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Dr Horrible Maquette available for pre-order

By Rach | Published Thu Jan-7-10 -

Quantum Mechanix are now taking orders for a limited edition, fully licensed Dr Horrible Maquette. It is designed in a similar style to their Firefly range, and has a projected ship date of Feb 27th, 2010. The run is limited to 1,000, and costs $69.95.

If you’re in the US, you can watch Neil’s chat with Jimmy Kimmel last night on YouTube. It’s in two parts – part one, and part two. If anybody has a link for fans outside the US, please leave us a comment! It’s a great little interview, and they cover a lot, including the Big Gay Battle, the 100th episode and Neil’s directing stint.

And while Neil lost out to Steve Carrell at the People’s Choice Awards, we’d like to congratulate Alyson on her win in the Favourite TV Comedy Actress category.

ETA: Thanks to Kat, we now have an internationally viewable Jimmy Kimmel link. You can watch the whole interview here.

Posted in Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog | Also tagged Awards & Nominations, Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Interviews: TV, Merchandise, TV: Jimmy Kimmel, Twitter
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ET visits HIMYM’s 100th episode

By Rach | Published Wed Jan-6-10 -

ET Online have put up a nice piece on Monday’s 100th episode, including a video clip which interviews Neil and the rest of the cast.

“Barney Stinson has shagged many a type of Betty … many different professions and varieties, but he has never shagged a hot bartender,” Neil tells ET. “He has to sleep with her. She, in turn, refuses to date guys who wear suits, from a past relationship. And, so, he takes it upon himself to have to choose between her or suits.”

The musical tribute is part of the celebration of the 100th episode of the CBS series, which also guest stars Rachel Bilson and Tim Gunn, playing himself.

Don’t forget that you can catch Neil on Jimmy Kimmel tonight at 12.05am/11.05pm central, and the People’s Choice awards air tonight on CBS from 9/8c. Neil, Alyson and the show are all nominated.

Posted in HIMYM | Also tagged Awards & Nominations, Entertainment Tonight, Interviews: Online, Interviews: TV, TV: HIMYM, TV: Jimmy Kimmel
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2009 Recap – The year of NPH!

By Rach | Published Tue Dec-22-09 -

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.

Posted in TV Appearances | Also tagged Event: SF Sketchfest, Events, Events: Golden Globes, Public Appearances, Reviews, Stage, TV: American Idol
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Carrie Underwood’s All-Star Holiday Special

By Rach | Published Sun Dec-6-09 -

Carrie Underwood is hosting “An All-Star Holiday Special” on FOX tomorrow night. Neil voices Carrie’s dog Ace in one sketch, and it’s currently unknown if he actually appears in the show or if his involvement is voice-only. According to Jimmy Carter in Nashville, the segment is one of Underwood’s favourite parts of the show.

“A couple of my favorite parts in the show…there’s one that’s, like, all about my dog. And I know that probably sounds weird. A lot of my fans know that my dog and I have a very close bond. I love him more than anything in the world. And I’ve always wondered what he thinks, what he thinks about. So we kind of try to answer that question. And Neil Patrick Harris plays the voice of Ace, and they just had a lot of fun with it. And we actually had to kind of tone it down a little bit ’cause they got a little carried away, but it was just a lot of fun, just, you know, kind of seeing Ace come to life.”

According to producer Nigel Lythgoe, the sketch sees a day in the life of Ace.

The special airs Monday, December 7th at 8pm ET on FOX. But don’t forget, there’s a new episode of HIMYM tomrrow night, 8pm ET on CBS.

Posted in TV Appearances | Also tagged TV: HIMYM, Voiceover & Narration
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Neil not hosting the Oscars

By Rach | Published Wed Nov-4-09 -

The 2010 Oscars will in fact be co-hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, the Academy has announced.

Neil will be featured in the December/January issue of Out magazine, as part of the 2009 Out 100. The magazine will be in stores mid-November.

Neil’s interview on last night’s Conan O’Brien is up on the Conan website here, in three parts.

Posted in Hosting | Also tagged Events, Hosting, Interviews: TV, Magazines, Public Appearances, Rumours, TV: Conan
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The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

By Rach | Published Sun Nov-1-09 -

Neil will be appearing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien on Tuesday next week, November 3rd.

He also appears in the new Motorola CLIQ/MOTOBLUR commercial, which you can watch here. It’s quite weird but definitely amusing – worth watching if you want the chance to watch Neil push over a man dressed as a dinosaur. And who wouldn’t want to see that?!

Posted in TV Appearances | Also tagged Commercials, TV: Conan
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Batman: The Brave and The Bold Soundtrack coming soon!

By Rach | Published Wed Oct-7-09 -

Warner Bros. announced yesterday that Mayhem of the Music Meister, Neil’s episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, will air on Cartoon Network on October 23rd at 7:30/6:30c. The episode premiered at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, and has since aired in Canada, Australia and the UK. The day after the US airing, the official soundtrack will be released, both digitally and in CD form. You can read the press release here, and visit Amazon.com to pre-order the CD.

Videos: Check out Neil collecting his Relly, and reading an extract from Craig Ferguson’s book.

Posted in TV Appearances | Also tagged Awards & Nominations, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, Merchandise, Musicals, Video, Voiceover & Narration
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2009 Relly Awards

By Rach | Published Fri Oct-2-09 -

Neil dropped by the Regis & Kelly studios yesterday to collect the award for “Best Regis”.

“May I just say that I did not win the Emmy Award this year. I did win the Relly Award, and you would think … you would think that this would be nice consolation, and would make me feel nice. And in fact, it does not.”

There’s a new Neil video on EW.com, and also it was announced last week that Neil will be joining ProjectAngelFood‘s “InConcert – a Musical Celebration” which will be taking place on Saturday October 17th at the The Howard Fine Theatre in LA. You can purchase tickets here.

Posted in Awards & Nominations | Also tagged Awards & Nominations, Charity, Public Appearances, TV: Live with Regis & Kelly, Video
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Pre-Emmy Roundup: Sunday

By Rach | Published Sun Sep-20-09 -

The Chicago Sun-Times have done a pre-Emmy bio of Neil, in gallery form. Ausiello reports that John Hodgman (PC from the PC & Mac adverts, and one of Neil’s co-stars in The Best and the Brightest) has been hired as the announcer for tonight’s ceremony.

And the Dr Horrible Twitter account has revealed a couple more details on the good Doctor’s involvement tonight…

I’ve got it! I’ll use my interceptorizor to highjack the Emmy broadcast! Now if only I can find out when it is… February, right? @drhorrible

And:

Tomorrow? The emmys are tomorrow?! I’m gonna have to pull an all nighter to get this thing humming. Tune in. CBS at 8. See if I pull it off. @drhorrible

The Emmys themselves air tonight on CBS at 8pm ET. E!’s Countdown To The Red Carpet starts at 4, and their Live From The Red Carpet pre-show starts at 6pm. In addition the TVGuide Network will be airing Emmy related programming most of the day, and are live from the red carpet from 6pm.

Posted in Hosting | Also tagged Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Events, Events: Emmy Awards, Hosting, Public Appearances
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The Emmys will be Horrible…

By Hilary | Published Sat Sep-19-09 -

Michael Ausiello reports that Neil will perform a Dr Horrible themed production number during Sunday’s ceremony. This news could explain a recent tweet by Maurissa Tancharoen: “Be sure to watch the Emmys tomorrow. Just do it.”

In non-Emmy news, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs looks set to be the clear box office winner this weekend.

Posted in Hosting | Also tagged Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Events: Emmy Awards, Movies: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
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