Best known for her role in CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, Cobie Smulders was born on April 3, 1982 in Vancouver, Canada. In her early teens, Cobie grabbed a spot in the eye of a modeling agency, which led her beginning to the glittering world of glamour and modeling.

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This emerging star never compromised with her studies even when her modeling career was on the rise and completed her schooling and graduation with efforts. Surprisingly this witty actress who speaks French fluently was aspired to become a marine biologist when she was young and once in her school days she was voted as ‘most respected’ of the year.

Smulders’ natural ability and ravishing looks overwhelmed casting directors of Special Unit 2 and Jeremiah, and now her career taken he leap. Her small role in Showtime drama The L Word, where she played Leigh Ostin, a lesbian who had a relationship with Valerie Goins, earned huge applauds for her.

Cobie also shown her appearance in the series Strangers directed by star Eric Johnson however Cobie got her big break with role of Juliet Droil in the ABC program Veritas: The Quest in 2003. The series marked her first series role for television.

After performing many guest appearances on TV shows, including Smallville and Walking Tall alongside The Rock, she secured her leading role as Canadian journalist Robin Scherbatsky on CBS’s worth watching situational comedy series How I Met Your Mother. The show has been adorned for almost three years with Smulders’ flaming recital of the role.

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Bret’s parents encouraged his interest in performing arts at a young age so they gifted him an electric guitar for his 10th birthday. He had performed in school plays throughout his high school years and later joined a community theater where he had shown his talent in Thornton Wilder’s production, Our Town and Tim Blake Nelson’s creation, Eye of God.

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A number of screen writers and media legends accumulated their ideas to conceive a funny, yet worthy, comic trail for the audience. If counting the credits behind the HIMYM, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas comes first.

Both are American television writers and best known as a creator, writer, and executive producer of the show How I Met Your Mother. Before How I Met Your Mother, Bays and Thomas penned down a number of television shows including Oliver Beene and Quintuplets with some parts of the American Dad and Stan of Arabia.

Chris Harris is another important writer behind the scene. He has adorned even the positions of engineer and consultant in various telecommunication organizations. Now days his third book ‘The New Industrial Revolution, is about to be published.

In other credits, John Swihart has composed the music for HIMYM. In next row, Susan Federman and Kirk Benson edited the series in a full swing; Series casting was fulfilled by Megan Branman, Alyson Silverberg and Dylann Brande; Cast make up and wardrobe handling were done by handful of people including Lona Jeffers [makeup department head], Jennifer Turchi [key makeup artist], Tena Parker-Liddiard [hair stylist], Bret Mardock [makeup artist] and Shay Sanford-Fong [hair stylist].

In addition, special effects of the series were developed by Edward T. Reiff Jr. while Bryan Whitaker and Daniel Carrington were built up the stunning visual effects of the series. Major players in action and stunts department include Nancy Thurston [stunt performer], Colin Follenweider [stunt double], Matt Leonard [stunts] and Dan Brown [stunt double].

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This situational comedy series was formulated and produced by Craig Thomas and Carter Bays. The lead character, Ted Mosby,  rememorizes to his son and daughter the dealings that led to his meeting their mother, and narrates the past events in greater details.

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The cast is lead by character Ted Evelyn Mosby played by Josh Radnor, who is a Wesleyan University graduate and architect, who narrates the past tales to his son and daughter. Another lead character of the series is Marshall Eriksen Played by Jason Segel. Marshall met Ted and Lily during their freshman year at Wesleyan.

The character of Lily Eriksen is played by Alyson Hannigan who is a kindergarten teacher. She is married to Marshall Eriksen and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Role of Barney Stinson is played by Neil Patrick Harris, a womanizer who favors suits, enjoys playing laser tag and performing magic tricks. One more character Robin Scerbatsky is played by Cobie Smulders who is a Television news reporter/anchor at a local news station.

Among secondary characters, major are Bartender at McLaren’s Bar who is dating a Lebanese girl; James Stinson, an African-American gay who plays an important part in the series; Victoria played by Ashley Williams, Baker at Buttercup Bakery who met ted at a wedding reception for which she had made the cake and character of Stella played by Sarah Chaklke who is Ted’s dermatologist who removes his ill-advised butterfly tramp stamp tattoo.

In a nut shell, How I Met Your Mother is a well packed comedy centered drama where every character justifies his role with sheer importance and dedication. 

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ABC has the series monster lineup tonight starting at 8pm:  Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice.  

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ABC TV, in its prime time schedule, accommodates a number of heart grabbing and magnificent programs, able enough to win the audience. Some major attractions that rumble the TV screens at prime time slot include Desperate Housewives, Lost and True Beauty as the major attractions.

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If spying one by one, Desperate Housewives [Sunday 9:00 PM], a comedy-drama series, illuminates the myriad saga of desperate housewives in a house along the elongate Wisteria Lane in an unnamed, but exclusive settlement. This show has proven its popularity by grabbing multiple Emmy awards, Golden Globe award and Screen Actors Guild award in a row. Lost [Wednesday 9:30 PM], is an amazing pursue about those feeble commuters on a tropical island and their survival journey among the intense shriek of the baffling creatures pestering the island. 

The fray continues with True Beauty [Saturday 10:00 PM], a new reality series where a group of competent and intelligent babes race in a famous beauty pageant to get the beauty crown. The trail is further full of twists and turns; and Scrubs [Tuesday 9:00 PM], a series, offers a lanced scrutiny of life in an urban hospital, from the observation of medical college interns.

The thriving gala seems unstoppable with Dirty Sexy Money [Wednesday 10:00 PM], Private Practice [Wednesday 9:00 PM], Life On Mars [Thursday 10:00 PM] and The Bachelor [Monday 9:00 PM] where 25 young hunks trace one woman who is in search of her dream companion.

Some other worth mention attractions on ABC prime time are Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, Eli Stone, Wipe out and Wife Swap.

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The Golden Globes  is one of the more interesting award shows. The Grammy and Oscar shows have a blend of movie and music people, while the Emmy gathers all the TV talent.  The mixture of movie and tv actors shows the real value of small and large screen in one evening.  That’s why celebrity tv shows like E! red carpet show can share a moment  like The Dark Knight’s Aaron Eckhart asking Desperate Housewives’ Eva Longoria if she’s been drinking. From a TV perspecitve, it was also nice to see Miley Cyrus chat with Ryan Seacrest right after that  “Jonas kid” and see them not talk to each other. Hilarious to see father, Billy Ray talk to him though. Its possible he said “stay away from my daughter.”

With the awards show over, it’s time to view the list of major TV winners…

Best Drama - Mad Men. It’s the only award they won tonight, but it’s the important one. And yes, Matthew Weiner was there to accept the award on stage. The show has been off the air and out of our minds for months now so it’s great to see the cast all together again.

Best Musical or Comedy - 30 Rock

Best Actor Drama - Gabriel Byrne (In Treatment). Interesting choice considering the other nominees, including Jon Hamm, Michael C. Hall, Hugh Laurie, and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. And of course he was the only nominee not at the show.

Best Actress Drama - Anna Paquin (True Blood)

Best Actor Musical or Comedy - Alec Baldwin (30 Rock). Not a surprise at all, one of the best large and small screen actors.  

Best Actress Musical or Comedy - Tina Fey (30 Rock). Ah, this is good. They get all three of the awards (Best Comedy, Best Actor and Actress in a Comedy). Something tells me this show is going to be around for a while after all.

Best Supporting Actor - Tom Wilkinson (John Adams)

Best Supporting Actress - Laura Dern (Recount)

Best Miniseries/TV Movie - John Adams. Adams couldn’t be here tonight so the award was accepted by producer Tom Hanks.

Best Actor Miniseries/TV Movie - Paul Giamatti (John Adams).

Best Actress Miniseries/TV Movie - Laura Linney (John Adams). I think a lot of people were looking for one TV show or a movie to sort of sweep the awards, but I’m not sure how many people picked John Adams to be one of the major stories of the night.

Best Presenter - Ricky Gervais. Another win. 

Best Acceptance Speech(es): Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan. All the “shout outs” along with NBC’s Jeff Zucker.  Oh, don’t forget that since Barack Obama won the election, Tracy said he gets to speak for the show when they win an award instead of Tina!

Most Awkward Moment - Nancy O’Dell on the red carpet, asking Tiki Barber who he’d like to see win. When he said Heath Ledger, she said “that’s a very political answer.”

Best Facial Hair - Tony Shalhoub

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Well, this more compelling American adaptation of the series elucidates usual flip flops of individual office staff in a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In certain, with compare to the British version, Steve Carell [Michael Scott] as boss, failed to imprint the footprints as Gervais was done in its British version. Steve Carell here is a soundly con and rudely numb chief who plant his own whirl on company plans and make everyone pretend his care for subordinates. 

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David Brent [Ricky Gervais] is the general manager of the Slough offices of the Wernham Hogg paper merchants; Tim Canterbury [Martin Freeman] is a sales rep with a funny and natural humor; Gareth Keenan [Mackenzie Crook] is Tim’s oblivious associate and arch-rival with a somber and less striking persona; Dawn Tinsley [Lucy Davis] is a pretty looking front office babe who habitually has to put up with Brent’s attempts at hilarity and social interaction.

The office is equipped this time with a number of vibrant characters who blend with situations and honk more misery and fun that results bone tickling office humor and numerous laugh sequences. Like many shows, it has its own slipups however it is worth recommend for everyone who is curious in mingling with a gifted bit of humor.

Although it is completely crafted in a fictional and scripted manner, the presence of the camera is openly acknowledged by every character of the series that put every extra effort to make the series able to tickle your funny bone.

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Created by Greg Garcia and produced by 20th Century Fox Television, My Name Is Earl is a show filled with people and characters, broadcasts on the NBC television network on Thursdays 8:00 PM. It’s the latest comedy, critics have been lavishing with big applauds everywhere and absolutely a must watch to look on a character with a life of shame, despair, and aesthetic inferiority.

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It’s worth mention that TV never had an adolescent and rude character pretty like Earl as played by Jason Lee in the comedy saga. Earl has taken too many wrong turns on the highway of life. However, a twist of fate turns his life into a tailspin of life-renewing events. Notwithstanding his outwardly partial intellect, my name is Earl is peculiarly valuable and the top-rated freshman comedy series, like Earl himself, has an influence and chic all its own.

Apart from Earl, its seem apparent to mention other ravishing characters that move the story line up including Catalina, the motel maid and illegal immigrant, has little to do, but does much with it and also karma, a character itself who factually moves in with Earl, and moves like the wind, blowing a winning lottery ticket in and out of his hands.

In this hilarious series, eye catching locations are another lovely thing to be quoted in façade since audience will love to see a university, a golf course, a corporate center and pretty suburban houses that play an important part in this bone tickling comedy tale.

So set off a journey to behold one of the most consistent and side-splitting shows on television that only improve on the laughs and known for special belly chuckles.

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As I watch several different episodes from multiple channels, trying to provide fun information, I can’t seem to get over the amount of commercials.  Obviously, the time of day brings larger and smaller audiences, respectively.  From a marketing perspective, I think of the people watching each show - or the demographic.  As an example, NBC’s “30 Rock“, targets the 18-49 year old group as does “The Office“, “CSI”, etc. 

Knowing each demographic and when they are watching is important to advertisers.  It is also very expensive.  A specific ad placed randomly throughout the day will be less expensive than primetime tv at a specific time, such as 7:00pm for CBS’s, “60 Minutes”.  According to Wikipedia, there can be as much as 15 minutes per one-hour episode of commercials.  If each commercial is 30-seconds to 1-minute, then we are witnessing 15-30 commercials an hour!  When the SuperBowl comes around, and we hear those amazing statistics about cost per ad, such as $2 Million for each commercial in the 1st quarter, I will let you know how many are for the sporting event. 

What is your opinion of having so many ads per episode?  Do you find most of them useful?  How do you view the new interactive ads asking viewers to watch an episode, find a clue, then go to their Web site and enter the answer resulting in a reward? 

In my opinion, I think that is good marketing.  Reward the viewer for enjoying not only the tv show and episode, but sitting around for the ads as well.  Everyone wins in that picture!

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