Carter Bays
  • 'How I Met Your Mother': Casting the mother will be 'very tough,' creators say

    There is one school of thought where you want her to turn around and she's Jennifer Aniston because it has to be a huge star," co-creator Carter Bays says. "But maybe it should be someone we've never seen before."...

  • 'How I Met Your Mother': Carter Bays talks 'Last Words'

    The co-creator tells us about writing about Marshall's father's death -- and why we haven't seen the last of him....

  • 'How I Met Your Mother's' Carter Bays: Storytelling requires tragedy

    "It's hard to create a sense of foreboding on a 22-minute CBS sitcom."...

  • Neil Patrick Harris is ready for Sunday's Emmys

    ...friend, and writer Joe Kelly from "How I Met Your Mother" to help craft it. The sitcom's executive producers, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, joined in. Harris' hands-on approach appears sound. With him and fan-favorite musicals......

  • 'HIMYM' Works 'Blue' in Finale

    ...scene, from the "Showdown" episode that aired April 30, and speculating about its meaning is just what co-creator Carter Bays was hoping people would do. He says he, co-creator Craig Thomas and the rest of the show's writers have been consciously......

  • DVD Review: 'How I Met Your Mother: Season One'

    ...guest star Amy Acker ; the two are good friends offscreen). The other three commentaries, featuring creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas and executive producer-director Pamela Fryman, offer some interesting tidbits about the show. ......

  • 'How I Met Your Mother's' Marshall Plan

    ...all of last year. "I think that particular story [of Lily and Marshall], we're really just drawn to," says Carter Bays, who co-created the CBS series with Craig Thomas. "It's such a huge cataclysmic event, kind of more so......

  • 'How I Met' Your Cliffhanger

    ...on the CBS comedy 's first season. As a makeup artist dabs at Radnor's face, he chats with co-creator Carter Bays about Coachella and the English band Arctic Monkeys . You'd hardly guess that Radnor's character, Ted Mosby......

  • 'How I Met Your Mother' Cast Suits Up

    ...Mother": Barney didn't suit up. Fellow stars Josh Radnor and Jason Segel , as well as series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, were all dressed up for the occasion. But Neil Patrick Harris , who plays the suit-loving......