Neil Patrick Harris Covers TV Guide

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris puts on his Santa Hat for the latest TV Guide cover. His costars/elves: Alyson Hannigan and Cobie Smulders.

TV Guide has kindly summed up the Best of 2008:

CHEERS TO:
– Simon Baker for The Mentalist. TV is now his medium
– True Blood for putting some bite back into HBO’s anemic line up
– Amy Ryan for showing her flair for both drama and comedy
– To the Presidential campaign for winning over the TV electorate
– Gossip Girl for dodging the sophomore slump. These fashionable kids are growing up

JEERS TO:
– Season 5 of Project Runway – dull-icious
– Heroes for flipping characters round from hero to villain and back again
– Grey’s Anatomy’s ghostly love story
– To E!s reality shows with Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards and Dina Lohan
– The Writers Strike – for screwing up the season