How I Met your Mother finale in sight

 By: Salma Tantawi

The beginning of an end for How I met Your Mother is here. It has been 8 seasons since we first met Ted Mosbey, the main character in the popular CBS sitcom. Besides being the longest story of a father telling his children how he has met their mother, the show had its twists and turns, some were welcomed, and some we're dragging on the show till its current final season.

Premiering in the final week of September, along many other American TV drama and programs including new seasons of New Girl, The Big Bang Theory, The Voice and Saturday Night Live, we will finally get to know the mystery ’mother’, played by actress Christina Milioti, who we saw briefly in the end of season 8 and will be finally revealed as season 9 progresses. We will also be saying goodbye to the show, which has been nominated for 24 Emmy Awards and won 7, after 8 years.  

The show’s creators have revealed that all of Ted’s friends will meet ‘the mother’ before he does, and that we will not know her name until the very end of the season.

What do you think of How I Met Your Mother so far and how do you expect the final ending to go? Share with us your comments.

Celebrities bid farewell to Breaking Bad

By: Salma Tantawi

Recently winning ‘best drama series’ at the 2013 Emmys, Breaking Bad has aired its very last episode last night, September 29.

The show’s cast, including main actor Bryan Cranston who played the role of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with Stage IIIA lung cancer who turns to making meth for a living.

"Well, this is it. The last episode ever of Breaking Bad. Thank you for sharing this ride with me. Without you we never would have lasted." Crasnton said to his Twitter followers.

Hashtags bidding the drama show goodbye, such as #goodbyebreakingbad managed to trend worldwide as well as breakout as a trending topic across the internet as celebrities joined in congratulating the cast.

TV show host Ellen DeGeneres wrote "#BreakingBad ends tonight. No more murderous drug dealers and horrifying criminals. I miss it already"

Vince Gilligan, the show’s creator, admitted he was very emotional writing the final scenes of the show.

"I actually teared up when I wrote that," Gilligan told The Canadian Press in an interview on Friday "That was kind of a tough moment emotionally because I was saying goodbye to these characters. I knew I'd never write another episode of `Breaking Bad' again. That was a big moment. That was a tough one."

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck to produce TV sitcom

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are to produce a TV sitcom. 
The Hollywood actors - who wrote Oscar-winning 1997 film 'Good Will Hunting' together - have teamed up once again for 'More Time With Family', a 30-minute per episode series which has been picked up by the US television network CBS, Variety has confirmed.
The show is based on Tom Papa's stand-up piece, which follows a man who ditches his career to spend more time with his family but, after returning from spending time on the road, he realises no one pushed him into making that life-changing decision. 
The programme will star Papa and will be co-written by 'King of Queens' Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith, as well as have snippets of Damon's life experiences intertwined within the script. 
Damon, 42, and Papa, 44, reportedly came up with the idea for 'More Time With Family' after previously working together on 'Behind the Candelabra' and 'The Informant'.
The pair presented the thought to Affleck, whose production company Pearl Street Films is making the venture into TV projects, before the three of them met with a number of writers before settling on Yuspa and Goldsmith and signing a deal with 20th Century Fox.

Michael Bay attacked on Transformers set

Michael Bay was attacked on the set of 'Transformers: Age of Extinction' in Hong Kong.
The action director - who is currently shooting the fourth instalment of the alien robot franchise in China - received injuries to the right side of his face after two brothers attempted to demand HK$100,000 (£8,030) from him, according to local press.
The two men confronted Bay, 48, on the film's set, but things quickly turned sour and police were called to the scene.
One of the assailants is thought to have attacked the director, as well as three police officers. Bay opted not to go to hospital for treatment and instead carried on shooting in the busy area.
The men were charged on suspicion of blackmail and assault.
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' stars an all new-cast led by Mark Wahlberg. The film will also feature Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Sophia Myles, Stanley Tucci and Kelsey Grammer.
The movie is partially shooting in China under a co-production deal between Paramount Pictures and the state-owned China Movie Channel. In addition to the Hollywood cast, Bay has also cast some Chinese actors in the movie, including Li Bingbing.
'Transformers: Age of Extinction' is due for release in June 2014.

Tom Hiddleston shocked by Loki popularity

Tom Hiddleston is shocked his 'Thor' character is so popular.
The 32-year-old actor portrays the titular character's evil brother Loki in the superhero franchise, and admits he didn't expect 'in his wildest dreams' that his alter-ego would be so well-liked by supporters of the movie.
He said: 'Loki and Thor are like yin and yang, the sun and the moon. 
'The immense popularity of the character has been an amazing surprise. I never expected it in my wildest dreams. 
'It's fascinating to play the god of mischief. And he's such a broken character - bitter, jealous, grief stricken, angry, lonely and proud. 
'The cocktail of his psychological damage and his playfulness makes him really interesting to portray.' 
But Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor, believes Loki is such a popular character because Tom puts in such a great performance in the film franchise. 
He added to Nuts magazine: 'It might not have been the original plan to have Loki come back but Tom brings an incredible mixture of strength, villainy and vulnerability which means you can easily empathise with this misunderstood guy.'

Kristen Stewart joins Anaesthesia cast

Kristen Stewart will film a small role in new indie drama 'Anaesthesia'.
The 'Twilight' actress has joined the cast of Tim Blake Nelson's new ensemble drama, which follows a group of university students whose philosophy professor has a profound effect on their lives.
Deadline reports Stewart will shoot her scenes over the course of a 'few days'.
The actress' latest role joins a busy schedule of movies including politically-charged thriller 'Camp X-Ray', directed by Peter Sattler, and Oliver Assayas' new drama 'Sils Maria'.
In 'Camp X-Ray', Stewart plays a young woman who joins the army in a bid to escape her small-town life, only to find herself sent to work at Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Suffering from abuse from the men in her charge, she forms an unlikely bond with a man who has been incarcerated for eight years.
Stewart will then join an A-list cast including Juliette Binoche and Chloe Grace Moretz in 'Sils Maria'.
French filmmaker Assayas wrote the film about an actress suffering from a midlife crisis specifically for Binoche, who he worked with on 'Summer Hours'. Binoche's character becomes obsessed with a young actress (Moretz) who is playing the part which originally made her famous, while Stewart has been cast as Binoche's assistant.

Hunger Games sequel is ‘less violent’

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' is 'less violent' than the first movie.
Filmmaker Francis Lawrence - who replaces Gary Ross in the director's chair - was eager to make changes to the blockbuster sequel, such as toning down the blood and gore seen on screen.
He said: 'There's a lot less person-on-person killing in this one. The important theme is the idea of allies and having to work with people you don't necessarily trust. Reliance on others versus reliance on self. It's still intense but there's less violence. I'm more interested in somebody's reaction to violence or the consequence of it than the blood itself.'
Leading lady Jennifer Lawrence, who reprises her role as heroine Katniss Everdeen, feels there is a 'good balance' of violent scenes in the two films, however.
She added: 'I don't know if there's more or less action in this movie - it's the same. In the first and second movie there's a good balance of violence.'
The film's director has also brought in a new cinematographer and costume designer to put his own stamp on the sequel.
He explained to Total Film magazine: 'I thought there could be more sophistication to the clothing and my version of naturalistic is very different. I like handheld [cameras] but I'm not into that shaky cam look. I tend to use wider lenses. I think viewers will have much more of a sense of what makes up the Hunger Games arena and what the boundaries are.'