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Don't know why I didn't realize this earlier. Of course we know its Colts vs. Saints this weekend for Super Bowl.

But did we realize that also pits E! reality stars Kim Kardashian (who is dating Saints Reggie Bush) against Kendra Wilkinson Baskett - who is married to the Colts' Hank Baskett.

I bet the NFL planned it that way. I'd be suspicious if Joan Rivers does some of the pregame.

Did you watch Lost the other day? Pretty cool, wasn't it?

The show has just started its sixth and final season and there are several podcasts you can listen to for clarification of the storytelling. Jorge Garcia - who plays Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes - just started one with his girlfriend Beth and they try to explain the episodes after just reading the scripts. It's very entertaining, even though it doesn't help much in regards to explanation. At times, they seem to be as confused as we are. Whatever, its still fun to listen to.

If you're interested in hearing it, go here and download it for your MP3-playing thingy. They also have a blog and they talk about other things other than Lost.

For a more informative (and an insider) look try Jay and Jack, who have a podcast you can get by subscribing on iTunes. Or you can go here. They take their time going through that week's episode, take questions and explain it out. Very helpful after you watch the show and wonder what it was you just saw.

Thankfully, CBS has approved a sixth season for their comedy How I Met Your Mother, starring Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders and NPH.

Carter Bays and Craig Thomas - executive producers of HIMYM - signed a three year deal with 20th TV, so hopefully the show goes maybe to the 7th and 8th.

Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory are also renewed, so that Monday night lineup stays together for a while.

Last night at the Paley Center for Media, the cast and producers of CBS's How I Met Your Mother visited and celebrated their 100th episode of the popular sitcom.

The evening was a humorous look back on what the show has done so far - discussing the past storylines and the casting process of each actor as well as favorite guest stars and moments. Prior to the discussion, the Paley Center screened the 100th episode - which is called "Girls vs. Suits" and airs this Monday the 11th at 8pm.

If you were lucky enough to be in the Paley Center audience watching, I bet you didn't realize that the cast was in the back of the theater watching your reaction. In the episode, there is something at the end that has never been done before on the show, so you need to tune in Monday to see that. (There is also a line delivered by Neil Patrick Harris in the show that made Cobie Smulders (Robin) - who was watching in the back - laugh so hard she almost fell out of her chair and almost knocked down Alyson Hannigan (Lily) with her.)

Josh Radnor (Ted), Jason Segel (Marshall), Hannigan, Smulders and Harris (Barney) as well as writer/executive producer/creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and frequent director Pamela Fryman all then chatted after the screening. Among the topics were Bays and Thomas still feeling they don't really know what they're doing; the direction of Fryman; the show's unorthodox shooting schedule as well storytelling; guest stars (Britney Spears, Chris Elliot and Bob Odenkirk's name came up), the casting of each actor and the success (as well as possible early cancellation) of the show during a time when sitcoms were not very popular.

Two of the more eloquent things during the discussion were Harris responding to a question about the excitement level of the show's cast and producers at the start of the show versus now and Segel's answer to what his favorite moment in the show was. (Harris responded beautifully that he felt that the excitement level now is the same as it was at the start, but for different reasons and Segel said his favorite moment in the show is in fact off-camera, with every actor 'growing up' together and gaining more success and life experiences while doing the series - Harris hosting the Tonys and Emmys; the two women having babies, Radnor directing a movie and Segel modestly summed up his own film success in movies like 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' 'I Love You, Man' and many other Judd Apatow films as, 'me doing my thing'.

Among the stories about making the show was one about the cast sometimes getting into a rhythm of trying to outdo each other with bad puns about a specific topic during a day of shooting. As soon as that was mentioned in the discussion (specifically, 'cat puns') the cast started doing it, which each person on the panel (except Fryman) throwing out a cat pun after another person told a story or answered a question. The best two were from Harris - who made a cat reference completely on accident during a story - and a member of the audience, who stuck one into a question.

How I Met Your Mother airs its 100th episode on Monday the 11th at 8pm. For clips about the episode of the show itself, go here

For more information on the Paley Center for Media, go here.

Photos by Kevin Parry/The Paley Center for Media.

Last night, the Paley Center for Media honored The Simpsons with an event at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Actor Hank Azaria semi-hosted the event and executive producers James L. Brooks, Al Jean and Matt Groening all accepted the honor and spoke.

Many clips of the series were shown, including short pieces of the Morgan Spurlock special The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special in 3-D on Ice, which will air on January 14, 2010. The documentary special will be the conclusion to the year-long global celebration of The Simpsons that launched in January 2009. It will examine the cultural phenomenon of the show in Spurlock's distinctive and innovative style.

Other Simpsons voice actors Yeardley Smith and Nancy Cartwright appeared as did Jonah Hill, made a comical speech about The Simpsons show being his Sesame Street growing up. Josh Groban - whose song was featured on the show - rounded out the show with singing three songs live.

Azaria was a funny host, riffing on the mispronunciation of his name and introducing guests, speakers and clips in various Simpsons characters voices.

The Simpsons made its debut in 1989 and is now the longest-running primetime series in the history of television.

If you're not a fan of the show The Soup on E!, you should be. Right now. Do it. Seriously.

There are dozens of reality shows on TV with so many ridiculous people on them, that they need to be made fun of. (Sure, ended that sentence with a preposition...sue me.) Joel McHale is just your man. Every Friday night at 10, he presents the stupidest parts of the dumbest shows and cracks wise about them. Sometimes he even targets E! shows or personalities themselves - The Kardashians, Ryan Seacrest, Billy Bush and Mario Lopez are some of them. (Lopez is in tonight's show - Seacrest is mentioned almost every week)

You may watch some of the quality television programs that are frequent targets of McHale's - The Wendy Williams Show, Jon & Kate Plus 8 (not anymore since its off the air), I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant - a show that has been on the air for more than one episode, which itself surprises McHale - For the Love of Ray J, The Tool Academy, The Hills, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, So You Think You Can Dance and that Bret Michaels dating show that was on TV for whatever reason.

When you watch The Soup - Fridays at 10pm on E! in case you forgot from 10 sentences ago - there are all kinds of graphics and a cool set, but all of that is green screen. When shooting, McHale just stands on a mark in front of the small audience of between 10 and 30 (I got bored with counting after 12). Some of his staff appears on the show - sometimes in costume, sometimes with their headsets still on and one of the guys gets fake-shot about every third week. In tonight's show, there is a costumed guy and a producer who appear on camera.

If you get the chance to go to the show and sit in the limited audience, good for you. Its a tough ticket to get - much like the Latin Grammys or a Kardashian wedding.

Its very fun. McHale talks to the audience in between the comedy joke fixing and the stopdowns. Very personable and nice, McHale will also pose for some photos after he shoots - which is a considerable gesture, since he also films the NBC show "Community" daily (which airs on Thursday nights) and, by the time of the Soup shoot, he had been working since 6AM.

Check out the Soup (Friday) and watch Community (Thursday on NBC). Both are very funny and one has Chevy Chase on it. And one doesn't.

In case you missed it, Medium is back on Friday nights - now in it's sixth season. Last Friday's premiere had Allison coming out of her coma and realizing she hasn't had a psychic vision in a little while. But don't sweat it, the visions come back a little at a time as she returns to work.

The show stars Patricia Arquette as wife and mother Allison DuBois, who struggles with a hectic job, a family with three young children and her psychic ability to see clues from dead people while she sleeps. She helps solves the crimes against the victims by using her abilities to aid the authorities.

NBC dropped it from it's lineup last year, so the series went to CBS - without a hitch. it's a pretty cool show and it'll continue every Friday night at 9pm. Arquette is great as the conflicted lead character. So much so that she won an Emmy in 2005 for her performance.

So, when is it? Friday at 9pm on CBS.