CBS Sets Finale Date For ‘How I Met Your Mother’ To Be Followed By ‘Friends With Better Lives’ Debut, ‘Broke Girls’ Moves To 8

From one set of friends to another. CBS will premiere new ensemble comedy Friends With Better Lives behind the series finale of How I Met Your Mother on March 31. Starting the following Monday, Friends With Better Lives will move to its regular Monday 8:30 PM slot, following a Big Bang Theory rerun until 2 Broke Girls takes over the 8 PM anchor position vacated by HIMYM on April 14. HIMYM will end its nine-season run with an hourlong finale almost two months before the end of the season, an unusually early exit for a series of this caliber, but CBS certainly needs the real estate. As previously announced, midseason CBS drama Intelligence will debut in the Monday 10 PM slot on January 13 after a preview behind NCIS on January 7. Here is CBS’ Monday schedule for March 31, April 7 and April 14:
MONDAY, MARCH 31

8-9 PM – HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER (One-Hour Series Finale)

9-9:30 PM – FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES (Special Premiere)

9:30-10 PM – MOM

10-11 PM – INTELLIGENCE

MONDAY,  APRIL 7

8-8:30 PM – THE BIG BANG THEORY (R)

8:30-9 PM – FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES (Time Period Premiere)

9:00 PM – NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

MONDAYS, BEGINNING APRIL 14

8-8:30 PM – 2 BROKE GIRLS (New Time Period)

8:30-9 PM – FRIENDS WITH BETTER LIVES

9-9:30 PM – MIKE & MOLLY

9:30-10 PM – MOM

10-11 PM – INTELLIGENCE