In our first episode dedicated to TV pilots, Dr. Jon Akkawi and Dr. Jon Cooper tackle a hit original sitcom and a...sequel? A requel? A reboot? A rebootquel? Ah Hollywood...and that friends, is How I Met Your Script Doctors!

Today's patients:

• How I Met Your Mother, created by Carter Bays & Craig Thomas (Bays & Thomas Productions, 20th Century Fox Television; 2005-2014, on CBS) - available to stream now on Amazon Prime & Hulu
• How I Met Your Father, created by Isaac Aptaker & Elizabeth Berger (Bays Thomas Productions, The Walk-Up Company, 20th Television; 2022-present, on Hulu) - available to stream now exclusively on Hulu

Screenwriting Word of the Day:

• Reboot

Welcome to The Script Doctors Podcast! From feature length movie scripts to television pilots and miniseries, join your Hollywood-medically licensed doctors, Dr. Jon Akkawi and Dr. Jon Cooper, as they diagnose, discuss and prescribe solutions to common script and story maladies in blockbusters and indie films, to streaming miniseries and network & cable pilots... in 60 minutes or less.

Does your own script need doctoring? Email us at thejons.scriptdoctors@gmail.com

Links:

• Instagram & TikTok: @thescriptdoctors
• Created, produced and edited by Jonathan Akkawi and Jonathan Cooper.
• A joint production between Cooper Home Entertainment and Bougie Arabs Productions.