Production begins today on CBS for "How I Met Your Mother". Britney is back as Abby for their May 12 episode .

The synopsis of the episode, "Everything Must Go," was released by 20th Century Fox: "Barney and Abby realize that they have one thing in common, their mutual hatred of Ted. The new 'couple' decides to go to the bar to flaunt their new relationship in Ted's face. Desperate to get a rise out of his former pal, Barney pops a surprising question to Abby. "

Executive Producer CRAIG THOMAS says he is "thrilled" to have Britney back. "We're all so thrilled to have Britney joining us once again. And just to head it off at the pass this time around: 'Yes, Mom, Britney's very nice and no, I can't get her autograph for you.' "

I'm so pleased to see Britney working.

[source: USmagazine]

Here's a clip of Brit's performance on How I Met Your Mother, which Monday at 8:30 et/pt.

Yay, she's working!

Gotta hand to the folks at CBS for cleaning that girl up. They obviously have an extremely talented makeup team over there. They put her in neutral and took her through the wash. The directions not bad either, somehow they worked the baby-voice out of her. I'm impressed she can memorize a line. I'm sure they had to do 1,000 takes to get it right.

Kudos to dad for getting Britney back out there, doing the right things to get her career back on track.

[source: CBS]