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How I Met Your Mother Season 4 and Other Announced Releases

• Jun 11, 2009 12:48 PM ET
• by The DVD Team
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How I Met Your Mother - The Legendary Season 4

New releases announced June 10:

My Name Is Earl - The Complete 4th Season (DVD & Blu-ray) will be coming out September 15

The Judy Garland Show - Vol. 1 will be coming out July 28

How I Met Your Mother - The Legendary Season 4 will be coming out September 29

The Mama Cass Television Program will be coming out August 25

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - Season 4 will be coming out September 15

The Unit - Season 4 (DVD & Blu-ray) will be coming out September 29

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Watch Out, Boy, Maneater Sarah Chalke Will Chew You Up

• May 29, 2009 02:32 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Sarah Chalke, Maneater

Summer is around the corner, so it's time for some fun and frothy fare to liven up the tube. Filling that bill this weekend is Maneater, a two-part Lifetime miniseries airing Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm/ET, and based on the Gigi Levangie Grazer's New York Times best-seller.

Starring as the titular minx is Sarah Chalke, who traded in her scrubs for dazzling (mini-)dresses and come-hither bikinis. Can her shallow socialite, Clarissa Alpert, develop a deeper appreciation of what matters in life? Chalke surveyed her character's journey, as well as offered updates on her How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs runs.

TVGuide.com: I have to say, you're looking absolutely terrific in Maneater.
Sarah Chalke: Thanks, dude! It's all pretend — smoke and mirrors and ... read more

Fall TV: CBS Adds Eight New Series, Makes Big (and Medium!) Changes

• May 20, 2009 10:23 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Johnny Galecki, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Haysbert

CBS announced eight brand-new series for the 2009-10 TV season, including ones starring Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, Julianna Margulies and Alex O'Loughlin, and swooped in and picked up NBC's castoff Medium.

The Eye ordered a full 22-episode season of Medium, slotting it after Ghost Whisperer on Fridays. As CBS entertainment boss Nina Tassler says, "If Ghost Whisperer and Numbers had an offspring, Medium would be it."

CBS also has tinkered with its Monday lineup in unexpected ways. How I Met Your Mother will now ... read more

Here We Go Again: Is Stella the Mother?

• May 5, 2009 11:53 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Stella's not out of Ted's life just yet.

Just when you thought she was out ... they pull her back in.

Sarah Chalke's Stella resurfaced at the end of CBS' How I Met Your Mother this week, and at a most interesting moment. Throughout the entire episode, Narrator Ted had set the stage for an encounter which, had it hot happened, his kids wouldn't be here today.

Now, mind Adult Ted's words carefully: Never did he tell his kids that this latest story — in which food poisoning, Barney's 200th conquest and an intervention all led his younger self to this run-in — was about meeting their mother. After all, Ted has ... read more

Mega Buzz on Housewives, 24, Leverage, Lost and More!

• Mar 31, 2009 10:21 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor & Tim Molloy
• 35 Comments

Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives), Elisha Cuthbert (24) and Timothy Hutton (Leverage)

Every week, senior editors Matt Webb Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy satisfy your need for TV scoop. Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

When will Kim Bauer be coming back to 24? And will it have anything to do with the bio-weapon Jack has been exposed to? — Yong
MATT: When I asked Kiefer Sutherland about the nature of Kim's latest encore (slated for mid-April), he said, "Something has happened to Jack, and it's he who asks for her — normally it's the other away around." Kiefer went on to call the father-daughter reunion "very human and real ... a part of the show I'm excited for the audience to see." So your theory sounds about right. Just don't expect the now-married Kim to have Pony Boy at her side; her Season 5 romance apparently didn't take. 

Are we ever going to see the Scavo twins on Desperate Housewives again? I love those goofy bastards. — Rachel
MICKEY: No word on Dumb or Dumber, but if it's adolescent angst you're hankering for, get a load of this: Another Housewife will soon ... read more

Mega Minute: Who's Returning to Prison, Unit Bombshells & More

• Mar 24, 2009 09:29 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:

• The Unit gets hit with a bombshell (... or two)!

• Who's returning for Prison Break's big finale ... and who isn't?

• Already I have told you about soap opera superstar  Rebecca Budig's visit to How I Met Your Mother. Now get a heads-up on the clue that will be dropped at the very end of her episode.

Watch and discuss the new MMM after the jump. read more

Scoop: How I Met Your Mother's Ted Meets Soap Siren

• Mar 23, 2009 02:40 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Rebecca Budig

Fresh off her second stint as All My Children's "real Greenlee," Rebecca Budig has grabbed a guest-starring gig on CBS' How I Met Your Mother.

In one of this season's final episodes, Budig will play Holly, a new girlfriend of Ted's, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.

The casting of Budig is perhaps 17 percent extra-interesting to longtime AMC viewers who know that Abigail Spencer (who played Pine Valley's virginal Becca Tyree) also has "dated" Ted. Spencer played "Blah Blah," a Season 3 girlfriend whose name Ted could never remember.

The same two actresses sharing a Josh (Radnor vs. Duhamel)... . I could go on for days with the coinky-dinks. But of greater/actual concern to the HIMYM fan is the fact that ... read more

Mega Buzz on Lost, ER, CSI: NY, Smallville and More!

• Mar 10, 2009 10:00 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor & Tim Molloy
• 103 Comments

Lost's Emilie de Ravin, ER's Julianna Margulies and Smallville's Erica DuranceDurance

Senior editors Matt Mitovich, Mickey O'Connor and Tim Molloy answer your questions. Drop us a line at mega_scoop@tvguide.com.

Please tell me that Emilie de Ravin isn't done on Lost. — Jason
MATT: Allow me to be crystal Claire, as it were — we will see MIAaron's mom again, and not just by means of a time-jump à la the birthing moment Sawyer witnessed anew. As the Aussie actress shared in this video, she is just taking "a little break" this season, and multiple sources assure me the plan is still for her to return for the series-ending Season 6. Speaking of finales during this sad, Lost-less week, I'm hearing that there will be just one more "hiccup" — a late-April clip show — detouring our road to this year's undoubtedly big finish. 

Where are my favorite ER supporting cast members, like Haleh and Jerry? Will they be back before the finale? — Timothy
MICKEY: Does anyone else remember the sexy desk clerk that SVU's Mariska Hargitay played? Well, she ... read more

Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, March 9, 2009

• Mar 9, 2009 03:30 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
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Dancing with the Stars

Dancing With the Stars
8 pm/ET ABC
The eighth season kicks off with two celebrities already out of the competition. Announced participants Jewel and Nancy O'Dell dropped out on Thursday due to injuries they suffered during training. But the show must go on, and the remaining celebs — including Denise Richards, Lil' Kim, Shawn Johnson and Lawrence Taylor — should still be eager to strut their stuff and become the next Brooke Burke. And romance is definitely in the air this spring, as two real-life couples take to the floor: Julianne Hough pairs up with her boyfriend, Chuck Wicks, and pro dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy tries to outlast his fiancée, fellow pro Karina Smirnoff. — Jennifer Sankowski

Read on for previews of Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Castle and Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. read more

Scoop! How Will Danny Glover Meet CBS' Mother?

• Mar 5, 2009 06:34 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
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Danny Glover

As How I Met Your Mother wraps up its fourth season, fans can expect to get drop-ins from faces both familiar and new.

From the latter category, Danny Glover will turn up "in an interesting way," series cocreator Carter Bays tells TVGuide.com.

Hmm, could it be that Barney and his brother James (played here and there by Wayne Brady) have ... read more