Fresh off his awesome job of hosting the Emmys, Neil Patrick Harris is doing what he does best…starring on How I Met Your Mother tonight at 8p! HIMYM starts out by wrapping up last season’s finale cliffhanger and we find out if Ted’s future wife is in the class he is teaching and if Barney and Robin are dating. Well at least we sort of find out! You will just have to check out how much we find out in this hilarious episode that proves How I Met Your Mother just gets better with age. Seriously you going to LYAO when you see the big blunder Ted makes on first day of teaching, let’s just say it is legen-wait for it-dary! Plus you will love how Lily tries to get Barney and Robin to have the talk. Oh and will find out who uses the whip in Marshall and Lily’s relationship, the answer will surprise you tonight on CBS at 8p!!!
Following How I Met Your Mother on CBS at 8:30p is the premiere of Accidentally on Purpose. The only new sitcom coming to CBS this season stars Jenna Elfman as Billie a thirty-something woman who gets knocked up after a one night stand with a much younger man. Her friend, Ashley Jensen and her sister are there support her as she asks her cub/baby daddy to move in with her. By asking him to move in, she winds up also having his immature friends to hang out there too. Billie is also dealing with the breakup of her ex-boyfriend/boss (Grant Show) who told her he wasn’t ready to commit, but now he is telling her that he is but he doesn’t know she is pregnant by another man. Sounds like a sitcom for the year 2009, and it will be interesting to see if this one will make it to 2010?
CBS has pretty much had one hole in their Monday two-hour comedy block and that one show has always survived because it aired after Two and a Half Men. But this year they changed it up and gave both of Chuck Lorre’s show 2.5 and The Big Bang Theory the 9p hour leaving Accidentally on Purpose to follow HIMYM which has its loyal audience but not the ratings that 2.5 gets. So it will be interesting if people will stay tuned to watch AoP after HIMYM. And now that Jenna Elfman is almost 4 months pregnant and will need to take maternity leave before the end of the season, it will be interesting to see if they will rush production to beat the baby or just end the show’s run early and replace it with Rules of Engagement that by some miracle got picked up for another season???
BTW did I mention that Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory are back tonight! I can’t wait to see how much more risque TBBT gets with its new later timeslot of 9:30p!!!