June 27, 2010
By JOYCE ENG
TV GUIDE
The mother’s identity may or may not be revealed on How I Met Your Mother next season, but one thing is certain: a variety show.
“It’s going to happen. I don’t know when, but it looks like it’s finally coming,” Cobie Smulders tells TVGuide.com. “I talked to [creators and executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas]: ‘Are we doing a variety show?’ We are. Don’t you worry!”Check out photos of Cobie SmuldersThat’s welcome news to fans, who have been waiting for one to come to fruition ever since the sitcom referenced a failed Canadian variety show starring Alan Thicke and Smulders’ Robin (during her bubblegum pop Robin Sparkles days) last November. Smulders, who says she’s been impatiently waiting too, thinks the idea fell to the wayside last season to focus on the time-jumping show’s big musical 100th episode.”Those episodes are such big undertakings. They have to write the song, we have to record the song, do the choreography, shoot the music video. Then we have to shoot the episode reference to the music video,” Smulders says. “I’m not doubting that having a variety show is going to be any less than that. I’m looking forward to it. And we haven’t seen Robin Sparkles in a while. It’s so much fun to do those shows. Those are my favorite episodes when we get to change it up and just go, “‘Let’s sing a song about suits today!’”The 28-year-old actress is also trying something different during her summer hiatus: theater. Smulders, who studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art three years ago, is appearing in the off-Broadway play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which offers a nice change of pace for her.”In the sitcom world, there’s so much room for mistakes. There’s the beauty where you can experiment, but there’s something great about theater where you’ve got one shot and however it’s going to be is how it’s going to be,” she says. “It’s been really fun because you do get to wear a lot of different hats [in this play] since we’re storytelling as different characters. It’s fun to switch it up and get into different head space from Robin and be, like, a schizophrenic for one night.”Watch clips from How I Met Your MotherNot that playing Robin is any less fun. After all, the resident single gal has seen her share of significant others over the last five seasons and is still on the quest to land her dream broadcasting job — one of which she gave up in the season finale to stay with her co-anchor/beau Don (Benjamin Koldyke). Don, of course, took the job, causing Robin to dump him. “I hope for her to have success in her work because I feel like that’s what’s most important to her,” Smulders says. “I think she’s slowly realizing that the relationship thing is too, but she’s a really driven woman.”So will Robin ever settle down — and with whom?”Maybe she’ll turn out to be a lesbian! That’s her doppelgänger. That’d be interesting for me to play — straight Robin, lesbian Robin, Robin Sparkles. Love, Loss will prepare me for it!” Smulders laughs. “I don’t know in what form Robin will find love, but hopefully it’ll be the right one. I don’t know if it’ll be Ted, Barney, Marshall or Lily — it can be anyone in our cast at this point because I make out with every single person! Listen, Robin is a slut! She gets around. Season 6, hopefully she closes her legs a little bit!”
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June 27, 2010
In a recent interview with
GQ,
‘How I Met Your Mother’ co-star Jason Segel said he plans to leave the show in three years to focus on other projects.
Segel’s contract with the hit comedy expires in 2013, he said, and he doesn’t plan to stick around to play bumbling married guy Marshall Eriksen one minute longer.
“I think after eight years, I’ll feel like I honorably did my commitment. It’s funny — it’s the greatest problem in the world to have. Jeez, I’m the luckiest guy in the world. But when your idol is Peter Sellers, playing one character for eight years isn’t what you’re trying to do,” he told the magazine.
Segel, who has more than six movies in development including the upcoming Muppets big screen revival, said he’s done about all he can do with the character of Marshall.
“I don’t really feel like I have that much more to offer with this character. Maybe if we got divorced or something, but that’s not gonna happen,” he added. “It’s gonna be some iteration of, like, my TV wife opens the fridge, and she’s like, “What happened to the birthday cake?” And I walk in with a little frosting here [points to corner of mouth] like, “What birthday cake?”
Segel also detailed a few dark ideas he pitched to producers for how to end ‘How I Met Your Mother.’ The first one has the show’s mysterious mother dying before Ted’s kids ever get to meet her. Another has Ted and his kids stuck in purgatory with Ted doomed to tell his story over and over again for eternity. And yet another … well, I’ll just let Segel explain:
In a recent interview with GQ, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ co-star Jason Segel said he plans to leave the show in three years to focus on other projects.
Segel’s contract with the hit comedy expires in 2013, he said, and he doesn’t plan to stick around to play bumbling married guy Marshall Eriksen one minute longer.
“I think after eight years, I’ll feel like I honorably did my commitment. It’s funny — it’s the greatest problem in the world to have. Jeez, I’m the luckiest guy in the world. But when your idol is Peter Sellers, playing one character for eight years isn’t what you’re trying to do,” he told the magazine.
Segel, who has more than six movies in development including the upcoming Muppets big screen revival, said he’s done about all he can do with the character of Marshall.
“I don’t really feel like I have that much more to offer with this character. Maybe if we got divorced or something, but that’s not gonna happen,” he added. “It’s gonna be some iteration of, like, my TV wife opens the fridge, and she’s like, “What happened to the birthday cake?” And I walk in with a little frosting here [points to corner of mouth] like, “What birthday cake?”
Segel also detailed a few dark ideas he pitched to producers for how to end ‘How I Met Your Mother.’ The first one has the show’s mysterious mother dying before Ted’s kids ever get to meet her. Another has Ted and his kids stuck in purgatory with Ted doomed to tell his story over and over again for eternity. And yet another … well, I’ll just let Segel explain: In a recent interview with GQ, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ co-star Jason Segel said he plans to leave the show in three years to focus on other projects.
Segel’s contract with the hit comedy expires in 2013, he said, and he doesn’t plan to stick around to play bumbling married guy Marshall Eriksen one minute longer.
“I think after eight years, I’ll feel like I honorably did my commitment. It’s funny — it’s the greatest problem in the world to have. Jeez, I’m the luckiest guy in the world. But when your idol is Peter Sellers, playing one character for eight years isn’t what you’re trying to do,” he told the magazine.
Segel, who has more than six movies in development including the upcoming Muppets big screen revival, said he’s done about all he can do with the character of Marshall.
“I don’t really feel like I have that much more to offer with this character. Maybe if we got divorced or something, but that’s not gonna happen,” he added. “It’s gonna be some iteration of, like, my TV wife opens the fridge, and she’s like, “What happened to the birthday cake?” And I walk in with a little frosting here [points to corner of mouth] like, “What birthday cake?”
Segel also detailed a few dark ideas he pitched to producers for how to end ‘How I Met Your Mother.’ The first one has the show’s mysterious mother dying before Ted’s kids ever get to meet her. Another has Ted and his kids stuck in purgatory with Ted doomed to tell his story over and over again for eternity. And yet another … well, I’ll just let Segel explain:
“And then my other suggestion, which they never used, which I think would be so funny, is — it’s the future, right? I think in one of those scenes, they should open the window, and it should be, like, a post-apocalyptic wasteland outside. It should be like ‘I Am Legend.’ Horrible mutants.”
“And then my other suggestion, which they never used, which I think would be so funny, is — it’s the future, right? I think in one of those scenes, they should open the window, and it should be, like, a post-apocalyptic wasteland outside. It should be like ‘I Am Legend.’ Horrible mutants.”
“And then my other suggestion, which they never used, which I think would be so funny, is — it’s the future, right? I think in one of those scenes, they should open the window, and it should be, like, a post-apocalyptic wasteland outside. It should be like ‘I Am Legend.’ Horrible mutants.”
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June 13, 2010
Neil Patrick Harris has hosted the Emmys and the Tonys. The Oscars must be next, right?
No doubt the How I Met Your Mother Star would love to host the Hollywood’s biggest night, but…
“Hosting gigs are fantastically arbitrary because you don’t make calls and angle and position and try to get the job,” Harris told me while promoting Listerine’s new This Is Your Mouth fundraising effort for the National Children’s Oral Health Foundation.
“You just suddenly get a call, ‘Hey, do you want to host the Tonys?’ ” he continued. “It’s an amazing call to get and how can you say no to something like that. So if more comes in the future that would be awesome but I certainly have no big master plan.”
Advice for Sean Hayes’ debut as Tony host this Sunday?
“I would steer away from the Bret Michaels jokes,” Harris cracked, alluding to the Poison singer’s unfortunate run-in with a stage prop during last year’s ceremony. “[But] I would advise him to roll with the punches. The Tonys shift a lot.”
When we caught up with Harris he was in New York City filming the Smurfs movie. He stars as a father-to-be who comes across the li’l blue creatures in Central Park. He’ll be back in L.A. any day now to direct a two-night run of Rent at the Hollywood Bowl before returning to shoot a new season of HIMYM.
Anymore Glee in his future? “I doubt it,” Harris said. “I loved doing it but I’m very contractually obligated to a different network.
“As much as I’m sure they like the recognition of my name involved with Glee, I think they’d prefer my name be involved with How I Met Your Mother. I can hardly blame them.”
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May 28, 2010
Though the Robin-Ted and Robin-Barney relationships on “How I Met Your Mother” have come and gone, both boys seem to have residual feelings for Ms. Scherbatsky.
And those feelings will rise to the surface once again this week.
As series co-creator Craig Thomas said last month, Robin is really getting serious with her co-worker Don. And the show will explore how Ted and Barney deal with that development, coming to the realization that this really cool girl — who could’ve possibly been “the one” for either of them — is now getting away.
Of course, there have been rumors that one of “HIMYM”‘s past couples will reunite before the end of the season, so… yeah.
Are you prepared to see Robin and Ted give it another go?
Robin and Barney? (Though we’re thinking that’s far less likely at the moment).
Or have you moved on? Would you be okay with Don being Robin’s duck?
Let’s talk it out…
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May 24, 2010
Wow ! There were a few surprises….and more ! Barney as a cab driver and a Baltic sword swallower ? I don’t think so. Ted as a blonde with a manicure ? Who said he was just beginning to carry it off.
The bottom line is friendship and the closeness these five have that often – almost always – transcends other relationships. That is understandable with Barney, whose relationships last no more than a microsecond. And of course Marshall and Lily are the glue – a relationship that thrives with three footloose friends, except when they are looking for the perfect couple to befriend.
How sad that Robin turns down the job for love – not necessarily love for Don but perhaps for love of her four best friends. What do you think – was it Don or the gang ? Or both ? I really could nto call this one, could you ?
That said, if it was love for Don, what a blow ! He never said come with me and we will build a life together and a career for you too ! It could be done. I know because my sister and her husband, Pat and Joe Harper, were co-anchors on WPIX in New York City – the first husband and wife co-anchor news team in television history !
Robin chose love over career, Don didn’t – game, set and match. For a moment several episodes ago I thought Don could become part of the gang. Wrong !! We never got to know Don well, and now I know why – there wasn’t a lot there. Robin better get a hold of herself and decide what she wants in life. Otherwise she could be susceptible to the next pretty face that comes along and dings her.
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