A review of last night's "How I Met Your Mother" coming up just
as soon as I give the rabbit a backstory...  Over the weekend,
CBS president Nina Tassler said a ninth-season "HIMYM" renewal
is very close, and at least implied that this decision would
change the plans for the rest of this season, pushing the Mother
reveal to the end of the series no matter how much longer it
runs.  By giving a May 2013 date for Robin and Barney's wedding
— and showing that, regardless of Robin's cold feet, she
ultimately went through with it — "Band or DJ?" could be
committing to the Mother by the end of this season, come what
may. Or Bays and Thomas could dramatically slow down the
storytelling, taking a season and a half to chronicle the period
from the engagement to the wedding. We won't know until we get
there, but I think this is definitely a case of the creative
team's desire for secrecy becoming far more trouble than it's
worth. Once upon a time, the Rachel Bilson cameo and glimpse of
the Mother's left arm playing bass