Posts with tag greg malins
Posted May 11th 2007 10:01AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Interviews, How I Met Your Mother
There are lots of questions that have come up about the last few episodes
How I Met Your Mother's second season: Will Robin and Ted stay together or will they break up? Why were the two of them covered in tomato sauce during the "Showdown" episode? Will Ted finally meet the woman who becomes the mother to his kids? And, of course, will
HIMYM make it to a third season,
given the rumors that the show is very much on the bubble?
Well, who better to go to for answers than Carter Bays? He and Craig Thomas (Craig is on the left in the picture above, and Carter is on the right) are the creators and executive producers of the show, and have been working as a writing team since they met at Wesleyan University. The 31-year-olds worked together on
Late Show with David Letterman,
Oliver Beene, and
American Dad before getting a chance to run the show on
HIMYM in 2005.
I spoke to Bays by phone last week (I was supposed to also speak with Thomas, but a family emergency called him away). Be warned that this interview contains
MAJOR SPOILERS pertaining to the finale. I will warn you prior to a spoilery portion of the interview (and tell you when it ends) so you can skip it if you wish.
Continue reading Carter Bays of How I Met Your Mother: The TV Squad Interview
Posted Jan 30th 2007 6:18PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, CBS, OpEd, Interviews, How I Met Your Mother, TCA Press Tour
Thanks to the efforts of former TVS writer Ryan Budke, this lovely little blog you're reading is high on the browsing list of the staff of
How I Met Your Mother. In fact, they seem to like us quite a bit; at the CBS press tour party, co-creator Craig Thomas said he reads my reviews of the show every week, and executive producer Greg Malins came up to me while I was talking to Craig to tell me how much he loved the Squad (it sounded something like, "You guys are awesome!" But it was too loud in there for me to hear well. All I know is that it wasn't along the lines of "What a fine weblog you have, my dear fellow. Cheerio and pip pip.").
Anyway, because of this comfort level, I didn't have any problem asking the other co-creator, Carter Bays, a few questions about where the season is going, as well as some questions about not being picked to be in the post-Super Bowl slot. I also asked him about the origins of the two best episodes of the season, "Slap Bet" and "Swarley."
By the way, in the picture above, Craig is on the left and Carter is on the right. They look so young, don't they?
Continue reading How I Met Your Mother co-creator: "There's going to be a wedding."
The Cheers episode Ken Levine's still writing in his head
Giveaway Tuesday: Fastlane - The Complete Series
Giveaway Monday: The X-Files: Revelations on DVD
