As we all know, on How I Met Your Mother on Monday night, Britney Spears managed to get through about 10 lines without crying or showing anyone her vagina.

So it goes without saying that Britney Spears will probably get nominated for an Emmy for it. Seriously.

Since the Britney Spears episode got How I Met Your Mother its highest-ever ratings, there's now a bundle of genuine speculation that Britney Spears will snag an Emmy nomination for it. Which we're fine with, so long as the Emmys open a new category entitled Best Transparent Stunt Casting Of A Mentally Ill Celebrity To Revive A Mostly Rubbish Sitcom. And even then it'll be a toss-up between Britney and Franz Kafka's rib-tickling turn on According To Jim.

Looks like the easiest way for TV executives to boost ratings on their TV shows is to find the youngest girl they can and make her pregnant.

That's what has happened with Jamie Lynn Spears' Nickelodeon show Zoey 101. The just-broadcast season finale of Zoey 101 - the first episode since Jamie Lynn Spears announced her pregnancy - recorded viewing figures twice as high as usual.

Special mention should be given to the lucrative Dirty Old Middle-Aged Men demographic, which we imagine has gone sky high since Jamie Lynn Spears revealed that she was sexually active.