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More than seven years after How I Met Your Mother came to an end in 2014, co-creator Carter Bays wishes he could change some aspects of the hit comedy series. Bays, who’s rewatching the comedy, documented his binging experience on Twitter, where he shared that he’d like to make a few modifications of his own. “I won’t…

EXCLUSIVE: In what becomes one of the hot packages of the American Film Market, Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff will star in Molly and the Moon, an original musical that How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas scripted, and they will direct. Harvey Mason Jr (Sing and the Pitch Perfect films) will…

Rules of Engagement alum Adhir Kalyan has been tapped as the lead in Making Friends, Amazon Studios’ multi-camera comedy pilot from How I Met Your Mother creators/executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. HIMYM director/executive producer Pam Fryman, a frequent Bays and Thomas collaborator, is on board to…

The last remaining broadcast script with a big production commitment has gotten a pilot green light. CBS has picked up Distefano, a comedy about an Italian-Puerto Rican family starring comedian Chris Distefano, from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays & Craig Thomas and Sony TV. The pilot, in the…

CBS has given a pilot order to Real Life, a half-hour hybrid comedy written/executive produced by Bad Teacher creator Hilary Winston and executive produced by How I Met Your Mother's Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Sony TV, where Winston as well as Bays and Thomas are under overall deals, is the studio, co-producing…

EXCLUSIVE: Two and a half years after How I Met Your Dad surprisingly did not get on the air, there is a new How I Met Your Mother spinoff in the works for next season, I have learned. Like How I Met Your Dad, I hear the new project, titled How I Met Your Father, is an ensemble show that tells the story from a female…

The 12th annual New York Television Festival unveiled this morning a comedy heavy line-up, featuring a keynote conversation with How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, a Q&A with Arrested Development’s Mitchell Hurwitz, and send-offs for HBO’s Girls and Sundance TV’s Rectify. Participants include…

In a competitive bidding situation with ABC, CBS has landed a comedy about an Italian-Puerto Rican family from How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays & Craig Thomas, comedian Chris Distefano and Sony TV. The untitled project, in the multi-camera/hybrid style of How I Met Your Mother, has received a pilot…

CBS has given a pilot order to My Time/Your Time, a half-hour comedy from the creators of two previous CBS series: Bad Teacher‘s Hilary Winston and How I Met Your Mother’s Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. This is CBS’ second comedy pilot order this season, joining the untitled Dan O'Shannon/Robyn Butler/Wayne Hope…

EXCLUSIVE: In their first TV writing effort as a duo since creating CBS’ long-running comedy series How I Met Your Mother, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas are returning to the eye network with another comedy project set in the Big Apple, New York Mythological. The single-camera half-hour, which Bays and Thomas will write…

Bad Teacher creator/executive producer Hilary Winston has sold two single-camera comedy projects — My Time/Your Time to CBS with How I Met Your Mother creators/executive producers Carter Bays and Craig Thomas executive producing; and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened to ABC, done in collaboration with Temple Hill and…

EXCLUSIVE: After a year away from television, How I Met Your Mother creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays are returning in a big way. In a very competitive situation, with five studios bidding, the duo have closed a rich three-year overall deal at Sony Pictures Television. Under the multimillion-dollar pure…