Britney's A Huge Ratings Hit

Britney Spears’ return to TV wasn’t just a critical success – it was a ratings winner too.

The cameo in an episode of the US sitcom How I Met Your Mother pulled in the shows’ highest rating ever netting around 10.6 million viewers.

That also made the show the fourth most watched TV show in the US on Monday night.

On the sitcom, Britney played a receptionist at a dermatologist’s office who develops a crush on a patient played by Josh Radnor.