News: How I Met Your Mother Season 8 will most likely be the Last

Recently TV Guide interviewed How I Met Your Mother creator and executive producer Craig Thomas about the upcoming season of the show, as well as things beyond that.


One question in particular has caught people's eye:


Are you still approaching Season 8 as the last one for now?

Thomas: All of our contracts are up after 8, so we're preparing for that to possibly be the end...

So, it would seem as if they are planning to wrap after season 8... however, he does add this:

...As long as we know that a year from now, that's fine. But if we don't, then that's a problem! We know exactly the ending minute or two of Season 7. It's going to take place in the future at that wedding day and we're going to end Season 7 there. It's going to be something! And we'll also end with a baby being born and then head into 8.

And then there's this...

TV News Wrap: Friday May 27

Not much in the way of news today... just some notable guest-casting coups;

• James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") is heading to Law and Order: SVU. He will also be appearing on the new TNT show Franklin and Bash.

• Martin Short and Alan Quinn will also pop up on Season 7 of the Showtime series Weeds.

• Star of Mad Men, Jon Hamm, will direct the first episode of the fifth season of the hit AMC show. Of course, you'll have to wait until March 2012 to see it though.

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

• You can watch Hamish and Andy's going away drinks party on the Herald Sun website from 6PM today. They will fly to the US to produce their show, Hamish and Andy's Gap Year for Channel Nine.

• I can't believe that there's even speculation that someone will replace Adam Hills on Spicks and Specks for a number of reasons. 1) Because the combination of Adam, Myf and Alan is the show, when one element is taken out, it ceases to be Spicks and Specks; 2) Even if they tried, there would almost certainly be backlash, whoever they chose to replace him and 3) ABC would not even consider it because of these reasons, at least not for a couple of years.