Leading up to this year’s game-changing season finale of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, creators/showrunners Carter Bays and Craig Thomas had been teasing that the ninth and final season would see the show’s narrative take a dramatic shift.  Well, following the events of the season eight finale, we now have confirmation of just what kind of shift is taking place and it’s a rather curious move on Bays and Thomas’ part.  Hit the jump to read on, but beware that there are spoilers for those who have somehow managed to remain unaware of what happened in the season eight finale.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a look at the original scripted programming for the night:

• The mother of all reveals occurred on last night’s season finale of CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, and the episode notched a 3.4 rating in the 18-49 demo and 8.37 million viewers.  That’s up nearly a full ratings point from last week’s season low 2.6 rating.
• Elsewhere at CBS, 2 Broke Girls hit a 2.9 rating and 8.93 million viewers for a rise of two tenths from last week’s 2.7 rating, Mike & Molly scored a 2.4 rating and 8.32 million viewers for a rise of one tenth from last week’s 2.3 rating, and Hawaii Five-0 was down a tenth from last week with a 1.8 rating and 7.68 million viewers.
• NBC’s Revolution dropped a tenth from last week’s 2.0 rating to a 1.9 rating and garnered 5.72 million viewers.
• ABC’s Castle notched a 2.2 rating and 11.26 million viewers, which is up two tenths from last week’s 2.0 rating.
• Finally, the series finale of The CW’s 90210 was even with last week’s 0.3 rating and scored 620,000 viewers.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a look at the night’s original scripted programming:

• NBC’s Revolution was up three tenths from last week’s series low 1.8 rating, scoring a 2.1 rating in the 18-49 demo and notching 6.35 million total viewers.
• CBS stalwart How I Met Your Mother, on the other hand, garnered a season low with a 2.6 rating and 6.94 million viewers.  That’s a drop of one tenth from last week’s 2.7 rating.
• As for the other CBS sitcoms, Rules of Engagement was even with last week’s 2.1 rating and hit 6.65 million viewers, 2 Broke Girls was flat with last week’s 2.6 rating and scored 7.88 million viewers, and Mike & Molly notched a 2.2 rating and 7.09 million viewers, down two tenths from last week’s 2.4 rating.
• The CBS drama series Hawaii Five-0 earned a 1.9 rating and 7.82 million viewers, rising two tenths from last week’s series low 1.7 rating.
• Finally, ABC’s Castle notched a 1.9 rating for a series low and 10.82 million viewers.  That’s down a tenth from last week’s 2.0 rating, which was also a series low.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• The season finale of Fox’s The Following (which was quite meta in its predictability) hit a 2.6 rating in the 18-49 demo and 7.77 million viewers.  That’s up 8% from last week’s 2.4 rating.  The show has already been renewed for a second season.
• Also having its season finale on Fox was Bones, which scored a 2.1 rating and 7.11 million viewers for a rise of one tenth from last week’s 2.0 rating and 11% from last year’s season finale rating of 1.9.
• NBC’s Revolution, however, tied its series low with a 2.0 rating and 5.81 million viewers.  That’s even with last week’s performance.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, April 29th, including Castle, How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, and more.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• After being off the air for four months, NBC’s new drama series Revolution finally returned last night and it actually held better than some expected.  The episode hit a 2.7 rating and 7.25 million viewers, which is down just two tenths from its midseason finale’s 2.9 rating last November.
• A surprisingly emotional episode of How I Met Your Mother garnered a season low 2.7 rating and 6.85 million viewers, which is down three tenths from last week’s 3.0 rating.
• Also down was Fox’s drama series The Following, which scored a series low 2.3 rating and 6.63 million viewers for a drop of two tenths from last week’s 2.5 rating.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, March 25th, including 2 Broke Girls, Castle, Bones, and more.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• Former Lost co-showrunner Carlton Cuse’s new Psycho prequel series Bates Motel has a solid opening, scoring 3 million total viewers and 1.6 million in the 18-49 demo for its series premiere.  That’s a demo high for an original drama series debut on A&E and a vote of confidence for the intriguing show.  Read Allison’s recap of the premiere here.
• Fox’s The Following—which is somehow more violent than Bates even though it airs on network TV—hit a 2.4 rating and 7.09 million viewers, dropping 11% from last week’s 2.7 rating.
• CBS’ How I Met Your Mother was also down, scoring a 2.9 rating and 7.35 million viewers for a drop of 12% from its last new episode’s 3.3 rating.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, March 18th, including Rules of Engagement, Bones, 2 Broke Girls, Castle, and more.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• A rather intense (if anti-climactic) episode of Fox’s The Following was down a tad, hitting a 2.7 rating and 8.44 million viewers for a drop of two tenths from last week’s 2.9 rating.
• The CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls garnered a series low with a 3.2 rating and 10.19 million viewers.  That’s down three tenths from last week’s 3.5 rating.  Even so, the episode remained the second highest-rated and second most-watched bit of TV programming for the night.
• Also down on CBS was Rules of Engagement, which hit a season-low 2.6 rating and 7.8 million viewers for a drop of three tenths from last week’s 2.9 rating.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, February 25th, including Mike & Molly, Castle, and How I Met Your Mother.

Monday’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• After a dip last week, Fox’s serial killer series The Following saw an upswing with a 2.8 rating and 8.31 million viewers for one hell of an intense episode.  That’s up 17% from last week’s 2.4 rating.
• How I Met Your Mother also saw a rise, garnering a 3.4 rating and 8.85 million viewers for an uptick of 6% over last week’s 3.2 rating.
• The CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls was down, earning a 3.4 rating and 10.11 million viewers.  That’s down 6% from last week’s 3.6 rating, but still good enough to tie HIMYM for the highest-rated program of the night.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, February 18th, including Bones, Castle, Hawaii Five-0, and more.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• Fox’s new drama series The Following saw a big drop in viewership this week, notching a 2.4 rating and 7.75 million viewers for a loss of half a ratings point from last week’s 2.9 rating.  Read Allison’s recap of the episode here.
• Also way down was CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, which fell eight tenths from last week’s 4.0 rating for a 3.2 rating and 9.02 million viewers.  Last Monday’s episode notched a season-high for the series, but it appears that the gain was short-lived.
• On the flipside, Castle saw a rise of two tenths from last week’s 1.8 with a 2.0 rating and 8.91 million viewers for last night’s episode.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, February 11th, including Bones, Rules of Engagement, 2 Broke Girls, and more.

Monday evening’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• Last night’s Robin Sparkles-infused episode of How I Met Your Mother garnered a season high with a 4.0 rating and 10.32 million viewers, which is up 8% from its last original episode’s 3.7 rating.
• After marking a promising rise with its second episode, last night’s installment of the new Fox serial killer series The Following dipped a bit with a 2.9 rating and 8.92 million viewers.  That’s a drop of 12% from last week’s 3.3 rating.  Read Allison’s recap of the episode right here.
• Over at The CW, the Sex and the City prequel series The Carrie Diaries hit a series high 0.7 rating and 1.55 million viewers, rising 40% from last week’s 0.5 rating.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, February 4th, including Hawaii Five-0, Castle, Bones, 2 Broke Girls, and more.

One of the many films to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was writer-director Jill Soloway’s Afternoon Delight.  Starring Kathryn Hahn, Juno Temple, Josh Radnor and Jane Lynch, the film’s about a L.A. housewife that “puts her idyllic hipster life in jeopardy when she tries to rescue a stripper by taking her in as a live-in nanny.”  Featuring great performances from the entire cast, the film was well received by audiences and critics and Soloway won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award during the closing night festivities.

The day after the premiere, I landed an extended interview with Josh Radnor.  We talked about how he got involved with Afternoon Delight, trying to make the movie while also filming How I Met Your Mother, how things changed on set, and more.  In addition, he talked about if he knows who is the mother on HIMYM, getting financing for future movies after the success of Happythankyoumoreplease and Liberal Arts, deleted scenes, future projects (says he’s writing two films right now.  One is a bigger movie that he put aside because he couldn’t get it ready by this summer.  One is a lean picture where the goal is to pare things down), and a lot more.   Hit the jump to watch. 

As part of the CBS portion of the TCA Press Tour, CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler took some time to talk about current and upcoming shows for the network.  During the interview, she spoke about how recent violent events might impact their decision-making process for the coming pilot season, the confidence they have in sophomore series Person of Interest, what made Elementary the right show for the coveted post-Super Bowl spot, the renewal status of How I Met Your Mother, and their plans for Under the Dome, from Stephen King, Steven Spielberg and Brian K. Vaughan, and why summer is a good spot for it.  Check out what she had to say after the jump.

The producers of the wildly popular CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother finally have an answer as to the fate of their series.  Creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas began writing the current eighth season as if it would be the show’s last, and they’ve been patiently waiting for the network to come down with an answer regarding whether or not they needed to plan for one more season, or wrap things up in May.  Dealing was complicated as contracts for both Bays and Thomas as well as the entire cast were up at the end of this year, but CBS made no secret of the fact that they would be keen on ordering another full season for the ratings-smash show if all the deals could be renegotiated.

Now it looks like the long-awaited answer to the statement posed in the title won’t come until 2014, as How I Met Your Mother has been renewed for a ninth and final season.  Hit the jump for more details.

Monday’s TV ratings are in along with the cable ratings for Sunday’s programming.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• CBS’ veteran series How I Met Your Mother saw a rise, hitting a 3.3 rating in the 18-49 demo and 9 million viewers.  That’s up 6% from last week’s 3.1 rating.
• 2 Broke Girls was once again the highest rated program of the night, garnering a 4.0 rating and 11.8 million viewers and a 3.9 rating and 11.5 million viewers for back-to-back new episodes.  That’s up over last week’s 3.5 rating in the demo.
• Over at Showtime, the penultimate episode of Dexter‘s seventh season broke literally every Showtime record in existence, as the installment drew 2.6 million total viewers.
• Critical favorite Homeland also made records of its own, as the Showtime series’ penultimate episode of its second season was up 8 percent over last week’s series-high, netting another all-time high of 2.36 million viewers.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, December 10th, including 90210, Hawaii Five-O, and more.

Monday night’s TV ratings are in.  Here’s a brief look at the highlights:

• Coming off an incredibly soft lead-in from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, ABC’s Castle hit a series-low 1.7 rating and 8.4 million viewers, dropping from its last new episode’s 2.0 rating.
• Yet another subpar episode of How I Met Your Mother garnered a 3.0 rating and 8.2 million viewers, slipping from last week’s 3.3 rating.
• Monday heavyweight 2 Broke Girls also dropped, hitting a 3.5 rating and 10.1 million viewers.  That’s down fairly sharply from last week’s season high 4.1 rating.

Hit the jump for the full ratings report for Monday, December 3rd, including Bones, Hawaii Five-O, Gossip Girl, and more.