Desktop computers around the world burned up bandwidth with the news that the CBS comedy How I Met Your Mother had been renewed for a sixth season already, far ahead of the spring deadline.
That’s great news for the comedy that two years ago almost faced cancellation until the stunt-casting of Britney Spears broadened the audience of the critically-acclaimed show, which many regard as a latter-days Seinfeld.
With the pickup, CBS’ Monday night slate of comedies is now seventy-five percent secure, as How I Met Your Mother joins The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men as renewed for future seasons. Only the Jenna Elfman cougar-comedy Accidentally On Purpose is still up in the air.
