Television

Reason to watch: Animated Christmas special starring the...

On the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," Neil Patrick Harris plays perhaps the most style-obsessed male sitcom character since Alex P. Keaton. Hardly ever seen sans suit since the show debuted in 2005, Barney Stinson uses his wardrobe as a weapon for womanizing. It...

PASADENA, Calif. — In the new Fox series "Past Life," Kelli Giddish plays Dr. Kate McGinn, a scientist who believes in reincarnation and uses clues from those past lives to deal with problems in the present...

PASADENA, Calif. — You can't miss him. British comic Stephen Merchant, who co-wrote the original "The Office" and "Extras" with Ricky Gervais...

CHICAGO — There were times last year when Kara DioGuardi felt as if she had — to borrow a phrase — her pants on the ground...