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…

Among the many advantages of Twitter over, say, the Emmys as a public platform, is that while you may not walk away with a statuette, there is no pesky music cutting you off as you run through the list of people you’d like to thank for their support over the years. This How I Met Your Mother co-creator Craig Thomas…

On How I Met Your Mother‘s last day of production a month ago, Dana Walden — chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox TV, which produces the long-running series — was meeting with the big boss, 21st Century Fox chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, in his office. She mentioned HIMYM was wrapping that day and, in the middle of…