are you calling yourselves these days? So first things first, thank you for the incredible support you guys have given us over the years. We mean it. When you create a show, you never think you’re doing anything more than telling a funny story. But apparently we’ve created a community, and it seems to be a community of pretty decent people. It’s a community we’d probably want to have a beer with. Our fans seem cool and smart and funny, and it drives us to want to make the show better, to never let it stagnate, to always push ourselves to try something interesting and new. So thank you.

Anyway, we’d like to take a little moment here to come out from behind the desk, cool-11th-grade-english-teacher-style, roll up our sleeves and “rap” at you guys for a bit. We want to talk about the strike. By now you probably know what strike we’re talking about, but if you don’t, watch this movie: http://youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk

What it boils down to is this: Tonight’s episode of “How I Met Your Mother” is the last new one for a while. Starting next week, we grimly trudge off the map and into the desert of reruns and reality TV.

We can’t tell you how difficult this last month and a half has been for us, both personally and professionally. We work with the best people in this business – the best at their jobs, the best at being nice and decent human beings – and the thought of all of them out of work over the holidays is almost too much to bear. We miss them all every day.

That’s by far the suckiest part of the strike – nothing tops that. But there’s other suckiness, such as the suckiness of having to put this story on pause. We love our show. We love the stories we get to tell. And this year on How I Met Your Mother, we think the story is particularly great. A very juicy, breathtaking, funny, and (to use our director Pam’s word) yummy story was just starting to unfold as the ax began to fall. We’re very excited about the second half of this season, and not bringing it to you right now, factory-direct, sparkling-new, is simply killing us.

But enough with our problems. The reason we’re writing today is to beseech you guys, the fans of this show, to bear with us. The love and support you’ve shown us over the last two and a half seasons has been truly surprising and awesome, and we hope you’ll rejoin us when this whole mess is over with. But for now, this is going to have to be a long distance relationship. We know you’ll get lonely, and Mario Lopez is such a good dancer… but come on, hang in there. Sure, long distance doesn’t ever work for anyone, but we’re different. What we’ve got is special. We can make this work.

But in the meantime, if you want to help us end this strike quickly, please visit www.fans4writers.com. That site explains exactly what the WGA is asking for, exactly why it’s completely reasonable, and exactly how you can show your support.

And just in case the strike goes on so long that the medium of television goes out of business forever and we never get to make another episode, the mother is the coat check girl.

Happy Holidays!

Carter Bays and Craig Thomas

Meanwhile, Craig Thomas, co-creator of Harris’ current vehicle, How I Met Your Mother, revealed to E! Online that the show is filming its final written script this week, before shutting down production until new material can be written if and when the writers finally go back to work. With this being the series’ last shooting week, it’s expected that How I Met Your Mother could air until the first or second week of December.

Thomas also said that their cast has been “totally cool” about the writers’ boycott, citing that “Alyson Hannigan was on the line with us for like three hours yesterday, handing out her leftover candy bars from Halloween. Several of the cast members came, actually.”

So it looks like if this strike continues into December, we will be left in limbo until they can find a resolution.

I, personally, completely agree with the writer’s strike. Who would have predicted that TV networks would start putting all their shows online for free (ad supported) and not share the ad revenue with the people making the show? Should the two parties be unable to find an agreement, I would LOVE to see many of these talented writers start developing their own independent TV shows that they post on the internet and take ad revenue all for themselves.

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I really like the recent trend in creating auxiliary websites for a show.  They are nice little nuggets for those of us that obsess about a show, and they offer just another way to attract more viewers.  Not to mention they make these characters seem just a little bit more real.  This site, the slap bet count down, along with all the character’s myspace pages give us another way to observe/interact with the characters we only get to see for 30 minutes a week.  Keep it up CBS!

After seeing girls get weak in the knees over Robin’s man, Gael, who’s from Argentina, Barney and Ted decide to pose as out-of-towners, in order to meet chicks. Enrique Iglesias guest stars.

Since last weeks Live Chat went so well, we will be doing it again. I will post the link and more details on Monday so be sure to check back here and join us.

Update: CBS has finally updated their site with the preview of this Monday’s episode. You can check it out here. You know me, I don’t watch previews, but feel free to check it out and let people know your predictions in the comments.

So I spoke too soon. I just checked and How I Met Your Mother is now in iTunes!