It all began with five friends sitting in their booth in MacLaren’s Pub. After nine years and 208 episodes, CBS wrapped up the hugely popular “How I Met Your Mother” last Monday with a highly...

By the time you’re reading this, the last episode of “30 Rock” — Tina Fey’s ingenious NBC comedy — will have aired. After seven seasons, it had a good run. Still, I can’t begin to express...