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OMG this is AMAZING news! Quinn is back! After breaking off her engagement with Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) earlier this season, EW has learned that Becki Newton’s Quinn will return to How I Met Your Mother for an episode, set to air April 15.
Details about Quinn’s return are being kept under wraps, but that’s not a surprise. This season of HIMYM has seen a few high-profile guest-star returns that were shrouded in secrecy, including Joe Manganiello, Rachel Bilson, and most recently, Kyle MacLachlan’s The Captain, who appeared two weeks ago to offer Lily a job.
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Great news! Fox’s midseason series The Goodwin Games has finally been assigned a premiere date. The comedy will have a summer run, launching on May 20 at 8:30 PM and running for seven consecutive weeks. While not officially cancelled, Goodwin Games is considered dead, and its cast members were allowed by Fox to take other jobs.
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If you’re waiting on the edge of your seat for FOX’s midseason comedy “The Goodwin Games,” you might want to lean back. It could be a while. FOX Entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly said Tuesday (Jan. 8) that “The Goodwin Games” — which stars Scott Foley and Becki Newton and comes from three producers of “How I Met Your Mother” — probably won’t be on the air until later in the spring, or possibly the summer.
“If I thought ‘Goodwin Games’ was going to be an injection of life to the [Tuesday comedy] block, I’d bring it on earlier and upset things,” Reilly says. “‘Goodwin Games’ is a nice show. I’m not sure it’s going to improve our lot ratings-wise, so we’re going to hold off on it.”
Reilly says he’s been frustrated with the low ratings for the Tuesday comedies — “Our shows weren’t rejected, they weren’t even really sampled” — but he’s keeping the lineup intact with hopes that stability will give some traction for “Raising Hope,” “Ben and Kate,” “New Girl” and “The Mindy Project.”
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Bad news you guys! FOX has trimmed the order on its midseason comedy “The Goodwin Games” — because, the network says, it doesn’t need as many episodes. Why? The series starring Scott Foley, Becki Newton and T.J. Miller got a standard 13-episode order when FOX picked it up for midseason. Last week, though, the network decided to trim the order to just seven episodes. When the cast and crew wrapped episode 7 Friday (Nov. 2), they were done for the season.
The reason for the shortened order, a network rep tells Zap2it, has more to do with FOX’s other comedies than with “The Goodwin Games” itself. FOX has already ordered 24 episodes of “Raising Hope,” “New Girl” and “The Mindy Project” for this season, along with 19 episodes of “Ben and Kate.” That means less room for 13 “Goodwin Games” episodes on the midseason schedule.
The show wasn’t part of FOX’s midseason premiere dates announcement, but it will likely debut in the spring after “Ben and Kate” ends its season. “The Goodwin Games” comes from “How I Met Your Mother” creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and “HIMYM” writer-producer Chris Harris. It’s about three siblings (Newton, Foley and Miller) who stand to inherit a sizable fortune — if they can play by the rules set forth in their late father’s (guest star Beau Bridges) will. Kat Foster and Melissa Tang also star.
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