Happy Birthday to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" star Daniel Radcliffe (1989), Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams (1980), actress Stephanie March (1974), Travis lead singer Francis Healy (1973),

Monday, Aug 25 How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8:30 p.m.) - Before "The Bro Code" comes to a bookstore near you, check out its origins as Barney struggles to find a loophole

Happy Birthday to "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" star Daniel Radcliffe (1989), Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams (1980), actress Stephanie March (1974), Travis lead singer Francis Healy (1973), country/bluegrass singer Alison Krauss (1971),

Television is a medium that thrives on manipulating audiences into tuning in, and no narrative device is more effective at accomplishing that task than the cliffhanger.

Joss Whedon is the 43-year-old writer/director/producer who is best known for creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The son of Golden Girls scribe Tom Whedon, Joss followed in the family business when, after receiving his film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987, he found work as a writer on Roseanne.

Reality is not always a factor when it comes to TV relationships. Actually, it usually isn't. Often, two characters that would never come together in real life are forced into a relationship for any number of reasons.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Charisma Carpenter is "too poor" to pay for her divorce from ex-husband Damien Hardy. The 37-year-old actress married Hardy in October 2002 and the couple became parents to son Donovan Charles, now four, the following March, before announcing plans to divorce last month.

Pamela Anderson has been voted TV's Sexiest Woman Ever in a new online poll. The 49-year-old former Baywatch babe topped the AOL list, which was announced on Wednesday.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Charisma Carpenter has split from her husband of five years Damien Hardy. The 37-year-old actress married Hardy in October 2002 and the couple became parents to son Donovan Charles, now four, the following March.

Happy Birthday to "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" star Daniel Radcliffe (1989), Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams (1980), actress Stephanie March (1974), Travis lead singer Francis Healy (1973), country/bluegrass singer Alison Krauss (1971), actress Charisma Carpenter (1970), supermodel Stephanie Seymour (1968), "Capote" star Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967), Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash (1965), "White Men Can't Jump" star Woody Harrelson (1961), Depeche Mode singer Martin L. Gore (1961), prolific character actress Edie McClurg (1951), "The Limey" star Terence Stamp (1939), baseball legends Don Drysdale (1936; d. 1993) and Pee Wee Reese (1918; d. 1999), and English actor Arthur Treacher (1894; d. 1975).