Fans of How I Met Your Mother can rest easy. Not only will they (maybe) be seeing the show for at least two more years, but they'll also be getting more series from the show's exec producer, Greg Malins. Per Variety, the showrunner has signed a two-year deal with 20th Century Fox to stick with Mother — and to develop new ideas for the studio. Malins said that, given how much he likes the show, the decision was not difficult. The deal is described as being "in the significant seven-figure range," which never hurts, either. Along with getting back to shooting Mother June 13, the producer said he also has a few new ideas in mind, for potential single- and multi-camera series. Would you watch more from some of the minds behind Mother? — Anna DimondUse our Online Video Guide to catch some of How I Met Your Mother.Related:• Cheers: A Mother of a Finale• Barney's Blog• It's Official: CBS Renews Christine, Unit and HIMYM
read more
According to the Reporter, Fox is developing three new dysfunctional-family-based animated series for the 2008-09 season: The Pitts, based on a short-lived live-action comedy and from The Simpsons' Mike Scully; Relative Insanity, exec-produced by Jack Black; and Mothballs, from the creators of Drawn Together.... Per Variety, Greg Malins (Friends) has a pilot commitment from ABC for The 16th Minute, a comedy in which five people who have had separate brushes with fame become... friends.... Charles S. Dutton has inked a deal to act in and direct projects for HBO.... FX has greenlit Forever Sam Crow, a drama pilot from The Shield's Kurt Sutter and concerning biker gangs in SoCal.
read more
What's up, blogosphere? I've never blogged before. This is my first blog. I don't know if I'm going to do this right. I'm totally behind the times: No MySpace page, just got cable two months ago, and I cannot — cannot — get my damn Bluetooth to work. And I've never blogged. I feel like an 80-year-old going online for the first time. Scary. So here goes. I'm about to blog. Look at me... blogging.OK, what's going on in HowIMetYourMotherLand?Ben Lee dropped by our set a few weeks ago. He had called [series creator] Carter Bays to tell him that he was a huge fan, so Carter invited him to come to the set and watch us tape. (Unlike most multicamera half hours, we don't tape in front of a live audience. It takes us three full days to block and shoot the show, which is entirely too long to make an audience sit, no matter how much candy you chuck at them.) Anyway, Mr. Ben Lee had a beer with us out by our trailers after we'd wrapped. He said he'd first seen HIMYM on an airplane (Am...
read more
