Posts with tag HowIMetYourMother
Posted May 7th 2008 1:23PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: OpEd, Watercooler Talk, How I Met Your Mother, Reality-Free
One of the things that I love about
How I Met Your Mother -- there, I said it, I love the show -- is the mystery surrounding who "mother" is and whether we've already seen her on the show or is she still to be introduced. It's not just the
Lost fans that are watching scene by scene, shot by shot, frame by frame to uncover clues. Take this very cool
observation by a blogger at Seat42f.com.
If you look at the picture, the green boxes, you'll notice that the framed handwritten letter/poem/writing in the background of Stella's home (left), is the same as the framed letter/poem/writing behind the kids in the opening of the show. According to the blogger -- who has HD and studied the scenes closely, it's definitely the same artifact.
Continue reading Another clue in the search for HIMYM's Mother
Posted May 6th 2008 9:22PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
Attention
How I Met Your Mother fans! There's a 99% chance that the show is returning for a fourth season. CBS still hasn't given the Monday night laugher an official pick up -- which they did for the freshman sitcom
The Big Bang Theory way back on February 15th -- ticking off many a comedy fan (including yours truly). Nothing against
Big Bang; I love the show. But was it more deserving of an early pick up than
Mother? Not to me.
Anyway, I had the chance to interview
How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor yesterday and the actor told me that the cast is definitely working on the assumption that they will be back next fall. When I asked him directly if the show will be renewed by CBS, he laughed and said, "I'm not worried, but who knows. It's television and stranger things have happened. We're doing better than we've ever done, although I kind of go to sleep when I read those Nielsen reports. I would think we are coming back. Yes, we are."
That was enough for Josh, but I needed more assurances. Call me needy. I pressed for evidence that Lily, Marshall, Robin, Barney and Ted are all going to be hanging out at McLaren's with me next fall, like usual. "I'll just say this, we are filming a cliffhanger. It's not like we wrap up the series."
Continue reading Josh Radnor on Mother's future: I'm not worried
Posted May 1st 2008 1:04PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, OpEd
Many people think that the term "cougar," which is loosely defined as "older woman on the prowl for younger men to date" was introduced on last season's
How I Met Your Mother episode that had
Jane Seymour seduce Neil Patrick Harris' Barney. But like I said in my review back then, I had heard that term before that episode aired. But we can definitely say that
HIMYM popularized the term.
Now it seems like TV Land, which is becoming the network for reality shows starring people over 35, has decided to pick up a
Bachelorette-esque series where a number of young men will be
competing for the affections of "sexy and accomplished mature woman." The show is being produced by Mike Fleiss, who was the executive producer for the network's version of
High School Reunion.
Continue reading TV Land orders dating show for Cougars
Posted Apr 23rd 2008 11:36AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
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This week we have:
Army Wives, Battlestar Galactica, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother, Lost, Moonlight, My Boys, Prison Break, Reaper, The Office and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Apr 21st 2008 4:22PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: How I Met Your Mother, Casting, WGA Strike, Reality-Free
The fates have decreed that Alicia Silverstone is meant to play a mother. Earlier this year, she was rumored to be
the mother on
How I Met Your Mother, but then opted out of that storyline entirely when Britney Spears was inserted in a guest role on the very same episode. The episode went on to do boffo Nielsen numbers, and Alicia's role was played by Sarah Chalke, who may or may not turn out to be mother. Probably not since she's still part of
Scrubs, which is moving over to ABC.
Be that as it may,
Alicia Silversone has now been officially cast on the pilot Bad Mother's Handbook. Alia Shawkat (
Arrested Development) will also appear in the show as Alicia's daughter.
This comedy project has been set up at ABC and previously announced in the rush of production greenlighted soon after the writers' strike.
Continue reading Alicia Silverstone gets mom role in Bad Mother's Handbook
Posted Apr 18th 2008 12:02PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free
Edward Wyatt's
New York TImes piece questioned whether NBC crossed the line by broadcasting racy material in the "family hour." On both
30 Rock and
The Office, the writers let loose, basically presenting what you might call adult rated moments in what NBC asserts is family time. All I have to say to that is, "What? There's a family hour? Since when?" Apparently, I wasn't the only one caught off guard by the raunchiness of the family hour.
The Parents Television Council just today rescinded their praise for NBC's claim that programs in the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. time period would target families. PTC is calling NBC's pledge "hypocritical."
Continue reading Did NBC go too far with MILF, and what is the family hour anyway?
Posted Apr 10th 2008 10:24AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Video, How I Met Your Mother, Casting, Reality-Free
Have you been missing those references to Scherbatsky's Canadian life? If you know what I'm talking about then you'll be overjoyed to know that
on April 21, How I Met Your Mother will be all about Robin Sparkles, Robin Scherbatsky's alter-ego teen singing star. The entire episode is planned as a flashback to the
1980s 1990's when Robin became a one-hit wonder with the song "Let's Go to the Mall." Well, it turns out that wasn't her only song. Carter Bays and Craig Thomas,
How I Met Your Mother's co-creators, composed a ballad. "Sandcastles in the Sand" was the flip-side of "Let's Go to the Mall." It's supposedly in the style of a power break-up ballad, like "Foolish Beat" and "Toy Soldiers."
Continue reading Coming soon on How I Met Your Mother: More Robin Sparkles! - VIDEO
Posted Apr 7th 2008 12:20PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Video, Reality-Free
Do you like trailers? Does the idea of a quick wrap up of what you missed in previous episodes make sense to you? Are you a fan of clip shows, i.e. an episode devoted to highlights from past shows? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you're likely going to be really happy about this: Eyelab has been re-editing programming
into mini-versions of CBS shows for distribution online. TV Squad had a
report about this a while back, but now it's fully operational. Take a look at this
Real Hollywood Story/The New Adventures of Old Christine mini, which is posted after the jump.
Continue reading CBS's fast food minis for the net - VIDEO
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 1:01PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous, Reality-Free
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
(775) 640-8479 - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother , Numb3rs, Smallville and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
Posted Mar 31st 2008 10:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: OpEd, Video, How I Met Your Mother, Episode Reviews
(S03E14) First of all, let's get this out of the way:
TedMosbyIsAJerk.com works.
Of course it does. We've come to expect nothing less from Bays and Thomas, as they love to use the Web to further the
How I Met Your Mother brand. This site looks like it's fun: cheap 1996-era graphics and text, lots of exclamation points... there's even a song written by poor Anna, who still thinks Barney is Ted. Oh, and that Ted Mosby is a jerk.
It's not a coincidence that
HIMYM's first truly funny episode returning from the strike is Barney-centric. Even though Barney seems to be the most one-dimensional character on the surface, Carter and Craig have used him (and the very game Neil Patrick Harris) as a blank canvas, giving him all sorts of backstory elements that seem crazy... but somehow plausible. He used to be a hippie; he has a black gay brother; he slept with
Madeline Albright... it all seems entirely possible, doesn't it?
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother: The Bracket - VIDEO
Posted Mar 27th 2008 3:07PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals
With the thought of another year of
According to Jim on the air, it's with excitement that I report that new shows may be coming to take its place.
ABC has ordered two pilots:
Prince of Motor City and an untitled David Hemingson dramedy. The former, which purports to have Shakespearean roots, comes from writer Jessica Goldberg and writer/actor Hamish Linklater, better known around here as Matthew on
The New Adventures of Old Christine.
Continue reading ABC orders two more pilots
Posted Feb 20th 2008 12:26PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, How I Met Your Mother, Pickups and Renewals, Ratings
Interesting news out of
CBS this morning. On the heels of
renewing The Big Bang Theory last week, the network has now announced that when
Bang returns with new episodes on March 17, it will be leading off the night.
How I Met Your Mother, in its third year, is also returning with new shows that night, but will be taking over
Bang's 8:30 slot. On a side note,
The New Adventures of Old Christine will be replaced by new episodes of
Rules of Engagement on Monday, April 14.
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory are switching slots
Posted Feb 15th 2008 4:20PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Programming, CSI, Numb3rs, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Pickups and Renewals, Shark, Ratings, NCIS, Cane, Moonlight
Fans of the Tiffany network can do the happy dance.
CBS has renewed 11 scripted shows for the 2008-2009 TV season. The lucky 11 are:
CSI; CSI: Miami; CSI: New York; NCIS; Criminal Minds; Cold Case; Without a Trace; Ghost Whisperer; Numb3rs; Two and a Half Men; and
The Big Bang Theory.
There are not a lot of surprises in this bunch, although it's great news that
The Big Bang Theory, CBS's rookie Monday-night sitcom from Chuck Lorre's stable, made the cut. Still in limbo, however, are three other Monday-night comedies from the network:
How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, and
The New Adventures of Old Christine. The story speculates that
Mother will get the greenlight for a fourth season soon, but
Rules and
Christine seem to be in competition for the 9:30-10:00 half-hour slot.
Continue reading Update - CBS renews a slew of shows
Posted Oct 5th 2007 1:01PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: House, Subtle Subtitles
Welcome to Subtle Subtitles. For those of you who are uninitiated to the purpose of this feature, we're asking you to come up with your funniest quote or description for what's going on in the screen grab we choose for the week. Winners are announced in the following Friday's contest.
1st place to
BigTed:
2nd place to
Tele-Toby: "Kids, the doctors only give me a few hours to live, so screw the story about how I met your mother! Let me tell you about how I went on a killing spree. Uncle Marshall and Aunt Lily were already quick-drying patches of cement in the basement, and I was just putting the finishing touches on hiding Aunt Robin's corpse in the wall, when your Uncle Barney showed up. That's when I knew that night was going to be legen- cough! cough! cough!"
beeeeeeeeeeep!
3rd place to
ThomasD: "Ted gets ready to watch something more exciting than
Kid Nation."
This week, a scene from the
latest episode of House ...
Continue reading Subtle Subtitles
Posted Aug 22nd 2007 11:02AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Spoilers Anonymous
This is Spoilers Anonymous, a weekly column here at TV Squad where we'll supply you with the dirt on some of the more popular shows on the air. We'll never put spoilers up here on the main page in order to help the reformed stay unspoiled. If you have anything to add to the group, feel free to step up and let yourself be heard, either with our
tips form or by emailing us at
tvsquad at gmail dot com or call and leave a message at
917-421-9477 (NY) - your anonymity is guaranteed, if you wish to remain as such.
This week we have:
24, Brothers & Sisters, Friday Night Lights, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, How I Met Your Mother, Nip/Tuck, One Tree Hill, Prison Break, Smallville, Supernatural, and Ugly Betty. (SPOILERS FOLLOW!)Continue reading Spoilers Anonymous
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