2012 star Amanda Peet is pregnant, Usmagazine.com reports.
Peet, 36, and her husband, screenwriter David Benioff, are expecting their second child...
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The Big Bang Theory was Monday's top-rated show, posting the biggest number of overall viewers in the series' history.
Big Bang was watched by 14.7 million viewers, and dominated the competition in the adults-18-to-49 demographic. The show got a boost from a strong lead-in from Two and Half Men (15.2 million viewers), the night's most-watched show.
CBS' comedies benefited from holiday programming on other networks, as How I Met Your Mother (9.1 million viewers) and Accidentally on Purpose (8.3 million viewers) defeated ABC's Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (8.4 million viewers) and Fox's Carrie Underwood Christmas special (8.1 million viewers over two hours)...
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In this week's episode, Ted valiantly tries to get a date with a girl who's been perpetually coupled for as long as he's known her — we're talking 12 years here. Meanwhile, Marshall has an existential crisis when he finds a letter he wrote to himself when he was 15, and Barney tries to prove that he can get laid even while wearing really terrible mid-'90s-style denim overalls.
Marshall enters Ted and Robin's apartment with a gigantic box full of stuff. Apparently, his mother sends him his old things every once in a while, as mothers do. It's mostly useless clutter, like He-Man's left arm or an old Mad Libs book. As Marshall starts digging through the box, Ted's phone rings. On the other end is an older woman, who gives Ted what sounds like a secret code phrase: "The window is open." Ted takes off running. Is anyone else as confused as I am?
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Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special
8/7c Fox
Multiplatinum country singer — and onetime American Idol winner — Carrie Underwood makes merry on this holiday hootenanny, performing songs from her latest album, Play On, plus past favorites and seasonal classics. Joining in on the fun are fellow country stars Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton, Christina Applegate, Kristin Chenoweth and Sons of Sylvia, the country trio that backs Underwood on the Play On song "What Can I Say."
Read on for previews of Men of a Certain Age, The Closer, CSI: Miami and How I Met Your Mother.
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Wait, what? Thanksgiving is supposed to be all about football and Twilight Zone marathons. But this week we're lucky enough to fill our Coolest Moments (aka Top Moments) with a strong slate of scripted scenes — and one off-the-cuff disclosure that could have stayed, you know, on the cuff. Also: Animals got some payback for all their buddies who got eaten this week. (You go, Miss Piggy.) Welcome to Coolest Moments, Thanksgiving edition.
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