Amy Acker and Alexis Denisov on HIMYM Finale

[nerd4hire]

Yeah, OK, I'll watch this.


Amy Acker Meets 'Your Mother'
Ex-'Angel' star guesting in season finale

March 7 2006

LOS ANGELES --
Former "Angel" star and current "Alias" bad girl Amy Acker will get to lighten up a bit come May, when she appears on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother."

Acker is scheduled to guest-star in the comedy's first-season finale as a woman who had a fling with Barney (Neil Patrick Harris). Her character also has a knowledge of Native American rituals, which comes into play in the episode -- and that's all we feel we can say at the moment.

Her guest appearance will reunite her with another former denizen of the Buffyverse, "Mother" star Alyson Hannigan. Alexis Denisof, another "Angel" regular (and Hannigan's husband), will also appear in the season finale. And we can say "season finale" with confidence, as CBS earlier this week picked up "How I Met Your Mother" for 2006-07.

Acker joined the cast of "Angel" in 2001, playing brilliant but often scatterbrained scientist Winifred "Fred" Burkle until the series ended in 2004. This season she's been playing ruthless spy Kelly Peyton on "Alias."

Although she showed a flair for comedy on "Angel," her appearance on "How I Met Your Mother" will mark her sitcom debut. Her other recent credits include voice work on "Justice League Unlimited" and a guest role on The WB's "Supernatural."


http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-amyackerhowimetyourmother,0,3477427.story?coll=zap-tv-headlines

[Joamna]

Oh my, I'll definitely watch that :) It's just makes me happy that I'm gonna see all these people in tv again.

[eponinethen]

Definitely second what Joamna said. Ah this is just aewsome, hihi.

And:
as a woman who had a fling with Barney
Oh my, lol..

[watcher1006]

It's easy to see both Amy Acker and Alexis Denisof fitting into the mix of that show. I have no doubt that they can both pull off sit-comedy just fine.

[nerd4hire]

There's a 4 page interview with the cast thing here -

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/698/698729p4.html

They discuss the Buffy connection.

As for casting Hannigan, Thomas noted that, "We are enormous Buffy dorks thanks to my wife Rebecca. Ted's based on Carter, Marshal's based on me, Lily's based on Rebecca. And I said, 'We're writing a pilot and we're going to make a character based on you.' And she basically said, 'That kind of freaks me out. I'll let you do it if you can get Alyson Hannigan to play me. If you can get Willow!' And somehow it happened!" Hannigan acknowledged she was in fact looking for a comedy at that point, saying, "I wanted to go to work and just laugh all day and be silly and goofy. The first few seasons of Buffy was that job. And then it sort of turned dark and we tried to destroy the world… and that was fun too, but…" Bays then cracked, "You're not gonna like season two! We have this weather controlling machine…"

and

Bays and Thomas were asked if they were considering adding any other regulars to the cast, causing Hannigan to jokingly whisper, "Alexis Denisof," the name of her husband. A fellow alum of Buffy and Angel, Denisof recently filmed a couple of guest appearances on How I Met Your Mother. Bays said they like building a strong supporting cast and could see Denisof returning. Hannigan joked that at first it seemed like all of Segal's previous costars were appearing and not hers and that she was telling the producers, "Oh, so you're big Buffy fans, but you've got like every Freak and Geek!" Thomas replied, "We finally caved; not that we're caving because we love Buffy so much. But we had her husband on, and that shut her up! And we've got Amy Acker from Angel coming up." "We're stealing all the Joss Whedon cast," added Bays. "There was a moment when we were shooting the finale when it was Amy, Alexis and Alyson and Nicholas Brendon just showed up to hang out. It was like everyone from every Joss Whedon show."

[Wanabee-slayer]

Wow! that sounds so cool. But what sucks is Australia doesn't actually show HIMYM yet.

[watcher1006]

Anyone catch HIMYM on Tuesday, April 10? It was titled "Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M." It had Alexis Denisof on it. Short appearance, he was playing Robin's co-anchor. At first I didn't recognize him, it was the voice that first made me realize it was he. He looked older than I remembered him on Angel-it's been two years since the end of that series but it may have been more an effect of the harsh lighting (they were on a news broadcast stage).

[Wesley_Wyndam_P]

I watched it. It was kinda weird to hear him like that. He sounded like Will Farrell in Anchorman.

[Joamna]

I watched it too, and it was a bit weird imo, but still kinda cool. I had really been looking forward to seeing him, and it was a bit disappointing that he only appeared for so short time, I hope that I get to see him more though, and that he gets some scenes with Aly, he was so cute in that weird hair.

[zombie.apparatus]

yeah as WS said, Australia hasn't seen How I Met Your Mother yet.... gosh why does Australia get everything last.. *shakes head*