‘How I Met Your Mother’ Joins Laff Comedy Lineup

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Network plans two-day Labor Day weekend marathon

(Image credit: Laff)

Digital broadcast comedy network Laff is adding the sitcom How I Met Your Mother to its lineup.

Laff, part of the E.W. Scripps Co.’s Katz Broadcasting unit, plans a two-day Labor Day weekend marathon to launch the show. Episodes will run from 8 a.m. through midnight on Sept. 6 and Sept. 8. 

How I Met Your Mother will get slapped into its regular time slot on Sept. 8, with episodes airing from 9 p.m. to midnight.

The show ran for nine seasons on CBS from 2005 to 2014. It stars Josh Radnor, Jason Segel, Alyson Hannigan, Cobie Smulders and Neil Patrick Harris and is narrated by Bob Saget. 

Laff will be showing all 208 episodes.

HIMYM joins a Laff lineup that also includes Home Improvement, That ‘70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, According to Jim and Night Court.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.