how i met your blog » On The Set http://www.howimetyourblog.com everything you need to know about CBS's hit show "How I Met Your Mother" Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 On Set Interviews with the Cast http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/10/21/on-set-interviews-with-the-cast/ http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/10/21/on-set-interviews-with-the-cast/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:14:56 +0000 ben http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/10/21/on-set-interviews-with-the-cast/ Boaz (I think it’s the guy in the video) sent me an email about a recent on set interview with the cast he did. I’ll just let him set up the video. But before I do, he mentioned that he might be going back for a follow up interview. He’s asked for you all to submit any questions you might have. Leave them in the comments or over on his site.

Boaz catches up with Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel, Josh Radnor, and Cobie Smulders of the hit show, How I Met Your Mother. What’s going to happen this season? Who’s better at Nintendo tennis? Which cast member has an addiction? What exactly is a “threesome?” Find out the answers to these questions and more… And yes, there will be a quiz.

This interview touches on some “mature” topics, so consider yourself warned…

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Jason writes in:

Just to let you know, in the maze of all that is CBS, I found that they put up a new thing for HIMYM…

it’s a small “Comcast Triple Play” link on the opening picture, but it’s got the first of several videos that will be released through the first month of the show’s return. The first is Part One of Lily and Marshall’s Honeymoon Prequel.

You can check out the videos here: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/how_i_met_your_mother/comcast/

]]> http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/09/05/behind-the-scenes/feed/ 6 Some backstage info http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/06/19/some-backstage-info/ http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/06/19/some-backstage-info/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:23:24 +0000 ben http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/06/19/some-backstage-info/ I can’t remember where the original tip came for this, but Cora sent me a link to some scans of a recent article about HIMYM and how it is shot.  The article is an awesome read and reveals some stuff that I didn’t know.

- Bays and Thomas have planned how the last 5 minutes of the show will be, “whenever that is.”
- They often shoot more than one episode at a time, and the actors are as clueless as to how the final cut will look as we are.
- The actors all love the way the show is shot.
- Bays and Thomas think that each season should have it’s own theme. I wonder what season three’s theme will be!?!

Go ahead and read the article.  There aren’t any season three spoilers, I checked.  See how much I like you guys?  I risked getting some spoilers just to make sure you guys would know ahead of time.  Feel free to leave some “Awww that was sweet” messages in the comments!

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]]> http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/06/19/some-backstage-info/feed/ 2 Could this show get any better? http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/05/17/could-this-show-get-any-better/ http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/05/17/could-this-show-get-any-better/#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 03:31:37 +0000 ben http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/05/17/could-this-show-get-any-better/ Dallas wrote in with a pretty unusual and really cool tip.  So you remember when we thought Ted might have proposed to Robin with the ring in the bottom of the champagne and it turned out to be the other couples ring?  Well guess what….  That other couple, yeah that was his real proposal.  Craig and Carter (the writers) had agreed to let the gentleman propose for real during the taping, then aired it!  There is a video on WCBS’s website.

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Update: well it doesn’t look like I can embed the video here.  You’ll have to go to the site to watch.

]]> http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/05/08/wedding-dress-shopping-with-alyson/feed/ 0 TV Gal gets to hang on the set http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/01/29/tv-gal-gets-to-hang-on-the-set/ http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/01/29/tv-gal-gets-to-hang-on-the-set/#comments Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:17:15 +0000 ben http://www.howimetyourblog.com/2007/01/29/tv-gal-gets-to-hang-on-the-set/ Zap2it.com is running an article about “TV Gal” getting to hang out on the set of How I Met Your Mother.  The article is neat, but the one quote that got me thinking was:

My major complaint with “HIMYM” has been that its parts were greater than its whole. Love the jokes, love the characters but somehow the whole episode doesn’t always come together.

This is sorta what we talked about on our latest fancast.  Last episode was a lot of Ted, and very little of the others, and sometimes all the stories just don’t come together.  I guess this can be seen as a blessing and a curse. It’s nice to see individual character developments, but sometimes seems too much like two independent stories just told in the same timeslot.  Am I wrong here?

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