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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episode 100 of This Is Us, ‘Katoby.” After Kate and Toby hit a breaking point at the end of last week’s episode with the couple’s worst fight ever following Jack Jr.’s escape to the park, we pretty much knew what was in store for tonight’s episode, titled “Katoby,” and…

SPOILER ALERT: This story reveals important plot points from the Season 1 finale of Hulu’s How I Met Your Father. The Season 1 finale of Hulu’s How I Met Your Father had a little bit of everything for anxious fans: surprise (re)appearances, a tuxedo cat, a wedding, two breakups, and the final piece of the puzzle…

EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, whose 10-year career trajectory at 20th Television to date has taken them from novice writers to top showrunners with multiple shows on the air, have signed a big new three-year overall deal with the Disney television studio for their The Walk-Up Company. Aptaker and…

On Tuesday, the executive producers and stars of How I Met Your Father gathered for a virtual TCA panel teasing the Hulu series’ January 18 debut—noting that the series stemming from beloved CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother is not a reboot, as it has sometimes been described. Per writer, EP and showrunner Isaac…

How I Met Your Father, a spinoff to long-running CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother, is finally set to make it to air. Hulu has given the project, which will star Hilary Duff, a straight-to-series order from creators Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger. It is a long road to air for the project. Back in 2014…

EXCLUSIVE: This Is Us co-showrunners Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger are expanding their relationship with 20th Century Fox TV, forming new studio-based production company The Walk-Up Company as part of their continuing overall deal. They’ve also named former Comedy Central exec Adam Londy as head of…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about upcoming episodes of This is Us on NBC. Fans of This is Us may have suffered a break from the show’s usual programming due to the State of the Union Address—as creator Dan Fogelman put it, “Trump screwed us up”—there’s some solace to be found in intriguing teasers from…

At Deadline’s Emmy For Your Consideration event last night for NBC/Fox’s This Is Us, creator Dan Fogelman and cast gathered to provide more clues about season 3 as well as look back at their eight-Emmy-nominated second season. Less than an hour before the panel discussion began, Fogelman had proudly screened the first…

CAA has signed Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, executive producers/co-showrunners of NBC’s This Is Us. The top drama series on broadcast TV just drew 27 million viewers for its post-Super Bowl episode last night. Aptaker and Berger emerged as key writer-producers on This Is Us during Season 1, penning multiple…

This Is Us co-executive producers Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger have closed a new overall deal with the studio behind the breakout NBC drama series, 20th Century Fox TV. Under the pact, the duo is being promoted to executive producers and co-showrunners alongside This Is Us creator/executive producer Dan…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 has acquired a package for an adaptation of a popular YA novel that’s described as John Hughes-style coming-of-age, coming-out story. The studio bought Simon Vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda, a debut novel by Becky Albertelli that will be produced by Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner (The Fault…