You may have seen Neil’s recent Tweet, in which he commented that he’d seen a lot of negative reactions to his opening number for the Oscars. While we don’t really think he’ll ever see this, we wanted to put together a bunch of the best reviews, for your reading pleasure. If you know of a review that we missed, please get in touch and we’ll add it to the page!

“NPH opened the show with a rousing, Broadway-style musical number. He was on fire, a vibrant presence on that stage and — as we soon learned — an impossible act to follow for co-hosts Baldwin and Martin.” ~ MTV

“An outstanding song-and-dance number from Neil Patrick Harris trumped the ho-hum opening monologue of hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.” ~ LA Times

There were understandably a lot, so we’ve given them a page of their own. You can read the rest here!

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Tags: Oscars, Public Appearances, Reviews, TV Appearances |

Despite Tweeting to the contrary following rumours earlier in the week, Neil did indeed perform the opening number at tonight’s 82nd Annual Academy Awards. He technically didn’t lie, as Martin Short was nowhere to be seen; though it’s thought that Mr Short was supposed to join him but a recent family emergency kept him away.

We’ve started to add pictures to the gallery, and the album will be updated as more come in.

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Tags: Gallery Update, Musicals, Oscars, Public Appearances, TV Appearances |

Neil presented Joss Whedon with the Vanguard Award for technology and new media at last night’s 21st Annual Producers Guild of America Awards.

Neil Patrick Harris presented the Vanguard Award for technology and new media to writer-director-producer Joss Whedon, calling him “perhaps the only pioneer in the field of sing-along blogs,” a reference to “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along blog,” on which they collaborated.

“Joss Whedon doesn’t just build stories, he builds entire universes,” Harris said, admitting that he had just begun to work on Internet projects. Whedon likened the award to Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize — “it’s (for) what you’re going to do.”

The Hollywood Reporter has an article on the night, and we’ve updated the gallery with some pictures.

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Tags: Gallery Update, Joss Whedon, Presenting, Public Appearances |

Zap2it have posted up an interview & video from the 100th episode event at the Paley Center last week, discussing Neil’s HIMYM directing gig.

Neil directs the 101st episode, “Jenkins”, which airs tonight on CBS at 8/7c.

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Tags: Directing, Interviews: Online, Public Appearances, TV: HIMYM, zap2it |

“Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit”, the musical number from HIMYM’s 100th episode, is available to purchase on iTunes ahead of the episode’s premiere this coming Monday. It’s available internationallyas well as in the US – this link is to the UK store, where the song costs £0.79 – and has a 2 minute 50 second runtime.

Also newly available is an official audio copy of the Commentary! The Musical soundtrack. It too is available internationally on iTunes and as an MP3 download from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

We’ve added a selection of photos from the 100th episode celebration held at the Paley Centre on Thursday night to our gallery, and you can watch the cast being introduced in this YouTube video.

The cast have been hitting the promotional circuit ahead of the landmark episode, and there are various behind-the-scenes clips and interviews around, in addition to the Entertainment Tonight video we linked earlier this week. The following articles all contain some spoilers for the “Girls vs Suits”: ChicagoNow has a short interview which includes the first 40 seconds of the musical number, TVOvermind have internationally viewable versions of all the CBS behind-the scenes videos, Zap2it talk to Neil and the rest of the cast, as do IGN.

Eonline’s Kristin Dos Santos caught up with Neil and the rest of the cast at the Paley event, while The Futon Critic and The TV Addict both provide fantastic recaps.

Finally, Neil will join Snoop Dog and Niecy Nash in stopping by the Wanda Sykes show tonight, at 11/10c on Fox.

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Tags: Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Gallery Update, Interviews: Online, Interviews: TV, iTunes, Public Appearances, TV Appearances, TV: HIMYM |

Neil will join Christina Aguilera, Tom Hanks, and previously announced presenters including Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry and Mel Gibson, in presenting an award at the 67th Annual Golden Globes.

The Golden Globes will be telecast live on NBC, January 17th. The awards will be broadcast simultaneously coast-to-coast, 5 to 8 pm PT, 8 to 11 pm ET.

Neil is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category.

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Tags: Awards & Nominations, Events, Golden Globes, Public Appearances |

First, the upcoming: Neil will be taking part in Days 17 and 18 of the SF Sketchfest. On January 30th at 8pm, and January 31st at 7pm, Neil will be appearing in “Celebrity Autobiography” alongside Rachel Dratch, Lesley Ann Warren, Fred Willard and more. Tickets are $35 for the event, taking place at Cobb’s Comedy Club in San Francisco, California, and you can purchase them here.

FOX today released their American Idol schedule for season 9. The show kicks off on Tuesday January 12th, in Boston. Neil sat in on the auditions in Dallas, which are set to air Tuesday, Jan. 26 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).

The year is almost over and Neil is appearing on “best of” lists all over the place, including People magazine’s most intriguing people of the year, and places him at #2 on Buddy TV’s Breakout Star of 2009 list.

His Emmy’s hosting gig makes AOL TV’s Top Moments of 2009, Canada.com list him on their 2009 “Naughty and Nice” list, there’s an Honourble Mention on AfterElton’s 2009 Visibility Awards in the Theatrical Event category, for his Tony’s hosting gig. And for HIMYM, he makes TV Guide’s 25 Best Performances of the Year.

Reacting to his Golden Globe nod, Neil joked that he’d like a gift from CBS. “Maybe this year CBS or Fox will give me a new car. Didn’t they do that with all the ‘Will & Grace‘ people once? Didn’t they give them all Miatas for getting nominations or something? One can dream!”

Finally, Advocate.com has a little more from Neil’s acceptance speech at the Trevor Project event back on December 5th.

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Tags: Event: SF Sketchfest, Events, Golden Globes, Public Appearances, Reviews, Stage, TV Appearances, TV: American Idol |

Neil was honoured at the Trevor Project’s annual Cracked Xmas event last Sunday. SheWired caught up with him before the event, and have included a few quotes from his acceptance speech in their article, AccessHollywood have a video up from the red carpet, and we have a number of photos of Neil and David from the event in our gallery.

If you missed Neil voicing Carrie Underwood’s dog, Ace, on her holiday special last Monday, you can watch it here.

Don’t forget, you can hear Neil tonight at 8/7c on CBS, voicing a character in their animated retelling of “Yes, Virginia”, and the final episode of HIMYM before Christmas airs on Monday at the usual time of 8/7c. When the show returns in January, it will be with the all important 100th episode!

Neil confirmed tonight on Twitter that the episode he is directing is the one currently filming, episode 101 (5.13), which is the episode guest starring Amanda Peet.

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Tags: Directing, Events, Gallery Update, Interviews: Online, Public Appearances, Twitter, Video Update, Voiceover & Narration |

After last year’s “Evening with HIMYM” event, on January 7th 2010 the cast & crew return to the Paley Center, Los Angeles, for a special preview screening of the 100th episode.

All five main cast members, plus Craig, Carter & Pam Fryman are set to attend. Tickets cost $15 for Paley members and $20 for the general public, however the event is so popular that it’s already sold out.

You can visit the Paley Center’s website for more info here.

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Tags: Events, Public Appearances, TV: HIMYM |

Important news first – as you may have seen on our Twitter, or various other places around the web, Neil has joined the Tweeting masses. He’s @ActuallyNPH, and his account has been verified by Felicia Day, CBS, and is now an officially verified account. He’s been on Twitter for less than 12 hours, and already has over 40,000 followers!

On to other news, Neil has been added to the list of presenters for the CNN Heroes event. He will join Carrie Underwood, Leona Lewis, Nicole Kidman and many others for the “Heroes” event, which will be hosted by Anderson Cooper and broadcast on Thanksgiving night (November26th). Thanks to Sarah for the tip!

Finally, the photoshoot that Neil, Josh and Jason were doing for Playboy will be in the US December edition. You can see a couple of the pictures on this blog.

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Tags: Events, Magazines, Public Appearances, Twitter |