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Maybe I no longer have to worry about How I Met Your Mother getting Jericho’d, the ratings for their post-writers strike debut were great, and the ratings for the Britney episode were through the roof. Hollywood Reporter says that they are in pretty good shape to get a fourth season:

A guest appearance by Britney Spears on Monday gave the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” its highest rating ever.

“Mother” spiked to a series high 4.5 preliminary rating among adults 18-49, even as the rest of the CBS comedy lineup fell from last week’s record-setting return to original episodes.

The second week of strong “Mother” ratings (10.6 million, 4.5/12) assures the one-time bubble comedy will be renewed for the fall. “Mother” was the fourth-highest-rated show of the evening, and CBS won the night (averaging 12.5 million, 4.4/11).

It’s kind of ironic that Sarah Chalke from Scrubs was also a guest star this past week (I’m also starting to think she has a shot at being “The Mother), because HIMYM seems to be in the same situation that Scrubs has been throughout its run… it’s an extremely popular show with a very loyal fan base and tons of critical praise, and yet CBS never seems to be in much of a hurry to announce that it is coming back. As a matter of fact, last year I was beginning to think that they would cancel both Jericho and HIMYM (Instead, 40,000 lbs of peanuts later they both came back).

Scrubs has always been “on the bubble” seemingly every season, and now they will likely be heading to ABC to end the series… I can only hope that CBS treats How I Met Your Mother better in the future. Announcing that they are renewed would be a good start.