Britney Helps Renew “How I Met Your Mother”
Maria Elena Fernandez over at The Los Angeles Times reports that the two special appearances of our Britney has garnered huge ratings for How I Met Your Mother to the point where CBS has renewed the series next fall. Word on the street has been due to the lack in ratings, the show would have been canned unless FOX picked it up.
The youngest-skewing show on CBS has never broken out, the thinking goes, because it’s on the wrong network.
Enter: Britney Spears. Tonight she appears in the single-camera comedy for the second time. Her first visit gave the show its highest ratings ever and more buzz than Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) could ever muster, no matter how legendary he is. (And believe us, he is.)
Well, CBS has come to its senses and renewed the series for next fall.

Comment by Kaos on 14 May 2008:
The power of Britney