Britney may return to sitcom
2008-04-03 07:52
Los Angeles - Oops! ... She may be
doing it again.
Britney Spears is in talks to reprise her highly rated and
critically praised guest-starring role on the CBS sitcom How I
Met Your Mother, TV Guide magazine's website reported on
Wednesday.
TVGuide.com cited multiple sources as saying producers are
seeking her return for at least one more episode as a
dermatology office assistant named Abby, who falls for the
show's lead character, Ted, played by Josh Radnor.
The report quoted one insider as saying, "It all depends on
her availability."
CBS and the studio that produces the show, 20th Century Fox
Television, declined comment on the report.
Spears's appearance on the show last month drew 10.6 million
viewers - up from its season-to-date average of 7.8 million,
according to Nielsen Media Research.
Her performance also elicited mostly positive reviews,
providing the singer with a rare bit of upbeat publicity amid a
torrent of marital, health and legal woes in recent years. And
she said in a statement issued weeks ago while shooting her
scenes that she was "having a blast".
It was her first prime-time acting role since she made a
guest spot in March 2006 playing a Christian conservative talk
show host on Will & Grace.
Spears, 26, rose to fame as a child star on the Disney
channel and scored numerous hit songs as a teenager, including,
Oops ... I Did It Again.
In 2002, she was named the world's top celebrity by Forbes
magazine after earning $39.2m in a single year.
But in late 2006, Spears split from her second husband,
Kevin Federline. Since then she has been in and out of rehab,
lost custody of her two young sons to Federline, and was
hospitalised twice in January for psychiatric evaluation.
Her highly publicised comeback performance on the MTV Video
Music Awards in September last year was widely panned as a
flop. Her new album, Blackout, debuted at No 2 on the
Billboard 200 last November, but quickly slid down the chart.
- Reuters