Here we go. We are in the home stretch of How I Met Your Mother and one of the fun ongoing stories throughout the series, the “Slap Bet,” is coming to a close. This season and the shift in storytelling (the whole season takes place in one weekend) has been jarring and very hit and miss, but it is great to see years of stories come to a head and ultimately, a close. In two weeks we get the Mother’s side of the story in an episode titled “How Your Mother Met Me.” I. Can’t. Wait.

Official Description: “Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra” In their ongoing slaphappy “Slap Bet,” Marshall plans to land one final smashing blow to soon-to-be-married Barney.

After How I Met Your Mother is a new episode of 2 Broke Girls. What else is on tonight?

8PM

USA: WWE Monday Night Raw (wrestling)
ABC: The Bachelor (reality)
FOX: Almost Human (sci-fi crime)
NBC: American Ninja Warrior: USA vs Japan (competition)
CW: Hart of Dixie (drama)
ABCFAM: Switched at Birth (teen drama)
SYFY: Lost Girl (sci-fi)

9PM

CW: Beauty and the Beast (supernatural)
CBS: Mike & Molly/Mom (comedies)
FOX: Sleepy Hollow (supernatural)
ABCFAM: The Fosters (teen drama)
SYFY: Being Human (sci-fi)
TNT: Major Crimes (crime)
VH1: Single Ladies (comedy)

10PM

ABC: Castle (crime drama)
CBS: Intelligence (drama)
NBC: The Blacklist (drama)
FX: Archer (animated)
HGTV: House Hunters (docu)
MTV: Teen Wolf (supernatural)
SYFY: Bitten (supernatural)

Girl Meets World has cast the role of Riley, Corey and Topanga’s daughter, with Rowan Blanchard.  Sabrina Carpenter has been also cast as Riley’s best friend Maya. Girl Meets World is still looking for someone to play Elliott, Cory and Topanga’s son. The casting call says “His parents worry that he has inherited [his uncle’s] ‘Eric Matthews Algernon’ gene and will lose intelligence as time goes by.” Blanchard co-starred in Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D, while Carpenter will appear in The Goodwin Games opposite Scott Foley and Becki Newton. What about Shawn, Eric, Feeny and the other cast members of the original? Will anyone else return for the new series? Show creator Michael Jacobs has stated “Whoever wants to be part of this show will be and whoever wants to move on will,” leaving the door open for anyone and everyone to come back in some capacity in the future.

Will Cobie Smulders reprise her role as Maria Hill in the new S.H.E.I.L.D. TV series? How I Met Your Mother was picked up for a ninth season, but in an interview with iamrogue.com Smulders said; “The commitments to [How I Met Your Mother] don’t affect it” and “I can’t really say, but there are definite talks about it.” Smulders will play Maria Hill again in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the sequel to 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. The S.H.E.I.L.D. pilot is currently being filmed with The Avengers director Joss Whedon behind the camera and fan favorite Clark Gregg reprising the role of Phil Coulson to headline the new series. Whedon wrote the pilot along with Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon, his writing partners on Dollhouse and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog.

Last week How I Met Your Mother returned with its new season and once again dangled the mother in front of the audience without revealing much more about her. Will we meet her in the season (series?) finale? At that point will it even matter? Personally I’d like to see Ted’s relationship with the mother take off and grow. If we only get a minute with the mother it will feel like such a copout. Anyhow, for a first time in the show’s history all of the characters are paired up in relationships with three of them doomed for failure. It should be a fun ride seeing how over the course of the season said relationships crash and burn.

Official Description, “The Pre-Nup”: Barney’s extensive and comprehensive prenup leads the guys to put forth their own relationship principles, which their significant others do not find agreeable. Meanwhile, an incensed Quinn responds with her own prenup.

The episode airs at 8pm on CBS, followed by the new series Partners. What else do you have to look forward to tonight?

8PM

FOX: Bones (crime drama)
ABC: Dancing with the Stars: All Stars (reality competition)
CBS: (8:30) Partners (comedy)
NBC: The Voice (reality competition)
CW: iHeartRadio Music Festival (special)
ABCFAM: Switched at Birth (drama)
CARTOON: Regular Show/The Annoying Orange (animated)

9PM

A&E: Hoarders (docu)
CBS: 2 Broke Girls/Mike & Molly (comedies)
FOX: The Mob Doctors (crime/medical drama)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of New York City (reality)
DSC: American Chopper (docu)
SYFY: Warehouse 13 (sci-fi)
HGTV: Love It or List It (docu)

10PM

ABC: Castle (crime drama)
CBS: Hawaii Five-0 (crime drama)
NBC: Revolution (end of world drama)
A&E: Intervention (docu)
BRAVO: Gallery Girls (reality)
FOOD: Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives/$24 in 24 (docu)
MTV: Ridiculousness/The Inbetweeners (comedies)

I know I’ve been talking about How I Met Your Mother a lot lately, but the show has been on its game week after week. The sitcom has a great balance of funny and touching real life moments with a cast that I want to be friends with. Tonight’s episode airs at 8pm on CBS; “Ted and Barney make a life-altering decision; and Robin tries to talk Lily and Marshall out of moving to Long Island.” It’ll be nice to see some action on my old stomping grounds, Long Island. I’ve said for a long time that I’d love to see the show shift focus from the City to Long Island. I can picture the cast and show growing into a more traditional sitcom and could this be a hint that they are moving in that direction?

What else is on tonight?

8PM

ABC: Dancing With the Stars (reality competition)
CBS: (8:30PM) 2 Broke Girls (comedies)
CW: Gossip Girl (drama)
FOX: Terra Nova (action drama)
NBC: The Sing-Off (reality competition)
LIFE: Undercover Christmas (TV movie)
VH1: Basketball Wives LA (reality)

9PM

ABC: You Deserve It (game show)
CBS: Two and Half Men/Mike & Molly (comedies)
CW: Hart of Dixie (drama)
FOX: House (medical Drama)
USA: WWE Monday Night Raw (wrestling)
A&E: Hoarders (docu)
BRAVO: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (reality)

10PM

ABC: Castle (crime drama)
CBS: Hawaii Five-0 (crime drama)
NBC: Rock Center with Brian Williams (news showcase)
A&E: Monster In-Law (reality)
FOOD: Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (docu)
SYFY: Scare Tactics (prank)
TLC: Cake Boss (reality)

All the latest TV news courtesy of PJ Flip and 141tv.

• Friday Night Lights will premiere its final season on Oct. 27 on DirecTV. It just concluded its forth season rebroadcast on NBC.

• Mandy Moore will return to Grey’s Anatomy. The former popstar guest starred in the two part season finale last season. She returns in next season’s sixth episode.

• 5.5 million viewers watched the last episode of Jersey Shore, a series record.

• Bret Harrison (Reaper) joins the cast of V in a recurring role. He will make his debut in the season premiere. Will he help raise the shows ratings? Is he a human or alien?

• A double dose of Castle news: Ken Baumann (Secret Life of the American Teenager) will appear on the show as Alexis’ (Molly Quinn) first boyfriend. Victor Webster from the recent Melrose Place reboot joins the cast as a recurring character, a possible love interest for Beckett.

• Over on the CW, One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will be crossing over this year when Mia (Kate Voegele) and Haley (Bethany Joy Galeotti) from Hill play at a music festival hosted by Life Unexpected‘s Kate’s (Shiri Appleby) radio station in Portland.

• Antonio Sabato, Jr. will guest star in an episode of Bones as a Guido bouncer at a Jersey Shore club. Bones was trying to get The Situation from MTV’s Jersey Shore for the episode, but were unable to secure him.

• Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) has joined the cast of ABC’s new show Off The Map as a series regular.  OTM is from the creator of Grey’s Anatomy.

• Jack Black will be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Nickelodeon’s iCarly.

• Masi Oka (Heroes) has joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0 as a coroner. He joins cast members Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan, and Daniel Dae Kim. Buffy‘s James Marsters guest stars in the premiere also.

• Laura Bell Bundy joins the cast of How I Met Your Mother, in a recurring role, as Robyn’s new co-host.Will she end up being the mother? I doubt it…

TV Tonight Spotlight Shows

8PM – How I Met Your Mother on CBS
“Home Wreckers” Ted’s mother’s wedding causes him to make an impulsive decision with his own love life.

9PM – 24 on FOX
“Day 8: 9:00AM-10:00AM” The final season of 24 continues as Jack is out of blood after the death of someone very close to him.

10PM – Castle on ABC
“Den of Thieves” Battlestar Galactica’s Michael Trucco guest stars as a detective that Beckett falls for, much to Castle’s dismay.

Also new tonight?

8PM

• (8:30PM) CBS: Rules of Engagement (Comedies)
• FOX: House (Medical Drama)
• ABCFAM: 10 Things I Hate About You (Comedy)
• SPIKE: TNA Wrestling Impact! (Wrestling)

9PM

• (9:30PM) ABC: Romantically Challenged (Comedy)
• NBC: Trauma (Medical Drama)
• USA: WWE Monday Night Raw (Wrestling)

10PM

• CBS: CSI: Miami (Crime Drama)
• FX: Damages (Legal Drama)
• SPIKE: Jail (Reality)

Tonight at 8pm on CBS is the return of Slapsgiving!  How I Met Your Mother celebrates Thanksgiving with the return of the “Slap Bet” and Chris Elliot guest stars as Lily’s estranged father. After it as a new episode of Accidentally on Purpose, but I think I’d rather turn on my TIVO afterwards and check out the new Heroes., which is also having a Thanksgiving themed episode.

Also on…

8PM

• FOX: House (Medical Drama)
• NBC: Heroes (Supernatural Drama)
• USA: WWE Monday Night Raw (Wrestling)

9PM

• CBS: Two and a Half Men/The Big Band Theory (Comedies)
• FOX: Lie to Me (Crime Drama)
• NBC: Trauma (Medical Drama)

10PM

• ABC: Castle (Crime Comedy Drama)
• CBS: CSI: Miami (Crime Drama)
• NBC: Jay Leno Show (Talk/Sketch Comedy)